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An absoulte crime!!

coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
I bought a small coin estate today and look what someone did to this seated dollarimage
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Chris
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777
    Did you know what you were buying before you bought it? (that seems like a great line to be used before any coin purchase...)
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  • Is the hole plugged or does it go all the way through?

    Look at it this way: if everybody kept every coin they came across in perfect condition then we wouldn't appreciate high grade coins as much. It is because so many things happen to coins that there are so few left in high grade.
  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Myggy; yes I was able to review the lot before I purchased.

    Carl; the hole goes all the way thru. It's been plugged with mabey lead.
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  • what else was in the lot?
    Scott Hopkins
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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some very nice stuff coinguy89 including a 1878-CC and 1879-CC morgans. The 78 is about AU55 and the 79 is F to VF.

    Chris
    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720
    Okay, coinbuf..... here's a challenge for you.
    Tell us the year this New Orleans coin was minted.
    You may have to research the size and placement of the mintmark, as well as the placement of the date numerals. First though, check to see which years dollars were minted at the New Orleans facility.

    Ray
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    you oughta pm lordmarcovan about that holed coin......he just might be interested in it image
  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ahhh... Very good question Lathmach. I know that these coins were only minted in New Orleans in 1846, 1850, 1859, and 1860. From my limited knowledge of this series I think it's an 1846. Am I right??

    Chris
    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.

  • coinbuf,are you looking to get rid of this coin?If so I would be very interested in it.image
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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even without the hole, this wasn't exactly a problem free coin.

    roadrunner
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    date was 1851
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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Goldrush00013; I may sell it and if so I'll post on the bst board and send you a PM.

    Roadrunner; You are correct that is has some problems but still a very nice original example without the hole.

    Chris
    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    They should be neutered for such a crime.
  • Lord M. got me into holey coins. As I'm a type set kind of guy I'm only looking for types I don't have. It just so happens that I don't have a holed seated dollar yet image
  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pontiacinf; according to my redbook no seated dollars were minted in New Orleans in 1851??
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    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.


  • << <i>Goldrush00013; I may sell it and if so I'll post on the bst board and send you a PM.










    That would be great!
    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    Coinbuf,

    There is one known 1851-O dollar. Someone at the Philadelphia mint was trying to make restrike 1851 dollars and tried using a 1846-O dollar for the planchet. The strike was strong enough to wipe out the underdate but only flattened and weakened the O mintmark. Another of these restrikes exists on I believe an 1859 dollar on which the underdat is visible. At that point the mint midnight minter must have decided that struck coins didn't make good planchets because I think those are the only two of the 1851 restrikes that show an undertype.
  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085
    Everyone must have received Black & Decker drills for Christmas back then.image


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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bummer! Check out this one I sold last winter. I found it in the junk silver bin at a dealer in Tewksbury, MA around 1982 or so...
    mirabela

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