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Have you or have you ever seen a 1918/7 SLQ overdate cherrypicked?

bcdeluxebcdeluxe Posts: 209 ✭✭✭
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It's not really rare to see someone pull a 1916 out of a junk box, melt silver, or dateless slicks. Common, certainly not, but I've seen it happen here (and elsewhere) many, many times.

I've never heard of someone buying a 1918/7-S as a 1918-S knowing then (or later determining) it's an overdate.



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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭✭
    A friend of mine cherrypicked one in 2013. It was from a LCS and I was very jealous.
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • bcdeluxebcdeluxe Posts: 209 ✭✭✭


    << <i>A friend of mine cherrypicked one in 2013. It was from a LCS and I was very jealous. >>



    Did you see it and if so what kind of condition was it in?
  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I did-many years (50+) ago-a Good/VG from a dealer's stock.
  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>A friend of mine cherrypicked one in 2013. It was from a LCS and I was very jealous. >>



    Did you see it and if so what kind of condition was it in? >>



    Yes and all I remember is that it was cleaned
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • mightyhuntermightyhunter Posts: 478 ✭✭✭
    Yes, at a coin show in Coeur D' Alene, Idaho in the 1980's. A dealer bought a collection from this older gentleman. He had identified and priced every collector coin he sold except for some junk silver quarters and half dollars. In the junk silver quarters was the overstrike and I am sure the man thought it was just a low grade 1918-s with no value above melt. It was a VG and the overstrike was easy to spot with a loop.
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've seen two of them, but one turned out to be a marginally well made counterfeit.
    The other one slabbed VF by ANACS. Now, counterfeit one was interesting....the dealer who cherrypicked me had me examine it,
    and I said it looks to have the right diagnostics, but something overall about the coin wasn't right - which turned out to be the case.
    I suspect the dealer he 'cherried it' from had already submitted it, came back fake, then put it out as a normal XF 18S to await the next cherry picker LOL.

    The fellow who found the real one also later snagged a corroded 16/16 buffalo for $1.

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  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A client brought me a 1918/7-S quarter that she had found in change many years ago. PCGS graded it VF-30 if I recall correctly.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,500 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>A friend of mine cherrypicked one in 2013. It was from a LCS and I was very jealous. >>



    Did you see it and if so what kind of condition was it in? >>



    Yes and all I remember is that it was cleaned >>

    one cant fix stupid when it comes to stuff like that.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would think that the majority of surviving specimens were cherry picked by someone at one time in their lives. Of course, many of those people are probably no longer with us. I don't remember anyone I knew in the 1960's or 1970's running across one of these on a cherrypick.

    Breen says first discovered in 1937 when many or most specimens were pulled from change, rolls, etc. Counterfeits began showing up in mass during the 1950's and 1960's.
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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yes, at a coin show in Coeur D' Alene, Idaho in the 1980's. A dealer bought a collection from this older gentleman. He had identified and priced every collector coin he sold except for some junk silver quarters and half dollars. In the junk silver quarters was the overstrike and I am sure the man thought it was just a low grade 1918-s with no value above melt. It was a VG and the overstrike was easy to spot with a loop. >>




    not an overstrike.

    A repunched date

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭
    Not sure this count or not. I cherry picked an ANACS AU 50 from teletrade, cracked it out and submitted it to our host. It came back as PCGS AU53FH image
    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Customer found an XF40 with a metal detector back in the 80's locally here. We try to get that kind of stuff in the local news when it happens.
  • BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i got one too about 10 years ago, low grade, had it slabbed and then it sold on ebay for over $700
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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>A friend of mine cherrypicked one in 2013. It was from a LCS and I was very jealous. >>



    Did you see it and if so what kind of condition was it in? >>



    Yes and all I remember is that it was cleaned >>

    one cant fix stupid when it comes to stuff like that. >>



    You've lost me, Johnny...image
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • winkywinky Posts: 1,671 ✭
    Not my luck.

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