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I've got the blues!!

spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
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or at least George does!! image
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I have never seen such flag detail on one of these before. You can even see the horizonal stripes in the fields!! image

That be scanner dust, or cosmicdebris on the obverse. image
Terry

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DPOTD Jan 2005, Meet the Darksiders

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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    It's amazing how certain colors really help bring out the detail! Recent acquisition?image
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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    JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    That's a beauty! I love toned coppers.

    We ARE watching you.

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    oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Zowie!!!
    Shep
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    spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    It's one from Eaglecoin that I won last week, I got '51 and '37 1/2d proofs and an UNC 1890 1/2d. All excellent coins. image
    Terry

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    cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,333 ✭
    Cool colors!
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
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    trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Just like BB King! image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
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    AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    Got the blues just like Leadbelly!

    Great coin!
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    historygeekhistorygeek Posts: 792
    I dont want to spoil anything here, but sometimes the blue colour can mean that the coin was cleaned in windex or something like that. One time I tested some pennies with all of my household cleaning products.image
    Corrupting youth since 2004
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    spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Windex!! Why didn't I think of that!! Thanks. image
    Terry

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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Now I've got the blues too! That's a wonderful coin!

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    .....GOD
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    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭
    "He wore blue velvet . . . . . " and not the least unbecoming a Monarch!! image

    . . . . unless you're Prince Charles!!! image
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    ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Really nice flag's details, Spinaker! Now you can rename that ship from "Golden Hind" to the ..."Blue Hind"!image
    N. N.
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    spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Shipcoin: Do you know what ship is on the South Africa 1d and 1/2d's??? I don't.
    Terry

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    rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    Vewy purty coin.......... image
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    mongoosemongoose Posts: 589 ✭✭
    Yup, them is the blues alright! You can send it East if you need a break.image
    Joe
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    ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Spinaker! As for South African coins you have asked me, I only know (from one serious book devoted to coins with ships and boats) that the type of sailing ship that depicted on these coins is "Frigate", but ufortunatelly I don't know what is his name, means what historically known ship was a prototype of that picture.

    As for for your "Blue" coin it is Sir F. Drake's Galleon "Golden Hind" and you can see it in London (on Thames river, they made there a ship-museum.)
    N. N.
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