Ahhh, then it's the GRADE. NOW I see....
topstuf
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It all becomes so clear. I can understand how unsatisfying and awful it would be to have to own the second coin as an example of the type. And it's only "worth" about 10% or so of the "value" of the 1st coin. It's so obvious. What a fool I've been. I have so much to learn.
edited to add (for clarification purposes) that the 1st coin is UNCIRCULATED! While the second, alas, is only ...almost.
edited to add (for clarification purposes) that the 1st coin is UNCIRCULATED! While the second, alas, is only ...almost.
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It is enlightenment you have.
Camelot
for the ride.
Camelot
This went flying over my head so
fast, I didn't even get a glimpse!!
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
shoot down some high flying ducks?
Camelot
Camelot
You...you...PHILISTINES are looking at a 64 compared to a mere..... 50.
Can't you SEE it? Aiyee!!!!!
Buy the BEST you can afford.
Camelot
<< <i>I take it some a$$hole dipped the second coin to make the first coin. >>
Not unless they re-engraved it too. ie stars on right side of bust
But.... happy new year's anyhow.
> "Not unless they re-engraved it too. ie stars on right side of bust"
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Also, look at the hair over the ear.
Could this be the same coin??
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Or, he could be drunk.
<< <i>Or, he could be drunk. >>
Camelot
OK, my last guess. You want a cool coin you buy coin #2 from a big time internet dealer. You make funny faces at the wannabee trying to sell you coin #1.
A Doctor buys coin #1 and restores the rainbow toning it had for a time - before it turned into coin #2.
Later, you see the former coin #1, after processing by the doctor, and you pay 10X what coin #2 cost you.
You sell #2 to a wannabee who thinks it will sell better as a bright white coin.
And so on and so on .... untill ...
one day it loses all it's luster and it ends up with a thick coat of red, green, and blue oxide "paint". With a $400,000.00 price tag on it.
Coin #1 is in a PCGS 64 slab.
Coin #2 is in a PCGS 50 slab. (if the board member who bought it hasn't cracked it)
The point (pass the vodka please) is that this "conditionitis syndrome" is nearly silly in its magnitude of difference in price.
There!
(hic)
edited to add that they are DIFFERENT coins but the dates are removed as I don't want to go overboard in identifying them.
(plop)
<< <i>I would still take coin #2 over #1 regardless of grade. Plus with the money I save I can have my coin and vodka too! >>
This REGISTRY BASHING has got to stop!!!!
<< <i>I get it now >>
Ya gotta DRINK more!
Fall behind an see what happens?
A far more apt comparison could've been made if you'd found a super-slider AU-58 to place next to the MS piece.