It's too bad about the second one, Looks like it took a dirt nap and then someone dropped it in a cleaner to reveal all the pitting. Still a nice example though...
Ya, One more time around the block and that coin will be a blank. No worry, it has a safe home from here on out. Regards, Darryl
I love those circulated coins. It's nice to think of who's hands that coin has passed through rather than a MS example that's sat in a safe or bank or somewhere else for all these years One of my favorite coins in my possession is a circulated 1940-D washington quarter. I liked it so much i just HAD to buy it off ebay for melt. http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=11130S5RAi&i=1001086 (the 1941 next to it was found in circulation in change the day i got the 40-D)
i like worn coins. they all have a different story. i have a barber quarter that the date is worn off. all you can see is the head on front, and the eagle on back with a couple stars. i got it for face value from a nice coin dealer that knew i was just starting collecting. he said give me a quarter and he gave me that. its about the thickness of a dime, and has no reeding left.
I really like the well worn coins. I don't think that our average coin sees that type of circulation any longer. I think that there are so many being produced that they spend a great deal of their "lives" sitting in bank vaults and not in use.
Ruben - I cannot let my wife see that post or she will make me sell it She hates anything to do with ghosts.
That's funny, how odd is it that you would find a silver quarter on the same day you receive one in the mail - dates one year appart. Yes the wear on the 40 is also a little spooky - love it - thanks for sharing...
Thanks Coinlover - I agree, I don't mind the wear - with coins - I like bright shinny coins straight from the mint or safe but also love a coin that has seen some history - they are examples of our past that cannot be thought of or compared in the same way as a coin that has always been part of a collection or bank hoard.
Frank, The second two were most certainly were someones detecting finds. The first one is not pitted at all so I think it may have just been a circulation find at some point long ago. It's too bad the second one was cleaned in the way that it was. I don't want to do anything to it that might make it worse so into an air-tite it will go then into the safe when I'm done admiring the detail that is left. Darryl
I wonder if they stayed in circulation longer because the metal was actually worth something (I guess Dougs posting about India would contridict that thought) so the banks were not as compelled to send them back to the fed. Unfortunately, with the modern age we have better systems in place to pull old coins and bills out of circulation to be replace with new money. Look at the Sacs made today - how long with those sit in vaults before they are melted down to make new coins? Our tax dollars at work...
