69 kennedy half 90%??!!

Have you done the sound test yet?

Have you gone back and taken the $450? That would be a heck of a profit!!!!

 

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You guys, don't you see what we're missing here? He was just forgetting his decimal points! This:

should be:

Now it works perfectly, and makes complete sense.

 

Wow your completly right that is excatly what happened..
sorry guys but still CAN YOU BELIEVE IT $4.50 FOR A 69 HALF OMG!!!! I WOULD HAVE BEEN RICH!!

man i still hope he will offer me the same deal when i go back.

 

This thread still going on?

 

Double post >_<

 

Measure the density. Density is mass divided by volume. Mass is weight, easy to look up. To find the volume, do a water displacement test. Get glass, it needs to be a clear glass that is a uniform cylinder. Measure the water displaced (use a ruler), and multiply that rise in water level, by the surface area of the water. Surface area of a cylinder is 2pi*r^2+2pi*r*h, where r is radius, and h is the height. You can use a ruler to find all these measurements. To find the mass of both the 40% and the 90%, use Google. <br><br>After you've done this, compare to a whole 40% and 90%, I wouldn't think you'd be off more than fractions of units. Whatever is the closest, do it. You're not going to try and calculate the volume and mass of the missing hole....trust me it becomes a mathmatical nightmare lol. What you get from this should be close enough.

Or....you could drill a hole as close as possible into another 40%er and just weight it

 

LOL!!! that has to be it... the guy probably said "four fifty" and jhsmith must have assumed $450. case closed !

 

Again, the story you gave, he may have said it exactly as you stated, but it sounds totally fake to me. Like he was just messing with you. Some people are jerks like that. I'd love to go back there with you. I would bet $100 that he won't give you a $50 bill for it. Including the first time you were there. I don't believe he will give you $10 for it actually.

 

lol

 

Having not seen the coin, or been part of the conversation with the pawn shop guy I'll not presume to know more than the op.

As a newbie myself and knowing that pawn shops are....PAWN SHOPS, I think I would have walked away from a $450 offer as well fearing he knew something I did not. I would definitely have left the door open though advising I need to think about it.

With the outer layer being 80% it does make sense that it would test high if they did a surface test. is 10% varience normal for that type of test?

 

Correction HAD, assuming the story related is correct. As in HAD a fish, but you threw him back.

No it doesn't.

No comment.

 

April Fool's! Oh wait, we're in February...

 

I don't know what you're so excited about, but $4.50 is under melt, which is what he should have offered, under melt that is.

 

If the pawn shop guy wants a 40% silver clad kennedy with a hole in it for a memory he had of one his mother gave him, I'd imagine he could just obtain one himself and drill the hole. I just can't buy the story that someone with likely easy access to such coins for rather cheap would offer $450 for a coin he can do himself for $5.

 

The story changed, as did the decimal point on the offer

 

40% always trades at a further discount to melt, and in my experience, holed coins get disproportionately lower offers. I'd be surprised and pleased to get 90% of melt value for a 40% half with a hole.

 

Have some replies been deleted from this thread?

 

Yes.

 

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I think I;'d prefer the thread getting deleted instead of modified.