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OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...that says stay away. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe a bad pic. I don't know. I'm on the hunt for one, though.

Cheers

Bob

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    HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yea man. I hear ya. Keep looking.
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    abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is it possible for a coin to be too original?
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    KoveKove Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭✭
    I kind of like the look, but it's worth less than half the asking price. Even with the box included.
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    bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Original but very unattractive.
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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: abcde12345

    Is it possible for a coin to be too original?


    Good way to look at it.

    I agree.

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    roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,374 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the coin lived in it's original packaging for decades would it really look like that? How do we know that specific coin came in that particular packaging?
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    stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like this kind of original much more. Only had to wait over 6 years to get it.
    Is the software auto resizing images now?

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like it has been 'handled' a lot.... obviously has not been sitting quietly in that

    container all these years...walk away.... Cheers, RickO
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    crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,230 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, ugly as all hell. Stay clear of that one.
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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    kazkaz Posts: 9,355 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one was kept in its box for years before being graded, according to the seller.

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    The coin in the op is just plain weird looking, I'd stay away.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: bolivarshagnasty

    Original but very unattractive.




    This
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    StuartStuart Posts: 9,831 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It appears very heavily oxidized to the point of being categorized as environmentally damaged.

    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

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    mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,326 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of my all-time favorite commemorative designs, but that one has issues IMO. Yes, it may be original, but it definitely has no eye appeal. It kinda looks like it was washed in mercury. There are a lot more attractive ones out there and they come up fairly often. Here's mine :



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    mbogoman

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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whaddya got against freckely spotty ugliness if it exudes originality?

    This collecting of coins that are only PRETTY must cease.

    Are we such purists that we have no sympathy for ratty looking originality?



    We are elitists.

    We should be ashamed of our intolerance.

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    TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    still, a neat box

    Frank

    BHNC #203

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    sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Interesting" is usually not a good word in a coin description.
    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
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    CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Coins that were stored in the bank boxes of issue usually have dark grey toning around the devices like this and the coin posted earlier.
    The ebay coin has been in contact with a gas or chemical to give it that silvery look
    Dr Mikey
    Commems and Early Type

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