Found at the Bank

I am usually a paper money collector, but have dabbled in metallic currency occasionally. When I went to the bank today, I couldn't pass this up! It's pretty worn, dented, and dinged, but it's an ASE for $1!

 

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wow


really wow

Proof positive that it is a coin?

 

Yeah something doesn't look right about it. The surface doesn't look proof, unc. or worn. The reeded edge looks funny. Have you compared it next to a known real one?

 

looks like a scan and I've seen ASE's that look like this BTW. They are used on Purim and Passover in the Jewish community in Brooklyn.

Ruben

 

It looks very real to me.... there was a few rolls spent out here at our local walmart and the cashiers went crazy trying to get them all. They were probably spent out of someones collection...

 

I could be wrong. Just hard to tell what could be Chinese these days and it's rare to pick one up at a bank for $1.

 

very cool find

 

it would be darn sophisticated. Look where the L crosses the light ray and the hand.

Ruben

 

Wow! Awesome find!

 

It is real. It is just you arent used to seeing worn ASEs.

 

I agree with Freaky.

Did you just see it on the counter and ask for it at the bank, or do you have a personal relationship with a main teller, or what? Just ask for dollar coins?

What kind of procedure do you have at the bank?

 

Super sweet

 

Nice find! That's definitely real IMO.

 

A circulated SAE? Now that's something you don't see every day (although I seem to recall that there's some Caribbean country [?Dominican Republic?] where these coins do circulate).

 

Usually, I just ask for older paper money. However, if I see any odd coins in the rack (half dollars, large dollars), I ask for them. Over time, the tellers get used to seeing me come in. At that particular bank, they have had repeated warnings from both the head teller and Corporate that anyone caught swapping money from their drawer will be fired on the spot. When I went in that day, the teller mentioned that he got a really weird coin from a deposit. This was the coin. He said he would have kept it, save for the regulation.

 

Nope, I've gotten plastic play money in rolls from the bank, that doesn't make them coins. But lets not go back to that argument again.

 

That blows my theory that you were young, single and so was the teller. Every time someone tells me of getting something fantastic like that from a bank teller I usually find:
She is single and so is the coin collector.
She is a relative of the coin collector.
She is single and so is the coin collector.
He is single and so is the coin collector.
He is a relative of the coin collector.
Teller wants to be a relative of the coin collector.

 

Some poor guy had his silver hoard ripped off by a dumb kid that spent $15 worth of silver for a buck...I feel for the guy that was ripped off.

I'd like to slap the idiot that did it up side his head. Probably got an iPod for only $1500 worth of silver.

All in all it's a great find though!

Speaking of Silver eagles, anyone seen anything from the mint on when the Proofs are to be released this year??

 

Why would someone counterfeit a bullion coin? Their value is really only tied to their silver content, and this one is worn too much to be worth more than melt compared to all the other ASE's that are produced.

 

Okay I have been thinking about this for quiet some time and I am sorry but I am going to have the bull**** flag!!

There isn't even a slot in the till that the silver eagle would fit in.