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Digging around in my junk box (pretty Merc toner)

rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
Was digging around in my junk box tonight and came across this 1935 Merc with insane toning. ("Junk" is very loosely defined in my world.) I paid $10 for this one back in the 1990s while I was a graduate student. I wish it would turn into a Seated dime with the same toning, but I'll still take it. What was I thinking throwing 10 bucks at this? Heck, if I invested that money in dot com stocks, I could have 47 cents right now.

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  • KyleKyle Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, nice find! Love that reverse toning.



    What else do you have in that "junk" box?
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  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll trade my box of "good" stuff for your junk box....
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice!



    $10 back in the mid-late 90s into Apple stock would have given you a share....worth more than $10 now image

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    That ain't no junk image
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One man's "junk" is another man's retirement.
  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Bochiman
    Nice!

    $10 back in the mid-late 90s into Apple stock would have given you a share....worth more than $10 now image



    Very true... except as an Engineering student, I considered all of their products to be "Crapples" back then, as almost everything I needed to do ran better on a PC. I never would have had the foresight to see where Apple would go with its product lines!



  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice mercimage

    wbbjts

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well.. I like Mercs.. and that is a nice circ Merc.... I would remove the tarnish though..

    Cheers, RickO
  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wasn't sure if you were joking about the circ. part... it's an MS64-ish coin with a typical crap photo. But the tarnish point is well-taken. I will go get the dip jar and post it when I'm done. Such a shame these things get that ugly tarnish after sitting in your junk box for 20 years.
  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭
    Its close to Full Bans !!!

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  • duck620duck620 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭✭
    Nice looking mercury.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice. image


    Hoard the keys.
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice toning!

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