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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is a photo of part of an 1882-H cent I have in my collection.  Doesn't look to bad so far. But when you see the whole obverse and reverse, you can see that a long time ago, someone took an old penny and scraped it on both sides with something, probable just for fun. If only they'd known!   I bet everyone has something like this in their collection. |
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
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Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
Edited by fourmack
11/19/2016 4:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It is indeed interesting what strange things can happen to coins over the years. I have seen the same things with some key / semi key US coins. One dealer told me at a show that a wife of one of his customers purposely destroyed some of her husbands coins in his collection for flirting with a friend of hers. Tore some of them up pretty badly. Very sad.... |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Wow... Just for flirting..  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Most people that don't collect coins look at coins as spending nothing else I talk to different people they can't believe that people spend money to buy coins.
I can see this happening to coins like you say someone wasting the day away
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Canada
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Very though coin to find Phil310 and mine is not much better than yours!  MG |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1101 Posts |
Don, looks almost like the same person worked on of both of our coins.
MG, yours at least looks more like honest wear.(plus cleaning)
Papeldog, I can hardly believe I spent money to buy this one.(although it wasn't much)
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
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Phil they must have had a long arm or shifted around the world as this one was found in NZ (it was put on our auction site with a buy now of $10 --it lasted 1min )  Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I know it happens .
But it still hurts seeing coins damaged like that
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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My little contribution..a sabre-toothed DP 9 that is quite tough to find.. PC59-65a4...dies 65a + P4a    . . Edited by DEVLEC
11/20/2016 6:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
1679 Posts |
Ouch !! Tiger fight Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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