I ended up with another collection put up in the 60's....check out the pics
DNADave
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This is the 1st of three boxes. The owner may or may not sell but I do hope she lets me look at all three boxes.
The stuff is just old and fresh. I do see some problems though....NEVER store coins in plastic cases on foam !
The 1965 quarter was broadstruck or something and may have been worth keeping, but look at what the foam did !
That is worse than PVC any day.
The stuff is just old and fresh. I do see some problems though....NEVER store coins in plastic cases on foam !
The 1965 quarter was broadstruck or something and may have been worth keeping, but look at what the foam did !
That is worse than PVC any day.
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-Randy Newman
<< <i>Yikes. But does that qualify as NT? >>
Don't know ! I just hope its not a 65 on a silver planchet.
Edited to say: It's not, but I didn't know foam would do that.
i do not have high hopes. It appears the person who collected it was a typical
collector for the time. As in quantity over quality which is oh so typical.
good luck.
-Paul
Looks like almost all the collections I buy! Don't get carried away in pricing as true values can be
less than what the books say on this common stuff. Sure is fun to go through though! I enjoy
every one that I find and so do my grandkids, daughter-in-law and daughter. The all have their
series to collect and can't wait to get their grubby hands on those little widgets!
Have fun,
bob
<< <i>I would try acetone first, and if that doesn't work (and the coins are worth it) send them through NCS.
-Paul >>
those two foam damaged coins have a chance to actually be saved?
it looks to me that a terrible amount of damage has been done.
The name is LEE!
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
<< <i>Please don't tell me that last pic is the reverse of that 1967 quarter. Without the reverse to help attribute it I can't be 100% sure, but from the obverse pic alone that looks like one of the nicest incomplete clips I've ever seen. Not necessarily a huge money coin but one I would have been very interested in seeing had it not been so horribly damaged.
Sean Reynolds >>
yep, thats the back of it
thanks.
K
The 1967 appears to be PMD.
S
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Here's a 1967 dime with an incomplete punch for comparison, yours sure looks like the real thing from the one side shown. A matching arc should appear on the opposite side of the coin as well, if it still exists.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
<< <i>I had no idea that foam would do that. Was that a common storage method back then? What a shame. >>
The foam always breaks down in time and usually within about 15 years.
I just found some cents packed that way today and destroyed but fortu-
nately they had little value. Some of the $2 foreign mint sets were pack-
aged this way and it breaks my heart to see them destroyed especially
since many of them would be worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars
now in pristine condition.
This stuff was used a lot up to the early '80's or so but you still see some
even today.
I think you're right. It's the same on the reverse but NO amount of acetone is going to get through that much corrosion.
These two error coins are pretty much ruined due to improper storage.
<< <i>Sean,
I think you're right. It's the same on the reverse but NO amount of acetone is going to get through that much corrosion.
These two error coins are pretty much ruined due to improper storage.
I never knew foam did that either. I need to revisit my steel cent webbing in that case, since I have it stored on foam in a plastic case
Those are still pretty cool errors nonetheless, especially the incomplete clip!
-Ben
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Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
He has more than just the nickel listed showing corrosion.
S
I wonder if the chemical makeup of this specific foam is the problem. The reason I say this is that I have 20-40 examples of cased Canadian silver dollars from 1971-1973, where the insert in the case was foam: a velvet-lined hardshell case with a fairly tight seal, and a single 1"x2"x1/8" strip of foam on top of the coin.
That's 25 years ago, so if corrosion were going to be caused, one would think you would see examples similar to those posted above. Instead, the foam seems to cause very dramatic colorful toning over time (either that or the wash they used, or both). It's restricted to pretty much that 3-year period; after that the Canadian mint started encapsulating the coins before putting them in the case.
The toning is pretty bizarre and creates unusual patterns: speckles, splotches and streaks, with fairly psychedelic color combinations, at times appearing almost colorized. Very different from the toning you see on U.S. pieces, and despite what you might think, completely NT. Not everyone's cup of tea, but incredibly fun (and cheap) to collect.
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