Has anyone else looked at a pile of crusty and beat up old coins..
jessewvu
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and wished they were all MS? Asking for a friend....
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Nah. Some beat up and crusty coins look better than MS coins.
My “friend” was looking at a bag of junk walkers and thought they would look better in MS than well circulated 😉
It doesn't look like junk to me if the price is right.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
I always thought that was within the job description
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
If my metal detecting finds were MS65+, I would already have that Ferrari I've been saving for. Only $459,000 more to save!
On Etsy, they ALL are.
Stumbled on this box once. The price was right so I was happy. Was kinda fun looking through.
Jim
MaineJim: Did u end up finding anything interesting in that box? Or just end up washing your hands over & over & over & over afterwards?
-- Dave
(looks like they might have been dredged from a mall fountain or wishing well.....)
Since I like coins, looking at old batches of coins is interesting for me... One never knows what could turn up... accumulated for years, before internet, could be a treasure or two lurking within. Have not found one yet, but never pass up an opportunity. My 'Eureka' moment is coming.....
Cheers, RickO
Nothing that interesting. There were a few rolls of dimes & quarters in the box not in the photo that I started with - all modern, then the cent rolls. About 50 common wheats there. I then pulled out the obvious larger sized coins, again all common but included a handful of dollar coins and some foreign coins. I then put the rest all in a strainer and gave them an ammonia bath. I let it go for a while which cleaned everything up well enough. I let them sit in the sun for an hour or two then pulled anything else interesting...which wasn't much, then off to my credit unions free coin sorter! I think it was about $100 in the end. The funniest part of this was I picked this box up at my town dump's free swap shop area. When I said the price was right I wasn't kidding! It was fun but no major treasures, just a quick $100 profit! You might be right about the fountain, I was trying to think how they could have ended up like that and it makes sense. At first glance I was thinking metal detector finds but they were mostly just rusty. I was certainly shocked to see the box just sitting there for the taking but not too much as I could make a pretty large list of the odd things I've found there. I was happy to search through it.
Jim
Wish MY town had a similar dump & swap! My other guess would have been coins found in restrooms or by plumbers over their careers, which would also account for a lot of the corrosion. As you said - - it sure made for a fun & free search!