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She was informed that she had spent her life in a tiny dilapidated home so her husband could amass a $100,000+ stamp collection. She burned it. While this story may be apocryphal, who could not understand the rage behind it You know what that say about that place that "hath no fury like a woman scorned!"  I can understand her anger. They say there are some things money cannot buy; maybe burning them turned out to be therapeutic?  Edited by jbuck
08/04/2008 2:05 pm
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I guess she thought he spent too much time with his coins...and not enough with her.
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Everyone grabbed your motion sickness bag...this is a tough one to swallow and keep down.  I was recently going through my 7070 Type coins to submit some for grading.  I have always taken great pride in my 1898 Barber half dollar so thought the coin below was a no-brainer easy MS64+, it's beautifully struck, die cracks to add to it's character...super nice coin!  I got my loop out and was looking for anything that I thought may cause it to get body bagged. I looked closely and grabbed my trash can cause I thought I was going to hurl. There is a "X" on the cap under "GOD"!   I've had this coin for almost two years and have received tons of compliments about how nice it is and never noticed it. Now I can't look at it without concentrating on the "X"! "Help me I am dying!" is all I can think...  You really can't see it in hand but man I know it's there and you can see it faintly from the photo below...  Needless to say I am going to have to replace it. Like Prethen conveyed, it eats at me every day! Come on, what kind of Jackleg would deface a coin like this?!? Ugh!   |
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I'll trade you for the Barber Half in my 7070. It is VF-20, no cleaning, no damage. Seriously though, you have my heartfelt sympathy. I too have been blinded by the eye appeal of a coin, only to discover after I own it, that it has damage I over looked. Like Prethen says, now all you can see is the x scratched into the cap.
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Nelrak, I don't feel your pain, but you have my sympathy. It's STILL a beautiful coin - just think of it as the wounded bird ... the child with a birthmark ... the Golden Gate bridge with a huge gaping hole in the second lane through which an eighteen-wheeler just plunged (oops - how did that get into here?) ...
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It's STILL a beautiful coin - just think of it as the wounded bird ... the child with a birthmark  I too have some coins with issues, but I have kept them for the sentimental value. I got them when I was much younger and less discerning. I have them to remind myself that I was once not so serious and obsessive! |
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It will, obviously, eat away at you and your obsession will drive you to replace it...... BUT..... OMG !!....WHAT A BEAUTIFUL COIN !!  ... .... |
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Thanks everyone...it stinks. I'll keep it forever, I don't I'll ever get what I have in it with the X, but who knows!
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Come on, what kind of Jackleg would deface a coin like this?!? Ugh! A guy in 1899 to whom it was just 50 cents. It was 50 cents before he scratched it, and it was 50 cents ater her scratched it. Edited by Conder101
08/05/2008 2:44 pm
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I guess it's kind of like people who sign paper notes...X was the mark of the day!
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A guy in 1899 to whom it was just 50 cents. It was 50 cents before he scratched it, and it was 50 cents ater her scratched it.
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United States
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I seem to remember something about marking a coin in the old days for "identification" for some reason. I can't recall exactly but I seem to think it was something like the "chop" marks on coins that circulated in the Orient ...... sort of a check for value or authenticity. Oh well, it's hell getting old and senile ............!!
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Barely noticed the X until you pointed it out Ken. Just like my expertly plugged Flowing Hair half dollar, I never realized it was there until I submitted to ANACS.
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I guess it's kind of like people who sign paper notes...X was the mark of the day! At the auction I was at today they had a 1932A $1 silver certificate that had been 'defaced' in much the same way. It sold for $75... Dizzy Dean, and Stan Musial were the perpetrators of this horrible crime...  |
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I just bought eight rolls of halves in Texas and each roll contained one coin with a T on it from a sharpie. Permanent markers haven't been around long. Maybe the X was the old fashioned way to know you searched a roll.
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