Another First

[Greastart]

First Walker..

I think I'll clean this one up.

 

[omga747]

Nice find! But careful with cleaning. If harshly cleaned, this coin will never be worth anything more than melt. Not that it really had much of a numismatic value anyway, but cleaned coins are very frowned upon by just about all collectors.

 

[Greastart]

Reverse is worse. Heavy scratch along the head to tail plane of the eagle. Looks like someone gouged it with a sharp tool recently. I'll clean it and keep it as my first since I started CRH.

Thanks for the info though.

 

[Liu21]

It is a 1945, common date wl. Collectors will want something au-bu. If it is badly worn or damaged you can forget about the collector value. So clean her up and take her as your first, because it will hold more value to you than some other coin collector.

 

[Greastart]

Yup!

 

[ugotit22]

I'm going to take this coin that's been mutilated, and do my best to mutilate it even more and clean it........never understand the logic

 

[Liu21]

I'm going to take this coin that's been mutilated, and do my best to mutilate it even more and clean it........never understand the logic

Why do you clean a classic collectible car?

 

[JoseyWales23]

I'm going to take this coin that's been mutilated, and do my best to mutilate it even more and clean it........never understand the logic

I tend to agree with Liu here. The coin is already worn - probably wouldn't have much of a premium, right? But the point I agree with most - it's the first WL. That's a noteworthy find, and one worth keeping for the intrinsic value.

 

[Greastart]

I tend to agree with Liu here. The coin is already worn - probably wouldn't have much of a premium, right? But the point I agree with most - it's the first WL. That's a noteworthy find, and one worth keeping for the intrinsic value.

Thanks JW. Couldn't have said it any better myself.

Far as I know the only coins I've mutilated are the ones I dissolved in nitric acid just to learn how to refine back into near pure silver. Now that's a mutilated coin! Gotta say though, that lump of near pure silver feels good in my palm!

 

[ugotit22]

I tend to agree with Liu here. The coin is already worn - probably wouldn't have much of a premium, right? But the point I agree with most - it's the first WL. That's a noteworthy find, and one worth keeping for the intrinsic value.

Your missing the point here. When a coin is cleaned any knowledgeable coin person will tell you it impairs most numismartic value that exists. So I get the point as its my first blank I want it to be nice and shiny. The problem is you will not be the last owner of that coin. Eventually maybe 80 years from now there will be a kid who finds this coin in a lot of antiques at a store and needs it for his book. Or a man discovering his grandpas old collection, thankfully your great great grand kid walks in to a pawn shop with the exact walker he needs to fill his book.

The point is if I get a dent in my car tomorrow I dont take a hammer to the windshield just becasue the rear fender is now bent.