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Valued Member
United States
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After just picking up 20 different Franklins, I can almost hear this President calling me to get out the silverdip. Because of good advice here, I think I can overcome this urge.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Silver dip! Fight the urge!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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 you are scaring us, man. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
668 Posts |
Franklin wasnt a president =P
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2703 Posts |
I am going to have bad dreams about this.
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Valued Member
 United States
335 Posts |
To continue on the subject of not keeping quiet, so people don't notice stupidity......They are safely locked up but whats the difference? $5 a piece and cleaned or not they are worth that more or less and probably never more. Is it just the principle?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I collect silver coins from the 1600's. They were common in their day. I will pay a substantial premium for coins which have never been messed with. Now think about your Franklins four hundred years from now. Surely we will have colonies on the Moon and Mars and maybe even on other moons. Collectors living far from Earth will cherish a silver coin from 20th century Earth, way back in the day when circulating coins still had real silver in them. Franklin and Kennedy half dollars will not be common or cheap. They will be real historical artefacts from a faraway place, the original United States of America. Collectors will pay a premium for coins with original surfaces that have never been messed with. They will curse the coins which have been cleaned, scratched or holed, and wonder why anyone would do such a thing to a real silver coin from a great nation on olde Earth. |
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United States
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Wow, t360 you just made me think of my collection in a much different way and future, thankyou. I had always enjoyed the history and wonderments of the pasts that my coins had endured to reach me, not so much my coins future(istic) life to come.
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Valued Member
United States
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t360, Well put, I bought a lot of Canadians and two of the quarters were whizzed broke my heart.
Jeff
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree t360. The coins will most likely last longer than we do. We need to respect and protect them so others in the future can enjoy them just like we do today.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Let me get this straight(no pun intended) and correct me if the terminology has changed. You are "jonesing" about the decision to dip these coins? This would lead me to believe, if I understand the analogy that you have have done this in the past, and much like with drugs are resisting the temptation to do it again! Get help now!Mike  |
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United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Sandpaper, I was only kidding!!Mike  |
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United States
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Me too, but of course you are correct. Maybe no one has agreed with my logic because of more valuable coins and the pain of seeing so much cleaning going on and attempts to mislead buyers. I have only cleaned Kennedys.....and some common Morgans. This is during my full blown addiction, in the past. Wisdom here has helped. If I could only finish that bottle. I do feel a little bad for making my sister-in -law's "97o, look real nice. And she is still happy, to make it worse. Feels good to confess.  |
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Posted 11/03/2007 4:39 pm
