Why must people carve into coins?
dalladalla69
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Its so frustrating, a lowball 78S and a big fat HI carved into the observe... Ugh so many good coins ruined
What coin have you seen ruined by some words carved into it?
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I think it’s amazing that people do
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Ask the hobo's.
Ask the bored kids in High School English class.....I used to carve stuff onto coins and then pass them to Lola, she was the best!
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Or the people who made love tokens.
Seriously, do you think the folks who put graffiti on coins 100-200 years ago cared that they were ruining future numismatic treasures? I think not. Imagine what future generations are going to think about us.....
It was just pocket change and worth the same regardless. Now we curse them.
Coins, by their very nature, are typically mass-produced items, nothing too special.
U.S. Trade Dollars were demonetized too, making them a hunk of silver worth relatively little.
Sometimes I'm glad they carved or stamped things into coins.
And 150 years from now someone will be cursing me for this memento honoring the 2018 World Series champions.
If you go to skidrow in Los Angeles, you are going to see a lot of homeless. If you go to Ebay, you are going to see all the homeless junk and dreck.
Ebay is where dreck goes to die.
My favorite graffiti. It makes this little common silver slug worth a lot more.
As long as people hope for something for nothing, dreck WILL NEVER die.
Some gold dollar and other love tokens are pretty nice.
Am I the only one to check the date to see if it was an 1942/1?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I love it, and have many examples.
I'm honest about it; as part of the piece's history, as long as its factored into the item's grade/price, it is evidence of FREE SPEECH, on the part of the contemporaneous, succession of, and current Owners.
Folks are allowed Expression of Ideas in this country.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
It's the Emperors who must be told their clothes are so beautiful who are scary
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
There are a BOATLOAD of coins that have been saved from the melt by being carved, holed, etc.
The coins were, for the vast majority, obtained at face value, so therefore, it is intuitively obvious to the casual observer that the pallette upon said artwork was executed was the face value of said coin, no mas.
Would we be happier if instead of being carved, those coins would have been lost to the melting pot?
I have no problem with anyone doing anything to any coin. You own it, ddo what you want to it. It becomes part of its history.
A frequent discussion over the years....coins have been altered in shape and appearance to suit the individual... and that is their privilege. Collectors - for the most part - are not pleased, since often the coin is of a desirable type. The fundamental fact is, that one can do with one's own property as one chooses. Cheers, RickO
What amazes me is it seems the better date coins are attacked more by this than the common dates. Perhaps the common dates just end up being scraped more.
Always have been a fan of the creative graffiti coins.