Did any forum member buy this "colorful" 1826 half cent from NEN?? If so, why???

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• DRUNNER Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 17, 2011 12:18PM

  Wow . .I really don't know what to say, so technically, I am committing an indescretion on the Forums by not posting a relevant comment. I just . . . don't know what to say. Are these pix accurate??
  
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• ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭

  February 17, 2011 12:23PM

  The 1960s called. They want their psychedelic colors back.

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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 17, 2011 12:29PM

  Can't even dip it and hope it comes back better in 20 years.
  Bet that had a torch applied to it and ruined it forever

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• lava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭

  February 17, 2011 4:30PM

  Looks very very wrong.

  I brake for ear bars.

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• Walkerguy21D Posts: 11,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 17, 2011 9:25PM

  Really surprised to see NorthEast had something like this in their inventory.....they generally handle first rate material. Must've been a buy 'em all or none situation.

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• savoyspecial Posts: 7,311 ✭✭✭✭

  February 17, 2011 9:31PM

  keep in mind that we have no idea how or where this was stored for possible 180 years

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• MICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2011 7:19AM

  Several years ago I auctioned a coin which looked like this one. It had been in a house fire and caused the colors. We auctioned everything salvagable from the house for an 80+ year old lady and she was very happy with what the coins brought. The toned half cent brought over $400. and everybody knew where the coins, etc came from. It could be the same coin I auctioned.

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• Unknown

  February 18, 2011 7:50AM

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• TJM965 Posts: 446 ✭✭✭

  February 18, 2011 8:02AM

  
  
  I like it. For about $40.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2011 8:10AM

  Would fit nicely into a Details or Genuine registry type set!

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• sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭

  February 18, 2011 8:14AM

  why would anyone clean it? good question

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• Goldbully Posts: 17,944 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2011 12:05PM

  
  
  << <i>Would fit nicely into a Details or Genuine registry type set! >>
  
  
  
  Only from the mind of Broadstruck!!!!!!

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• avenue7 Posts: 54

  February 18, 2011 12:09PM

  I've never seen anything like it!

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• MikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2011 12:42PM

  I much prefer the "cleaned and put in an album look" to the "cleaned and Deller-ed look" more commonly seen, and I suspect NEN and the buyer agree.

  Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.

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• MikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2011 12:44PM

  
  
  << <i>I was under the impression that if my seven year old got a gold of my coin and colored it using his new box of pastel craons that since it wasn't intentional although he admitted to doing it and he isn't aware of making a profit thru enhanceing the coins appearance which he obviously achieved and trust me purely by accident and that since he is under 18 and therefore too young to be prosecuted for fraud that all this means that the coins is an original piece and naturally done. >>
  
  
  
  That's quite a sentence.
  
  

  Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.

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