Why I cried.

I was watching Mythbusters last night on Tv. Son't know if it was a new one or just an old one I haven't seen, but they were testing cowboy myths. The nyth in question was whether on not you could shoot a hole through a silver dollar. They held up a silver dollar replica and said, "this says one ounce silver .999 fine, but we have the benefit of having real period pieces." It was then I cried, she held up a morgan and said this one says 1879 and they proceeded to shoot it with a gun. They didn't hole it, but turned it into bell shape. Then they did it with a different gun and silver dollar. They didn't say the date but they showed a close up of the coin. Although unable to get a date I clearly saw that this was a Seated Liberty Dollar!!!! They shot it and I screamed, fell down, and passed out.

 

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Thanks, now my entire day is sot to heck!

I think that I'll have nightmares tonight!

 

haha Yea Ive heard about this episode a few weeks back on this same forum. I guess a few hundred dollars a coin isnt much when compared to other items they purchase to blow up and destroy things

 

I saw the episode and I'm not so sure that they weren't shooting silver rounds in the form of Morgan and Liberty dollars.

 

it could of been a fake

 

wow. at least they werent doing it to double eagles

 

I think it would defeat the whole purpose of testing the myth to make a fake coin out of anything other than silver , it would be just easier for them to buy them from a coin shop

 

the sad thing is, with the popularity of mythbusters, those coins will be worth more now if they ebay them hahahaha

Jasn

And I'm sorry to say it guys....but that episode relit my fire for coin collecting....something about watching them destroy those coins made me want to go out and collect again.....so THANK YOU MYTHBUSTERS!

 

I saw that episode also. I shed a tear.:rolling:

 

Some of their methods for testing myths leave a little bit to be desired.

Sometimes when they can't figure out how to do something, they conclude it can't be done. Just because they weren't smart enough to figure it out, doesn't mean somebody else wasn't. (although I do like to see them blow stuff up).

 

A silver round would be 'softer' than a real silver dollar. They wouldn't be comparing apples to apples if they used a .999 silver round.

 

Red Flag. This is a cry for help. Therapy. Intervention.
Uh,....it's a coin.

 

Oh my gosh .. I have to remember not to read this forum on my lunch hour.... feeling ill...

 

what lunch hour? i thought you were in school?

 

No my dear ... school days long gone for this CoinGal... I just act childish .. I'm a grownup.

 

Supposedly they were not fake. They did do some fakes, and silver rounds, but the said they wanted to do the test as authentically s possible so the were using either period weapons,and ammo or as close to period as they could make and they wanted to use coins of the proper make up and not the fakes or rounds. I don't mind them shooting basicl junk box Morgans because they are extremely common and basic little more than bullion, but a seated dollar? (And unless there was something wrong on the obv this was no slick piece. In the brief look you get it looks like an uncleaned Fine.)

 

that really does suck! why couldn't they have used a worn 1922 peace for something like that they made tons of! so that means they used a seated dollar that must have been a trade dollar worth over $1,000! oh crap.:rolling:

 

No, it was an exaggeration, although I did whimper and yell no, and my wife wandered into the room wondering what was wrong.

 

Sounds like me when I'm watching coin auctions on TV ... husband will hear me shreak .. calls out 'turn off the coin auction..'

 

My question is: Would they even know a Shanghai, China counterfeit from an authentic Morgan or Liberty Seated Dollar? Probably not! Hopefully they were banging away at the former! If the latter, then we should do our own Mythbuster Show on whether they could get their' butts kicked by a lot of irrate Coin Collectors.


Frank