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Sometimes I can do something really stupid . . .

ajaanajaan Posts: 17,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
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numismatically and ecomonically speaking.

I recently found this coin while searching for another coin. I thought it was lost for good or that someone stole it from my table at a local coin show. It was MIA for about 6 months eventhough I had searched for it many times.

After I bought the coin, in an ICCS holder, I showed the coin to a CAND dealer. CAND is the Canadian version of the PNG. I really didn't like the mark on the coin and this CAND dealer said some acetone should take the mark right off. So, the dummy I am, I cut the coin out of the holder and tried to remove the mark. It wouldn't come off. Then, after closer inspection, which I should have done in the first place but another dummy move by me, I trusted ICCS, I notice something else. Anyone see it? Now I'm stuck with the coin sans ICCS holder. Oh well!

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  • DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭
    PVC residue?


  • RareSovRareSov Posts: 299 ✭
    Scratches ?
  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    Don' tell me it was slabbed as a Canadian piece!
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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    Is it a different type of metal? Rust maybe? I am stabbing in the dark.
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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    Cleaned?
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  • stainlessstainless Posts: 435 ✭
    scratches in the hair.



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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BINGO, scratches in the hair. It was not stated on the ICCS holder. But, we all know ICCS can't do any wrong.

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  • stainlessstainless Posts: 435 ✭


    << <i>BINGO, scratches in the hair. It was not stated on the ICCS holder. But, we all know ICCS can't do any wrong. >>




    Pardon my ignorance, but I have never even heard of ICCS..is that the American PCGS?


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  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭✭
    Hi Don,

    I see what looks like a light scratch in the shape of a "7" going around the ear. Overall the coin looks AU. Send it back to ICCS. Maybe they allow light scratches for AU grade.
    Gene

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  • zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825 ✭
    Holder or not, that's a pretty nice looking coin. I don't have a Krause Catalog handy just now, so I don't know what the coin is worth, but I'll bet NCS could do a number on it. They'd slab it with details and it could be resold. It looks pretty well struck. I'll bet there is a buyer that would be proud to have this in their collection.

    (so where did you find it after you thought it was lost or stolen?)

  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Heck, I'll give you $10 bucks for it, ajaan. Get you out from under a coin you're unhappy with.

    Ray
  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    Sometimes I can do something really stupid . . .

    You can take some solace in knowing that you're not alone.
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,473 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Sometimes I can do something really stupid . . .

    You can take some solace in knowing that you're not alone. >>




    Absolutely. When Don PMed me my last 3 PCGS results on Ionian coins that he had submitted on my behalf, I realized that I had shipped him a coin that I had long considered lost. I initially intended to sell that coin raw, then it disappears, and then it shows up in the return list of my coins from PCGS to Don. It's just a bit of dementia, no need to panick. image
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coin was ICCS EF40.

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    Don
  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
    I would guess that the plastice hid the scratches?image
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,613 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's just a bit of dementia, no need to panick. >>


    I really paniced when I thought I lost the coin for good.

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    Don
  • IloiloKanoIloiloKano Posts: 1,051


    << <i>BINGO, scratches in the hair. >>


    I've heard those can be buffed out nicely.
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Maybe it's the rare accent hair 50C!!! image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Marty, I thought your reply to my 'sometimes I can do do something really stupid...'
    would have been, 'collect Chruchill Crowns'. image

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    Don
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