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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To the coin: graffiti.
Otherwise: selling counterfeit coins.
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United States
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About my only pet peave is those assembled sets of coins that are sold to non-collectors that contain coins that look like they have been sent through a rock tumbler to "shine" them up. I inherited s few of them from my mother-in-law, my wife thought we had hit the jackpot. Sigh! |
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United States
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Oh man so many to choose...artificial toning and punching holes for necklaces are the ones I hate the most though. Cleaning I don't mind too much actually, as long as it isn't obvious.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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Drill holes! I don't know how many potential valuable coins I have that have these pesky holes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1005 Posts |
When people cut coins into pieces with hack saws, man that gets on my nerves!
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Russian Federation
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Deep cleaning. I think there's some system of deep cleaning metal detecting finds so that they look bright red, it's ugly. (Don't recall what it is; something to do with electricity.)
A few years back some CCF member found an ancient coin (from the reign of Carausius, IIRC) that was the first (and only) known example of its variety, but had been deeply cleaned in some way (not sure if it was that specific way or some other). They - and the museum they sold it to - basically said "incredible find, but how much better it would've been if it wasn't cleaned so deeply".
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01/06/2016 07:20 am
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United States
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Parklane64 , you hit it right on the nose. colorization irritates me to no end. It's just not the way coins were meant to look like. No disrespect to all our Canadian members.  |
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United States
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I'll agree with January--that process is called electrolysis, and basically involves hooking a coin to a car battery, then plunging it into a bowl of salt water to "zap" the dirt off. I have plenty of coins that were subjected to this treatment, and many that would have been quite valuable had they been cleaned properly. By the way, that is the exact reason why most of the EU and middle east require significant archaeological finds to be surrendered to the state.
One of my least favorite things is the people who deface a coin on purpose. I have a handful of large cents that were given a nasty X right through Liberty's face. I also read once where a coin collector got into a fight with his wife, and she kicked him out of the house, then destroyed his entire collection!
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Parklane64 , you hit it right on the nose. colorization irritates me to no end. It's just not the way coins were meant to look like.
No disrespect to all our Canadian members. Well, at least the Canadian NCLT are meant to be colour (even though I have no interest in them). As for colourizing an ASE or a set of Kennedy half dollars...  |
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United States
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Harshly cleaned silver coins, which end up up having hairlines all over the surfaces. I especially hate this when I buy a coin online and don't see the hairlines until it's in hand.
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Russian Federation
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Well, at least the Canadian NCLT are meant to be colour (even though I have no interest in them). Some Russian NCLT coins were made in two varieties: regular and with colour. Don't know if any other country does that, but it seems likely. I do mildly dislike when coins have something painted on them that's not supposed to be there, but only mildly. It's not like anyone's doing that to old coins, anyway; only modern types tend to get "damaged" that way. |
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United States
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One of my least favorite things is the people who deface a coin on purpose. I have a handful of Large Cents that were given a nasty X right through Liberty's face. I also read once where a coin collector got into a fight with his wife, and she kicked him out of the house, then destroyed his entire collection! Yeah you know, I was wondering if that's how that happened...I see it a lot. That would certainly be a good way to get back at someone :p Just messing with coins in general just really makes me mad...it's like defacing art IMO. It's so disrespectful. |
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 United States
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Canada
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To the OP: using a quarter as a screwdriver... That's kind of a smart way to live. Drilling a hole into a coin to make a washer instead of driving out to the hardware store...
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