1793 Gallery Mint Chain Cent..,
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Impulse purchase from over the weekend. I don't normally mess with problem coins but this one caught my eye and the price was right. I don't know much at all about it other than I've seen them online and maybe shared here in the past. The note on the flip says mintage of 1200. Does that sound right?
The word "COPY" was removed from the obverse. Any chance of getting rid of that obverse spot? I doubt it... looks like it's been there a while. In hand it's really quite beautiful... nice and hefty with interesting edge scrolling to boot.
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That would make a great pocket piece. Some natural circulation wear and natural brown color would greatly improve the appearance of that coin in my opinion.
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I agree with making it a pocket piece. These look really cool worn down to VF. When I visited them 20 years ago, one of the guys at the GMM showed me one he had been carrying around in his boot (?!) for a while Of course, both of mine (COPY on obverse, COPY on reverse) are still in the original flips.
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Nice curio.... If I came across one at the right price, I would likely pick it up....I dream of finding one in my area while metal detecting.... This area was settled long before than and has Revolutionary War history and much more.... definitely possible....
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I don’t have this one, but I have quite a few
Other years in cent and half cent. They are so very cool looking
and they do look so much better in hand.
Regarding the one you picked up I would do it as a pocket piece too.
PS. If you do please post an image after 6 months or a year.
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Some of the replicas, like the one that is the subject of this thread are pretty cool. Cool as long as they are true to the original design as this Gallery Mint 1793 Chain cent is.
I have replicas from the American Mint of the 1849 and 1933 Double Eagles that are unaltered. I would recommend to the OP that he or she try to obtain the 1793 Chain replica as an unaltered original and make the piece pictured here a pocket piece as others have suggested. The obverse spot should go away after a time.
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Hmm. Pocket piece eh? It has such nice luster and color right now, I hesitate to brown it all up. The obverse spot does bother me enough that I just might do it to diminish it.
I was trying to determine just how the word COPY was removed. It does not appear to be scratched of... maybe acid? There are no scratch marks of cuts from scraping that I can see. There is metal missing however.
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If not used for a pocket piece, it might make a nice pairing of a face-up face-down display set because of the nice tone on the back. There seem to be more with a "COPY" on reverse made.
An acetone soak just might improve the obverse spot without changing the reverse toning, and maybe improve what looks like some hazing on the back.
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I'll try the acetone this week. The reverse color is pretty impressive in hand, that is for sure.
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Is that "rubbed" area underneath the bust and above the date where "COPY" used to be?
Nevermind, I see that it was mentioned in the OP.
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They even look neater as brockages!
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