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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4828538, member: 105098"]Up to you, if you break it out of there, take your time, be thoughtful and methodical, and above all else, if you get frustrated or lose your patience, take a break to cool out and get back to it when you are of right mind again, you want to be delicate. I can't tell you how many times i've seen people try to free coins from lucite paperweights and destroy the coin in the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the coin, I don't know, is it real? Has it been machined? Plated?</p><p>I guess that's the real question here, can you verify it is in fact an authentic morgan dollar before going through the work of breaking it out carefully. if real and silver probably worth it for the melt value even if it's real but machined or plated.</p><p><br /></p><p>i'd probably work on the edge of the container with a dremel and a shallow grinding tip until I weakened the case enough to break it. can try cruncing around the edge (not over the coin) for a while with pliers also I suppose but that could lead to damage. it should eventually crunch up the plastic though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd probably go through VAMWorld and try to identify the die pair to authenticate it before doing the work. otherwise it might as well remain a key fob.</p><p><a href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1890-S_VAMs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1890-S_VAMs" rel="nofollow">http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1890-S_VAMs</a></p><p><br /></p><p>if you can't identify it, it might just mean it's been machined to smooth it all out and make it pretty (polishing). no matter what you do for pictures, while it's encased it's going to reflect poorly and give a false impression from the plastic and won't give a real idea to us of the surfaces. the hair detail looks REALLY good on the obverse. eagles right wing doesn't look so good on reverse. a lot of the encased coins were plated, doesn't mean it isn't real, just means it wasnt' "pretty" enough for them so they plated it. I'd expect more wear though for it to be plated..... I dunno. I'd expect more obverse wear if it was highly polished also especially in the hair and flowers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hard for me to say really.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4828538, member: 105098"]Up to you, if you break it out of there, take your time, be thoughtful and methodical, and above all else, if you get frustrated or lose your patience, take a break to cool out and get back to it when you are of right mind again, you want to be delicate. I can't tell you how many times i've seen people try to free coins from lucite paperweights and destroy the coin in the process. As far as the coin, I don't know, is it real? Has it been machined? Plated? I guess that's the real question here, can you verify it is in fact an authentic morgan dollar before going through the work of breaking it out carefully. if real and silver probably worth it for the melt value even if it's real but machined or plated. i'd probably work on the edge of the container with a dremel and a shallow grinding tip until I weakened the case enough to break it. can try cruncing around the edge (not over the coin) for a while with pliers also I suppose but that could lead to damage. it should eventually crunch up the plastic though. I'd probably go through VAMWorld and try to identify the die pair to authenticate it before doing the work. otherwise it might as well remain a key fob. [URL]http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1890-S_VAMs[/URL] if you can't identify it, it might just mean it's been machined to smooth it all out and make it pretty (polishing). no matter what you do for pictures, while it's encased it's going to reflect poorly and give a false impression from the plastic and won't give a real idea to us of the surfaces. the hair detail looks REALLY good on the obverse. eagles right wing doesn't look so good on reverse. a lot of the encased coins were plated, doesn't mean it isn't real, just means it wasnt' "pretty" enough for them so they plated it. I'd expect more wear though for it to be plated..... I dunno. I'd expect more obverse wear if it was highly polished also especially in the hair and flowers. Hard for me to say really.[/QUOTE]
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