HALLOWEEN HORROR WEEK: ALL COIN HORROR STORIES NEEDED!!!!

oreville

I remember getting the Red Book in 1963 or 1964 and reading how the 1903-O and 1904-O silver had dropped over 90% in price from the year before!!!

Back then we young collectors got our prices once a YEAR unless we also read the Coin World and had time to read the market prices during recess after elementary school hours!

Anybody old enough to detail a more complete and interesting story about the coin dealers perspective of the dealers reaction to the market collapse of the famed O mint silver dollars when the US Treasury hoard was discovered in 1962 (I believe?) ?

DUIGUY

I have a possible horror story in the making but can't talk about it untill the ending is known.

mirabela

I wonder if anybody remembers Poe58?

That's about the best I can do.

cladking

Just a couple years back I discovered that the storage conditions for
my '69-D mint sets was not up to snuff and most of the coins in most
of the sets were ruined. There were twenty of them culled out of thou-
sands of complete sets. The Philly packages were stored in the same
place but for some reason were unaffected.

This would have been the true horror if the Philly packages were dam-
aged.

Artist

The horror...

Broadstruck

I have a WLH in a ANACS old chase holder that I won in a online auction.

Upon inspection with a 10x loupe what I thought was a small planchet lamination turned out to be a nose trophy.

I think the grader had a sticky booger drop on this coin prior to encapsulation.

AJ2525

What about the one where the wife runs out of candy and while the husband is off to the store to buy more candy, she gives out his shiny coins from his collection....

Elcontador

1) In 1968, I got a roll of Red Unc. 49 S Lincolns. It was in a PVC plastic tube. I got into running, then off to Uni & forgot about it. Decades later, I found it again, with each coin ruined by PVC.

2) If you want a coin horror story, just find a slabbed Barber Half graded MS 65. Make sure that you see it on an empty stomach, or else bring a barf bag. Check to make sure you are current on your tetanus shot and handle the slab with gloves, if possible (some of these coins look like they might bite you).

I've seen a fair number of them that look like Jack the Ripper had a go at Miss Liberty's cheek and / or neck. Others had hideous planchet flaws or what looked like eye-catching boogers which seemed to jump out at the viewer of the coin. The worst of the lot was an 07 P that looked like Miss Liberty had a Hitler moustache. Many of the "originally toned" ones I've seen looked like they spent the last fifty years in a toilet that was never flushed.

Don't forget the many that were so dipped out and dead, that only a numismatic version of a necrophiliac could love them. It's a fair bet that the latter were graded by someone in his last day working at a TPG, after which, he never had anything further to do with numismatics in any capacity. Nasty, nasty looking coins.

Boom

Here's Mine!



Local guy tried to sell his coins. A meeting was set up. This was the result. They got the coins, he got a whoopin'!

Bad move, Vern!

halfnut

Not a big one but the best I have is selling 4 1999 Silver Proof sets for 125.00 each thinking the market could not get any better ----- wrong


Dan

USCGCraig

Mine is that the two 1905-P XF45 Barber Halves in the PCGS Pop report are actually one coin that is now in an AU50 holder thus no 1905-Ps.

dizzyfoxx

A year ago I sold some of my commems!!!

Luckily however, I was able to get some back. So my horror story has a happy ending.

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Cladiator

Horror Story of the Year

lathmach

I bought a coin collection once, and it contained a large number of proof wheat cents from the 1950's.
Each was heads up in a little clear plastic case with a hinged top, sitting on a little pad of foam rubber.
They looked just beautiful in the cases.
When I opened one up, I saw the foam rubber had deteriorated, and was stuck to the coin and the reverse of the coin was ruined.
I looked at some others, and they were all the same.
I gave the seller a penny apiece for them.
Not a real horror story, but if any of you have any coins stored this way................ better look at them and change their surroundings.

Ray

lkrarecoins

it was a dark, cloudy, rainy afternoon........i walked over to Stack's on 57th street in NYC to sell my newly inherited coin collection

doesn't get scarier than that

originalisbest

Joe, that's a really disgusting story, and a key reason why I find NCS appalling. Why not just send your coins to me, collectors - I'll jeweluster them 'til they're lifeless, and a much more reasonable cost.

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Coxe

I consigned my carefully assembled, top notch, complete set of braided hair half cents to Heritage for a FUN sale not long back.......

MFH

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You've G O T to be kidding me !!!