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Ahhh, then it's the GRADE. NOW I see....

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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.

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edited to add (for clarification purposes) that the 1st coin is UNCIRCULATED! While the second, alas, is only ...almost.

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Ahh, the blind has now, from your eyes, been removed.

    It is enlightenment you have.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't get it...
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Neither do I. Just going along

    for the ride.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • It's all in the plastic.........image
    ......Larry........image
  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    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.

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Where is Cheney, when you need to

    shoot down some high flying ducks?
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    I take it some a$$hole dipped the second coin to make the first coin.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    To be sure. Probably got an upgrade too.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    original post edited to relieve tension and anxiety.

    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.
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    This is the Official, Valium, Holiday Thread.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bear, you don't have to say "holiday" to be correct. "New Year's" has been declared okay by the council on almost everything.

    But.... happy new year's anyhow.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I still don't get it...

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  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    > "Not unless they re-engraved it too. ie stars on right side of bust"
    -------------------------------------------------
    Also, look at the hair over the ear.

    Could this be the same coin??

    ~


    "America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

  • jayboxxjayboxx Posts: 1,613 ✭✭
    I don't think it is the same coin, I think he is saying that in his opinion the 2nd one is better looking than the first, and going only by the assigned grade to assign value can be foolish.

    Or, he could be drunk.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Or, he could be drunk. >>

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  • Those coins aren't worth much with them holes in 'em...
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I will drink to that.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    You want the first coin - you go to a big time internet dealer. You want the 2nd coin you gotta get it off eBay from a wannabee? Before a Doctor gets it and sells it to a big time internet dealer?

    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.
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay okay okay.... Instructions for thread:

    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)
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    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)
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    and is this a newsflash of some sort? image
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    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!
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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!!!!

  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I get it now image
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I get it now >>



    Ya gotta DRINK more!

    Fall behind an see what happens?

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777
    I think this thread is modern "bashing" in code... image
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • My head hurts trying to figure this out. I will take the second coin. Feel free to take the first one. Tylenol please! Oh hell, make it a Valium.
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
    Coin on the left is unmistakably a nicer coin. Whether that's worth the beaucoup bucks difference to you, is up to you.

    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. image
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The first coin is worth more because it's like a blank canvas. You can turn it any color you want!
  • mcheathmcheath Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭
    I have read this thread times and i am even more confused now then when i startedimage

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