"By the mid-1970s 25 cents a cup (coffee) was standard in the average restaurant. (Even then, there were customers who bristled at paying more than 5 cents!) Often restaurants softened the blow of price increases by offering free refills to those ordering full meals."
Sorry Ladies and Gents, no coffee today. Still dealing with food poisoning while on vacation. Nothing but a few bananas, rice and low sugar yogurt since Sunday. Came home a few days early and played with the Silver Commems.
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Happy Easter to all! Saturday Red Eye time on my favorite thread:
Today, a special addition:
I was first offered this coin at FUN this past January. As it was toward the end of the show, I had to pass as I was low on ammo. I did let the seller know how much I liked it & would be back to him when I was ready, which is now.
This example is a beautiful crusty original with great eye appeal. Strike is good & marks are consistent with the assigned grade. The CAC approval helps attest to this. Just about all Charlotte minted coins are tough to some degree. In fact, the 1855-C is one of the more difficult dates in the half eagle series, scarce in AU50 & borderline rare in higher AU grades. MS examples are virtually non existent.
Finally, while this coin has a certain “Fairmont” hoard look, I’m not sure if it was ever one of those coins.
I picked up these fun Canadian toners a few weeks ago. I really enjoy half of Candian coins...the reverse. They have some beautiful and innovative designs (although these are more classic) but it's a shame that the obverse is always a portrait of the English monarch. Get's boring quickly.
Present! This 2013 Panda was all I bought at the Manchester, NH show yesterday, having recently exhausted the bulk of this year's coin shopping budget on this acquisition:
Drinking some del sol from Cafe Vita, having a little breakfast burrito, and checking out my new peace dollar addition.
Have a great weekend!
Newbie collector of type and circulated Peace dollars, photographer of places and animals, player of instruments and builder of amplifiers, espresso industry professional, and a person distracted by shiny objects. https://mycollect.com/Rule556/sets
My Saturday afternoon stop by a local shop yielded a run of three frosty Franklins in OGP flat pack proof sets. All thee halves are fully frosted on both sides with deeply mirrored fields.
Happy Easter folks!
I posted this coin here a few weeks ago right after purchasing it. The coin is much darker than the image I purchased it from. I struggled a couple of weeks with the option to dip it or just sell it. Because frankly it isn't really fun to look at. Realizing that it is a 63 CAC I figured a good cleaning wouldn't reveal too much that you couldn't already see so what the hell.
After cracking it open I swabbed on MS70 which made it somewhat lighter but not enough. So I broke out the silver dip and gave it a 5 second dip and good rinse. Then placed it in my Type set album. Of course keeping the insert and CAC sticker as with all others I break out and put in this album.
Eventually I will have one killer album the kind you dream of finding. Anyway, you may like it or you may not. But I like it and that's all that matters.
@Coinscratch
I really hope our bust half nuts are out for a Saturday night stroll, as theyre certainly going to hate that you dipped that original beauty! I mean, it's your coin and you can do what you want, but ahhhh. It's lifeless now.
Back to the grind. The coffee grinds
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
@DCW said: @Coinscratch
I really hope our bust half nuts are out for a Saturday night stroll, as theyre certainly going to hate that you dipped that original beauty! I mean, it's your coin and you can do what you want, but ahhhh. It's lifeless now.
Back to the grind. The coffee grinds
It was dead to me before and now it’s full of life 😎
@Coinscratch - your killing me. I love originally toned coins especially bust coinage. I guess one less pickin' for me. Sorry to say, I like the before picture over the after........
Considering what week it is, I want to hope this an April Fools joke ... and a good bit of work with photoshop.
If not, well, my unfiltered comments can not be shared here. They would not be kind.
Originality can not be restored. Ever.
If you ever have an important coin and aren't interested, I'm sure others are. It's far easier to find dipped and/or ruined examples, I assure you.
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That said ...
Plenty of coffee this morning, and a gloriously beautiful day in the Pacific NW. And then, just after I got done with a preschooler's Easter Egg hunt, and headed South to come home, I got a call from a coin friend I haven't talked to in a long while.
