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Post your impaired proofs!

Ted 1Ted 1 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 29, 2025 8:10PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Let's see if this interesting topic has any traction.
Curious to see if anyone has an eye for less than perfect graded proofs.

Here's a head scratcher:

California Nationals, Replacement Nationals &
Lowball Sacagawea Dollars (P01-AU50)

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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,298 ✭✭✭✭✭




    Larry

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1950 Genuine, Questionable Color

    PF64CAM (too bad the reverse fields are heavily impaired)

  • ShurkeShurke Posts: 625 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ldhair said:

    What a lovely trime!

  • lsicalsica Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭✭

    @Ted 1 said:
    Here's a head scratcher:

    I love this, because it makes my head spin thinking of how/why it got in that plastic

    • Why was it put in change in the first place? Did someone need a single coin from the set for an album and just decided to just spend the rest? Was it originally from a theft and the thieves just ripped stuff apart to spend it?
    • AU53? That meant it was in change for a while. Surprised it got passed around so long to let it wear down even that much before someone (collector or not) said "ooh pretty!" and at least stuck it in a drawer.
    • ~$25 in fees for a coin worth maybe a buck (if you could even find someone to buy it)? I mean maybe it's not a ton of money but I mean its 25 bucks you could use to buy a coin. Or a coin book. Or heck lunch for you and a friend at a coin show ;)
    • Its a 1972-S Quarter. A Proof Only Coin. Why slab it at all? Obviously not a high-grade coin. Not a lot of fakes out there to make certification mandatory. Maybe they thought it was the rare Business Strike issue of that date ;)
    • Not seeing any particularly interesting toning on it so thats not the reason
    • and finally - whoever certified it got ripped off. You shoulda got a CAM on it ;)
    Philately will get you nowhere....

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