Look what I found.....Waaaahhhhh !!!!! My super seated dollar!

topstuf

Make it a RULE to throw out old photographs. I have wailed on here countless times about the seated dollar I USED TO HAVE...

I just found a PHOTO. Oh noooooooo!!!!! SOLD IT !!!

Dumb dumb dumb dumb

This is an image of the PHOTO so I can't focus it any better. This coin was AMAZING. Fully prooflike, too.

I got good money.....but it was only ...... MONEY !!!!

boo hoo hoo

topstuf

I even found the pic of the quarter I had in the seated set.

Where's my gun?

coynclecter

Don't feel bad. If only I had kept all the coins and currency I had over the last 20 years I'd have a fantastic collection.

Then again I would not have had the money to buy more. Did you spend the money on more coins? Did you get something nice?



So did i make you feel any better about selling that gorgeous seated dollar that you must have been brain dead to have parted with?

SethChandler

Nice Seated Dollar. Grade?

topstuf

Raw in the photo.... MS64 in the old PCGS rattler.

sob...snif....

SethChandler

Selling great coins sucks, you always regret it. I know I have. Your dollar is probably in a NGC 66 holder now.

topstuf

Seth Chandler......You are now on da list!

Along wit TRADEDOLLARNUT......whose days are numbered for sendin me da pic (after I sent it to him) of the SAME coin in da NGC66 holder.

Oh well, it cost me $200 on July 7, 1972

I WANT IT BACK.....Who will join me in a barbecue of TDN?

But I get da last laff.

It's only a ....... SIXTY FOUR !!!!!!

Haaaahahahahahaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhhahahaaaaa!!!

Grrrrrrrrrr.
Whineeeee.................
MOPE!

COINS! PHOOEY!!!

GRADING!!!! DITTO!!!!!!

All for filthy lucre!

TDN, just plain SHAME should make you send it back to it's daddy.

tradedollarnut

Your dollar is probably in a NGC 66 holder now

Man, he's good!




note the two verticle grease marks by the 'A' in AMERICA

tradedollarnut

Topstuff: It's not mine - it's listed in the Sweet Collection across the street. I just recognized it from your picture and knew where the photos were. Don't feel too bad - there's a few other PCGS MS64's that got into 66 holders over there...

EVillageProwler

TDN: you are such a friggin' geek for knowing this stuff off the top of your head. As penance, send me your 1854!

clackamas

Looks like it got dipped.

topstuf

The whole SORDID story.

Jul 7, 1972.....A 32 year old geek working on a type set goes "coining" one day. He stops in a Walnut Creek, CA coin shop owned by Bob McGarrigle. The geek has his wife an 2 rugrats along. He sees the coin. McGarrigle sez it's 200 bucks. The geek only has 100. So the geek asks Mrs. Geek if he can write a check. McGarrigle doesn't want a check. "How come?" asks the geek not realizing that Mr. Dealer has only seen 39 geeks that day. So the geek offers to leave the 100 and return with another 100 the following week. That is satisfactory. BUT.....when the geek opens his wallet......the concealed weapon permit is showing and McGarrigle sez if the geek has one of those he will take the check.

THE GEEK IS HAPPY!

The geek takes the coin home. It has freckles. Ugly mottled brown spots all over. But it's so P/L underneath.....whines the geek.

So the geek DIPS it!

YES.....DIP DIP DIP DIP DIP DIP........ALL DIPPED AND DIPPED.......NO MORE SPOTS.

Now it is a gleaming sun-brite glaring pure white GEM! The geek puts it in his Dansco. The geek is happy again. The geek looks at it over and over. "What are those ....LINES.... on the back?" wonders the geek.

Hmmm, must be a light pencil mark. Well, the geek knows that erasers are NOT GOOD for coins. BUT....for a PENCIL mark? An eraser MUST be the implement of choice for a PENCIL mark. The geek gets an eraser. Just a ........ l i g h t ............ touch. Just to see. YAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH! Oh (adult epithet!) what have I done?

The geek is UNHAPPY.

But the geek is undaunted. What to do? Oh why oh why eraser? Hmmmmm.

Geek gets a very circ very rounded rim WL half and a magnifying glass. C a r e f u l l y.......like a bomb squad... he works on the area that looks like Brillo went through on a horse.

And ....g r a d u a l l y.......the eraser mark turns into ..........."BAG FRICTION"

The geek is HAPPY again.

Well......not as happy as pre-eraser. But happy. Mr. and Mrs Geek become regulars at coin shows and all the happy dealers ask the happy geeks to show em the type set. The Dansco becomes a member of the family.

Then some fool opens a grading service and the geek sends the coin in and gets a rattly slab for it. He looks at the grade and wonders..."what the (adult REALLY bad word) do they mean SIXTY FOUR? What the mother-(adult ultimate bad word) ing heck does it TAKE for a 65? Geek disgustedly forgets about it.

Soon the geeks open their own shop and put the dollar away. FAR away from customers.

The the geek years later opens a pawn shop along with coins and sez to hisself.......I love this coin-I must SELL it!

Geeks never learn.

So he makes some calls. Gets TWICE the bid for it. But being a GEEK, doesn't stop to think how (adult expletive)ing strange THAT is. S E L L S......it.

Puts it out of mind until Nov 15, 2004 when geek finds an old PICTURE PHOTO.

AAAAAAAYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Oh well. It's a dipped out, erasered, SIXTY FOUR !!!


Who cares?

Who cares?

snif

Shamika

I'm not sure that coin should be a 66, but it sure as heck isn't a 64.

topstuf

Shamika........This is an image problem. Neither my old photo nor the NGC image shows the SURFACE.

The mirror is at least 7-12" deep and full on BOTH sides.

It just STUNS you to look at it.

(When I first got it, 50% of the dealers who examined it declared it a proof)

It was fun. Now I've got my gold.

Life goes on.

Grrrrrrr.