old $1

Bodin · January 3, 2015 2:36PM

......and by old, I mean 15 years. With the looks of 115
and no, it is not slabbed by NGC.

Nap · January 3, 2015 10:35PM

Maybe run through the washing machine a few times with a pocket full of loose change.

Have rarely seen them with so much wear. Nobody carries them around.

luckybucks · January 3, 2015 10:48PM

That one looks like it certainly did its duty in commerce.

Looks like maybe a VF, perhaps a Fine.

Eclectic · January 3, 2015 11:17PM

If it's not slabbed by NGC, what holder is it in?

Casman · January 3, 2015 11:25PM

Looks like no holder, just the guts.

Tookybandit · January 4, 2015 1:14AM

I really like the looks of that Sac! The softness of the worn design gives it a classic coin feel vs. the computerized mass produced look of most modern stuff!

ms70 · January 4, 2015 1:26AM

I like it. I'd love to see what PCGS would grade it. I'd go with 25.

Baley · January 4, 2015 1:28AM

Looks like it had a long tour of duty in Ecuador, where these coins circulate, and then came back to the US. How'd you get it?

AUandAG · January 4, 2015 1:29AM

We are not accustom to seeing such coins in our day to day commerce. But, I understand that they
do circulate in S. America.
It looks so odd that you think counterfeit the moment you see it.

bob

jayPem · January 4, 2015 1:59AM

I remember in Santa Cruz there are electronic parking meters that only take dollar coins...and change machines that give them out. Maybe by now some of those coins are looking like this ? I would imagine that they recycle the coins from the meters back into the change machines.

Bodin · January 4, 2015 5:37AM

<< <i>If it's not slabbed by NGC, what holder is it in? >>

It is "just the guts" as Casman noted. I use the old prongs to hold it, and I shoot upright. No fingers.

Bodin · January 4, 2015 5:38AM

<< <i>I like it. I'd love to see what PCGS would grade it. I'd go with 25. >>

I think you're right on! 25-30 would be my guess.

Bodin · January 4, 2015 5:40AM

<< <i>Looks like it had a long tour of duty in Ecuador, where these coins circulate, and then came back to the US. How'd you get it? >>

I've had it for about a year. Think I got it from the teller when I asked what she had.

ricko · January 5, 2015 2:39AM

That Sac has seen some action...no way to tell what kind of action....never saw one that worn.....Cheers, RickO

LindeDad · January 5, 2015 3:56AM

Wonder if it was in the Millennium set at one time and someone made it a pocket piece.

braddick · January 5, 2015 3:58AM

<< <i>That Sac has seen some action...no way to tell what kind of action....never saw one that worn.....Cheers, RickO >>

Popular coin in parts of South America...

PerryHall · January 5, 2015 4:01AM

Use it as a pocket piece. It'll be fun to see it as the wear progresses down to AG or even Fair.

johnny9434 · January 5, 2015 5:09AM

that almost looks like it was dug up at one time or another. jmo

sumnom · January 5, 2015 7:23AM

I have three or four like this as well. They look great. I imagine these are examples that circulated in Ecuador. Imagine if they circulated here...

lostincoins · January 5, 2015 7:28AM

Could have been in a fountain and then put through a washer. So much of the circulated US coinage has been through this issue. I just saw a program on the learning channel about this and the volume of coins that are cleaned yearly. I am surprised that any circ coin can get graded problem free.

winky · January 5, 2015 9:31AM

"UGLY"

old $1

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