- Walk
- To attempt to sell a coin on the bourse floor. Also
flog or whore. "Will you walk this around
for me at $2000."
- Walker
- Walking Liberty half dollar, issued 1916-1947. One of America's
handsomest coins.
- Warnicks
- War nickels. Between 1942 and 1945 a special silver/manganese alloy was
used in our five-cent pieces, copper and nickel being needed for wartime
purposes.
- Watermelon
- An 1880 series $100 Treasury Note had as its reverse vignette a large
100. The two zeroes look invitingly like juicy watermelons. Collectors
quickly noted this and coined the term watermelon note. (Also
grand watermelon for the $1000 denomination with three
zeroes.) Both are rare and expensive so don't get your hopes up owning one
anytime soon.
- White
- Coins graded by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) are enclosed in a
plastic case having an opaque white insert. See
Pigs,
clear,
sideways, and
raw.
- Whizzing
- In the early 1970s, a technique was developed among certain dealers of
burnishing their coins on a wire brush wheel. This simulated mint luster to
the ignorant. Scores of such coins were foisted off on the boobs before a
hue and cry ended the practice. Whizzed coins soon became impossible to
sell, and the whizzers moved on to greener pastures. Perhaps they switched
to artificial toning or
puttying or other more lucrative
games.
- Wonder Coin
- See blazer. Wonder Boy Kevin L.
bandied this about and it was heard throughout the 1970s, the term being one
of his favorites. Seldom heard in the 1980s or 1990s.
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Numismatica / 15 Sep 2003