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A lesson on the importance of answering coin inquiries as soon as possible.

DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,279 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This morning when I got to work I was told that another employee in the building was looking for me with a question about some coins. I put it off until just a few minutes ago when things slowed down at lunch. When I went to her office, she had just finished making the dates easier for me to read by using a pencil eraser.

Thankfully, nothing of great value was there but I feel if I had called her this morning, I would have been able to keep this from happening.
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  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh




    I have nothing else to add.


    Oh, yea I do, you check for Vams?
  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    image That sucks!!!! At least it was just junk silver, but still
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did you explain to her that she destroyed much of their value?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,279 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh




    I have nothing else to add.


    Oh, yea I do, you check for Vams? >>




    yup !
    One the 21 Morgans has some die breaks with a chip on star 2. Oh well.
    I'm still looking though.
  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    image
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Are your eyes getting old?

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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,279 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Did you explain to her that she destroyed much of their value? >>



    I did, as kindly as possible, and she said she didn't know, which I can understand. I kind of hope there's more but doubt it.
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some years back an older mgr came to my office, as he heard I 'knew coins'....said he wanted me to give an informal appraisal on something he had. I said sure, and he came back a short while later with what used to a fairly high grade 1835 large cent, that had been polished to death. I said 'Hmm, it looks like it's been polished'.....he said, with pride 'yes, I polish all my coins every year'.....I said "well stop it - you are ruining them!"....
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  • InternetJunkyInternetJunky Posts: 2,329 ✭
    May as well add them to the junk silver pile and make some silver bars...
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    since coins are meant to be used,
    thrown on the counter,
    put in the pocket, etc
    It only bothers collectors to shine them up
    and make them look pretty and new
    LCoopie = Les
  • sanitarium1inmatesanitarium1inmate Posts: 1,078 ✭✭
    can you say "MELT"
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Might as well dip them and make them uniformly shiney.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "since coins are meant to be used,
    thrown on the counter,
    put in the pocket, etc
    It only bothers collectors to shine them up
    and make them look pretty and new "

    lcoopie, you crack me up..... but you make an excellent point. Cheers, RickO
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    really,
    the more the public "ruins" their holding,
    the more ours are worth

    thanks RickO
    LCoopie = Les
  • icsoccericsoccer Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭
    image Wow people do still use 'unauthorized' cleaning techniques.....
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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I had an elderly neighbor that had a bunch of old coins. She knew I collected coins, so would invite me over to help her shine them up with silver polish. So there we would both sit for an hour at a time polishing and shining away. image
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  • BcsicanBcsican Posts: 1,068
    ouch....hard to top that....
    BCSICAN

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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I'm not embarassed to admit that I broke down and wept when I saw that picture. image
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  • CopperWireCopperWire Posts: 492 ✭✭✭
    Bummer.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DNADave---Did you buy them? If so, how much did you pay?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • MPLunaticMPLunatic Posts: 617 ✭✭
    omg thats horrible, and Fred I know a few people that would argue with you on that point image
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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,131 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If half of each date/MM/variety of Morgans currently in existence were suddenly destroyed forever what would that do to the value of the remaining half?
    theknowitalltroll;
  • tjc2120tjc2120 Posts: 714 ✭
    I found a coworker who was into state quarters. She brought some in and traded for a few lincolns. At first glance they looked nice and I told her. She says all you have to do is rub them with toothpaste to clean them good.

    They were minty fresh.
    "spot on my UHR, nevermind, I wiped it off"
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    While visiting a small B&M a little old lady came in and said to the owner:

    "I called you this morning about these 1/2 cents, it took me all afternoon to polish them up". She dropped a handfull of them on the counter. Sad thing was they all had nice details. image
    Ed
  • bonkroodbonkrood Posts: 796 ✭✭✭
    I remember cleaning 4 quarters about 50 years ago, and then breaking a thermometer and rubbing the mercury on them to make them shine. I guess two wrongs don't make a right.
    image Steam Power
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,279 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>DNADave---Did you buy them? If so, how much did you pay?image >>



    They weren't for sale but I told her if they were, I would have offered $120 for them before cleaning, and $80 after the 'improvements'.

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