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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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If it's real that's an amazing find!!
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Pillar of the Community
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I'd say it might be a little sharper than VG, and that a professional restoration might make it look better. Don't let an amateur mess with this.
As for whether or not it's genuine, you really need to have a microscopic photo of it. Better yet, you really need and expert to look at it in person.
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Nice save.
Since you title starts off with the melting pot, but you add "My friend said some lady sold these who owned a laundromat", I am baffled. Is your friend an owner of a melting pot? But then you say you found it...
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02/15/2017 3:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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My friend is a owner of a precious metals store, he probably didn't see it....they really don't go through them for key dates....I try to buy their junk silver to resell and on occasion I find some nicer pieces like this. Bill I will try to take a better pic of the mintmark. I am positive it's real. I don't think it's worth restoring cause it has a big scratch on the head and several rim hits,
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Pillar of the Community
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This is the best pic of the mintmark I can do. I am horrible with cameras.  |
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I don't think it's worth restoring cause it has a big scratch on the head and several rim hits, If you intend to sell it -- then I agree. Let the new owner worry about that. I think that if you did an acetone soak, some of that black crud will come off revealing bright spots and then that will raise questions. I could be wrong. I haven't done many acetone soaks. |
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'd say it might be a little sharper than VG, and that a professional restoration might make it look better. Don't let an amateur mess with this.
 If you intend to sell it -- then I agree. Let the new owner worry about that. I think that if you did an acetone soak, some of that black crud will come off revealing bright spots and then that will raise questions. I could be wrong. I haven't done many acetone soaks. Interesting. Send it in for a pro restoration or soak it in acetone. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Congrats on your junk box find . |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Awesome!  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice! However, I wouldn't pay $20 for conservation because the price of 1932 S Quarters are suddenly low.
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I checked Numismedia, and G 4 price is only $66.50
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice pickup ... very good for a junk silver bin
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