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Pawn Shop Pickup 1908 Gold

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 Posted 12/20/2018  5:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IndianGoldEagle to your friends list
I agree with Frog, EF-45. Looking at the edge marks this one may have been used in jewelry.
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 Posted 12/20/2018  7:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add USSID18 to your friends list

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My first thought, why isn't it gold?
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 Posted 12/21/2018  12:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gotboostedvr6 to your friends list
Pic taken outside during overcast day. Weight and dimensions are correct
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 Posted 12/21/2018  12:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add USSID18 to your friends list
Outside! Did you say outside? I hope you didn't say outside! Please please don't ever take pictures of your coins outside under any conditions.....sunlight, snow, rain, wind.. UV rays will hit that coins.... That's a bad thing!

Anyway, take a picture of it inside. We would like to see what it actually looks like. As close as you can get it to what it looks like in your hand.
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 Posted 12/21/2018  09:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
Nice coin for that price. I too take many photos of coins outside. I'm to cheap to spend a lot of money on lighting just for coins. I'd rather spend that on the coins.
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 Posted 12/21/2018  11:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mark1959 to your friends list

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I'm to cheap to spend a lot of money on lighting just for coins.


Walmart has small desktop LED lamps for $5 - you can't be that cheap.
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 Posted 12/23/2018  11:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ArrowsAndRays to your friends list
Ex-jewelry, perhaps.
Looks like honest wear, EF-40.
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 Posted 12/23/2018  12:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverDollar2017 to your friends list
EF-40, possibly ex-jewelry
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 Posted 12/24/2018  07:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list

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Please please don't ever take pictures of your coins outside under any conditions.....sunlight, snow, rain, wind.. UV rays will hit that coins.... That's a bad thing!

I'm sure he doesn't take them under ANY conditions, just good ones. And don't worry about UV, coins don't get sunburns. (cancer maybe, but not from UV)
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 Posted 12/24/2018  09:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add USSID18 to your friends list

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And don't worry about UV, coins don't get sunburns. (cancer maybe, but not from UV)


Wanta bet? I'll bet you a penny. Put a new shiny cent outside in the sun for a day or two. Come back a tell me the results.
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 Posted 12/24/2018  11:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gotboostedvr6 to your friends list
That's temperature extreme mixed with environment (think smog and other contamination) and humidity/PH.
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 Posted 12/24/2018  11:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverDollar2017 to your friends list
Taking pictures of coins outside isn't necessarily bad.
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 Posted 12/25/2018  10:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list

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Wanta bet? I'll bet you a penny. Put a new shiny cent outside in the sun for a day or two. Come back a tell me the results

Ahh but that it the result of heat build up (absorption of visible light, infrared and infrared from heated surroundings) , not UV.
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 Posted 12/25/2018  10:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add basebal21 to your friends list
They're coins not some space organism that has to be protected. They can go outside for pictures and be just fine and it will do absolutely nothing to them.

They didn't survive over a century by never being taken outside.....

You'll ruin your digital camera before the coins if you try and do stuff in rain ect.
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