We talked about coins, the lack of good material we've seen lately, and how this creates a strange price dynamic in the market. As fewer and fewer good coins become available, collectors start to pay up more because it has been long enough that they start to feel like they really "need" a coin, which in turn causes Dealers to start to ask more as they can't replace their inventory and the higher priced coins are selling ... and the cycle, for a time, feeds itself.
My friend has been collecting longer than quite a few collectors have been alive (I would have still been in grade school when he bought his first CBH), so I always find his observations quite interesting. I also found it reassuring that we were echoing each others thoughts on those topics.
In honor of that call, and so I can show a coin for today ... here's a coin he sold me.
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“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
To me the originality was hidden underneath almost 200 years of tarnish. But now I understand what you guys are saying that original means as is and never messed with.
Next time I will just sell it or not buy it in the first place.
That being said I still like it more now yes it does look amazing, full cart and stuck in an album where it will begin its next toning cycle.
But was it really original? If you look at the before pics you can see that it had a darker rim toning before it ever picked up the total coverage toning. I suppose you could call that original as well.
@Coinscratch said:
To me the originality was hidden underneath almost 200 years of tarnish.
That is why we are going nuts here. It took 200 years to develop that beautiful toning and only 2 seconds to strip it all away. Hate to beat you up on this, but that was a very costly mistake. There is little chance it ever makes it back into a holder, and most people will recognize this to be a cleaned coin.
None of that matters in the short term if you enjoy it in your album that way. But it kind of sucks long term for the next owner.
We care for these things only so long, you know.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
@coinscratch Well, I guess it isn't a joke, but I already figured that. Really a shame someone who participates on this board would feel so flippant about a 200-year old piece of history.
It is your coin though, so, c'est la vie. Just a damn shame you don't and didn't care about her.
Again, if you wanted an album project, plenty exist, and some are still very worthwhile. Finding original (or coins that haven't been boinked with in a very long time) is pretty tough. I can tell you, for sure, there are others that would have appreciated her as she was, and would have maintained her history and innocence going forward.
As a friend of mine said after seeing and absorbing this, "Another one bites the dust."
SMH
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You said in your post "Eventually I will have one killer album the kind you dream of finding."
If this is how you treat your coins, I'm not sure I ever want to find that nightmare.
Good luck in your quest. Whatever that is. I guess.
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Also, please read my signature line. In that respect, I see you as an abject failure. Not that you probably care.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
@DCW said:
... There is little chance it ever makes it back into a holder, and most people will recognize this to be a cleaned coin.
While I also wish this hadn't happened, I disagree there -- I think the only thing it probably won't do again is get a CAC sticker. Dipped coins make it into holders at grade all day every day, and this looks better than lots of them. Dipping is not the same as abrasive cleaning. The coin won't present as "original" for a long time if ever, but the market -- somebody in the market -- will accept it when the time comes.
@Coinscratch - Just a couple of more comment for you and this is in very good humor-
1- I hope your not the curator for the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian or thinking of applying for the job.
2- Please, please don't do that same thing to any Bust half dimes, dimes, quarters or Dollars. That will drive a collector like me to drink something more than coffee on a Saturday morning .........
Happy Easter all.
In honor of that call, and so I can show a coin for today ... here's a coin he sold me.
.
Sell me that coin so I can crack it and dip it 😈
I know that you are joking because only a total idiot would do something like that.
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
Just a damn shame you don't and didn't care about her.
I can tell you, for sure, there are others that would have appreciated her as she was, and would have maintained her history and innocence going forward.
A few sentences snipped out in the quote above, but I'm ashamed to say I'm enjoying my contemplation of her being debauched!
Seated Half Society member #38
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain...."
I love this thread because it is unfailingly positive, the eye candy is great, and everyone's love of coins is apparent. I think I've only ever seen one negative comment, total.
The travesty that was committed to that 29 CBH has lead to ~10 negative comments. And they are deserved. I didn't think I would see it but here we are.
What's done is done. No going back. But maybe stop and reconsider before doing it again. I know it's your choice, but it affects the entire community in some ways ... now and in the future.
