INCREDIBLE ! ! ! PRISTINE ! ! ! IMMACULATE CONDITION ... ! ! !

[ARC]

Look and weep at the condition...
Eat your heart out.

I will thank all in advance for any banner nominations. :P

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Great find!

I think the Professional Pull Tab Authentication Service (PPTAS) can help in the classification of this valuable historic find!

 

[ARC]

Great find!

I think the Professional Pull Tab Authentication Service (PPTAS) can help in the classification of this valuable historic find!

***AARC mutters in a Southpark Cartman voice "Screw those guys."***

Like I said before...
I need no help on IDing this... Believe me... I am an expert.

 

[relic lover]

I hate to be the one who has to say that you should not be posting this on a public forum. When the government finds out that you found this they're going to take it away from you. And lock you in a 30 inch by 30 inch cell also known as an upside-down shopping cart.

 

[ARC]

***AARC contemplates writing a new book "One pull tab away from retirement" ***

This is a book about how a simple pull tab takes me 5 mins further AWAY from retirement.

 

[digger460]

Have you done the silver test on it yet? Banner all the way.

 

[Beans]

A fine specimen of the Pull Tab family. I must say you have found a real gem. I am a bit jealous so I say, Good day to you, ..... I said Good Day.

 

[Joe hunter]

I once found one very similar but mine was toasted couldn't even see a hallmark and to top it all off a nicked with my digger .(my vote is in nice find)

 

[patiodadio]

Well, I guess the truth is that we all love pull tabs. Why else would we spend so much time digging them

 

[releventchair]

Gee ARRC. Thought you were calling for my assistance in your title.
So you get it anyway.
It appears to be a "proof" tab.
Wondering if it is from the mints archives somehow , or a collector lost it , stolen loot , or what?
Either way...be careful and keep it secure!
The shakes should subside in a day or two.

 

[A2coins]

Amazing I have some proof ones I think in 40 years I can melt all mine and get a quarter for em

 

[Gridwalker306]

Ya know, I don't hold with violence, but, I have a few words I'd like to discuss with the inventor of pull tabs.

Here you go. His name was Ermal Fraze. If it makes you feel better, he died in 1989 of a brain tumour.

http://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/ermal-fraze

 

[DigIron2]

they don't get any nicer then that!My votes in.How did it sound?

 

[Subterranean]

Stunning find on the Hillbilly "Gagement ring! Only 500,000 of those will give you about 100 pounds of recyclable aluminum! Beware AARC, unscrupulous fiends are reproducing those and passing them off as legit to the tourist market...Sub

 

[tanz 82]

Haha

 

[nor kal kid]

Very nice but I think I have u bested I have a 5 gallon bucket full of them.

 

[ARC]

I use to have 5 gallon bucket full of em too...

Till I made "chainmail" armor out of em...
Tis my metal detecting "outfit"...

Tis great... better than sunscreen for sun protection...
And doubles as shark protection.

I know ... I know... what you are thinking... its only aluminum...
But sharks teeth are made of teeth.

***AHEM*** heh.

 

[acm3]

ONE WORD.......WOW

 

[Mackaydon]

How can it possibly be graded 'proof' when we have yet to see the reverse side?
Don.......

 

[AU Seeker]

Been pondering how to respond to this awesome find but I'm speechless!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Will Ya look at the curve on that baby! Oh Ya! Banner for sure!
...newbies think we're crazy, lol!
...I still haven't "found" the vote banner button.