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1909 cent - What's the grade? (coin found on Mars!!)
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1909 VDB cent. No reverse, but not my photography. What grade do you think? How do you like the holder?
Guess where it was taken. It is mounted as a reference object on Curiosity, one of our robots on Mars. Picture was taken on 12/2/2017. Who says a penny doesn't go a long way?
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/01/2000-days-on-mars-with-the-curiosity-rover/551984/
"Some people say Citizen Kane or Casablanca. I say 'Jason and the Argonauts' is the greatest movie ever made.” Tom Hanks at The Oscars' Science & Technical Awards Ceremony for Ray Harryhausen, 1992
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Environmental Damage
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it sure has sharp inside rims
It's faring pretty well considering the environment it's been in for the last several years.
EF Details Red Brown (Dust = Red, Coin = Brown)
I wounder what would that Lincoln cent sell for if returned to earth?
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
The picture of that penny from Mars is better than 95% of the coin pictures taken around here!
Moon money?
Lincoln would be proud
If a martian needed a small liquor bottle, would they use it to purchase one? or is that just an earth practice?
Sandblast proof?
OH BOY! We can send coins to Mars now for grading? That is a nice true view.
....................I don't think the turn around times would be good.
Pete
Same pic
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Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
It was originally a "details" coin (cleaned) bought on ebay. Might get a straight grade today?
Lance.
I was hoping for a more detailed close-up of the coin, but I guess I'll have to shop for a bigger telescope!
Ask and ye shall be answered:
"Now this is interesting!" Dan Harris of CoinStudy.com told SPACE.com. Space-flown objects with attribution and certification by astronauts and/or NASA officials are very valuable, he added.
What if a daring, space-suited numismatist made his or her way to Mars, tracked Curiosity down, pried off the penny and returned to Earth with the coin? How much would it be worth?
"A 1909 Lincoln penny is well known and valuable to coin collectors. There are also many collectors of space memorabilia," Harris said. "Combine the two vying for a 1909 penny returning from Mars, a 'one of a kind,' and it would be…my opinion…the sky is the limit!"
https://space.com/17647-mars-rover-curiosity-lincoln-penny.html
I was also curious as to why a 1909 was selected. There is an answer for that as well from the same linked source article as above referenced:
"A penny for your thoughts," I asked MAHLI principal investigator Ken Edgett, senior research scientist at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. He said that Curiosity was going to launch in 2009, the centennial of the Lincoln Cent and bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. [Curiosity Rover's Mission: Complete Coverage]
"When the launch was delayed, I made a decision to stick with the historic 1909 cent rather than try to find a 1911 cent," Edgett told SPACE.com. "Honestly, I think 1911 would have been more difficult to explain."
Edgett said that it might have been fun to fly a 2011 or 2012 cent, "but they did not exist when the calibration target was assembled and delivered."
nope, Mars money
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Lafayette Grading Set
AU - Alien Universe
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If this were returned to earth and then offered for sale (all highly doubtful), it would likely set a new record for a single coin sale. I can see a Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos in a bidding war. Cheers, RickO
...but it would have to be in it's 'original' holder.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
As government property, it would probably be worth a charge of penny theft.
Or maybe a new pcgs details code --
2001: No environment damage
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