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taking the chaff w/the wheat, or the bad w/the good.

BruceBruce Posts: 484
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At my coin club meeting last Sunday during the auction I saw one bag of 4 large coins. I wanted the bag for one coin in particular, a nice large silver Austria 1900 5 corona. Nice coin. As a bonus there was a 1948 ½crown in there too, needed in my collection of British. Next was a Mixican 5 peso coin, no big deal, take it or leave it. But, then came the chaff-the fourth coin was a *choke, gasp* churchill crown. *hanging my head in shame* What could I do? So, I bought it, a steal at $3.00 Canadian.
So many coins, so little money!
Ebay name: bhil3

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    newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992
    image Nice catch
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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Can I join your coin club!?!

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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Pity the poor Churchill crown,
    a coin that everybody puts down!
    What did he do, lose the war?
    Did he not make our spirits soar?
    Was he not an inspiration
    to a sore and troubled nation?
    So who designed this-what's the name
    that made collector Bruce hang his head in shame?image
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Ah, our good Poet Laurenteate! image Still, Bruce, just imagine how much more you'd have had to pay for that bag if it did not have that ... "thing" ... in it. image
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    JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    One of my local dealers had one on the shelf for the better part of a year. Only $2. Still couldn't move it. One day I asked him if I could just have it, and he gave it to me. So now I'm the proud owner of a free Churchill Crown. Yay!!

    Beat that!

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    DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭✭
    Maybe ol' Winny can help win yet ANOTHER war!! If everyone got their Churchill crowns together & donated them to the Iraqi rebuilding effort, ol' George W. Bush can finally withdraw our troops out of harm's way !! image
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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Great idea, DBS!!! Here's my inspiration -- We publish pictures of the Churchill Crown all over Iraq and warn the Iraqi guerrillas that if they don't immediately lay down their arms, it will become the design for their new coinage! Think that'll work??? imageimageimage
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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    I don't know Askari; the iraquis are liable to ask for additional reparations. Why don't we rather have a world-wide Churchill Crown meltdown day, then when the value of the remaining few goes up, the Churchill crown will take a place of honor in the numismatic world.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    So much for "peace in our time," eh? image



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    BruceBruce Posts: 484
    I like Askari's idea, threaten them with a churchill crown looking coin.
    So many coins, so little money!
    Ebay name: bhil3
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    LloydLloyd Posts: 887 ✭
    Boring but true: there were more Churchill crowns minted than the total mintage for ALL crowns from George III to 1965.

    Coincraft put it best:

    "There are no doubt many who would say that the beauty of the Churchill Crown increases in direct proportion to the amount of wear it has sustained".

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    AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭


    << <i>Coincraft put it best:

    "There are no doubt many who would say that the beauty of the Churchill Crown increases in direct proportion to the amount of wear it has sustained". >>


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