Improper Storage of Gem Proof Copper Coins (with Images)

[gmarguli]

Does anyone else find it sad when you run across improperly stored 19th century proof copper coins and they end up turning funky colors like vibrant blues and wild reds that just scream off the superb gem surfaces? I know it pains me to look at these coins with all their color. I couldn't even bear to image the matte proof or the other late date Indians...

 

 

 

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[relicsncoins]

Wow!!! That 71 looks like a screamer.

 

JJ

[Hoot]

I feel sick and sorry for those coins. I could give them a good home where they would suffer no more abuse, Greg... please send immediately. I have a nice 2 cent piece that would be a good mate for the one you've so embarrassingly shown.

 

Hoot

[Bruceswar]

the way you photoed the coin... Makes them look 3d which is cool... Nice pics and nice coins I know its the tilt to get the color. Cool

[McKinley-migration]

i'd be proud, which you are..

[EZ_E]

You know that brillo pads are good for more things than just smoking crack?!

 

Scrub them suckers up nice and bright and all hairliney like any decent collectors would do.

[IGWT]

 

Don't forget to set the auction to close on the scheduled date.

[IGWT]

Anyone else notice how Tom and Dave haven't responded to the pictures in Greg's post? This pretense of disinterest fools no one, although it is mildly amusing. Let's get ready to RRRRUUUUUUUUUMBLE!

[Brotherman]

Does anyone else find it sad when you run across improperly stored 19th century proof copper coins and they end up turning funky colors like vibrant blues and wild reds that just scream off the superb gem surfaces? I know it pains me to look at these coins with all their color. I couldn't even bear to image the matte proof or the other late date Indians...

 

 

 

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Oh man that SUCKS! I'd hate to see a fellow member stuck with improperly stored coins, I would be happy to take them off your hands for you.

 

Hays

[collectingfamily]

They are Beautiful!!!! The colors are just so vivid!

[chinook]

Anyone else notice how Tom and Dave haven't responded to the pictures in Greg's post? This pretense of disinterest fools no one, although it is mildly amusing. Let's get ready to RRRRUUUUUUUUUMBLE!

 

Some of us have lives, you know.

 

Greg...just let me know when they come back from NGC.

[IGWT]

Some of us have lives, you know.

 

Translation: "My wife banned me from the computer."

[cpm9ball]

Some of us have lives, you know.

 

Translation: "My wife banned me from the computer."

 

Translation of translation: "My wife loves me so she bought me a laptop. Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah!"

 

Chris

[gmarguli]

Greg...just let me know when they come back from NGC.

 

They're already back.

 

1868 graded PF66RB

1871 graded PF66BN

1866 graded PF66BN Cameo.

[XpipedreamR]

Cool coins! Are you going to try to cross them to PCGS?

[gmarguli]

Cool coins! Are you going to try to cross them to PCGS?

 

 

Um, no. If I wanted them in PCGS slabs I'd have sent them there first. I do think they would grade the same at PCGS. The 1868 is very solid and the 1871 is really nice and I was expecting a PF67.

[XpipedreamR]

just kidding

[toyonakataro]

Wow, very nice

Didn't know you also collect coins other than commems.

I hope to see your improperly storaged commems, too

[Bruceswar]

Wow, very nice

Didn't know you also collect coins other than commems.

I hope to see your improperly storaged commems, too

 

Greg likes coins that sell for good money! hehe. No but really he has shown some monsters here, such as his avatar... sweet coin

[shirohniichan]

We all know that toning is corrosion, so I feel sorry for your corroded coins.

 

Too bad they're not aesthetically enhanced (like chopmarked trade dollars).

[chinook]

Does anyone else find it sad when you run across improperly stored 19th century proof copper coins and they end up turning funky colors like vibrant blues and wild reds that just scream off the superb gem surfaces? I know it pains me to look at these coins with all their color. I couldn't even bear to image the matte proof or the other late date Indians...

 

 

 

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[chinook]

1868

 

1871

 

1866

[IGWT]

Wow. I'm prescient: "A Greg Margulies Production.” I just didn't know it at the time.

[Bruceswar]

This is going to be like the next witch hunt... or Commie hunt. This is going to get very ugly. The fallout will be huge if you ask me. Only time will tell

[HaydenTubbs]

Only time will tell

 

 

 

yes,time will tell...

[Connecticoin]

1868

 

1871

 

1866

 

[Bruceswar]

Today has been shocking, for me at least!

[HaydenTubbs]

Need Dave say more?

[michael]

aint shocking to me at all

 

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i wonder who informed that coinguy one guy who started that controversal but truthful thread on the pcgs boards

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Bruceswar]

aint shocking to me at all

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

i wonder who informed that coinguy one guy who started that controversal but truthful thread on the pcgs boards

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

 

Enlighten the rest of us....