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How do you tell if a coin has gone bad?

BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
Does it get dark spots like a bannana?

Does it get mushy like a tomato?

Does it smell bad like spoiled meat?

Does it get moldy with aflotoxin like peanuts?

Does it get stale like bread?
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  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478
    The orange prison jumpsuit?
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  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    Keep it raw, it'll eventually go bad.
    Paul
  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    There is No Such Thing as a "Bad Coin".

    There are mislead coins. The ones that have strayed from the path of righeousness. But I assure you, with proper guidance, they can become good again.
  • It is like one bad apple!
    it must be immediately thrown away or you can send it to meimage
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    You know your Morgan has gone bad when it runs off with your Peace Dollar and tarnishes her image!






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  • << <i>There is No Such Thing as a "Bad Coin".

    There are mislead coins. The ones that have strayed from the path of righeousness. But I assure you, with proper guidance, they can become good again. >>




    Straight from the Father Flanigan School of Numismatics.
  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374


    << <i>How do you tell if a coin has gone bad? >>


    They end up on the HSN channel....image...
    ......Larry........image
  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    when they look like this.

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  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    I was going to sy when they smell like old salmon, but...

    Excellent example darktone.
  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    When it borrows the car and keeps it out all night.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I once had a slabbed coin arrive and as I went in with a loupe to inspect it I almost based out as it smelled like B.O.! image

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It begets two little ones.

    bob
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  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806
    Place the coin the next to a S.B.A. if the S.B.A looks fairly good, then the coin has gone bad.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,508 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Place the coin the next to a S.B.A. if the S.B.A looks fairly good, then the coin has gone bad. >>



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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,607 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The following are a few examples that come to mind:

    When a coin slabbed as a RD copper is clearly not RD.
    When a PF copper is neon blue.
    As Oreville told his story, when the 'S' "falls off" a 1909 S VDB Lincoln.
    When an Unc. coin from the early 19th Century has colors that remind you of an acid trip.
    When an Unc. coin from the early 19th Century is as bright white as an Unc. Washington quarter.
    When anyone describes the coin as a "Gem BU."
    When you see a coin that looks like a bodily function (from the orifice of your choosing) was done on it.
    Any SBA or Eunice Shriver coin.


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  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Place the coin the next to a S.B.A. if the S.B.A looks fairly good, then the coin has gone bad. >>




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  • cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How do you tell if a coin has gone bad? >>



    When its value decreases by 30% of what you paid for it.
    Many happy BST transactions
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    i keep tellin myself...only reply to no more then 100 of bears threads a day

    that's tha story i'm sticking too

    unless he's giving away winchell donut cert'simage
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    This one has been in a few fights. Somehow it's bad side keeps coming out any chance it gets. image

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The first sign is that they start staying out late at night but before you
    know it you'll find that they start rolling with a rough crowd and they can
    no longer change.

    Don't worry too much if they often aren't clad but when kids start pointing
    and laughing it's just too late.

    If they get too dirty just thumb your nose at them.

    Teach them to reed and get them into the good book.

    Tempus fugit.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ya' wake up in the morning with them on your eyes.


    ...or you don't.
    Tempus fugit.
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Place the coin the next to a S.B.A. if the S.B.A looks fairly good, then the coin has gone bad. >>



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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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    When the Commission rejects your design in the first go around.
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