Silver Eagle Reverse... What is this????

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  1. DysfunctionalVeteran

    DysfunctionalVeteran Oddly enough

    I got this at an ANA show in Seattle when I was a kid. What exactly is it??

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  3. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    A really bad fake?
     
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  4. MKent

    MKent Well-Known Member

    I don't know but it's cool looking. What is it made of?
     
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  5. NSP

    NSP Well-Known Member

    That reminds me of the ASE struck on a piece of 3M sandpaper...
     
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  6. MKent

    MKent Well-Known Member

    I thought the same thing that's why I asked what it was made of. If it is sandpaper send it to PCGS they have already set the president for grading those.
     
  7. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins

    Precedent
     
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  8. MKent

    MKent Well-Known Member

    LOL it's election year spell check got me without me paying attention
     
  9. DysfunctionalVeteran

    DysfunctionalVeteran Oddly enough

    It's a thin piece of paper. I vaguely remember it had something to do with the engraving and the dies. Anything else I forgot between then and 30 something years.
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  11. DysfunctionalVeteran

    DysfunctionalVeteran Oddly enough

    That's exactly what mine is minus the numbers on the back. Mine is just brown paper. It used it to MS66 condition :oops:but it lost some pieces over 30 years being shifted from box to box not really knowing what it was/is.:p

    Come to think of it I think I had a matching set but lost the Obverse. Now that would have been a conversation piece and I'd have pedigreed it.
     
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  12. jwitten

    jwitten Well-Known Member

    Very interesting. I do not know enough about that to give you advice... but if it was mine, I would send it in.
     
  13. DysfunctionalVeteran

    DysfunctionalVeteran Oddly enough

    I'll need to sell some stuff first. No job means no unneeded spending for the time being.
     
  14. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    Looks like a cover for a chocolate coin...what does it smell like?
     
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  15. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    I know someone you can sell an Edward I penny to.
     
  16. DysfunctionalVeteran

    DysfunctionalVeteran Oddly enough

    I know. I'll be up there this weekend. I'll shoot you a message.
     
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  17. josh's coins

    josh's coins Well-Known Member

    I don't know what it is but it sure is intriguing.

    Maybe they pressed the mint die onto some sandpaper and then handed them out to YN's?
     
  18. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    The ANA show in Seattle was in 1990, and that's where and when you obtained this. That makes me wonder if the example slabbed by PCGS was not originally obtained in the same place at the same time. Which then makes me wonder if these "things" were made quite intentionally by some private party as novelty items.

    So, tell me, can you recall the specifics as to exactly how you got that ?
     
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  19. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    The game is afoot! :)
     
  20. David Setree Rare Coins

    David Setree Rare Coins Well-Known Member

    What do you use the plyers for? Pulling boogers out of Liberties nose?

    No, I bet for prying up staples.......
     
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  21. Mike Thorne

    Mike Thorne Well-Known Member

    I was going to point out that you should hold it by the edges, but now I'm glad I didn't!
     
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