WHAT HAVE YOU DONE..........???

[mistergee]

after reading all your posts here ...and still without a metal detector....i decided to try this CRH thing...i wasnt expecting much and almost quit...glad i didnt....heres how it went....1st bank....no halves...2nd bank....we can order them for you....3rd bank...i just have one of these (holds up a clad half)...doesnt even ask the other tellers....4th bank...the teller is the wife of one of my best friends(why i didnt remember that is beyond me)...she has nothing ...but teller #2 says...i have 1 1/2 rolls.....and teller #3 says i have a bag of $101.00...... ....i leave with a grand total of $116.50.....i couldnt wait as i heard the silver in the bag when the teller handed it to me....i opened them up in the car....i couldnt believe it....every handfull had 2 and 3 silvers in it......final tally........16-90%ers and 12-40%ers....heres what i got:
14 bennies 14 kennedys
1948 1964 x2
1949 1965
1950-D 1966 x3
1951-S 1967 x3
1952 1968-D x4
1952-D 1969-D
1953-D x2
1954 x2
1956
1957
1958

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......AND THIS....1959 AU+(possible FBL)

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....this coin is utterly beautiful....it looks as though very few people have handled this.....yes i can see the lines....i just hope theyre considered FBL....sorry but i cant get better, closer pics....i will try to get a clearer one in daylight tommorrow.....this indoor light is too harsh.....i really didnt think i would find anything....especially after reading your posts saying how everything was drying up....and LJ retiring .....then i get all this ....now i ask the question...........
........WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!!!?.........
you have created a CRH MONSTER....ive already resigned myself to the fact that......i will be ordering halves.....i will be checking every bank in PA......i will turn my vacations into CRH ROADTRIPS....i will lose sleep nights searching halves and posting my finds.....and i guess every other maladies you folks suffer.....THANKS ALOT
geo

 

[BBcardsRI]

From my understanding, yes it would make it dangerous and it shouldn't be handled without gloves as mercury can be absorbed through the skin. I'm not sure if the hardened metal conforms to that principle though... probably to some extent I would imagine.

Its not the most common form of coin coating/polishing for obvious reasons and is more of an old practice.

~Dave

 

[mistergee]

i hope it wasnt mercury dipped. my wife and kids all handled it....im not worried about me because the damage is done....we used to play with the stuff when we were kids in chem class
btw...i wont be able to post any closeups of the bell lines as ive been working o.t. last night and tonight and am not home till its dark so hopefully tomorrow i can do it. i really feel this is a FBL as i can see the lines of the bell clearly. and my eyes suck...

 

[BBcardsRI]

I wouldn't worry much about it. The odds are it isn't dipped in anything, let alone mercury. And I'm sure in that form, it won't do any damage. Like you said... people used to play with the stuff just to get a kick out of its density charicteristics (a lot like people used to play with x-rays back in the day in science class).

The last thing I wanted was to scare you.

I only mentioned it because I have run across mercury dipped coins in my dealers cases before. Last week I saw a war nickel that resembled the sheen of your Frankie and asked if it was dipped, and the answer came back yes, a mercury dip. If I recall correctly though, the nickel had a slight increase in thickness, barely noticeable but there if you looked. The raised to lower surfaces on the coin had more of a gradual decline in thickness instead of the normal abrupt one.

So that could help you tell about your coin as well.

~Dave

 

[mistergee]

no problem dave i wasnt that worried about it......i figured it probably wasnt dipped.....but couldnt dismiss it either....you cant be too carefull these days...but it sounds to me that it is just a proof coin...thanks for your concern and all your help...
geo