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Pillar of the Community
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Re: the corroded large cent
Why would someone devote all this time and effort to sell something for $10. Destroy it for the good of the hobby.
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Pillar of the Community
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10 bucks is the starting bid he hopes we will be so taken with the beauty of the coin that we will bid it up to several hundred $
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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United States
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He's made Winston Churchill look like the guy who fixes my car!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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CollectionMaster - DEAL OF THE CENTURY!! I'll go ahead and trust the print out of the coin as proof. So worth the $1000 !!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4610 Posts |
Somebody drilled a hole in it put it on a string and wore it around their neck. The string broke and it was found by some guy with a metal detector 20 years 40 years later...
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To me it looks like someone hammered a hole in it, put it a bowl full of sulfuric acid for a year, then dumped in a mulching machine.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Nevertheless, I wonder if someone will buy it ?
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United States
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you all are digging on the "colorized" Winston Churchill enameled coin... can you just believe that this is a person "following his dream", ya bunch of "haters". (interpretation, being called a "hater" these days means that you do not like ugly ideas, thoughts, things or images...BUT YOU MUST ACCEPT IT, NEVERTHELESS!
ok, so I am a hater, it is pathetic, but maybe the guy or gal really thinks it is cool. I would never buy it, but jeeeez, let us give him or her a little slack, even if he/she is delusional in a personal way.
somebody should really tho message him and say that it is not the happening thing he thinks it is, and maybe try another approach, such as cutting and pasting an image onto the coin and then filling it in with color.... sorta like painting by numbers. hey, my mom made a lot of pictures painting by the numbers and they were not that bad... mike
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@roy, the 1866 looks like it has been subjected to the toilet tank treatment. There are worse things that can happen to a coin. You should see what happens to a zinc core cent after a winter of salt on a Chicago street. I never saved any of them unfortunately.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Norway
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These coins are too cheap to have been treated by the coin torture chamber, as coins there come at a price.  @collectionmaster: I would have at least expected to see some shadow of the old 2 pence, but I guess my monitor screen is just too bad quality... Those pics are excellent and of good quality, adding much credibility, of course. @thq: was there still a coin to be identified then? I have a bunch of old Danish 1 and 2 Øre coins which have contacted salt and water (basically sweaty hand palms) and are barely recognizable as coins. Same goes for lots of the World War II occupation money, by the way. |
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United States
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@ultrarant I wish I'd kept a few just for this thread. I would throw them into a box with other pocket change, then roll them with other cents and sell the rolls to the bank. Some were reduced to featureless grey discs. Others were missing parts of the edges, showing jagged zinc. The solid bronze and brass cents pre 1982 hold up much better. These will give you an idea what they look like after they've been cleaned up. Right out of the street they're a lot uglier. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=aobdeb&s=6I forgot about shot coins. This Mercury dime cost me a couple dollars:  And I made a few of my own using cents and a 22 pistol:  "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/28/2016 3:22 pm
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Posted 11/26/2016 11:27 am
and for that price
