What the heck is this?

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• lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,426 ✭✭✭

  December 30, 2014 4:59PM

  maybe it's blue cosmoline to protect the obverse devices is all and can be peeled off...yes...no...?
  
  can almost see it now...wife gives 4 year old daughter fingernail polish while hubby's at work
  
  hubby....."hi hunny i'm home"
  wifey......."look what susie did to your coins hunny"
  susie......."aren't they pretty daddy...i did it special for you because i love you daddy"
  
  

  everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
  
  
  

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• CoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭

  December 30, 2014 5:44PM

  
  
  Looks like paint to me... ?
  
  

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• OldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 30, 2014 5:49PM

  You just have to sit back and love it. A lot? of thought went into that one........
  
  OINK

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,779 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 30, 2014 8:27PM

  If it's paint it can usually be removed with acetone without damage to the coin. If it's some type of enamel it may not be possible to remove in a satisfactory manner. I would pass on that coin but I can see others who like to gamble buying that coin to try to conserve it assuming of course that they could get it cheap enough.

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  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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• PipestonePete Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 30, 2014 9:47PM

  And what a great description......"NOTES: N/A".

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 30, 2014 11:46PM

  Amazing... it just astounds me that people even list coins like this... Cheers, RickO

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• kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  December 31, 2014 3:40AM

  
  
  << <i>Amazing... it just astounds me that people even list coins like this... Cheers, RickO >>
  
  
  
  I am reminded of a comment a previous boss said to me once. We made duplicates of videos and I questioned why some customers' orders were done on new blank cassettes and others were made on cassettes that were QA rejects from previous orders. The boss said, "There's a market for every dupe." He meant that some people are happy with cheap and low quality because they mostly loved cheap.
  
  If this coin wasn't a BIN it would be interesting to see at what price someone would win it.
  
  That said, I don't recall ever seeing this type of treatment on a coin. I wonder what inspired the paint job.

  New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 31, 2014 3:46AM

  OMG

  The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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• 123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭

  December 31, 2014 4:01AM

  It's a Sherwin Williams obverse cameo.

  

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