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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samclemens3991, post: 26069130, member: 82181&quot;]I am going to try and post one of my all time favorite coins.</p><p>Long story background.&nbsp; I first saw this coin for sale about 20 years ago.&nbsp; It was in an old small ANAC holder and labeled 1846-O Med. Date Corrosion/Damaged Half dollar.&nbsp; I quickly realized the coin had been miss labeled and was actually the far rarer Tall Date.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t figure out what the (other)&nbsp; damage was, but i won it for $139 dollars.&nbsp; A steal for an 1846-O Tall Date with XF details.</p><p>I was quite pleased when I got it.&nbsp; In hand the corrosion gives the fields a dark steel blue cast while the figures and devices are a pleasing golden color.&nbsp; The only details coin in my collection but always one of my favorites based on looks.&nbsp; The weird thing was trying to figure out what the (other) damage was.&nbsp; Nothing obvious with the naked eye.</p><p>Nothing noticable with my handy 2.5 magna glass, but use a 5x and you discover their are very faint scratches, most obvious on liberty&#039;s abdomen and a few on her face.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; This is the point where &quot;Fonzy jumps the shark.&quot;&nbsp; The only clue I had to work with was that the coin came from New Orleans.&nbsp; New Orleans is known for Mardi gras and Voo Doo.&nbsp; Couldn&#039;t see any reason to scratch a coin for Mardi Gras.&nbsp; Then one day i find a huge 10 year study done by the University of Tennessee.&nbsp; It is a study of the practive of Voo Doo in New Orleans; published in 1932.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I slogged thru hundreds of pages that were useless but then found a section on using coins in curses.&nbsp; Study claimed a voo Doo person would alter a coin so that the victim would suffer one of several fates.&nbsp; Could cause them to be barren or suffer a miss carriage.&nbsp; Could also be used to disfigure someone&#039;s pretty face.&nbsp; nothing nice anyway.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; The only problem is that they went into great detail to explain how the giver had to wear gloves and the victim had to touch naked coin, but they never even discussed WHAT was done to make the coin cursed!&nbsp; Since it is my coin and I can make up any crap I want I decided the corrosion was meaningless but the scratches were targeted. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; after this bui;ld up mu pictures are going to be a great let down.&nbsp; However by Halloween maybe my p[icture taking and my BS skills will have improved and I can post agi[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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