@pruebas said:
You mean like slab a coin like that?
I think that you definitely need it slabbed for authenticity because even in that condition still worth $4000 or so. Just cant see how a pattern coin like that ended up being mistreated so badly.
It is the extremely rare "double holed" 1856 Flying Eagle cent! It is even more important than the Kennedy Looks At Lincoln cents of the 1960s and 1970s!
@291fifth said:
It is the extremely rare "double holed" 1856 Flying Eagle cent! It is even more important than the Kennedy Looks At Lincoln cents of the 1960s and 1970s!
Somewhere I have one of those Lincoln cents that I found in change when I was a kid.
Or at least I think I have one... haven't looked at it in many years.
You'll have to let me know if you are a strong buyer!
Holy Cow! (Or eagle). That hurts just to look at it.
Someone obviously needed a button more than a collectable trinket.
The coin looks very worn - perhaps more wear than use as a button would have provided. Perhaps it was pulled from circulation? In that case, were it not made into a button it might not even exist today. So, maybe we need to thank the person who improvised.
Didn't know we were talking about coins and was going to say women don't admit they do some of the things men do.....but they do. I believed my mom when she told me girls were sugar and spice and everything nice.
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I cannot answer the question.... however, that looks as if it were used as a button or maybe a cufflink...Cheers, RickO
You mean like slab a coin like that?
Hey, when a button costs 3 cents, you do what ya gotta do.
That is amazing! On another note- I miss the edit feature already.
The holes look wobbled out from wear maybe a bracelet and a button is a possibility I like it. If it could only tell that story
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/publishedset/209923
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/quarters/washington-quarters-major-sets/washington-quarters-date-set-circulation-strikes-1932-present/album/209923
How do you know this was done by a man??
Is it now only for a certain window of time?
I think that you definitely need it slabbed for authenticity because even in that condition still worth $4000 or so. Just cant see how a pattern coin like that ended up being mistreated so badly.
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It is the extremely rare "double holed" 1856 Flying Eagle cent! It is even more important than the Kennedy Looks At Lincoln cents of the 1960s and 1970s!
Somewhere I have one of those Lincoln cents that I found in change when I was a kid.
Or at least I think I have one... haven't looked at it in many years.
You'll have to let me know if you are a strong buyer!
It was done by Indians and is a very valuable early American artifact!
That hole looks doubled.
Holy Cow! (Or eagle). That hurts just to look at it.
Someone obviously needed a button more than a collectable trinket.
The coin looks very worn - perhaps more wear than use as a button would have provided. Perhaps it was pulled from circulation? In that case, were it not made into a button it might not even exist today. So, maybe we need to thank the person who improvised.
Calling Lord Marcovan and his hat!
Sad, but interesting at the same time! At least they are old holes...
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ewww, that one hurts.
The coin or the title of the thread?
Smitten with DBLCs.
Oh! For that time machine...to go back and take a baseball bat to the person who drilled.
more the coin. both though.
This thread makes me want to find my 1877 Indian Cent that was reeded and silvered to be passed as a dime.
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
One thing about this coin is for sure...It was NOT conserved!
That would make a great necklace
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That's quite a tight pattern. That guy/gal was quite a shot!
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
Because they can.
Ouch!
I kind of like it!
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What if it was a pie crimper?
Who the heck would know way back in 1863 or whatever year it got holed?
Your thread title had me worried we were going to be discussing politics in Virginia.
The person who mutilated this coin obviously did it to increase the value of the other surviving pieces.
I think it's "cool", I like it !!!
It's a man thing.
Didn't know we were talking about coins and was going to say women don't admit they do some of the things men do.....but they do. I believed my mom when she told me girls were sugar and spice and everything nice.
Good point. Maybe a woman did this to that coin!
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