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1853 Quarter No Arrows With Rays

skier07skier07 Posts: 4,854 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 12, 2019 9:11AM in U.S. Coin Forum

I bought this coin ~50 years ago off a Coin World add when I was a young lad. There are no arrows by the date and the reverse has rays. What do you think happened to this coin?


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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Obviously scraped off

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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Perhaps scraped off with a tool? How about "Smoothed." That's a "harmless" sounding word to describe a damaged coin's surface.

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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, I was using the term in general.

    Smoothed is the term I would use after
    it was scraped. (!)

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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Code 94 is Altered Surfaces.

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Smoothed, tooled...

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    okiedudeokiedude Posts: 653 ✭✭✭

    The arrows were removed to make a unique die pairing :)

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,306 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Scraped works for me. Or bludgeoned. Whatever.

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    morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How about post mint omission?

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    ShipwreckCoinHunterShipwreckCoinHunter Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like the arrow where taken off.

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    emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 5,251 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If I wanted to copy the coin in question and put it through a couple of filters do I have to ask permission and if so , May I and the show all what the filters look like.

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    mark_dakmark_dak Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Orbital sander? Belt sander? No, not smooth enough...

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    thefinnthefinn Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the sound of, "ground off".

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    skier07skier07 Posts: 4,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bought this coin when I was ~12 for $10. I remember telling my father that the arrows were removed but I never did return the coin. My father told me that it was too much of a hassle to return a $10 coin.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,306 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thefinn said:
    I like the sound of, "ground off".

    “Ground off— one, two!
    Ground off — three, four!
    Ground off — one, two, three, four,
    One, two — three! four!”

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,721 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A real obvious tool job.... Cheers, RickO

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    pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone thought they had a scratch of ticket ;)

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    what a hack job :(

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    fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Decent deceit but I've seen worse. I love the 1858's that had the 8 tooled. Hey for $10 you can't go wrong.

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    oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 3,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did a lot worse at the local B&M when I was 12. Sad.

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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did they have Dremel tools 50 years back??

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,306 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:
    Did they have Dremel tools 50 years back??

    Yes, but they were coal fired.

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