I don't apologize, but since I kind of started the harsher lashing, hopefully it can end it here too.
Lots of coins have been dipped. There are even coins where it "might" have helped.
IMO, the '29 should have never been dipped. It was not a candidate for improvement. The toning was too deep. Complex. Intense.
Like a diluting a fine wine or a well-aged bourbon, or even an retouching an old masters painting, messing with it made it worse, not better.
I could say the same for your 24/1 but I don't know that. It may have been "improved". It's still not the most pleasing, but certainly worthwhile.
True purists will say that can not be ("improved"), but I disagree. Sometimes certain coins might need a bit of curation. Not many. Not often. But sometimes. Usually gently and with some expertise. Again, I don't think that was one of those coins, nor one of those issues.
We can't change the past, but for the most part we can prevent the abuses that came before us.
Happy Easter.
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Sunday mornings, and I still drink coffee. And I still enjoy coins.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
@Coinscratch: I’m one member who hopes you stick around. To me, this is the best thread on the boards.
I only have a handful of CBH’s & all I know is I like them in their natural state. Doesn’t make me right & you not so. It’s your coin & up to you what you do with it.
I will defer, though, to the CBH guys. They DO know a lot & I, for one, appreciate their commentary (& knowledge). Always learning about this series from them!
But, I do hope you enjoy owning this coin in spite of the criticism.
I really hope you don't do this ... at least on this kind of coin ... ever again.
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@Project Numismatics I disagree. It's still an Unc. It's probably still a 3, somewhere ... maybe even at PCGS. Doesn't look like the surfaces were harmed other than the probable elimination of fragile frost (dips are notorious for this, of course).
To me, the character is gone. It probably won't CAC again (debatable). The value is most likely diminished for most buyers (certainly would be for me).
Hopefully she survives without further issue for future generations.
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Let's keep this thread positive and enjoyable, sharing our coins treasures ... and fine cups of caffeine. We can always beat @Coinscratch in person, later.
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Here's an original coin for Monday ... and yes, it's still early enough out on the West Coast ... I am drinking that Italian Roast, black and bold.
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1822 O-110a (110.3) PCGS AU55cac
ex-Keigwin, ex-Ross, ex-Meyer
Wonderful golden russet color graces thick unspoiled luster and pristine, original surfaces.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
It's not Saturday, but all the CBH talk caused me to contemplate original toning, so I'll "dip" my toe into the fray and just leave this here for all to enjoy. If there is better original early 1800's toning out there, I'd like to see it! The original luster shines through the color like it was powered internally by some miniature battery!
@Eldorado9 said:
It's not Saturday, but all the CBH talk caused me to contemplate original toning, so I'll "dip" my toe into the fray and just leave this here for all to enjoy. If there is better original early 1800's toning out there, I'd like to see it! The original luster shines through the color like it was powered internally by some miniature battery!
A little history on that Large Size quarter. It was originally auctioned off raw out of the James Stack collection in the 70's. It was one of the first ever large sized bust quarters to be graded MS-66 by PCGS, and it resided in a rattler holder for many years. Fast forward many years, it was owned by Joe O'Connor who is a well-known dealer, and specializes in Bust Quarters, and he always loved this coin....I bought it from Joe. Hell of a coin.
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@pursuitofliberty - LOL - just shows how crazy us collectors are..........
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"By the mid-1970s 25 cents a cup (coffee) was standard in the average restaurant. (Even then, there were customers who bristled at paying more than 5 cents!) Often restaurants softened the blow of price increases by offering free refills to those ordering full meals."
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"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
Sorry Ladies and Gents, no coffee today. Still dealing with food poisoning while on vacation. Nothing but a few bananas, rice and low sugar yogurt since Sunday. Came home a few days early and played with the Silver Commems.
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Happy Easter to all! Saturday Red Eye time on my favorite thread:
Today, a special addition:
I was first offered this coin at FUN this past January. As it was toward the end of the show, I had to pass as I was low on ammo. I did let the seller know how much I liked it & would be back to him when I was ready, which is now.
