Did I Find A Treasure?

Shouldn't that be a 1866 coin if it's celebrating 100 years? Since the coin is encapsulated in plastic it loses any collector value and you would have a hard time breaking it out just for the silver value,IMHO.
John1

The coin also looks polished from the pictures you give. I think it is only worth its silver content.

this coin has not been polished regardless of what you think. I appreciate your knowledge and response. I've examined this coin under 20 zoom. the scratches you see in the pic is on the plastic. my camera is very high tech and I can zoom to the hair on a butterfly(not kidding) I cant find one ever sold anywhere and no info what soever.so to say they were just given out to customers with as pricey as it would have been in 66 to do so, is a little hard to believe. I emailed Huntington corporate office to find out info since there wasn't any. I will update.thank you guys for your knowledge. And I must say, where do you get your facts about this coin? because there isn't any to be found? Assumptions? please provide facts with a source please about this coin. Not opinions based off of other coins. All cars are the same in the most part but they have completely different facts do they not? Thanks again

how do I reload new pics on this topic? I took close up pics.thank you

thank you john!

Believe me, I've seen many coins in lucite blocks like yours in the internet, and I am trying my best to tell you all things that I can make of it.
Take out what you think is an assumption, and you will see that it is basically a 1884-O Morgan in a lucite block commemorating the centennial of a bank. When we cannot find the same example, it is safe to look at similar ones and assume that it was a similar case for your piece. I admit that I did make assumptions about the history behind your piece, but that's what I've learned and seen in many cases over the years.

I said nothing about the coin being the same as other coins; it is certainly an 1884-O Morgan, nothing more nothing less. And yours is very different from other 1884-Os as in terms of condition and amount of damage.

From the pictures you posted so far, it still looks polished to me. Even in think lucite, you should be able to get a clear view of the coin, and your first pictures show a polished coin through the lucite.
Remember, if a circulated coin like yours is unnaturally shiny, chances are that it is cleaned/polished.
In the second set of pictures, the shiny fields of the coin and the darker area around the devices (details, shapes) gives me even more confidence that it is polished.

Anyways, the coin even if it is not cleaned/polished is still a coin worth no more than 40 dollars with that much wear.

When I worked for a traveling Estate buying show in 2012 one of our guys bought an 1893 s in acrylic like that for $5.00 because of the acrylic never looked at the date. we found out later.

Do you see the "halo" around all of the devices? That is a sure sign of a polishing regardless of whether you want to believe it or not.



Why is it so hard to believe? That coin was only worth ~$2 in 1966 and even today, it would only be worth $20-30 if you could actually remove it from its tomb. Banks used to give away toasters, blenders, and other small appliances to new account holders, those items at the time certainly would have been worth more than $2.



No, quite the opposite. Huntington was not the only bank to produce silver dollar paperweights, it is a very common motif for bank anniversaries.