Golden dollars don't wear well. What happened here?
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From: pjrobertz@aol.com (Paul Robertz)
Newsgroups: rec.collecting.coins
Subject: Golden dollars get ugly when worn. What happened to this?
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For the past four years I have been an inveterate collector of Barber
coins, despite all the opinions posted here and elsewhere about how
most Barbers are well worn and don't wear wear well. Yes, I have too
many Barber dimes that suffered through decades of duties in everyday
commerce, but I love them as perhaps only Charles Barber's mother
might.
Last week, when I deposited my paycheck, I troubled the teller as I
usually do, to produce some of my cash back in one dollar coins. My
local bank never seems to have a roll available, but tellers here are
always willing to see if the next window might have a few Sacs, SBAs,
or Ikes. New employees at my bank are stupid enough to ask me "and
how would you like that back, sir?" Last week's veteran teller saw me
coming and did not relish asking her coworkers if they had any half
dollars or one dollar coins. However, she produced 4 AU 2000
Sacagawea dollars plus one more. She assumed (erronously) that no one
in his right mind would ask for a Susan B. Anthony dollar, since they
are often mistaken for quarters. (However, I enjoy spending SBAs as tips when
I have received less than satisfactory service in a restaurant!) She
came back with 5 golden dollars including this one:
Since I was late to work, I only glanced at the five small golden
dollars. Still, I remember seeing the reverse of one and thinking
"these don't wear well". When I was about to spend it a co-worker
pointed out to me that the date was 1979. How could I have missed
that?
My cranky bank teller did not produce one of those celebrated SBA
dollars mistakenly struck on a brass planchet, since the date is at
least 20 years before those error coins. This looks like a genuine
1979 SBA dollar coin except for the color. The reeded edge is
uniformly the same color as the obverse and reverse, but the worn
areas are starting to look like nickel. What happened with this coin?
Was someone so bored that they brass-plated a 1979 SBA for kicks?
Perhaps they did this to several hundred recently in order to pass
them off as $1 coins instead of quarters?
I just tossed this into my scanner and did not edit the image at all.
This weekend I'll post it on eBay and see what happens. It should be fun.
Newsgroups: rec.collecting.coins
Subject: Golden dollars get ugly when worn. What happened to this?
NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.161.82.228
For the past four years I have been an inveterate collector of Barber
coins, despite all the opinions posted here and elsewhere about how
most Barbers are well worn and don't wear wear well. Yes, I have too
many Barber dimes that suffered through decades of duties in everyday
commerce, but I love them as perhaps only Charles Barber's mother
might.
Last week, when I deposited my paycheck, I troubled the teller as I
usually do, to produce some of my cash back in one dollar coins. My
local bank never seems to have a roll available, but tellers here are
always willing to see if the next window might have a few Sacs, SBAs,
or Ikes. New employees at my bank are stupid enough to ask me "and
how would you like that back, sir?" Last week's veteran teller saw me
coming and did not relish asking her coworkers if they had any half
dollars or one dollar coins. However, she produced 4 AU 2000
Sacagawea dollars plus one more. She assumed (erronously) that no one
in his right mind would ask for a Susan B. Anthony dollar, since they
are often mistaken for quarters. (However, I enjoy spending SBAs as tips when
I have received less than satisfactory service in a restaurant!) She
came back with 5 golden dollars including this one:
Since I was late to work, I only glanced at the five small golden
dollars. Still, I remember seeing the reverse of one and thinking
"these don't wear well". When I was about to spend it a co-worker
pointed out to me that the date was 1979. How could I have missed
that?
My cranky bank teller did not produce one of those celebrated SBA
dollars mistakenly struck on a brass planchet, since the date is at
least 20 years before those error coins. This looks like a genuine
1979 SBA dollar coin except for the color. The reeded edge is
uniformly the same color as the obverse and reverse, but the worn
areas are starting to look like nickel. What happened with this coin?
Was someone so bored that they brass-plated a 1979 SBA for kicks?
Perhaps they did this to several hundred recently in order to pass
them off as $1 coins instead of quarters?
I just tossed this into my scanner and did not edit the image at all.
This weekend I'll post it on eBay and see what happens. It should be fun.
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
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Comments
If Josh Tatum were alive today and spent this coin on a five cent cigar, would the cashier
A) refuse to accept it,
C) give Tatum ninety-five cents in change
If B or C, will the cashier take it home and keep it stashed away where it will further erode in value due to inflation?
This coins beauty (or lack thereof) leaves me like Josh Tatum: speechless.