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Pillar of the Community
United States
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People have been defacing coins, as long as they've been around, probably a bored kid.
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01/06/2018 09:27 am
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United States
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Nobody will ever know except the person who did it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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How about some pics, just for fun?  to the CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Scratching the coins to test the silver didn't help either...
Really bad habit. Please break it now before you damage something worth money.
-----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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Bedrock of the Community
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Rest in Peace
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Maybe they dug the numbers of for application elsewhere.
Possibly scratched by casino so collectors wouldn't take them.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Possibly scratched by casino so collectors wouldn't take them. That's my guess if its a large amount |
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Hello! Thanks for all the responses! I will try to get a couple pics up today.
The scratching is very crude and done quick, I do not think that they were attempting to create key dates. Some are O marks for instance, and the entire date is scratched off. Why not leave at least the 18 in the date.
Oh and of course doing a scratch test should be avoided at all costs on coins. This was done at a customers request to be sure they were silver. These are expected to be culls or worse. I am not if anyone would be interested in buying these as coins. There are a lot of them.
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Valued Member
United States
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Hello All! Finally got some pictures up. As you can see in the picture, it was a crude quick job to scratch off the date.   Thanks! Charlie |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in for the casino/anti-collector hypothesis. It's faster/easier to scratch the entire date as you've shown than to leave just the "18".
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Hello All! Finally got some pictures up. As you can see in the picture, it was a crude quick job to scratch off the date. Ouch.  Quote:
I'm in for the casino/anti-collector hypothesis. It's faster/easier to scratch the entire date as you've shown than to leave just the "18". Seems to be a good explanation. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Ouch! is right!! Man, my heart sank when I saw the damage to this Morgan!!  |
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crude quick job Glad you posted, but  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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I would love to find those in a casino. Date or not I would still take them.
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