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This has been in my coin purse since sometime in October last year and in my pocket before that since the Summer. I used to have a pair of 1986s in my coat pocket but I dropped the other one (somewhere downtown or in the TTC), so I moved this to where I would be less likely to lose it. So just checking its progress, how would this grade now? Is it still an AU or has it gone down to EF? Also, which set of photos you like better?     |
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Very interesting experiment! Your comments remind me of the latest jargon in the engineering world as it relates to creating a more robust, vibrant environment by using the term "body heat". ie. A more pedestrian focused downtown will generate more body heat!
Surely a pocket full of change whereby lowball silver dollars were the eventual outcome were helped along the way by some body heat as well! Wearing down a nickel dollar is an even greater challenge.
The second set of photos your 1986 dollar appears far more worn as it's lost all mint shine, one of the characteristics of EF-40 in earlier QE11 coinage.
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i think I would call it au still but just on the edge from being ef
Edited by gidjit
01/23/2016 9:10 pm
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Yours is still AU, you need more erosion of the higher points to get to EF. Keep it in your pocket, maybe go dancing lots!! You have a ways to go before you beat mine...  I figure mine is down to VF. I am building a lowball set from all the nickel dollars I have handled over the years - probably much harder than a silver dollar lowball set.   "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Kinda sad you can't get a 1987 as cheap becaus of the loonie.
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Wow SPP that is impressive, I think that's the lowest nickel dollar (or even any coin from that era) I've seen. How long have you had that one? I wonder if I can get mine that low without losing it.
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I had a 1970 nickel dollar as a pocket piece but lost it after about half a year. Time to start on another...
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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