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Valued Member
United States
68 Posts |
Got luck a month ago. Doin remodels of apartment buildings and folks just tossing perfectly good stuff away. A little dumpster diving has never been beyond me. Hopped in and came up with this beauty. 1910 s 10 dollar goolllllld. Obviously was a pendant at one time. Should I remove the casing ?   |
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Moderator
 United States
15388 Posts |
Thats a fantastic dumpster find - amazing actually.
If the casing is soldered to the coin I would probably leave it alone. If it's loose and can be opened up I would remove it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3468 Posts |
If you remove the bezel, have it tested to see if it too is made of gold.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7613 Posts |
Simply "WOW!
It is amazing what clueless people throw away!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1143 Posts |
 The clasp looks to be just an adjustable screw at the top and should be easy to remove. Makes me wonder what gets thrown out unknowingly all the time. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
Remarkable find, congrats.
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Moderator
United States
94728 Posts |
Very cool!! (my neighbors placed a construction dumpster in their driveway for a remodel - Now I want to go just in for a look around)   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6506 Posts |
Quote:
Now I want to go just in for a look around) Better put some shoes on  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2460 Posts |
wow, that's incredible.. excellent score.. yes, apparently ppl throw away gold, too...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2270 Posts |
One of the Australian gold proof sets has what looks like a little piece of gold foil embedded into the wooden box. I was tossing one of these in the trash one day when I decided to dig it out for my collection. It turned out to be more than 3/4 OZ of 10K gold!!! I didn't know it was there so it was free gold. One wonders how many of these went into the garbage.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Valued Member
 United States
68 Posts |
I know you all can appreciate a good find so I'll share this because it was in the pile.   |
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Valued Member
United States
68 Posts |
Hey, how do I reply to a specific reply if I want to?
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Moderator
United States
94728 Posts |
you mean quote? you use the square brackets [ and ] in the first set of brackets type in the word 'quote , then paste the comment you want from an earlier post, then type another bracket and put in /quote then close the quote. Since I'm not a I cannot turn off forum code to show you directly, but I'll try. By adding extra symbol (that does not belong may make it clear for you. - I'll use the ~ thing. So: [quote~] this is the message to quote [/quote~]becomes: Quote:
this is the message to quote Edited by Dearborn
07/23/2023 2:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5820 Posts |
Holy Cow!
People throwing real money away.
Edited by macmercury
07/22/2023 8:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3634 Posts |
Amazing finds, congrats!
Member of SPMC, FCCB, ANA and ANS. My U.S. Classic Commemorative Complete Set: https://www.NGCcoin.com/registry/co...sets/278741/My U.S. Fractional Note Set: https://notes.www.collectors-societ...eSetID=34188 |
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United States
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Fantastic finds!  |
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Posted 07/22/2023 09:01 am
