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Can't ever pass up a cheap rattler!

Spartcom5Spartcom5 Posts: 399 ✭✭✭
edited May 21, 2019 9:53PM in U.S. Coin Forum

I'm a sucker when it comes to cheap rattlers. Bought this for $30 and thought the coin was nice. Brilliant luster and untoned. My first peace dollar rattler as well!


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

    Great deal, congratulations !!! :)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice purchase... good hair detail.... Cheers, RickO

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shot at a gold sticker at CAC.

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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,980 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I too love cheap rattlers. That black scratchy stuff on the reverse is a little fugly though. The obverse looks satin smooth.

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  • gotboostedvr6gotboostedvr6 Posts: 38 ✭✭

    Attractive coin but that rim ding would drive me nuts.
    If it was raw I'd easily be able to over look it.

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

    Nice pick up!

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    rattlers mess up boxes. :(

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,575 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really nice piece...Peace Dollar.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gotboostedvr6 said:
    Attractive coin but that rim ding would drive me nuts.
    If it was raw I'd easily be able to over look it.

    Rim ding may be the holder.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:

    @gotboostedvr6 said:
    Attractive coin but that rim ding would drive me nuts.
    If it was raw I'd easily be able to over look it.

    Rim ding may be the holder.

    I don't see any rim issues. He may be seeing the small plastic prongs in the old rattler holder.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,817 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @Smudge said:

    @gotboostedvr6 said:
    Attractive coin but that rim ding would drive me nuts.
    If it was raw I'd easily be able to over look it.

    Rim ding may be the holder.

    I don't see any rim issues. He may be seeing the small plastic prongs in the old rattler holder.

    Exactly, seen those in Rattlers before.

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

    Great deal! I have owned several rattlers but they always end up leaving my collection.

  • CuKevinCuKevin Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭✭

    @gotboostedvr6 said:
    Attractive coin but that rim ding would drive me nuts.
    If it was raw I'd easily be able to over look it.

    No rim ding on that coin...

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,191 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice pick up, I like

  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 22, 2019 5:55PM

    Nice, If only it had a few more hits on the face and a big mark by the brow. It could have graded MS67 "supernova". :)

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crack and send in see if upgrade. Looks better than 62.

    Investor
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes yes yes. Silver dollars are way too inexpensive.

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

    Real nice obverse, not so nice reverse.

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  • MercuryMercury Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭

    For $30 how can you go wrong.
    Nice pick up.

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  • KindaNewishKindaNewish Posts: 827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Cougar1978 said:
    Crack and send in see if upgrade. Looks better than 62.

    Thou shall not crack, lest ye shall be forever banned from the Society for the Protection of Quality Rattlers.

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Based on the title of this thread I wasn’t sure if we were talking about:

    1) Cheap Baby Rattler Toy; 2) Inexpensive Rattlesnake or 3) Gen 1 PCGS slab...

    However, I eventually figured it out!!😁👍


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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,792 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that a proof?! ;)

    Nice coin- neat hair detail. Of course, the reverse had to hold the grade back a bit.

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,728 ✭✭✭✭✭

    VERY FROSTY and really SMOOTH surfaces.

    Some minor carbon spotting but no big deal.

    Can't go wrong for 30 bucks!!

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  • Spartcom5Spartcom5 Posts: 399 ✭✭✭

    Thanks guys! My rattler collection is coming along nicely. No expensive coins, just fun affordable things like this. I agree the obverse is great whereas the reverse is marked up but still nice!

    Do coins in old rattlers tend to tone overtime like the older NGC? I ask because I find blast white coins in rattlers fairly often.

  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No. I don't think you see the same toning with an old no-line NGC fattie compared to a PCGS rattler.

    But I love this '23 Peace dollar.
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  • zodiac65zodiac65 Posts: 275 ✭✭✭

    @ARCO said:
    Nice, If only it had a few more hits on the face and a big mark by the brow. It could have graded MS67 "supernova". :)

    We no-nothings feel, that it would need more friction/rub, on both sides also, to get it all the way up "there".

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  • KoveKove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭

    The first certified coin I ever bought was a 1923 Peace dollar rattler in MS 62, identical to this coin. I was in junior high, late 80s. I still have it, and smile every time I see it (which is not often enough).

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,854 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 18, 2019 6:36PM

    To the OP, yeah, I'm a sucker for them too. Pretty nice Peace buck for a 62.

    I kinda like rattlers, but there's a time to crack 'em out. I bought a Norfolk commem in a rattler that had rattled around enough inside the holder for a couple of the high points to wear out a circle on the inside of the slab in a few places. It was impossible to see or photograph the coin well. See the rings around the ship and around 1636? It was making me crazy.

    image

    I sent it in for regrade and it came back much more photogenic (and at a higher, almost inconsequential grade).

    image

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