Bodybag party!
MrEureka
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Show us your favorite coins in your collection that would bodybag for some sort of problem if you were stupid enough to try to get them slabbed. I'm not looking for horrible coins. I want to see GREAT coins that just happen not be be slabable.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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Russ, NCNE
Probably not a great coin either.
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I thought for sure it was a MS coin, but PCGS bodybagged it on me.
I guess the dipping was done OK as it never turned on me after all these years.
It is still nice and shiny.
Even now when I still look at it it looks pretty good.
Ms Liberty's face looks like it has some slight wear, but I still not sure that is a rub or not.
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Would it be BB'd because of that rim slice?
<< <i>This is one. What's wrong with it?
I hope you're joking.....it's a crude contemporary counterfeit.
Here is a perfect example: one of the two dozen or so known 1783 Chalmers sixpence pieces. The pedigree includes the 1882 Bushnell sale and the 1921 John Story Jenks sale, and this exact piece was used as a plate coin in Edgar Adams 1934 work on Maryland silver colonials.
The piece was holed and plugged when Bushnell bought it (sometime before his death in 1880). Bushnell was considered to have the top collection of early American coins in existence at the time and it included the vast majority of the major rarities in the series. But this was the best Chalmers sixpence he could find -- now it is my pride and joy. They are damn rare, and probably half the ones I've seen are holed and plugged.
The image is a scan taken at the little auction house in New England where this was sold last year. The description was, in full, "COLONIAL COIN -- 1783 J. Chalmers sixpence; (holed and repaired)." Figuring out the pedigree was a treat, of course. I have no intention of putting it into any sort of holder, of course; its big brother in my collection (a 1783 Chalmers shilling) is a former Pop 1, none higher at AU-55 (PCGS) and now breathes free outside of a slab. The shilling will be on display at the ANA Museum starting in November.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
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<< <i>This is one. What's wrong with it?
I hope you're joking.....it's a crude contemporary counterfeit. >>
What gave it away?
Shines like new, but cleaning scratches on obverse.
I'm in favor of allowing bodybags into the registries. They give you cert #s with your BB coins, but don't let you use them as fillers.