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farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
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Sorry Don, it's only a 64! Link

I wonder if Greg would take my NGC 63 in trade??? image
R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
Collecting:
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Still 3 points too low David.

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    Don
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,962 ✭✭✭
    Better Churchill

    That would be defined as an example in VG or less.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • Rickc300Rickc300 Posts: 876 ✭✭
    LOL, I have my cross hairs squarely set on that critter! It really does fit in my birth year set and it IS one of the best I have ever seen. Maybe, just in this case, I am BUYING the PLASTIC and not the coin! image
    Wish me luck on my sneaky lowball sniper attack!
    Rick
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting that vote. Benjamin Franklin - 1779

    image
    1836 Capped Liberty
    dime. My oldest US
    detecting find so far.
    I dig almost every
    signal I get for the most
    part. Go figure...
  • DaltonistaDaltonista Posts: 354 ✭✭
    You guys are putting me on, right?
    I never pay too much for my tokens...but every now and then I may buy them too soon.

    Proud (but humbled) "You Suck" Designee, February 2010.
  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    While these are dead common in UNC they are tough to find in choice UNC or higher grades. Those large fields are a magnet for ticks and marks. Because of their large mintage and design their perceived worth is quite low - you should not spend more than $1 for the low end UNC coins normally listed on eBay. Because of this you just do not run into the higher quality coins often - its been relegated to a cigar box coin.
    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
    Collecting:
    Conder tokens
    19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
  • Rickc300Rickc300 Posts: 876 ✭✭


    << <i>Those large fields are a magnet for ticks and marks. >>

    Gee, sounds like the state quarter designs for the most part. A really nice one is almost impossible to find, with the exception of Nevada, that was/IS a good design and because it was done right, will probably be one of the lowest in value because you can find some pretty nice ones without too much effort...
    Oh, WAIT! We were talking about the Churchill crown...

    << <i>Those large fields are a magnet for ticks and marks. >>

    Gee, that sounds like the state Quarter... Err, wait... back to Churchill... Yes, A really nice one is almost impossible to find, and if I win this one for my birth year collection I will never EVER, EVER look at another again (except the ones I have to wade thru in the old cigar box looking for other things that I DO want. (I Promise, cross my heart, hope to die and will stick a needle in my eye before I do)! Now, just let me win it and all will be well in my world... One less coin to fret over in my birth year set!
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting that vote. Benjamin Franklin - 1779

    image
    1836 Capped Liberty
    dime. My oldest US
    detecting find so far.
    I dig almost every
    signal I get for the most
    part. Go figure...
  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You guys are putting me on, right? >>

    The answer to that is "yes and no". The poor Churchill Crown is universially reviled yet somehow strangely attractive in near gem/gem quality to a few individuals. Hunting for them has become sport I fear. It's really sad for the poor souls with that particular birth year --but saddest for all for Ajaan, who is after the most elusive of creatures...the MS-67. Who knows why.

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    Cathy

  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    I like mine image

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  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's your chance to laugh at a mainly litesider: I was with Ajaan last weekend at the Niagara Falls coin show. We had split up for a bit and I was flipping through a bunch of token and misc books. I saw a few that I liked, and knowing Don knows about everything on foreign coins, called him over to ask about a few, what content silver, if they were popular, etc.

    Well, as you can guess it, I pointed out two unc Churchill's and he about fell over laughing. I quickly got the story of how many people consider it the SBA/Eunice Shriver Commem of the darkside.

    Hey, they were only marked $1.15 and they sort of reminded me of the 1936 Robinson-Arkansas Commemorative Half Dollar.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey, they were only marked $1.15 and they sort of reminded me of the 1936 Robinson-Arkansas Commemorative Half Dollar >>

    Buck-fifteen's about right. Hey, they're big and chunky. And strangely popular with Litesiders, despite being sneered upon by Darksiders.

    Glenn, that toned one is nice.

    AT?

    JK. image

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey, they were only marked $1.15 and they sort of reminded me of the 1936 Robinson-Arkansas Commemorative Half Dollar >>

    Buck-fifteen's about right. Hey, they're big and chunky. And strangely popular with Litesiders, despite being sneered upon by Darksiders.

    Glenn, that toned one is nice.

    AT?

    JK. image

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    There is a Churchill Crown out there with Ajaan's name on it. Just a matter of time...
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭


    << <i>There is a Churchill Crown out there with Ajaan's name on it. Just a matter of time... >>



    I know he's hoarding them, and most likely has the best one in existance, but only fears the notoriety of owning the top-pop Churchill so he fails to send them in for slabbing.

    Don, I dare you to send your best one in for slabbing; I bet you get at least a 64, maybe a 65.

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    .....GOD
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  • GazzaGazza Posts: 543
    Here's a better Churchill


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  • TonedbuffTonedbuff Posts: 1,190
    I like 'em!
    Mine's toned up nicely over the years:
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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>Here's a better Churchill


    image >>



    Definitely AT! image
    Roy


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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,962 ✭✭✭
    image

    I absolutely hate enameled coins but I've got to admit I like how that one was done.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • GazzaGazza Posts: 543


    << <i>image

    I absolutely hate enameled coins but I've got to admit I like how that one was done. >>



    I concur, and its one less in circulation. Only 19,639,999 to go.image

    I've had my example since issue but still no sign of any toning, what is the secret....bury it in the back yard for five years.image
  • Rickc300Rickc300 Posts: 876 ✭✭
    Well nuts! I set my sniper attack at 15.50 but and never even got the shot off because my bid was too low. Final price was $15.50 plus 4.50 shipping. One of the few times a sniper program hurts for last second bidding is in the event of a tie or bid increment issue. Oh well, next time... I am kind of relieved in a way, I can just imagine the grief I would get after telling you darksiders I paid 20 bucks with shipping for a Churchill... image
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting that vote. Benjamin Franklin - 1779

    image
    1836 Capped Liberty
    dime. My oldest US
    detecting find so far.
    I dig almost every
    signal I get for the most
    part. Go figure...
  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Hey! I spent 22.60 +P/H from Greg for my NGC 63 image
    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
    Collecting:
    Conder tokens
    19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How cool would those have been if they'd been silver?
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like this version of it, described as Specimen Satin Proof FDC:

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    8 Reales Madness Collection
  • GazzaGazza Posts: 543


    << <i>I like this version of it, described as Specimen Satin Proof FDC:

    image >>



    That's the one I'm looking forimage
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What the hell just happened HERE? Why the hell did he clean that crown even after the bank told him not to do it?

    WHY???


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    8 Reales Madness Collection
  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What the hell just happened HERE? Why the hell did he clean that crown even after the bank told him not to do it?

    WHY???


    image >>



    It's ok he explained that "It was a light clean i did not clean it hard just hot watter and a small renss." image

    I do see some of the hairlines in the before pic, but yea, it has been sacrificed. If it really is silver, maybe someone will overlook the cleaning and buy it for the off-metal planchet. Has there been other silver churchill's discovered before?
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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe Gazza can clear things up a bit. The proof specimen i posted above is listed as silver. The first one I have ever seen, found it on coinarchive.com. Krause just says that specimen was struck with satin finish, but still Copper-Nickel. imageimageimage

    8 Reales Madness Collection
  • GazzaGazza Posts: 543
    I'm loosing something here, what's been cleaned. As far as I know the satin proof churchill is not silver just the normal cupro-nickel. I'd still like to know were to find one though
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>

    Man, that's trippy.

    Better even than the Dale Earnhart silver eagle. image

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