This example is a beautiful crusty original with great eye appeal. Strike is good & marks are consistent with the assigned grade. The CAC approval helps attest to this. Just about all Charlotte minted coins are tough to some degree. In fact, the 1855-C is one of the more difficult dates in the half eagle series, scarce in AU50 & borderline rare in higher AU grades. MS examples are virtually non existent.
Finally, while this coin has a certain “Fairmont” hoard look, I’m not sure if it was ever one of those coins.
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
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Good morning, gave up trying to photograph this.
I picked up these fun Canadian toners a few weeks ago. I really enjoy half of Candian coins...the reverse. They have some beautiful and innovative designs (although these are more classic) but it's a shame that the obverse is always a portrait of the English monarch. Get's boring quickly.
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Lovely coins this morning, as always!
Hope you feel better soon @pcgscacgold
I spent the day with my oldest yesterday (good fun), and am hanging out with he and my grandson this morning. Maybe I can post something later.
Happy Easter weekend!
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Happy Sat Gents! Go out and have a great day.
Good Morning Everyone!!!
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Present! This 2013 Panda was all I bought at the Manchester, NH show yesterday, having recently exhausted the bulk of this year's coin shopping budget on this acquisition:
Drinking some del sol from Cafe Vita, having a little breakfast burrito, and checking out my new peace dollar addition.
Have a great weekend!
Newbie collector of type and circulated Peace dollars, photographer of places and animals, player of instruments and builder of amplifiers, espresso industry professional, and a person distracted by shiny objects. https://mycollect.com/Rule556/sets
Happy Saturday all!
Coin Photography
@Copperindian Great coin! It does have the Fairmont look.
This is a 2nd Cavalry Post exchange token from their time in Cuba. Very rare.
The coffee is Colombian!
Happy Saturday!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
My Saturday afternoon stop by a local shop yielded a run of three frosty Franklins in OGP flat pack proof sets. All thee halves are fully frosted on both sides with deeply mirrored fields.
Happy Easter folks!
I posted this coin here a few weeks ago right after purchasing it. The coin is much darker than the image I purchased it from. I struggled a couple of weeks with the option to dip it or just sell it. Because frankly it isn't really fun to look at. Realizing that it is a 63 CAC I figured a good cleaning wouldn't reveal too much that you couldn't already see so what the hell.
After cracking it open I swabbed on MS70 which made it somewhat lighter but not enough. So I broke out the silver dip and gave it a 5 second dip and good rinse. Then placed it in my Type set album. Of course keeping the insert and CAC sticker as with all others I break out and put in this album.
Eventually I will have one killer album the kind you dream of finding. Anyway, you may like it or you may not. But I like it and that's all that matters.
@Coinscratch
I really hope our bust half nuts are out for a Saturday night stroll, as theyre certainly going to hate that you dipped that original beauty! I mean, it's your coin and you can do what you want, but ahhhh. It's lifeless now.
Back to the grind. The coffee grinds
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
It was dead to me before and now it’s full of life 😎
@Coinscratch - your killing me. I love originally toned coins especially bust coinage. I guess one less pickin' for me. Sorry to say, I like the before picture over the after........
🤯
Dude
BHNC #248 … 140 and counting.
Well, maybe next time I should look you guys up beforehand.
@Coinscratch
Considering what week it is, I want to hope this an April Fools joke ... and a good bit of work with photoshop.
If not, well, my unfiltered comments can not be shared here. They would not be kind.
Originality can not be restored. Ever.
If you ever have an important coin and aren't interested, I'm sure others are. It's far easier to find dipped and/or ruined examples, I assure you.
.
That said ...
Plenty of coffee this morning, and a gloriously beautiful day in the Pacific NW. And then, just after I got done with a preschooler's Easter Egg hunt, and headed South to come home, I got a call from a coin friend I haven't talked to in a long while.
We talked about coins, the lack of good material we've seen lately, and how this creates a strange price dynamic in the market. As fewer and fewer good coins become available, collectors start to pay up more because it has been long enough that they start to feel like they really "need" a coin, which in turn causes Dealers to start to ask more as they can't replace their inventory and the higher priced coins are selling ... and the cycle, for a time, feeds itself.
