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Does anyone want this? Somebody did and it's taken!

wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
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Yes, it is a defaced Elizabeth II halfpenny. I received it "gratis" from a coin dealer at a show many years ago. It just popped up in an old box of my stuff I was going through.

From a technical standpoint, whoever did the cutting did a pretty nice job.

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PM me if you would like it. You pay nothing.

Edited to add: it is now spoken for.
Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.

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  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Tom, Thank you very much! image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • JamminJJamminJ Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭
    That is rather cool.

    I was outbid on a Maria Theresa thaler done up similarly a few months back. It wasn't even a restrike.image

    -JamminJ
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Arrghh!

    I missed this, oh well. Pity cos i have a friend on another forum who has a thing about ships and he's purposely trying to collect halfpennies because of them.

    Oh well never mind image That'll teach me not to read the boards as regularly. lol.

    Next time hey? image
  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Neat looking piece, and, as you said, very well done image
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    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Since there's so much interest in this, perhaps I should take some nice old BU full red pennies and do them up like that beauty!! In fact, I think the best effect can be achieved by starting with some nice S. African proofs....

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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

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  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Hey if you'd do me a halfpenny like the one above i'd pay you for it.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    But you're "cuprophobic". So how about a nice hammered gold noble or something useless like that?

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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
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭


    << <i>But you're "cuprophobic". So how about a nice hammered gold noble or something useless like that?

    imageimageimage >>




    Oh it's not for me Jester, it's for someone i know.

    I myself would much prefer a silver coin done like that!
  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I myself would much prefer a silver coin done like that! >>



    Like a 1949 Canadian silver dollar? Has a real nice ship on it.
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    My OmniCoin Collection
    My BankNoteBank Collection
    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Hey if you've got one done like the halfpenny up there then i wanna know.
  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Sadly, no. But I'll let you know about the second one I find. I want the first myself image
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    My OmniCoin Collection
    My BankNoteBank Collection
    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Sounds fair to me! image
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Got it in the mail today (just in time for Christmas)! It's great! Thanks again, Tom. image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
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