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JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
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Just let me say in my defense that I know that US coins are of the darkside specie for many of you that visit this noble forum.

I posted this coin on the liteside and my thread sank like a rock for three reasons: 1) it's not a Morgan Dollar; 2) They're busy arguing about PayPal fees; and 3) I have neither insulted anyone nor insinuated that anyone has perpetuated or thought of perpetuating or even dreamed of perpetuating a fraud upon some fragile numismatist or the body of numismatists as a whole.

Now that I've apologized, here it is: a first-year-of-issue nickel three cent piece, NGC MS63, which I just received today. This is a beautiful addition to my US type set - it has lovely gentle toning and a great deal of luster (that is of course completely corrupted by my lousy scanner.)

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Fantastic Darkside coin, John!!!

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    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭


    Nice coin John!




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  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    Well, now that I've gone off on a rant, somebody on the liteside just bumped my thread to the top.

    I guess God was listening. image

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  • coinrookiecoinrookie Posts: 794
    We are always open minded here on the darkside and a nice coin is a nice coin no matter what it`s nationality isimage

    Steve
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Isn't this just about one of the first nickel (actually, cu-ni) coins ever produced? I know the first Indian cents were also cu-ni but a different alloy and color. Did any other countries use this alloy back then? Methinks not.

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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "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
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    That's a neat coin, John.

    I'll trade you a Carver commem for it.

    Isn't it nice to have one foot in the dark and one in the light?


    Clankeye
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  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    Isn't this just about one of the first nickel (actually, cu-ni) coins ever produced? I know the first Indian cents were also cu-ni but a different alloy and color. Did any other countries use this alloy back then? Methinks not.

    Hmmmm. that's an interesting question, Jester. I'll have to go do some research.

    Or was the wise old sage of numismatics asking a rhetorical question?

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  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    Isn't it nice to have one foot in the dark and one in the light?

    I wouldn't have it any other way, Clank.

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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    That is one of the US coins I have never owned. Great coin.
    Bill

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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Jester, could be the first CU coinage. I think the Brits first issue was that Jamaica 1/2d proof of 1869. They made a few test coins on the Victoria 1/2d's in 1868.
    Terry

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    "Or was the wise old sage of numismatics..." --Closet Lightsider

    Who, ME!?!? Surely you jest.

    I just got to thinking about it and I can't come up with an earlier example, or even another example for 40 years.

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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "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
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Spinaker, you're right about the Jamaican half penny. But is the composition the same? Every one I've seen is definitely more coppr-colored. And the 3 and later 5 cent "nickels" of America are definitely the typical white color.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "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
  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    Surely you jest.

    Nope.

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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Jester. I think those Jamacian issues were near the same composition. Neither Peck nor Krause states what it was. I do have later date Jamaican 1/2d's that are "white". The one you got from me is flat white until tilted in the lite. image
    Terry

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    DPOTD Jan 2005, Meet the Darksiders
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Give us your tired, your poor, your ignored threads yearning for 20 responses...image

    Heck, I'll bet the Darkside could give the lightside a run for their money with their own coins but on our turf. I like seeing the occasional Lightside coin here as it comes without the baggage that would accompany it on the other forum.
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    John Z's a heretic!! image
  • hookedoncoinshookedoncoins Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    Nicer three cent, JohnZimage. I, too, bought one of these not too long ago. Same grade even (except mine is ANACS instead of NGC). I always though three cent nickels were underrated:

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  • vrtech99vrtech99 Posts: 553
    WOW!!!! Excellent coin John....Thanks for the pics!!!!!!!
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Oh yeah, now your liteside thread is going great guns. Probably break 100 replies.

    You owe everyone here an apology. image


    Clankeye




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  • JohnZJohnZ Posts: 1,732 ✭
    You owe everyone here an apology.

    But I started with an apology!

    At any rate, 100 posts is a bit optomistic to say the least.

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  • CIVITASCIVITAS Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Isn't this just about one of the first nickel (actually, cu-ni) coins ever produced? I know the first Indian cents were also cu-ni but a different alloy and color. Did any other countries use this alloy back then? Methinks not. >>



    The Baktrians made nickel didrachms in the 2nd century B.C. image
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Leave it to Civitas to put you in your place....

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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "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
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>We are always open minded here on the darkside and a nice coin is a nice coin no matter what it`s nationality is >>

    Besides, we have it on no less authority than Chet Krause & Cliff Mishler that U.S. coins are indeed "world" coins (25 pages in the image 30th Ed.
    Roy


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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>The Baktrians made nickel didrachms in the 2nd century B.C. >>


    Which is impressive considering nickel wasn't isolated in "modern" times until 1751.

    I forget the country but I believe the first "modern" nickel alloy coins were struck around 1820. There were one and three cent tokens struck here in the US in 1837.
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