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How? Is it because the coins were melted? also found a really funny typo (at least I hope it was) Quote:
a 1903 St. Gaudens $20 gold piece  Edited by CoinCollector2012
03/12/2014 7:08 pm
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Yes, don't melt'em! I was so frustrated I didn't even see the typo...LOL.
Edited by phankins11
03/12/2014 8:01 pm
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Probably Chum Lee's idea to melt them down....
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Let them melt them. Makes my coins more valuable and sought after. I am almost 100% positive that the gold and silver pawn shop doesn't melt any coin that provides them a premium. maybe they melt 1964 Washington quarters, but I its hard for me to believe that Rick would just have his employees melt everything that's not PCGS, NCGS, ANACS, etc. The old man loves silver. It wouldn't surprise me if he went through every coin hunting for a good one. |
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1903 Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece? In 1903 the US Mint was still churning out James Longacre's Liberty Head design in production since 1850. The only years ending in 3 for Saints are 1913, 1923 and 1933. 1913 or 1923 are the only two that would be possible to own. -MV |
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It is possible to own a 1933, just *very* unlikely. And if you did own one better keep it on the down low unless you want the Secret Service knocking on the door!
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Another case of attention-grabbing but slightly misleading headlines, methinks. Read it (and the source news article) again. G&S didn't actually do the melting; they simply on-sold the coins to a scrap metal merchant, who has probably melted them. And the Harrison clan aren't stupid and rarely pass up an opportunity to make an extra buck; if the coins had had numismatic value at all, they'd have been kept intact and sold with a numismatic premium - and probably a hefty one. I can only assume the coins were cleaned, damaged, of suspect authenticity or otherwise undesirable for a collector. I feel sorry for the guy, having had his collection stolen by a family member, but unless the guy took pictures of his collection, we'll never know its true value now. Maybe the guy really did have a "1903 Saint-Gaudens $20" which he thought was a rare and valuable pattern, but was actually just a middle-eastern bullion copy of a Saint-Gaudens and only worth scrap anyway. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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If you watch the show you know the Old Man never wants to part with silver. And these guys cannot make enough margin selling coins at melt.
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That is horrible, Imagine how it must of felt to be the collector.
I know I would of probably be crying in a corner for about 600-800,000 years.
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