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joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭
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Check out these "MS65" steel cents. Seller is claiming them as MS65 Uncirculated.

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And I thought slabs were good coin protectors, I think this seller may be on to something...
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  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    oh my goodness imageimageimageimage
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  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979 ✭
    Me thinks Abe is going to need a bath....in acetone!

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  • joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭


    << <i>Me thinks Abe is going to need a bath....in acetone!

    Tape me to your leader. >>



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    The sad part is I think these decent looking cents were ruined just so the seller could attach them to cardboard to take a picture? Why not just lay it flat on the table??? image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are probably reprocessed steel cents so I doubt the tape hurts them all that much.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I've seen worse (though not much).

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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭
    Must be a rookie, taping them to the board.............

    TorinoCobra71

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They're not taped to the cardboard. The cents are lying on top of the tape and cardboard.

    peacockcoins

  • ArgentumRexArgentumRex Posts: 620 ✭
    The tape appears to be turned sticky side out so that the coins could be stuck to the tape and photographed in an upright position.
  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Me thinks Abe is going to need a bath....in acetone!

    Tape me to your leader. >>

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  • joefrojoefro Posts: 1,872 ✭✭


    << <i>The tape appears to be turned sticky side out so that the coins could be stuck to the tape and photographed in an upright position. >>



    Thats exactly what the seller is doing, although its no better for the coins than if he/she just taped over them. I would hate to see those coins in another 5 years after all the dust and dirt and crap gets stuck to the tape residue. Such a waste just to photo the coins upright dont you think? I wonder why the seller went through all this instead of just photographing them flat on a table.
    Lincoln Cent & Libertad Collector

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