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Valued Member
United States
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Edited by Thulium
03/11/2017 4:40 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
865 Posts |
It looks like someone's failed attempt at a hobo nickel/ dime.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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CCF Advertiser
United States
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Horrible. No matter how often the TPGs say Details grade does not determine value, there are some suckers who will pay up for a details coin, crowing about how great a deal they got.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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darn. Did someone pour acid on it?
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Valued Member
 United States
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this coin is so damaged I'm not even sure it has any value.  It's not really a coin anymore. I might pay $10 for it just to study the overdate, but for $420 I could get one in a problem-free VF30+Note: it looks like the coin was attacked by "horn silver" (AgCl), which is a runaway reaction. Someone, armed with a pointed tool and a grinder, did the absolutely worst "conservation" job I've seen.  Edited by Thulium
03/11/2017 2:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I guess if you really, really, really need one.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I guess this is the first time you could actually say that this coin had some serious "pins and needles" |
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United States
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Oh it's AU50 everywhere except 75% of the obverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
865 Posts |
I just realized this was graded and in a holder. Seriously, how could a TPG put an AU grade on this coin? That is absolutely ridiculous. A perfect example of why TPG are overrated. They're just as bad as the counterfeit producers/ sellers. |
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Rest in Peace
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I'm trying to reason out WHAT caused that damage? Gotta be a droplet of acid/strong dip spilled by accident...Shirley not to try for higher lollypop bid sucker! |
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United States
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Ouch indeed.
Save your money for honest coins.
David
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Stupid price aside, I'm amazed to see it in a holder.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Found its long lost cousin in the buried ccf boards...  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Canada
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As a filler, it is certainly worth melt. Maybe even $10 but not $418.
A dealer once sold me a US 1/2 cent that might have been VF but had been holed.. for $1. I was OK paying that.
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Posted 03/11/2017 1:57 pm
