Look at this worn Gettysburg commen...

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• Hydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 3:36PM edited March 25, 2020 3:38PM

  I like it. If that coin could talk........I would listen.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,808 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 3:40PM

  Looks like a legitimate pocket piece.

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• 50cCOMMEMGUY Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 4:24PM

  What I was first drawn to is the luster spread throughout the spaces of what I’ll call simply, “the leaves” toward the bottom of the banners on the reverse. Could totally be the pic or lighting but it’s what my eyes are seeing. Would make me thinK it’s not aged genuinely. That’s JUST me.

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• MFeld Posts: 14,971 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 4:37PM edited March 25, 2020 4:37PM

  @50cCOMMEMGUY said:
  What I was first drawn to is the luster spread throughout the spaces of what I’ll call simply, “the leaves” toward the bottom of the banners on the reverse. Could totally be the pic or lighting but it’s what my eyes are seeing. Would make me thinK it’s not aged genuinely. That’s JUST me.

  I see nothing suspicious looking in that regard.

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• 50cCOMMEMGUY Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 4:42PM

  @MFeld said:

  @50cCOMMEMGUY said:
  What I was first drawn to is the luster spread throughout the spaces of what I’ll call simply, “the leaves” toward the bottom of the banners on the reverse. Could totally be the pic or lighting but it’s what my eyes are seeing. Would make me thinK it’s not aged genuinely. That’s JUST me.

  I see nothing suspicious looking in that regard.

  Mark,
  I would 100% most definitely yield to your experience. 👍🏻

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  loaf. Perhaps someday the whole damn boulangerie." - fictional Jack Rackham

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• CoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 4:47PM

  @50cCOMMEMGUY said:
  What I was first drawn to is the luster spread throughout the spaces of what I’ll call simply, “the leaves” toward the bottom of the banners on the reverse. Could totally be the pic or lighting but it’s what my eyes are seeing. Would make me thinK it’s not aged genuinely. That’s JUST me.

  Luster is diminished by rub. Recessed areas are protected from rub. I'll let you connect the dots.

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• 50cCOMMEMGUY Posts: 211 ✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 4:55PM

  I hear you totally, but wouldn’t there be minimal expectation to at least see some darkening or loss of luster, or maybe the ever so slightest build up of crud in said recessed areas? I’m just surprised to see any luster whatsoever on a piece so well worn otherwise. I’m NOWHERE near an expert on this. But from a pocket piece “outsiders” point of view it seems odd.

  "Today the crumbs, tomorrow the
  loaf. Perhaps someday the whole damn boulangerie." - fictional Jack Rackham

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• oldabeintx Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 5:15PM

  @50cCOMMEMGUY said:
  I hear you totally, but wouldn’t there be minimal expectation to at least see some darkening or loss of luster, or maybe the ever so slightest build up of crud in said recessed areas? I’m just surprised to see any luster whatsoever on a piece so well worn otherwise. I’m NOWHERE near an expert on this. But from a pocket piece “outsiders” point of view it seems odd.

  NO expert, but visualizing how a literal pocket piece would age and wear, what you show seems very plausible. Quite different from circulation wear, in other words.

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• CoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 25, 2020 5:19PM

  @50cCOMMEMGUY said:
  I hear you totally, but wouldn’t there be minimal expectation to at least see some darkening or loss of luster, or maybe the ever so slightest build up of crud in said recessed areas? I’m just surprised to see any luster whatsoever on a piece so well worn otherwise. I’m NOWHERE near an expert on this. But from a pocket piece “outsiders” point of view it seems odd.

  The broad areas of the coin that are slightly recessed do show a lack of luster. Deeply recessed areas are all but impossible to touch on that particular design. "Crud" is highly dependent on the individual coin. Look at a hundred random well-circulated cents. Some of them will be very clean. Others, more or less cruddy.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 26, 2020 8:08AM

  Looks to me like a pocket piece that spent a lot of time in a busy pocket... Cheers, RickO

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• seanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 26, 2020 10:49AM

  That is a beautiful coin, I started and subsequently abandoned a circulated classic commem set, that would have looked right at home there.

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• pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 27, 2020 2:53PM

  Looks like a pocketpiece to me. From the bit of toning on the edges I would say that it may have spent time in an album.

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• bidask Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 27, 2020 2:53PM

  @pocketpiececommems said:
  Looks like a pocketpiece to me. From the bit of toning on the edges I would say that it may have spent time in an album.

  I took it out of an album . Good guess !

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