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

Bruce · October 25, 2003 4:04AM

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.

newbiecollector · October 25, 2003 4:06AM

Nice catch

theboz11 · October 25, 2003 4:07AM

1jester · October 25, 2003 4:19AM

Can I join your coin club!?!

laurentyvan · October 25, 2003 4:55AM

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?

Askari · October 25, 2003 4:59AM

Ah, our good Poet Laurenteate!

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.

JohnZ · October 25, 2003 5:05AM

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!

DBSTrader2 · October 25, 2003 5:26AM

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 !!

Askari · October 25, 2003 6:22AM

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???

laurentyvan · October 25, 2003 6:39AM

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.

Askari · October 25, 2003 6:59AM

So much for "peace in our time," eh?

Where's Historygeek? He's missing out!

Bruce · October 25, 2003 9:11AM

I like Askari's idea, threaten them with a churchill crown looking coin.

Lloyd · October 25, 2003 2:44PM

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".

L

Askari · October 26, 2003 4:20AM

<< <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". >>

Ah, British wit's finest hour!

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

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