Some Green for Saint Patrick's Day

1northcoin

Couldn't find any green toned coins in my collection, this is the best I could do:

At the "Green-Mint" Machine and nearby Lake Tahoe from earlier this month -

Barberian

St. Patricks Day is fast becoming a year-round holiday! Make America Green Again!

Please keep your dogs away from this water - certain strains of blue-green algae will kill them in a matter of hours.

Oh yeah, here's a toxic coin for y'all to enjoy.

Copperindian

My “Irish” Indians:

SanctionII

Abe is showing a little bit of green.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

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MFezziwig

Happy St. Patrick's day! On this day, the Leprechaun counts his gold coins. Not all of his coins are really gold, but he enjoys the golden bling anyway.

Alpha2814

My green Indian

OAKSTAR

OAKSTAR

Sorry

WillieBoyd2

Roman Empire Caligula (AD 37-41) coin
Bronze, 30 mm, 11.19 gm

DisneyFan

Eldorado9

fastfreddie

airplanenut

Goldbully

ambro51

The Fifth green, with Atlantic City in the distance

ChangeInHistory

Green album is all I can find right now

OAKSTAR

@ChangeInHistory said:
Green album is all I can find right now

I'm green with envy! 👍

Bolo

Doesn't get much greener than this:

Sestertius of Trajan!

raycyca

This is official Red Sox game used jersey that they wear only on St Patrick’s Day. Since it’s this time of year, of course it’s while they’re at spring trading in Florida.

david3142

I showed this one in the toned Morgan thread but it fits here too:

And here’s a Lincoln that’s super green:

Walkerfan

I usually post this one every year. Fittingly, it’s from the Eric Newman-Colonel Green collection. When it was sold, it was an NGC 65 CAC. It sold nearly 12 years ago for about $529. Eric Newman paid $2.50 for it. LOL Very Unique look. So many of the Newman Coins had One of a kind toning. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! Hope y’all didn’t drink too much green beer!! 🤣🍺😉

1northcoin

@Walkerfan said:
I usually post this one every year. Fittingly, it’s from the Eric Newman-Colonel Green collection. When it was sold, it was an NGC 65 CAC. It sold nearly 12 years ago for about $529. Eric Newman paid $2.50 for it. LOL Very Unique look. So many of the Newman Coins had One of a kind toning. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! Hope y’all didn’t drink too much green beer!! 🤣🍺😉

I like that! You have inspired me to repost a coin I have that once belonged to a Green as well. Here is the "Green" connection:

Based upon the similarity of auction descriptions and identification of its owners, including in particular a Dr. C.W. Green, the coin’s history is traced through three separate time periods to the present. It was initially identified in the 1870 Longacre Estate Auction as Lot 178 with a description as being a proof and one of the first minted. Specifically the auction description stated, “from the first dies used for the double eagle.” From an original auction catalogue in the possession of prominent coin dealer Rick Snow it was learned that the purchaser was Edward Cogan, a noted coin auctioneer and dealer at the time.

Numismatic legend and author Walter Breen wrote in his “Breen’s Encyclopedia of US and Colonial Proofs” that he was aware of a Dr. Green’s ownership of a purported proof $20 1850 double eagle.

In 1949 noted numismatist Max Mehl, and at the time the most prominent coin dealer in the United States, provided an auction description for an 1850 $20 double eagle that was both attributed to prior ownership by Dr. Green, and also of proof appearance. Identified as Lot 719 Max Mehl wrote in his auction description describing the coin, “The most beautiful specimen of this date $20.00 gold piece I have ever seen or that I can find record of. This coin was purchased by Dr. Green as a proof ….. The obverse is brilliant and equal to a brilliant proof. I classify it as a brilliant semi-proof, almost equal to a brilliant proof.”

And the coin:

skier07