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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only one fake. (Or is it two?) Not bad for a beginner.


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    TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭

    Wow.


    I'll take the New Jersey and the Connecticut...
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Only one fake. (Or is it two?) Not bad for a beginner.


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    I count 2.
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    numismanumisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭

    Small Colonial Collection

    Define "small".







    Wow.
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    DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,350 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Only one fake. (Or is it two?) Not bad for a beginner.


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    I count 2. >>



    Interesting. I have no real idea which two but I'm going to guess:

    1. Pine tree shilling
    2. Value me as you please. with the bar cent my third guess.
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    This is not a collection per se, it is an assemblage of photos we have in our photobank.

    The Fugio (a restrike, and thus one of the 'fakes') is now owned by a board member.

    The other fake is the Bar Cent,a Bolen copy struck in silver.

    The rest are the real McCoy.
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Define "small".

    Then define "colonial". (Six of the real pieces are not really colonials.)

    Edited to say "make that 9".
    Andy Lustig

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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Define "small".

    Then define "colonial". >>



    Wouldn't it just be easier to speculate which ones are AT? Or guess the grades?
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, 9 of the real coins are not really colonials, not six.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wouldn't it just be easier to speculate which ones are AT? Or guess the grades?


    Why bother? Isn't that why we have the TPGs?
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Actually, 9 of the real coins are not really colonials, not six. >>



    Party pooper.
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Party pooper.

    Hey, at least you didn't post a "small collection of territorial gold"!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    You guys are funny. image

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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I like the London Elephant token the best.



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    MikeKingMikeKing Posts: 847
    AT NT, colonial or not, leave out the fakes, I'll take the rest!!!
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    TavernTreasuresTavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭
    The reverses on some of those coins are of nicer design than the obverses!
    Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
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    MikeKingMikeKing Posts: 847
    in fact, I'll even take just one...
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>AT NT, colonial or not, leave out the fakes, I'll take the rest!!! >>



    There are fakes, and then there are fakes.

    The silver Bar Cent is finer and more attractive than the example which sold for nearly $7,500 in the Ford sale last January. The other is a the Fugio 'Restrike' which is listed in the Redbook and is widely collected as part of the Fugio series.
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The reverses on some of those coins are of nicer design than the obverses! >>



    Your wish is my command. Which one(s)?
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    TavernTreasuresTavernTreasures Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭
    I have always liked the Success token.
    Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have always liked the Success token. >>



    Its not that easy to find a nice Large one without the wicked die break on the obverse.

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    michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    the pine tree

    higley

    chambers

    new jersey

    are superb-amazingimage

    the rest are just incredible
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    EvilMCTEvilMCT Posts: 799 ✭✭✭
    I dream of owning the Carolina version of that Elephant.
    my knuckles, they bleed, on your front door
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    RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,648 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Love that Higley! All the rest of them look nice too! Thanks for sharing them.

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

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