HALLOWEEN HORROR WEEK: ALL COIN HORROR STORIES NEEDED!!!!
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I remember getting the Red Book in 1963 or 1964 and reading how the 1903-O and 1904-O silver had dropped over 90% in price from the year before!!!
Back then we young collectors got our prices once a YEAR unless we also read the Coin World and had time to read the market prices during recess after elementary school hours!
Anybody old enough to detail a more complete and interesting story about the coin dealers perspective of the dealers reaction to the market collapse of the famed O mint silver dollars when the US Treasury hoard was discovered in 1962 (I believe?) ?
Back then we young collectors got our prices once a YEAR unless we also read the Coin World and had time to read the market prices during recess after elementary school hours!
Anybody old enough to detail a more complete and interesting story about the coin dealers perspective of the dealers reaction to the market collapse of the famed O mint silver dollars when the US Treasury hoard was discovered in 1962 (I believe?) ?
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- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
That's about the best I can do.
my '69-D mint sets was not up to snuff and most of the coins in most
of the sets were ruined. There were twenty of them culled out of thou-
sands of complete sets. The Philly packages were stored in the same
place but for some reason were unaffected.
This would have been the true horror if the Philly packages were dam-
aged.
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Upon inspection with a 10x loupe what I thought was a small planchet lamination turned out to be a nose trophy.
I think the grader had a sticky booger drop on this coin prior to encapsulation.
2) If you want a coin horror story, just find a slabbed Barber Half graded MS 65. Make sure that you see it on an empty stomach, or else bring a barf bag. Check to make sure you are current on your tetanus shot and handle the slab with gloves, if possible (some of these coins look like they might bite you).
I've seen a fair number of them that look like Jack the Ripper had a go at Miss Liberty's cheek and / or neck. Others had hideous planchet flaws or what looked like eye-catching boogers which seemed to jump out at the viewer of the coin. The worst of the lot was an 07 P that looked like Miss Liberty had a Hitler moustache. Many of the "originally toned" ones I've seen looked like they spent the last fifty years in a toilet that was never flushed.
Don't forget the many that were so dipped out and dead, that only a numismatic version of a necrophiliac could love them. It's a fair bet that the latter were graded by someone in his last day working at a TPG, after which, he never had anything further to do with numismatics in any capacity. Nasty, nasty looking coins.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
Local guy tried to sell his coins. A meeting was set up. This was the result. They got the coins, he got a whoopin'!
Bad move, Vern!
Dan
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Looking for Denmark 1874 20-Kroner. Please offer.
Luckily however, I was able to get some back. So my horror story has a happy ending.
Each was heads up in a little clear plastic case with a hinged top, sitting on a little pad of foam rubber.
They looked just beautiful in the cases.
When I opened one up, I saw the foam rubber had deteriorated, and was stuck to the coin and the reverse of the coin was ruined.
I looked at some others, and they were all the same.
I gave the seller a penny apiece for them.
Not a real horror story, but if any of you have any coins stored this way................ better look at them and change their surroundings.
Ray
doesn't get scarier than that
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You've G O T to be kidding me !!!
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