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Rest in Peace
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Parklane64 , you hit it right on the nose. colorization irritates me to no end. It's just not the way coins were meant to look like. No disrespect to all our Canadian members.  |
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United States
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I'll agree with January--that process is called electrolysis, and basically involves hooking a coin to a car battery, then plunging it into a bowl of salt water to "zap" the dirt off. I have plenty of coins that were subjected to this treatment, and many that would have been quite valuable had they been cleaned properly. By the way, that is the exact reason why most of the EU and middle east require significant archaeological finds to be surrendered to the state.
One of my least favorite things is the people who deface a coin on purpose. I have a handful of large cents that were given a nasty X right through Liberty's face. I also read once where a coin collector got into a fight with his wife, and she kicked him out of the house, then destroyed his entire collection!
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Parklane64 , you hit it right on the nose. colorization irritates me to no end. It's just not the way coins were meant to look like.
No disrespect to all our Canadian members. Well, at least the Canadian NCLT are meant to be colour (even though I have no interest in them). As for colourizing an ASE or a set of Kennedy half dollars...  |
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United States
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Harshly cleaned silver coins, which end up up having hairlines all over the surfaces. I especially hate this when I buy a coin online and don't see the hairlines until it's in hand.
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Russian Federation
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Well, at least the Canadian NCLT are meant to be colour (even though I have no interest in them). Some Russian NCLT coins were made in two varieties: regular and with colour. Don't know if any other country does that, but it seems likely. I do mildly dislike when coins have something painted on them that's not supposed to be there, but only mildly. It's not like anyone's doing that to old coins, anyway; only modern types tend to get "damaged" that way. |
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One of my least favorite things is the people who deface a coin on purpose. I have a handful of Large Cents that were given a nasty X right through Liberty's face. I also read once where a coin collector got into a fight with his wife, and she kicked him out of the house, then destroyed his entire collection! Yeah you know, I was wondering if that's how that happened...I see it a lot. That would certainly be a good way to get back at someone :p Just messing with coins in general just really makes me mad...it's like defacing art IMO. It's so disrespectful. |
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Canada
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To the OP: using a quarter as a screwdriver... That's kind of a smart way to live. Drilling a hole into a coin to make a washer instead of driving out to the hardware store...
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Canada
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Melting the coin- it completely destroys it. If the coin has been holed, cleaned, dented, scratched, or other things along that line, I can still hold it, look at it, and love it for what it is (someone has to  ). There is nothing left of the coin after it has been melted. Edited by Joseph7420
01/06/2016 11:42 pm
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I agree with the holes too. I have jars of coins from all over the world. So many silver coins from the 30s and 40s with holes in them. So dumb.
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United States
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Nothing grinds my gears more than watching a youtube vid of a dirtfisherman popping a nice silver coin out of a plug, then, with gloved hand proceeds to rub the dirt off to get a better look.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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United States
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I can respect a coin that was damaged to give it utility--there have been at least a few members who have old large cents that were turned into pie crimpers.... it's a shame to see that happen to a key date, but otherwise I think it enhances the coin by giving it a story to tell. Likewise with love tokens. A long time ago, I saw in a book that a British soldier who was drafted to fight in a war (Crimean maybe) could not afford any sort of armor, so he punched holes into a whole bunch of old pennies and strung them together into an armor vest. That vest is in a museum somewhere today with a bullet lodged into at least one of the coins.
What does irk me is when holes etc become a significant problem. 3 cent silvers were extraordinarily popular to hole to make bracelets--I can't even begin to imagine how many have been ruined. Ditto with Islamic silver coins from the middle ages up to the 1800s... I guess belly dancers liked them a lot.
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Canada
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What would be more destructive to the coin? Having a hole in it or filling the hole back up with sliver?
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United States
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That is called adding insult to injury. |
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United States
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I would say holes are my pet peeve, ugly holes on key coins to boot! Grrrrrr...... Like this one, 1864L Indian cent, It was not a cull before the hole!   |
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