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Bought a problem coin with my ebay bucks...guess the why

ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭


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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty good strike, problem not immediately obvious. Is it cleaned?

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :o The seller did not ship?
    :# You received different coin?
    :s There is a crack on the slab
    :'( USPS lost it?

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks awfully nice!

  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No prob from here.

  • TaurusTaurus Posts: 27 ✭✭
    edited October 11, 2018 1:49PM

    Got some issues up in the crown there? Fake? It's in a holder so...

  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 11, 2018 1:52PM

    It’s a proof?
    Fake?
    OBverse scratch?
    Seriously intense details on the eagle make me wonder

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing jumps out. Unum looks a little funky

  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 11, 2018 1:56PM

    Bold strike and Peace look a little doubled

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,465 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So you could return it later and get your eBay bucks back?

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your better half or?, threatened you with “use or lose it” :o

  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NGC holder?

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  • 1940coupe1940coupe Posts: 661 ✭✭✭✭

    will be interesting to find out WTF

  • gtstanggtstang Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a hammered strike. Maybe a light wipe at some point?

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,372 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Got it for melt?

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  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭✭✭

    probably because it was a good price and the strike is above average. good looking!

  • JeffersonFrogJeffersonFrog Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 11, 2018 2:58PM

    Cleaning marks above the crown/hair?

    Edited to add: Cleaned or not, that thing is hammered.

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a nice high relief, I like it !!! :)

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  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You know someone on the inside that will holder this in a 65?

  • 1940coupe1940coupe Posts: 661 ✭✭✭✭

    Deputy Trudy Wiegel says its stolen

  • TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭

    APMEX sale?

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably a tiny patch of hairlines that caused the finalizer to give it the thumbs down? HR variety? Good deal? Ebucks burning a hole in your e-pockets?

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the reverse looks somewhat funky to me. it is a nice strike

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The only problem I can see is that I didn't buy it. ;)

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  • PocketArtPocketArt Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beautiful strike, very few contact marks except on rays obv. Too bad it's cleaned? I can't determine any varieties from photo's so I'd say strike & technical grade was why? Nice example.

  • steelieleesteelielee Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭

    Nice pickup. Don't see an issue....

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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭

    strike. That's nice separation on the hair.

  • FHCFHC Posts: 325 ✭✭✭

    It's not toned like the coins at the bottom if your post?

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Above average strike?

  • tyler267tyler267 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭✭

    Strong Strike for a 21

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Got it because of the strike. Seems the problem free ones never get quite that hammered. There seems to be more of really well struck ones in AU or cleaned. This one was determined cleaned. And no its not from APMEx lol. The pic does sort of look like theirs.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does not look cleaned. Maybe try again.

  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What is the grade?

  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,757 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Paradisefound said:
    What is the grade?

    No grade, a unc details coin - cleaned

    GrandAm :)
  • logger7logger7 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can see if a coin has provable hairlines resulting in problem appearance and eye appeal; but they could just net it down to a 60/61. ICG makes that pragmatic decision often when coins are not really impaired.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,250 ✭✭✭✭✭

    She has halitosis and couldn't hold her breath long enough while being examined. I can see the high relief. Peace Roy

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice looking coin... cleaning not really obvious in the picture.... based on the picture I may have grabbed that one.... Cheers, RickO

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,599 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love the strike, look at those eagle feathers! Good for you!

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice strike... Looks mildly cleaned.

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,465 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yup. Bad dip

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seems like the eagle is pretty much always well struck up on these, but the hair...not so much. I'm thinking you went for this one because it barely looks to have been cleaned and the nice hair detail.

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 12, 2018 1:28PM

    Your wife wanted to use the EBAY bucks for something else and now you have a problem :smiley:

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  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 12, 2018 3:03PM

    @OldEastside said:
    Your wife wanted to use the EBAY bucks for something else and now you have a problem :smiley:

    Steve

    Lucky for me no wife to answer my ebay bucks to.

  • PocketArtPocketArt Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ACop said:

    @OldEastside said:
    Your wife wanted to use the EBAY bucks for something else and now you have a problem :smiley:

    Steve

    Lucky for me no wife to answer my ebay bucks to.

    Very true, certain accessories may be bad for collecting. Especially if it ends up in a half yours/mine event. At this day in age that is a flip of a coin. Choice is easy.

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rollerman said:
    Seems like the eagle is pretty much always well struck up on these, but the hair...not so much. I'm thinking you went for this one because it barely looks to have been cleaned and the nice hair detail.

    I think people focus too much on the central hair being the only weakness. While true most weak strikes will display weakness here, I think there are other areas of weakness that are often overlooked. While this one does still show some weakness at the highest points of that central hair area, it shines in strike overall, both there and in the rest of the hair and mottos. The numbers look a little soft. But for me this one had strong strike characteristics in places not often well struck that are not given credit for as much as the central hair is. Not a "special" coin by any means, but a nice strike and another good excuse to add a 21.

  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 12, 2018 5:06PM

    If she were any more hammered, she'd have to join AA. Nice pick up...

  • kazkaz Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice detail on the hair, so this may be one of that approx. 210,000 examples struck on Dec 28/29 of 1921. (Isn't it nice to be able to pin down the date of creation of something you own so precisely?) Slightly paraphrasing from RWB's " A Guide Book of Peace Dollars," p. 180, he says that there are an unusual number of well struck pieces in AU condition, that in addition to being well (but not fully) struck show smooth fields and suppressed luster consistent with early strikes from new dies. Many of them may have picked up light wear after being carried for a while as pocket pieces (novelties at the time, perhaps). I think I have one of those:

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