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<p>[QUOTE="JSmith86, post: 1547261, member: 41224"]I received a coin collection from my grandmother quite a few years ago on her passing, I never really looked at it too closely. I recently got rid of some of it, was just almost worthless, close to face value currency, some silver nickels. Maybe I got robbed of some high value misprints, I don't know, but it looked like nothing outstanding, and I found this. Was heavy, so I knew it was gold right away for a fact, and it looked really good, so I've tried taking it to local shops, but they all agree that it's really good looking, yet still want to give me melt value, which seems like a shame to me, so it's why it got posted here. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can take some pictures with a normal camera, those pictures are off a scanner so it might be creating weird lightning effects. For one thing, it looks nothing like that color wise. I wasn't going to mess with it, I just tried to give as much high resolution detail as I could to see what the nicks and scratches were going to cost me grading wise, and the rim dents apparently make it possibly? ungradeable melt value junk, so we'll see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JSmith86, post: 1547261, member: 41224"]I received a coin collection from my grandmother quite a few years ago on her passing, I never really looked at it too closely. I recently got rid of some of it, was just almost worthless, close to face value currency, some silver nickels. Maybe I got robbed of some high value misprints, I don't know, but it looked like nothing outstanding, and I found this. Was heavy, so I knew it was gold right away for a fact, and it looked really good, so I've tried taking it to local shops, but they all agree that it's really good looking, yet still want to give me melt value, which seems like a shame to me, so it's why it got posted here. I can take some pictures with a normal camera, those pictures are off a scanner so it might be creating weird lightning effects. For one thing, it looks nothing like that color wise. I wasn't going to mess with it, I just tried to give as much high resolution detail as I could to see what the nicks and scratches were going to cost me grading wise, and the rim dents apparently make it possibly? ungradeable melt value junk, so we'll see.[/QUOTE]
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