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<p>[QUOTE="SPP Ottawa, post: 1699688, member: 39508"]Who said anything about hiding it?? Normally, 1931 is a somewhat harder to find date and carries a good premium over other George V cents of the 1930s. It would cost a collector $2 to find one, problem free, in a lesser grade. You never find those in "wholesale" rolls, ever.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the coin does not have a home, so I would just toss it in a George V roll, just like every other common date and I typically sell those rolls for $5 each (that is only 10c per coin). I would imagine that any novice numismatist, who bought a $5 roll of George V cents, would love finding a 1931 in that roll. Some dealers charge a lot more for cleaned or damaged coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot speak for roll hunters, but I suspect the thrill of discovering a scarcer coins outweighs the fact that the coin has a vinegar spot on it or something... and I imagine a coin like this would eventually find a home in a Whitman folder of a roll hunter...</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to speak of hiding something, then do a Google search on Deller's Darkener or something...</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"To assume, is to presume" (Jude Morgan)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SPP Ottawa, post: 1699688, member: 39508"]Who said anything about hiding it?? Normally, 1931 is a somewhat harder to find date and carries a good premium over other George V cents of the 1930s. It would cost a collector $2 to find one, problem free, in a lesser grade. You never find those in "wholesale" rolls, ever. To me, the coin does not have a home, so I would just toss it in a George V roll, just like every other common date and I typically sell those rolls for $5 each (that is only 10c per coin). I would imagine that any novice numismatist, who bought a $5 roll of George V cents, would love finding a 1931 in that roll. Some dealers charge a lot more for cleaned or damaged coins. I cannot speak for roll hunters, but I suspect the thrill of discovering a scarcer coins outweighs the fact that the coin has a vinegar spot on it or something... and I imagine a coin like this would eventually find a home in a Whitman folder of a roll hunter... If you want to speak of hiding something, then do a Google search on Deller's Darkener or something... [I]"To assume, is to presume" (Jude Morgan)[/I][/QUOTE]
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