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Rest in Peace
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Thanks ScacP and SsuperDdave, This helps me confirm the one I have from my ancestors. Let me look which one.
Great Coin! ScacP.
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Type Ones are pretty scarce for this year, and if you happen to have one in Mint State you've a pricey coin indeed.
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Rest in Peace
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Aw Shucks, it is a type two. Still a nice AU 50.
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Valued Member
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Mine looks like a Type 1, but the condition is probably just Fine. There's a place on the reverse near 1/2 where the design is very, very weak. I'm not sure how that would affect the grade and/or the value.
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Even from the small images, I had the impression of yours as a Type One. It'll still go at a premium to a Type Two.
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Valued Member
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Thanks for all the helpful information.
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Valued Member
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Here is a larger image of the reverse:  |
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Pillar of the Community
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That doesn't quite look right to me.
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Something about the reverse also looks odd to me
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like it has either been beaten, was once used as jewelry and has had a mounting removed, or is not good. Pictures don't tell enough and the plastic of the 2X2 interfers.
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Valued Member
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we took the coin out of the 2x2, and it weighed 62 grains,
which would be 4.016 grams.
is that about right?
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Nominal weight for this issue is 4.18g, or 64.5gr. That's about a 4% difference. If you're using something like a powder scale, the instrument is probably accurate enough to believe exact numbers but if not potential error has to be considered. As regards loss to wear, I'm going to leave it for those more knowledgeable of gold coinage.
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Valued Member
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for what its worth, we noticed the rim on the obverse, opposite the weak place on the reverse, looked like it had been squeezed.
i bought the coin for $240, at this point I'm just hoping it's real gold, and genuine.
Edited by Scarp9603
01/31/2013 8:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm guessing this was a jewlery piece. My Dad gave my Mom a 2.5 gold piece on a chian in a bezel I found for him, it had been his fathers last gold piece an indian 1913. After several years her coin looked kinda like this one on the reverse.
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as far as the accuracy of the scale, we first tried to weigh the coin in grams. the scale sometimes read 4.1 gram and sometimes 4.0 grams. we then weighed a modern Lincoln Cent, and it weighed 2.5 grams, as it should. then we weighed an older Lincoln Cent, and it came in at 3.1 grams, as it should. |
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