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Valued Member
United States
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I wonder if there is any new news relating to that 1972 silver quarter? According to bobby there was too many so called "cheap shots" going around so he locked the previous discussion. Good idea  now he doesn't have to tell us of any new developments in the story just like he wanted. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm sure this thread will be locked but I feel obligated to comment before it does. It's pretty poor taste to hassle the people that provide this forum that we all enjoy. If you don't think the forum hosts are honorable maybe you should move on.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There was absolutely no reason for you to start this thread- YOU were the cause of the pertinent thread being locked and they were not "so-called" cheap shots, they were blatant cheap shots. You are apparently clueless about the time it takes to physically examine a very rare and complex error that should probably not exist through normal circumstances but it does. You are also apparently clueless about the fact that only two or three people in the world can attest to the true authenticity of such an error and they are more than likely people with a very busy schedule. Do you even know who Fred Weinberg is? This is not your run-of-the-mill slabbing job yet you expect it to be as such, what is your point to all this?
Edited by biokemist6
11/11/2008 5:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When a possible error like this (especially something that really should not exist is examined) An excellent authenticator will not just say that it is what it appears to be in an off-the-cuff fashion. In the case of a coin like this, there are tests that must be done that do not damage the coin but that establish to a high degree of certainty what the alloy is.
Then there is often a long and laborious process involved in ruling every other possibility out.
A coin may be sent from authenticator to authenticator to get several professional opinions. The whole process can take six months or more on a coin of this type.
I'm gonna lapse into "Brooklynese" for a minute.
The story "Don't go like dis":
Hey Pauly, does disding look like silver? ...
Hey , I dunno, drop it and see what it sounds like.
Yo, Pauly, I did dat already...
Yeah so...
Hey, It sounds good ta me.
Yo, Bada Bing, it mus' be silver. Send it back now.
Getting a coin like this authenticated takes time.
Let me say at this point That I grew up in Brooklyn before moving to Long Island when I was a kid. So...I don't mean no disraspect.
I know that I appreciate these forums and what I saw in that other thread was a little disheartening.
Thanks,
Bill
Bobby, Thanks for this forum!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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a small quiz for PP, what US State Quarter was discovered in late 2004 that contained a supposed error ? how long did it take before the investigation was completed of that error and it was found to have been intentional ? http://www.snopes.com/business/money/quarter.aspit took close to three years for this error to run the scope of investigations which finally found it to be an intentional error. and your up in arms about a few months . LOL funny stuff ! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It took years for the 1943/2 War Nickel to be recognized as a valid overdate. |
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Canada
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wow!! I was waiting impatiently to hear something about that coin as well. I didnt realize it could take years to verify something. I think I just want to know because it gives me hope that in all my roll searching and forcing my husband to NEVER spend any of his change and always break a bill.......that maybe one day I will find something really cool as well. Is there really only a few people who can authenticate a coin like that? Here's another kind of dumb question.... do those people have to be formally educated or is it just years and years of experience? I mean the above "Brooklyn" conversation is about how far I could go. If there has never been a coin like that before how can they figure it out? With no guidelines to follow or whatever? The last I read in that topic I think I remember someone saying that someone at the mint would have had to do that on purpose. Is that still a valid theory?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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sorry, one more question metalman, that link shows 2 pictures. is one of those the regular issue or are they both "errors"
thanks
Malissa
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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ooops ok just one more  sorry This quarter is highly valuable even at the low end of the spectrum. If it is being transferred from expert to expert how do they do that? Are these few people all in the same state or is this actually being trusted to be shipped around. I would be so scared out of my head if I was eel. In one way I wish it was me......in another SOOOO glad it isn't because I don't think I could handle the waiting, stress, fear etc. ok I am done. thanks (sorry about all that I lost track of that post a while ago but the questions remained.) |
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Posted 11/11/2008 5:20 pm
