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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Now when you say fill a hole you mean putting it in the fuse slot right. I have a shed that still has the old glass round fuses :)
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Moderator
 United States
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Oh no!  I remember moving to an old house in the early eighties. It had a fuse box, but not one single good fuse in it. It did have about twenty blown fuses holding in different cents from the early seventies. It scares me to think that people actually live that dangerously! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Literally, a de-faced coin.   a few bucks for that one. |
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 United States
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If this had been an 1877, I'd be crying!
An 1869 is bad enough.
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Valued Member
United States
455 Posts |
I'd be embarrassed to put this coin up for sale! I guess some people don't have scruples when it comes to selling coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have bought from him before he has some real nice stuff-- but that is an exception
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Canada
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Yikes. Hole-filler. I think you mean a Hole'd filler... |
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United States
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When I was a kid (ca. 1996) I got an 1869 IHC in a lot of worn 1890s/1900s cents that my father picked up from a junk shop for a few dollars. It had XF details (full liberty, 2 or 3 diamonds visible) but it was covered in an incredibly thick, crusty layer of verdigris. I didn't understand at that time how the value was impacted, and a couple of years later when I got access to my first coin value guide (a beaten-up, waterlogged 1991 RedBook) I was extremely excited to see the value of the coin, and I prized it as by far my most valuable. After a while, though, I decided I wanted to try and sell it and put the money toward some other coin I wanted (I really wanted a Quarter Eagle, and while still too much for a small child, back then they could be had for less then the value of a problem-free XF 1869 IHC) and so I took it to a coin shop to see what I could get out of it. The man running the shop just laughed and told me it was valueless and I was pretty crushed. I took it to several other coin dealers and got the same reaction from them too, and my dream of getting a gold coin pretty much went up in smoke. Eventually I got so mad that I threw it in the garbage. Bad idea? Maybe, but by the point I did that it felt like it was taunting me every time I looked at it, heh. Surprising the kind of memories the sight of a single damaged 1869 IHC can bring up. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
594 Posts |
I need it but think I'm passing on this one. He ought to add "Or best offer".
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3283 Posts |
As much as I would love that date, I wouldn't take that for free.
42t,pretty funny/sad story
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United States
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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How could you bring yourself to sell something in that shape for that price no matter the date! Despicable! It's his coin, he can ask whatever he wants for it. Quote:Sellers like this just prey on the uneducated that merely grade something as 'about good' and look in the Red Book instead of considering other factors. Yep, and the uneducated can protect themselves by becoming educated. Along the way they will make some mistakes, like maybe buying this coin. You can't, and frankly you probably shouldn't try to protect them from making these mistakes. Nothing teaches faster than making mistakes and you learn much better from your own mistakes than from the mistakes of others. And as for the glass fuses, my apartment still uses them. You should see some of the wiring up in the attic. Wires strung from insulator to insulator. An I mean just WIRES no insulation on them. |
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Posted 11/04/2010 10:55 am
