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what is the quickest and easiest way to...

...wear a bullion coin down to vf/ef??
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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
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  • Belt sander.

    Ray
  • escalator handrail, bowling ball return, put it Al Bundy's shoe..... I like the belt sander and tumbler idea. Are you doing a 'consumer reports' wear test on coins?
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,732 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why wear down any coin?

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  • OmegaOmega Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭
    Put it in my mother-in-law's mouth and ask her what she thinks of me!!!image
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
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  • acsbacsb Posts: 160 ✭✭✭

    Brings to mind something I've wondered about for decades. Well, not every day, but...
    When I was a kid, one of the old numismatic-shops-in-a-department-store had a display of what a cash drawer in, oh, 1915 or so, might have looked like. There were loads of IHC and Barber coins there - all of which were our friend 'average circulated'. Well, that didn't seem right to me - heck, some of the coins should've been in decent shape.
    Here's my question. Assuming normal circulation, just how long would it take to wear down a cent / nickel / dime / quarter to average circulated a hundred or so years ago. 'Course these days most cents get lost well before that, and the clads probably never get down to average circulated - unless you hit 'em with that belt sander.
  • keep it as a pocket piece. My grandfather did this with a Morgan dollar.

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