The Government Warned me about this coin, the seller warned me - but I bought it anyway

relayer

IMPORTANT: This coin has never been place in circulation by the U.S. Government. However, due to its heavy scratches or tarnish it was culled out of the "Uncirculated" category. Please see scan of the card that came with the coin. Obverse is 2/3 tarnished, no scratches. Reverse is perfect.

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Hard to tell from the pictures, but the reverse looks PL and since the seller said there are no scratches, I guess the only problem is that darn tarnish covering 2/3 of the obverse.
For $170, I guess I can always dip it off.

Trooper

Nice grab!!!
Love the toning, I hope it grades high when you recieve it..

Tom

hiyosilver

ziggy29

Crack it out and dip it!

Betta285

Eww..look at all that tarnish...all rainbow and stuff..you could almost say it is a monster..disgusting


jim

mgoodm3

I have one just like that. I love the disclaimer about tarnish.

uofa1285

GREAT score!

Coinhusker1

Back then (1973), "tarnish" was the devil and you could buy those from the GSA for only $15. I bought one, wish I had the money then to buy 100 (I was only 9)!!

Conder101

I feel your pain. I was only 11 and could only buy one myself. I didn't get a rainbow tarnished piece though, just a little light tan textile tarnish on the center of the reverse of my Unc 1881-CC. I didn't think it looked bad. If I had had the money I'd have bought a bunch more of them at $15 each.

fivecents

Wow, congratulations on the toned CC!! Awesome price.

1946Hamm

I ordered 75 from the GSA sale @ $15 each. There was so many orders that the GSA cut everybodys order to 5. Many did not get any at all. A dealer friend of mine ordered some and got none. He was not happy. I did get five. 1882, 1883, 1884, and 2 - 1885's. Not bad at all. Here is one of the 85's. It's got some of that nasty tarnish on it.

bestclser1

Anybody got any more of them dirty ones?

BigE

You have a very interesting piece of numismatic memorabilia there, it really shows how the market has come full circle. Congrats!----------------------BigE