Ever destroyed a really nice coin?
GoldenEyeNumismatics
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I've managed to accidentally destroy a few over the years. Unfortunately, one was an MS64 Barber Half 
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<< <i>define: "nuked" >>
Completely destroy. No method specified.
editted:
nevermind. I changed the title. I think people might interpret it incorrectly.
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<< <i>Oh yeah
Staple and 2x2?
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
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Staple and 2x2? >>
No. Just an idiot with a pair of needlenose pliers and that would be me I am talking about.
<< <i>I don't have any good coin destruction stories, but I am curious what happened to the 64 Barber Half. >>
While handling it, I managed to drop it and it hit the corner of the sharp, stainless steel chair I used to have at my desk (I removed the chair after the incident). I put a monumental ding in the prime focal area of the reverse. It looked as if someone had placed a screwdriver on the surface of the coin, then hit the butt of the screwdriver with a hammer.
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<< <i>I don't have any good coin destruction stories, but I am curious what happened to the 64 Barber Half. >>
While handling it, I managed to drop it and it hit the corner of the sharp, stainless steel chair I used to have at my desk (I removed the chair after the incident). I put a monumental ding in the prime focal area of the reverse. It looked as if someone had placed a screwdriver on the surface of the coin, then hit the butt of the screwdriver with a hammer. >>
OUCH!!
Rob
"Those guys weren't Fathers they were...Mothers."
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
June 1986 - PCGS had been certifiying
coins for about 5-6 months.
I had a customer's Proof Gold (8 pcs.), including
a PCGS 1879 $4 Stella, PR-65 then.
Long story short - It's been in the Simi Valley
Trash Dump (here in the San Fernando Valley)
since - wow - just realized it's been almost
exactly 21 years!
I paid the customer $65,000 for it the next week.
Today - a no-doubt PR-66
And, yes, I was the one who threw it in the trash can here
in my office....for those that want the full story (I need to
use hand-gestures, backround info, full story)...just come
up to my table at the ANA this Summer in Milwaukee and
I'll spill all the details.
I've told the story to others over the past two decades, and
I'm over it, so I promise I won't get a tear in my eye when
I re-tell it.
I'm over it, so I promise I won't get a tear in my eye when
I re-tell it. "
Maybe you won't, but I'm not sure that I can say the same. Man, that hurts just thinking about it.
<< <i>I was told the only way to tell if a coin was real silver was to give it the melt test. So I took all my flowing hairs, draped busts, and barbers and took them to the melting pot. They turned out to be real! And ruined. But I have a nice assay bar sitting in my vault for the memory. I still haven't given my gumby gold the melt test but I'm planning on it this summer. >>
you can't be serious...
<< <i>I paid the customer $65,000 for it the next week. >>
That must have ruined your weekend.
I am a collector
And things, well things
They tend to accumulate
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<< <i>I paid the customer $65,000 for it the next week. >>
That must have ruined your weekend.
That would ruin my whole life not just my weekend.
Commems and Early Type
<< <i>A close collector friend put a 1799 AU58 rattler-holder $10 Eagle in between papers to hide it while he had it in the house and the maid threw the papers away. We are certain it now resides. for the past 5 years, wherever Westchester County NY dumps its garbage. It doesn't compare to Freds story but it still hurt to see that beautiful coin disappear forever. >>
I live in westchester county--and over the past decade the method of choice for trash disposal has been incineration. I'm not kidding
<< <i>Most coins are destroyed by improper cleaning and I'm sure just about every collector is guilty of this at one time or another. >>
I know a guy who knows a guy
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