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Another sad story - I once went to west Texas to look at a collection of Morgan dollars from an old "Wild West" saloon that was torn down. Apparently the saloon owner NAILED each silver dollar to the wall behind the bar ........ OUCH!! Each Morgan had a neat little nail hole in the center and some were high dollar coins! What folks do to coins ......... Shame! |
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I have been to plenty of places with dollar bills taped/glued/tacked to the walls, but never coins! Ouch!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Ouch...you often see that in old saloons up in our "gold country". I have to avert my eyes and take a stiff drink, lol.
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What if one was a 93-S or 89-CC . swcoin.ecrater.com
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That really is a shame but not at all surprising. People do stupid stuff....quite often.
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It's ignorance. Plain and simple.
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What if one was a 93-S or 89-CC Have your Dentist fill it.  |
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What if one was a 93-S or 89-CC? No harm done! Just send it to SGS for grading... It's "perfect"!  |
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There is a saloon in Virginia City, NV (I think it is called the Silver Queen, but I could be mistaken) that has a painting on the wall of a woman and the long dress is actually made up of what has to be 1000+ silver dollars mounted on the painting. The belt on the dress is made up of $20 gold pieces. I cried when I saw all those beautiful coins ruined by being mounted on the wall. Considering the proximity to the CC mint (30 miles away or so), you have to wonder what dates/mintmarks are in that display?
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What "modern" coinage, are people doing the same thing nowadays to ?
In other words......150 years from now, will collectors look "our stuff" and say "Holy Mackeral" !..."What were they thinking?"
Of course, nobody (i don't think!) is doing that to "silver or gold" coins now, but still !
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I love Virginia City,NV. I go there quite often and have never seen the Silver Queen, I'll have to check it out. I'd love to find the coins that fell through the boardwalk sidewalk! I agree, send these coins to SGS and they will come back problem free.  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Quote:I once went to west Texas to look at a collection of Morgan dollars from an old "Wild West" saloon that was torn down. Apparently the saloon owner NAILED each silver dollar to the wall behind the bar ........ OUCH! Each Morgan had a neat little nail hole in the center and some were high dollar coins! What folks do to coins ......... Shame! The owner of that saloon never thought the morgan would be around forever not knowing it would be a valuable commodity. Noonw probally ever thought that silver would be taken out of coins. If they did they would have hoarded everything they found. So I dont think it was stupid or ignorant. "I am sure if you have parents that grew up in the pre 60s all the way back to 1900s" They put mickey mantle baseball cards "and other famous baseball players" in there bicycle spokes to make noise. Never knowing the card would be worth anything. Or the first superman comic if everyone knew what it would be worth today everyone would have it and it wouldnt be worth anything IMHO Edited by daviscfad
08/17/2008 10:07 pm
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You ever catch the show mythbusters. If so you might have seen an episode where they see if you can shoot a silver dollar. You get to watch them shoot two morgans and a Seated dollar. It makes you cry |
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What if one was a 93-S or 89-CC. Then i'd be happy to buy them for melt price :) (especially with the way silver has been plummeting lately!) |
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Posted 08/16/2008 2:51 pm
