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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 2286635, member: 75936&quot;]When I consider buying a coin, i look for the &quot;wow&quot; factor - something that is truly impressive. No matter how rare a coin is, if there is nothing visually appealing about it, it&#039;s not worth having. And if the coin is so worn that its attribution and authenticity isn&#039;t certain anymore, it&#039;s not worth having.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Australia, there&#039;s a rare coin called a holey dollar - a Spanish dollar which has been holed and counterstamped with the date 1813 and the name of the Australian issuing authority. A nice one is worth $200,000+. I came across an example in a coin shop for about $15,000 that was in worse shape than the OP coin - the story was that someone had used it as a washer on a rotating clothes line. Everytime the clothes line was rotated, it probably lost a few thousand dollars value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP coin would be a truly amazing find - and worth having - if you found it in a junk box. The holey dollar too. But the things I would buy for $15,000![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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