How the heck did this high-relief $20 Saint get this way?

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  1. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    So someone had one of these and decided to use it as a pocket piece... for several decades?

    How could this happen to such an expensive and rare coin?

    Oh the humanity...

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  3. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    Probably Donald Trumps at one time........
     
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  4. Aidan_()

    Aidan_() Numismatic Contributor

    Who used it as a pocket piece...
     
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  5. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    Thanks Aidan......:)
     
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  6. jwitten

    jwitten Well-Known Member

    To continue stating what was already stated... I bet it was donald, and a pocket piece.. But seriously, that looks pretty nice for the grade.
     
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  7. Log Potato

    Log Potato O_O

    I find that coin more interesting than a high grade piece, but that's just me.
     
    Log Potato, Sep 30, 2015
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  8. harris498

    harris498 Accumulator

    I would have called it a VF.
     
    harris498, Sep 30, 2015
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  9. phankins11

    phankins11 Well-Known Member

    Lady Liberty looks like Bane from Batman...

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  10. messydesk

    messydesk Well-Known Member

    Perhaps a Rockefeller pocket piece. His wealth put Trump to shame. No idea how his bombast compared.
     
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  11. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    "If coins could talk..."

    <sigh>
     
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  12. Teddydogno1

    Teddydogno1 Well-Known Member

    It's the Double Eagle Hockey Mask edition! Very rare. For you, only $4995.

    Rob
     
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  13. Aidan_()

    Aidan_() Numismatic Contributor

    I don't like Trumps pocket...
     
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  14. JPeace$

    JPeace$ Coinaholic

    Maybe it was JP Morgan's pocket piece.
     
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  15. willieboyd2

    willieboyd2 First Class Poster

    Somebody named "Teddy" dropped it in the Brazilian jungle.

    A native found it and the tribe members would rub it for "good luck".

    :)
     
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  16. charlietig

    charlietig Well-Known Member

    If that was Trumps' pocket piece.... he looks very good for being that old. lol I think he'll be good at other things too ;)
     
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  17. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    sad
     
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  18. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Hmmm - a hundred years from now they might be asking the same kinds of questions as you guys are today -

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    That is just one of several in the same condition previously owned by me. And I sure wasn't one of the wealthy. And yes, obviously pocket pieces since those coins did not circulate. Although I did spend all of them except for this one. This one I sold to a collector.

    Saints though, they did circulate, so that could just as easily be plain honest wear from use in circulation.
     
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  19. Mr. Flute

    Mr. Flute Well-Known Member

    I agree. It's a neat piece of numismatics and, conditionally, probably much scarcer than an UNC one.

    I'd be happy to own it.
     
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  20. Bedford

    Bedford Lackey For Coin Junkies

    "Nobody care who I was until I was put into a slab"

     
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  21. Dougmeister

    Dougmeister Well-Known Member

    Even high relief Saints?

    Does anyone know how much did they cost back then (in "today's dollars")?
     
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