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Well, I had a nice uncirculated, burnished 2006 W ASE. GF thought she'd be nice with a jewelry cloth to get a small "milk" spot out. Proudly she showed me the shiny "new" coin. The burnished, satin finish is gone. And, looking with a loupe you'd think a Dremmel was taken to it! I just smiled. You know that smile. That's $20 down the drain. LOL. Sorry, just had to vent. What is your worst mishap? Stephen Edited by cmdrstp
11/03/2009 1:01 pm
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Wow, sorry to hear about your mishap. I remember when I was first getting in to coin collecting and I took a circulated modern nickel (pretty recent coin) that was already beat up and I tried to scratch and mar it (out of curiosity). I didn't think coins would mar that easily, but man, they are "soft" and get roughed up pretty easily. Even with light pressure of grazing, the coin showed the mark easily. Made me realize how easy bag marks other marks are made. Made me really take care when handling coins of value.
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11/03/2009 1:00 pm
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Why I dont let anyone touch my stuff... Sorry to hear about your mishap.
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Sorry to hear about that too... but at least it was well-intentioned. My worst mishap was on a nickel as well. Left it with some other nickels in some acetone as an experiment and then left it there. Took all but one out and left the other one in. Forgot to seal the glass, acetone evaporated, and all of the removed crap basically attached itself to the nickel. Ugliest coin I have ever caused. At least it's just circulation value though.
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This is when I would use her Louis Vuitton handbag to catch the oil dripping from the car.
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I tried to rub a fingerprint off of a proof coin when I was much younger with a jewelry cleaning cloth and had similar results. Lesson learned the hard way!
The rub shouldnt affect the bullion value of the coin if you ever resold it. That should give you some consolation.
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luckily the only thing I have done was when I first started collecting I dropped a circulated Morgan dollar worth about 20 bucks on a hard surface and put a small dent in it. that taught me real fast to only examine coins over a very soft surface |
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My worst mishap is that I evacuated for Hurricane Katrina and left my coins behind. They were sitting under 4 feet of dirty flood water for about 5 days and then I wasn't allowed back in the city to recover them for another 2 months. Needless to say, they weren't in good shape when I finally got back to them.
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nolawyer, thats awful. Sorry to hear that. I think if I every have to leave my home, coins go with me.
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I'm over it. Luckily the most valuable coins weren't harmed. It was mainly the copper and nickel coins that became worthless. I definitely learned my lesson, though.
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I'm kind of chuckling at your post. You must not take her out very often because each time you do, it's anoter "$20 down the drain".
LOL and kidding - but it is a fact. You're darned lucky you got off for only $20!
Can also appreciate the flood story - similar story for me last year.
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11/04/2009 02:51 am
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My worst mishap occurred last night  . I found a 1999 Lincoln WAM in the change I received at a gas station and needless to say, I was more than thrilled. A few hours later (around 11:30pm) I pull into my driveway and in the process of exiting my car I dropped the WAM'er onto my sloped driveway, which leads to a 1/2 mile of downward sloping streets. I hear it roll a few feet... then a few more... and some more... and another couple dozen inches after that. I tossed everything I had in my hands back into the car and attempted an unsuccessful search & rescue mission . The search continues in about an hour (fingers crossed!). |
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A friend of mine had an even more disastrous experience. He was collecting Morgan silver dollars in the late 50's and early 60's by purchasing them from the bank. He was cherry picking them and at the time figured most of them were valued at $2.50 - $3.00 each. He had them all around his room in large stacks. He came home one day to discover his father had turned them all in to the bank. His father said he needed to learn about "interest" on money (at the time paying a couple percent a year). My friends reply was it would take a century to get the interest off of the value of those coins that had been turned in. Keep in mind this is BEFORE morgans became extremely popular and silver went up in value. So a word of warning, TELL EVERYONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM YOUR COIN COLLECTION! Sincerely, John Leckrone |
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The rub shouldnt affect the bullion value of the coin if you ever resold it. That should give you some consolation. I was thinking the same thing...I'd just go sell it for bullion and re-buy one for your collection. Sure, you'll lose a few bucks, but it'll get the incident off of your mind. |
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