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BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I have heard this term mentioned on a few occasions but never directly to me. Is there such a thing and would any of the more experienced folks care to elaborate on specific examples?

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like a sales pitch or something from a crime novel.

    The Brasher Doubloon supposedly had a curse on it.

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,913 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Aren't those the one's my ex-wife ended up with ?
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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    It probably refers to any coin I buy that can only be sold for cents on the dollar.

    Google says
    This guy probably spends too much time in mom's basement

    Wikipedia has a reference but it too may be written by a basement dweller

    And a thread on the Coin Community Forum
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    Some believe that the 1958 Canadian dollar is cursed. I think it was a 1 year design for British Columbia's Centennial with a totem pole design representing the aborigines there.



    IIR the designer depicted a raven in the design, which is the death sign for the tribes living there. Hence the coin is known as the "death dollar".



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  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: FredWeinberg

    Aren't those the one's my ex-wife ended up with ?


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  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Going by several dealer comments at the latest Baltimore show, pretty much anything in an NGC holder.

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,042 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: CharlotteDude
    Going by several dealer comments at the latest Baltimore show, pretty much anything in an NGC holder.

    'dude


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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Any coin that three people in a row lose money on.....
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm aware that there is at least one dealer out there who firmly believes that anything short of MS67+ CAC is cursed.

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: coindeuce

    I'm aware that there is at least one dealer out there who firmly believes that anything short of MS67+ CAC is cursed.




    Yup. All dreck coins are cursed.image

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,590 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Clad commemorative halves.
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  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I believe SBA dollars fall under that title!
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Any coin Israel Switt touched is cursed. The one King Farouk had is blessed. Know the difference.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FR33 Ten Twenties from the curse.
  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no such thing as curses people

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  • NapNap Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TopographicOceans
    Wikipedia has a reference but it too may be written by a basement dweller


    I have an English touch piece that I carry with me when I make ward rounds at the hospital (as a good luck charm)

    Gold touch piece

    I've had some fairly sick patients recently and perhaps (hopefully not) my talisman is having the opposite effect.
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  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭✭
    I've had a few coins I'd describe as cursed through the years, but it was never about the coin itself, it was always about the deals or the events that surrounded it.



    Such as having a penchant for being lost / delayed in the mail, mislabeled at the grading service, sold to someone online who then vanishes, etc.
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think a cursed coin is one that gets resubmitted for an upgrade, gets downgraded, and then gets resubmitted a minimum of 10X more just to get back to where it was and never does.

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  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ha! this is a great thread.



    @boosi somehow i knew you started this thread...i don't know why, but somehow i guessed it was you before i saw the author.



    @silverpop apparently, you do not believe in curses. however, you cannot accurately state there is "no such thing" as anything, just because you don't believe it exists.



    @CharlotteDude hilarious!



    @TwoSides2aCoin interesting comment





    i don't know of any cursed coins. but, i don't think it would be a selling point for me.



    however, if you look at the american who survived all three recent major terror attacks (boston, paris, brussels) as an example of an amazing coincidence (notice the pun)...and consider how many coins have been minted...



    i am sure there is at least one coin that has circulated around from one terrible event after another leaving a path of destruction and misery in it's wake...which would be surely a cursed coin. but, like all coins we admire, we only know a very small part of their story. therefore, how could we know a cursed coin?
  • cwtcwt Posts: 292 ✭✭✭
    The Curse of the Quarter
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No such thing... just more nonsensical, superstitious drivel. Cheers, RickO
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Steveben , in the context of my use of the term curse, it is figuratively used.
  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BryceM
    Any coin that three people in a row lose money on.....

    How can this be?
    Paul
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TwoSides2aCoin

    Steveben , in the context of my use of the term curse, it is figuratively used.




    yes, i understood that. i just liked your comment.
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: silverpop

    no such thing as curses people





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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Different type of curse coindeuce....image Cheers, RickO

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