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Valued Member
United States
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Would you return it or keep it? This was in an actual sealed proof set before my local coin store broke some apart to sell as singles.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Looks like when they cut it out of the pack they nicked it with the knife?
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Valued Member
United States
259 Posts |
I think that I would most definitely return it. Of course, I do not collect errors, and am not sure that it would be classified as one.
John
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Valued Member
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306 Posts |
Coop - I was there when they were being broken apart and it was that way before it was unsealed.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Maybe something happened before it was sealed then. The line goes over the letter and looks incuse from the image I see. It appears to be a cut. It can't be a die crack as die cracks are not straight. It can't be gouge on the die and a gouge would be raised from the surface. So the only thing I can figure, it damaged.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1571 Posts |
IMHO, If I had seen that BEFORE breaking it outr, I would have left it intact, and gotten a replacement, but, It is nothing more than a 4-bit piece, or maybe worth melt.
The only time I ever "broke open" a proof set was to remove a dime with an obvious struck-thru. I was very new to collecting, and , frankly, would not do it now.
Dick
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
608 Posts |
I got the 2007 proof sets and they came all dinged up, had alot of minor scratches on them, and look like some type of deposits on them, I don't think they quality controlled them very well. I sent them back and got another, the new set was a little better, but not much.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like a '77 S, copper-nickel clad piece. No melt value as suggested above. The problem is tat the way it is now, a person cant tell if it was damaged at the Mint or damaged by a staple from a 2X2 sometime later.
I would return it of possible.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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But did anyone see the good in the first image? Most just see the scratch. Did anyone note the light fading on the face? It would be a great avatar. Take a look again at the image on the top of the thread.
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