1949 mint set

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• hammered54 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 3:41AM

  nice...looks like the quarters are taking a beating.

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• iceman0xh Posts: 238

  March 29, 2011 3:45AM

  I want to know how that half came out almost blast white.

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• TomB Posts: 22,078 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 3:48AM

  Looks like one coin might have been replaced at some point.

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• BillJones Posts: 34,796 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 5:00AM

  Yea, I'd say that the 1949 half dollar is a replacement coin. It's got a little toning around the edge, but it's not been in there for very long IMO.
  
  To be honest I bought a 1952 mint set years ago that was missing on of the 1952-S half dollas. It had been pulled to go into a slab according to the dealer from whom I bought the set. I bought a replacement coin at the same show in it put in the mint set cardboard and paper holder. After I held the set for seven years, you couldn't tell the dfference between the replacement coin and the original pieces.

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• Coppercolor Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 7:06AM

  Could me more going on here than meets the eye....
  
  It doesn't look like the quarters match the dimes and toned half. If I were a betting man I'd say either you've got quarters from one set, dimes and half from another, and the last half is a recent replacement.
  
  Or,
  the dimes and half was dipped, and the quarters were not for some reason. The toning on the quarters looks original and 60 years old.
  
  

  I'd like my copper well done please!

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 7:32AM

  Those coins look just plain DIRTY. Cheers, RickO

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• ClosedLoop Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 7:35AM

  
  
  << <i>Those coins look just plain DIRTY. Cheers, RickO >>
  
  
  
  

  figglehorn

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• relicsncoins Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 7:57AM

  The replacement coin is about the only one in the photos that I would consider buying.

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• lablover Posts: 3,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 8:41AM

  Sorry, but that set has been messed with. No way it's an original set as the toning does not match up correctly. I've look at hundrends of sets and I wouldn't touch that one as original.

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• Coppercolor Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 10:23AM

  However Chumley, I would be lieing if I didn't admit to buying a number of double mint sets over the years, even ones that were messed with or broken up... for just one coin.
  
  Plus, when someone else has messed up a set, they've already taken the charma hit and you're cherrypicking (if that's what you want) is entirely guilt free!!

  I'd like my copper well done please!

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• DRUNNER Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 10:39AM

  I agree with Coppercolor . . . I have purchased 4 or 5 Mint Sets just to get the colored Lincolns (apologies to RickO). But at least the sets were original and I could sell the remainders with a clear conscience. In this case, they certainly do not appear to be original, at least not like the few that I have seen that I know were . .
  
  Frankly, the 1949s never seem to tone well. I would have a difficult time rationalizing the huge price when it really seems challenging to determine originality.
  
  Kudos to those who do and pay the huge premium for the original (?) Mint Set.
  
  Drunner
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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  March 29, 2011 3:21PM

  The halves look intact. When I bought my 1948 and 1949 sets from the mint, the halves were all dinged up by bag marks.

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• georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭

  March 29, 2011 9:51PM

  Dimes and halves been picked over & replaced.

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