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JerrySpringer
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 Posted - 11/01/2008 : 18:33:26
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Nice and shiny. If they had some premium numismatic value, this would be a steal of an auction. Think they have been cleaned up to be so shiny? Hard to tell from auction photo if they have full steps on them. If anyone is willing to contact the seller and is interested, this may be a great deal:
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 18:57:36
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Most are definitely cleaned. Check out the dirt in between the spaces in the letters, and around Monticello and Jefferson's portrait. Most war nickels are extremely dirty. Especially ones that are just laying around. Only my opinion and I'm not a professional. Interesting to see what others think.
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 19:03:46
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Originally posted by NotABigDeal
Most are definitely cleaned. Check out the dirt in between the spaces in the letters, and around Monticello and Jefferson's portrait. Most war nickels are extremely dirty. Especially ones that are just laying around. Only my opinion and I'm not a professional. Interesting to see what others think.
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I have to agree. I'm by no means an expert either, but there is just too much dirt around the legends with the fields being so shiny to be natural.
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JerrySpringer
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 21:00:13
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| Yeah, I saw the dirt too. If they were dipped in a solution, would dirt stay around the lettering edges though? No signs of steps on the reverse from the ones displayed. If anything, the steps look worn. BTW, you folks noticing that even junk war nickels are commanding an uber-premium for the silver content now? I bought war nickels off Ebay last spring and summer and the pricing hovered near the silver value. Maybe like all other junk silver, war nickels refuse to match spot silver pricing? |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 21:23:29
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I don't know much about dipping coins. I think the recent high premiums on them are just to suck in would-be silver buyers, not that I think that there is anything wrong with war nickels.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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JerrySpringer
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 21:35:07
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| I was speaking of cleaning solution actually. Like that stuff you dip silverware in to take off corrosion. At least that is how it looked in the Ronco era ad, ha ha. |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/01/2008 : 22:13:38
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| Not only are they cleaned...but they arent worth over $1 a piece! |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 11/02/2008 : 07:01:00
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| These all look dipped. Whoever was doing the dipping just didn't rub each coin well around the letters. If they had, those areas would be nice and clean too. |
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JerrySpringer
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 11/02/2008 : 08:02:23
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I e-mailed the seller and this is what he responded with:
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the coins we list are xf to uncirulated just like t6he pictures show i have seen rolls of coins that had no steps and still be bu coins hope this helps thx gary
Uhhh, and those penny rolls with a 1909 VDB showing on each end are not not salted either. Not. He gave it away when he said no steps. How can a coin be BU and have wear? |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 11/02/2008 : 13:01:03
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Originally posted by JerrySpringer
I e-mailed the seller and this is what he responded with:
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the coins we list are xf to uncirulated just like t6he pictures show i have seen rolls of coins that had no steps and still be bu coins hope this helps thx gary
Uhhh, and those penny rolls with a 1909 VDB showing on each end are not not salted either. Not. He gave it away when he said no steps. How can a coin be BU and have wear?
Perhaps they were lightly struck? Reminds me a little of our old silver dollar scam. Why hasn't anybody been paying me any storage fees for their silver dollars of late? |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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longhorn
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Posted - 11/02/2008 : 18:22:20
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| I can't tell whether they are cleaned or not from the photo. I can tell that many show signs of being circulated, note the change of color on the high points of Jefferson's face. Even if they aren't cleaned, I'm not sure that xf- au warnics would have any significant premium over junk silver value. High premiums are the norm for well struck early jeffs, if they are in excellent grades, ms 65+. |
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 11/03/2008 : 07:53:07
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| Probably cleaned but a long time ago. That is why any dirt now there is still there. If those were dipped in any cleaning solution, there would be no dirt of any kind left. For example the stuff sold in most stores for cleaning jewlery would clean the entire coin, not just the high spots. Same with solutions such as Acetone. It is highly inpossible that you could clean only the high spots on a coin by dipping into anything. The thing about cleaning a coin a long time ago is that it was considered normal. During WW2 many people worked in places where coins got filthy so they had to be cleaned in order to put them in your purses or pockets. Many coins were just dumped into vats of galoline to get rid of greases and oils. |
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