philinchio
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You see a worn 90% half edge, what do you think it is?
So you're breaking open a wrapped roll or pouring out a CWR of halves into your hand. Boom, you see a worn silver edge (or two, or more) and you can tell it's a 90% (not all the time of course, some 40% edges look like 90%s) by the look and color. Now you wonder what it might be. Typically (though not all the time given AU/BU examples or really worn 64s) a worn rim means an older coin, perhaps a Franklin or a Walking Liberty, or even older. My question is, what do you usually think, or hope, those 90%ers are, and what do they actually turn out to be? Sometimes it's fun to guess what kind of coins you end up with.
Recently all my worn 90% rims have been Franklins, when I first see them I really hope they might be Walking Liberties, as I want to collect more of that type. So far I've found two WLs, looking out for that third one somewhere.
So you're breaking open a wrapped roll or pouring out a CWR of halves into your hand. Boom, you see a worn silver edge (or two, or more) and you can tell it's a 90% (not all the time of course, some 40% edges look like 90%s) by the look and color. Now you wonder what it might be. Typically (though not all the time given AU/BU examples or really worn 64s) a worn rim means an older coin, perhaps a Franklin or a Walking Liberty, or even older. My question is, what do you usually think, or hope, those 90%ers are, and what do they actually turn out to be? Sometimes it's fun to guess what kind of coins you end up with.
Recently all my worn 90% rims have been Franklins, when I first see them I really hope they might be Walking Liberties, as I want to collect more of that type. So far I've found two WLs, looking out for that third one somewhere.
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