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Here's an example of how NOT to hold an 1883CC Morgan for pics.

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My cousin fishboy should know better. image

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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019
    It looks like he's holding it with a "Roach Clip."

    Ron
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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Ouch!
    And he did it in 2 different places so he could get the reverse pic.
    Ed
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like stamp tongs used by stamp collectors to hold stamps.

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  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like stamp tongs used by stamp collectors to hold stamps. >>



    Or a small, needle-nose pliers? image
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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like a hemostat to me. That hurts.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,226 ✭✭✭✭✭
    looks like something we used in the electrical field. what do i know
  • Oh, oh, I got one. He's also an entymologist, and that's what he uses for holding bugs. Or words.
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is it even real? Looks weird to me.
    image

  • For Quarters and smaller this works best

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    Halves and up these are the trick

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    Still looking for what to use on the Pucks
  • skier07skier07 Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $80 for a CC Morgan is cheap.

    Bruce
  • habaracahabaraca Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    some kind of dental tool....

    could fishboy be our own loved Fishteeth

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