My friend has been collecting longer than quite a few collectors have been alive (I would have still been in grade school when he bought his first CBH), so I always find his observations quite interesting. I also found it reassuring that we were echoing each others thoughts on those topics.
In honor of that call, and so I can show a coin for today ... here's a coin he sold me.
.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
To me the originality was hidden underneath almost 200 years of tarnish. But now I understand what you guys are saying that original means as is and never messed with.
Next time I will just sell it or not buy it in the first place.
That being said I still like it more now yes it does look amazing, full cart and stuck in an album where it will begin its next toning cycle.
But was it really original? If you look at the before pics you can see that it had a darker rim toning before it ever picked up the total coverage toning. I suppose you could call that original as well.
That is why we are going nuts here. It took 200 years to develop that beautiful toning and only 2 seconds to strip it all away. Hate to beat you up on this, but that was a very costly mistake. There is little chance it ever makes it back into a holder, and most people will recognize this to be a cleaned coin.
None of that matters in the short term if you enjoy it in your album that way. But it kind of sucks long term for the next owner.
We care for these things only so long, you know.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
@coinscratch Well, I guess it isn't a joke, but I already figured that. Really a shame someone who participates on this board would feel so flippant about a 200-year old piece of history.
It is your coin though, so, c'est la vie. Just a damn shame you don't and didn't care about her.
Again, if you wanted an album project, plenty exist, and some are still very worthwhile. Finding original (or coins that haven't been boinked with in a very long time) is pretty tough. I can tell you, for sure, there are others that would have appreciated her as she was, and would have maintained her history and innocence going forward.
As a friend of mine said after seeing and absorbing this, "Another one bites the dust."
SMH
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You said in your post "Eventually I will have one killer album the kind you dream of finding."
If this is how you treat your coins, I'm not sure I ever want to find that nightmare.
Good luck in your quest. Whatever that is. I guess.
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Also, please read my signature line. In that respect, I see you as an abject failure. Not that you probably care.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Oooh, that hurts my soul. A true shame, and I'm not a CBH guy either.
Coin Photography
While I also wish this hadn't happened, I disagree there -- I think the only thing it probably won't do again is get a CAC sticker. Dipped coins make it into holders at grade all day every day, and this looks better than lots of them. Dipping is not the same as abrasive cleaning. The coin won't present as "original" for a long time if ever, but the market -- somebody in the market -- will accept it when the time comes.
@Coinscratch - Just a couple of more comment for you and this is in very good humor-
1- I hope your not the curator for the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian or thinking of applying for the job.
2- Please, please don't do that same thing to any Bust half dimes, dimes, quarters or Dollars. That will drive a collector like me to drink something more than coffee on a Saturday morning .........
Happy Easter all.
Sell me that coin so I can crack it and dip it 😈
BHNC #248 … 140 and counting.
I know that you are joking because only a total idiot would do something like that.
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 have been called a lot of things and there is one thing that I am sir, and that sir, is a total idiot.
But seriously no I’d never do that.
BHNC #248 … 140 and counting.
A few sentences snipped out in the quote above, but I'm ashamed to say I'm enjoying my contemplation of her being debauched!
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
I love this thread because it is unfailingly positive, the eye candy is great, and everyone's love of coins is apparent. I think I've only ever seen one negative comment, total.
The travesty that was committed to that 29 CBH has lead to ~10 negative comments. And they are deserved. I didn't think I would see it but here we are.
Have a nice Sunday everyone.
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
I’m not impressed, so I dipped one dark negatively toned coin and y’all guys are carrying on like a bunch of Karen’s.
Oh my God the poor coin is dead, my soul hurts? I mean seriously how flipping pathetic.
My 24/1 was obviously dipped at some point. I didn’t hear a bunch of moaning and groaning that day.
After hearing these comments I may need to take a little time to reflect and reevaluate what I’m even doing here.
Over and out!
@coinscratch Please do ... reevaluate.
