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Looks that way to me....

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,940 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks that way to me....

    Yep, bag got real wet on that one!

    He's been trying to sell this for quite a while.

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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    Sure looks like it could be water damage to me.
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  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    Don't know about the water damage, but that is one ugly coin.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    probably rat poison prior to putting in the gsa holder
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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,192 ✭✭✭✭
    Definitely some kind of environmental damage. How do you conclude that it's water that did the damage?
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,940 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Definitely some kind of environmental damage. How do you conclude that it's water that did the damage? >>



    Storage facilities in Philadelphia had multiple water problems over the years and many coins had to be re-bagged
    as the original bags rotted.

    bob
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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,192 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Definitely some kind of environmental damage. How do you conclude that it's water that did the damage? >>



    Storage facilities in Philadelphia had multiple water problems over the years and many coins had to be re-bagged
    as the original bags rotted.

    bob >>



    So there's no real way of knowing that the coin is water damaged, because that black gunk could have developed long after the coin left Philly...
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,261 ✭✭✭✭✭
    its still damaged reqardless of how it got damaged.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    But...but, the seller says it's "MONSTER TONED"

    Well, they are half right, it is in fact a MONSTER
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  • The coin may have been "toned" from old storage in a rotted bag or something and then the GSA gets water damage and perhaps further "enhances" this monstrosity - we are saying these are two separate events, right?

    Thanks,
    Eric
  • lavalava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭
    I used to own hundreds of those;never had one look like that. Something is wrong.
    I brake for ear bars.


  • << <i>Definitely some kind of environmental damage. How do you conclude that it's water that did the damage? >>




    The damage on the holder - the pattern is that seen on a now-dry rain soaked lampshade for example. As the moisture dries, various trace chemicals are deposited depending on weight/solubility or some such leaving these marks on the plastic. Capillary action and some other dynamics involved perhaps involved, IDK.

    Eric image

    Edit to add: that is what the "fog" on the plastic looks like to me anyway.
  • i dont know about water but it has toned rather ugly
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Total mess is what I would call it.... Cheers, RickO

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