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secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
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Poland 100 ducats
"Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)

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  • DesertRatDesertRat Posts: 1,791 ✭
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    The Musical Road
  • 3Mark3Mark Posts: 593 ✭✭✭
    This is the first foreign coin to sell at public auction for over 1 million dollars, except for the big hunk of Canadian gold crap. I thought it would be a Russian coinimage3Mark
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cowabunga.

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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I had a chance to see the other specimen in the Smithsonian a few years back. Very impressive, to put it mildly.... This is one of those pieces that blurs the line between coins and medals.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • MeijiMeiji Posts: 170 ✭✭
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  • Silvereagle82Silvereagle82 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭
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    I'm glad ya'll like my latest purchase !!!!!
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, I really had my hopes on a strictly mint state example....guess I'll have to wait.image









































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  • JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I had a chance to see the other specimen in the Smithsonian a few years back. Very impressive, to put it mildly.... This is one of those pieces that blurs the line between coins and medals. >>




    You mean This Piece (my old pic)?

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great coin!

    It's interesting that the coin could have brought double or half the actual price realized, and it would have made sense either way.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    Serious dinner plate...
    Numismotography

    1/2 Cents

    U.S. Revenue Stamps

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    Awesome coin.. just odd that it was this one that finally broke the mark.

    BTW.. here's the coin scaled to actual size (plus or minus a mm, depending on your monitor) with a penny at scale and a trojak of Sigismund from 1622 (what the regular schmucks would've had in their pocket at the time) also at scale.

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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>I had a chance to see the other specimen in the Smithsonian a few years back. Very impressive, to put it mildly.... This is one of those pieces that blurs the line between coins and medals. >>




    You mean This Piece (my old pic)?

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    I've got the same photo sitting around somewhere, taken from my old camera image
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • ResplandorResplandor Posts: 401 ✭
    Wow!!!image

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  • HussuloHussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭
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    Thats a dream coin.
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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Here is my photo of the specimen in the Smithsonian collection:

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    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>Here is my photo of the specimen in the Smithsonian collection:

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    Comparing the two, I wouldn't give over $350,000 for the museum example.
    Roy


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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    The museum piece didn't look quite as "washed out" in real life as it does in the photo. But I think the one at Stacks was a little nicer.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    It'd be interesting to know if the Smithsonian example has the die break/cud on reverse too.

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