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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
155 Posts |
At least the guy is being honest about it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2480 Posts |
Wow, 14 bids so far, up to $86.09 with 2 1/2 days still to go.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
He is being honest about it. But too bad people don't see that or maybe understand it fully.
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Pillar of the Community
Israel
2420 Posts |
As long as the seller is honest it's a legitimate auction. There's a good chance that the tooling was not done by the seller, and there's no reason why he shouldn't sell the coin as long as his not hiding the damage. I disagree that the numismatic value is completely gone. I would have been a buyer for ~25$. 86$ is way too high though  . |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
I have added this coin to my watch list and will snip a picture of the "work"
done around the date. Makes a good educational example.
But, I fail to see the reason why the arrows would be removed. I cannot easily
find an example of a rayed 1853 without arrows.
Does it even exist?
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Pillar of the Community
United Arab Emirates
557 Posts |
Honesty is great, but how is it being interpreted?
Arrows removed could be interpreted as there were no arrows on it...ever!
...or...
The arrows were removed - no way to misinterpret that.
A play on words or lack of IMO.
Edited by BLadd
12/09/2012 07:43 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
BLadd,
Your explanation pleases me a lot.
You see, I have tutored English learners both locally in the past and currently on a Yahoo group.
The term "arrows removed" has two meanings as you mention:
One is numismatic jargon.
The other is standard English.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
36744 Posts |
A shame to see such a nice coin damaged like this. That hack job should not fool even a novice collector.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7191 Posts |
I prefer arrows on my 1853.  But with the damage is it equal to the one from the original poster?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
652 Posts |
If I remember correctly there's an 1853-O with no arrows, but it has no rays around the eagle either. This isn't an O mint, and it has the rays, so it was crazy to remove the arrows. (just checked - only 3 known of the 1853-O with no arrows, no rays).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm unsure why people are bidding that high--with obvious tooling/cleaning--numismatic value can't be above $50?  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I think the arrows were removed after a relatively recent cleaning. For what purpose, I don't know, because even cleaned that was still a very nice example. There was a fourth 1853-O no arrows/no rays found this summer, nice story: http://www.coinworld.com/articles/f...ays-50-surf/Edited by ArrowsAndRays
12/09/2012 4:18 pm
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