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Valued Member
United States
271 Posts |
I found this quarter in a house that had burn to the ground. I don't know if the fire made it so ugly or if it was ugly before.   If you have an uglier quarter I'd like to see it. |
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Moderator
 United States
56855 Posts |
It may be ugly but found silver is found silver. John1  |
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Moderator
United States
188213 Posts |
I agree, silver is silver.  |
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Valued Member
 United States
271 Posts |
Is it me or does this coin look to have a little doubling on it.  Check out the L.   Here it looks like the 4. I really wish this coin was not in such bad shape.  |
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Valued Member
United States
416 Posts |
kinda looks like charcoal
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12819 Posts |
It ain't pretty but it ain't ugly.  Pretty cool story for one of your coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
927 Posts |
This coin has character. Think of what it has been through. It would be a keeper for me with a story to tell.
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Valued Member
United States
271 Posts |
This coin has been to heck and back and now I do have it. This coin has been many miles before I got it, and maybe this coin was a DDO and the old man was saving it. I wish I could have run across this coin forty years earlier. This coin definitely has a story to tell. |
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Valued Member
United States
239 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United Arab Emirates
557 Posts |
That is a very nice find. Congrats!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2271 Posts |
The coin appears to have been treated with acid. It used to be a fairly inexpensive way to make poor grade amalgamating fluid by soaking silver coins in nitric acid. The intent was to dissolve them just long enough that they could be respent. Of course the silver nitrate was contaminated with copper but for some purposes this wasn't a problem. Low grade '34-S quarters circulated right up until the FED started removing silver in 1968. This appears to have been slightly nicer when it was damaged (perhaps G-).
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Valued Member
United States
271 Posts |
I did clean the coin when I found it but I had no choice, It was very black from the fire that totally leveled the house forty years ago. My method of cleaning was tooth paste and a soft tooth brush and that's it.
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Valued Member
United States
218 Posts |
beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder It is in bad shape but silver is silver nice find enjoy
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2311 Posts |
It's still a nice find
Edited by solotime
01/13/2013 8:13 pm
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Valued Member
United States
50 Posts |
Ugly but silver. One suggestion. Never call silver ugly. That quarter is ugly but $5+ in Silver.
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Valued Member
United States
98 Posts |
ARe you sure it is authentic or is it a bad cast?
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