What's done is done. No going back. But maybe stop and reconsider before doing it again. I know it's your choice, but it affects the entire community in some ways ... now and in the future.
I don't apologize, but since I kind of started the harsher lashing, hopefully it can end it here too.
Lots of coins have been dipped. There are even coins where it "might" have helped.
IMO, the '29 should have never been dipped. It was not a candidate for improvement. The toning was too deep. Complex. Intense.
Like a diluting a fine wine or a well-aged bourbon, or even an retouching an old masters painting, messing with it made it worse, not better.
I could say the same for your 24/1 but I don't know that. It may have been "improved". It's still not the most pleasing, but certainly worthwhile.
True purists will say that can not be ("improved"), but I disagree. Sometimes certain coins might need a bit of curation. Not many. Not often. But sometimes. Usually gently and with some expertise. Again, I don't think that was one of those coins, nor one of those issues.
We can't change the past, but for the most part we can prevent the abuses that came before us.
Happy Easter.
.
Sunday mornings, and I still drink coffee. And I still enjoy coins.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Good job....... now that all that corrosion and enviromental Damage is gone you can better see what
the MINT has created
I can't believe I spent 16 hours with you yesterday
BHNC #248 … 140 and counting.
@Coinscratch: I’m one member who hopes you stick around. To me, this is the best thread on the boards.
I only have a handful of CBH’s & all I know is I like them in their natural state. Doesn’t make me right & you not so. It’s your coin & up to you what you do with it.
I will defer, though, to the CBH guys. They DO know a lot & I, for one, appreciate their commentary (& knowledge). Always learning about this series from them!
But, I do hope you enjoy owning this coin in spite of the criticism.
“The thrill of the hunt never gets old”
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Copperindian
Copperindian II
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Gold Rush
Retired sets: Soaring Eagles
Copperindian
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Okay, I'm ready for my punishment how many lashes do I get??
I could write 1,000 times "I will never dip a coin again"...
well at least not a CBH but maybe a modern here or there.
Pics make it look like an AU58 now. Guessing your punishment is financial on that one!
We shall see!
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5,000 lashes! @Coinscratch
kidding ... maybe
I really hope you don't do this ... at least on this kind of coin ... ever again.
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@Project Numismatics I disagree. It's still an Unc. It's probably still a 3, somewhere ... maybe even at PCGS. Doesn't look like the surfaces were harmed other than the probable elimination of fragile frost (dips are notorious for this, of course).
To me, the character is gone. It probably won't CAC again (debatable). The value is most likely diminished for most buyers (certainly would be for me).
Hopefully she survives without further issue for future generations.
.
Let's keep this thread positive and enjoyable, sharing our coins treasures ... and fine cups of caffeine. We can always beat @Coinscratch in person, later.
.
Here's an original coin for Monday ... and yes, it's still early enough out on the West Coast ... I am drinking that Italian Roast, black and bold.
.
1822 O-110a (110.3) PCGS AU55cac
ex-Keigwin, ex-Ross, ex-Meyer
Wonderful golden russet color graces thick unspoiled luster and pristine, original surfaces.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
IMHO - If you dip coins - you can only drink deCaf for the rest of your life.
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It's not Saturday, but all the CBH talk caused me to contemplate original toning, so I'll "dip" my toe into the fray and just leave this here for all to enjoy. If there is better original early 1800's toning out there, I'd like to see it! The original luster shines through the color like it was powered internally by some miniature battery!
Hate to follow Eldo here, but we must check this Busty run with a better series intervention.
MS63 CAC (a little darker in hand, but the colors are there):
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
I like 👍
A little history on that Large Size quarter. It was originally auctioned off raw out of the James Stack collection in the 70's. It was one of the first ever large sized bust quarters to be graded MS-66 by PCGS, and it resided in a rattler holder for many years. Fast forward many years, it was owned by Joe O'Connor who is a well-known dealer, and specializes in Bust Quarters, and he always loved this coin....I bought it from Joe. Hell of a coin.
@Eldorado9 - FYI- that a fabulous CBQ. I saw that coin in hand and its awesome. You and Joe have great taste!