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Better Pic of the Bust quarter from yesterday I took in trade .. What do you think now ?

SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Yesterday's pic
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Today's pic
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Yesterday's Pic
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Today's Pic
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https://www.ebay.com/str/christyscoins

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  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
    EEK!
  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Calling Mr. Dremel...calling Mr. Dremel!!!
    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think your pictures are much better!

    Did you buy that quarter? Is it too late to return it?
    Lance.
    Coin Photography Services / Everyman Registry set / BHNC #213
  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    wow... that is a shame
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ouch.
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    Price is always related to condition... discounts apply in this case. That is the problem with SO many coins from this period. On the other hand, if you can accept the flaws you are going to pay a LOT less for this coin. It is all a matter of perspective.
    Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
  • InternetJunkyInternetJunky Posts: 2,329 ✭
    What a shame. Any possibility of getting your other coin back?
  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    yuk

    K S
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why in the world did you scratch it all up like that??image
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    What a wonderful coin if it hadn't been graffitied, then tooled. Smitty, you're a dealer and sometimes need to take such in for trade. What did your customer get for this in trade?
    Paul
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like an attempt to remove grafitti?
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are reminants of a thick black encrustation. I'm guessing this was one of the many attempts to remove it.
    Need a Barber Half with ANACS photo certificate. If you have one for sale please PM me. Current Ebay auctions
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,420 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can you cancel the trade? If you can, do so!
    All glory is fleeting.
  • Mar327Mar327 Posts: 2,074
    But guys, it IS an AU-58! I always get a kick out of the grades people put on their flips.

    Finding the positive, the coin has CHARACTER and is a one-of-a-kind ... Pop 1!
    Have bought and sold on BST, many references available when asked.
  • SmittysSmittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Can you cancel the trade? If you can, do so! >>



    I traded with full knowledge of the coins problems, I had it in hand to examine.
    Believe it or not I have customers who like cleaned and problem coins.
    How much I gave it in trade value is a much guarded secret
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    https://www.ebay.com/str/christyscoins
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    personally, I like the general color and would overlook the problems for a nice type coin/space holder. then again, that's just me. (and probably a few other people).

    price is everything!
    My Ebay (None)
  • phehpheh Posts: 1,588 ✭


    << <i>I traded with full knowledge of the coins problems, I had it in hand to examine.
    Believe it or not I have customers who like cleaned and problem coins.
    How much I gave it in trade value is a much guarded secret
    image >>



    Guam Quarter?
  • SottySotty Posts: 373 ✭
    When I first saw the coin, I thought it probably was heavily toned and then
    dipped because of that white cloudy look in the recesses etc. It now looks ruined
    because of the scratches on the right obverse side.

    I would cover it with a heavy shampoo or ms70 and sprinkle a little baking soda
    and either with my fingers or a cue tip rub all of that white residue off the coin.
    That process leaves no hairlines.

    Maybe the scratches could be improved or completely removed with abrasion,
    heavy to begin with, then tapered off. A final soak in alcohol or acetone, then left
    out in the air to develop a new tone.





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  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it is a nice coin despite it's flaws! Too bad about the scratches though....

    K
    ANA LM
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  • eggboneeggbone Posts: 615 ✭
    Y' know,
    Darwin started his voyage on the HMS Beagle late that year.
    Maybe he dropped it in the water and a Galapagos tortoise scratched it while stepping on it to escape capture!!!

    GREAT COIN. I really DO like it.


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  • jdillanejdillane Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭
    Wow. Love the reverse. Obv is hammered too.

    Has anyone ever seen grafitti that was tooled that actually improved the appearance of the coin? I have not. Too bad she wasn't left was.

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