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I have always wanted one of these!

MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!

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It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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  • bigmansam88bigmansam88 Posts: 1,209
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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice piece of exonumia!
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  • RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭
    Now that you've acquired one of those...are you still going to continue coin collecting?image
  • Newcomp103Newcomp103 Posts: 2,223 ✭


    << <i>I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!

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    Congrats!....we saw a few of these at the Macon show yesterday....I personally had never seen one.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Now that you've acquired one of those...are you still going to continue coin collecting?image >>



    Are you kidding!!! Everyone knows I don't collect REAL coins!!! image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • DenverDaveDenverDave Posts: 2,164

    Funny you brought this up...

    I've always thought they were Kool and when Kryptonitecomics sold his I was lucky enough to get it at auction...

    Yesterday I was at a small coin show here in Denver and a dealer had three of them for sale...

    According to this dealer they were made at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition Worlds Fair in Seattle Washington as a souvenir. They had different size dies to accommodate different denominations of coins, this dealer had two Morgans and one Barber Half...

    Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...?

    Here's mine...

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...? >>



    The dealers here were asking $100 each for them.

    I picked mine up on E-Bay for $20!!image
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Nice.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,768 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!

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    Yeah, but think about how much cool stuff you could have by now if you were actually willing to pay more than 20 cents on the dollar....
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!

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    Yeah, but think about how much cool stuff you could have by now if you were actually willing to pay more than 20 cents on the dollar....
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    Spock out >>




    But Tom, I'm poor!!!

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    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...? >>



    The dealers here were asking $100 each for them.

    I picked mine up on E-Bay for $20!!image >>



    Um...$20 is a steal...congratulations. But the going rate is around $100 or more for these, so stupid is a relative term. Or, a term for relatives.

    Lane

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The dies are still out there. I've seen many Kennedy halves and Ike dollars popped-out like these coins.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The dies are still out there. I've seen many Kennedy halves and Ike dollars popped-out like these coins. >>



    There were a set of dies on E-Bay last summer. They went in the $750 range!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Ah, but do you have any of these?:

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  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭
    What size is it? I've seen dime, quarter, half and dollar size.
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  • DenverDaveDenverDave Posts: 2,164

    Wow... $20 is a deal, I paid $80 for mine...

    This Dealer had them at $150ea and his did not have the bezel...

    Anyone ever hear the 1909 spin or was this guy fishing...?

    With the dies still out there, dating these things is problematic...?

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  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...? >>



    The dealers here were asking $100 each for them.

    I picked mine up on E-Bay for $20!!image >>



    Lemme know if you ever want to sell I will give you $5

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anyone ever see a gold coin popout?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    I have heard somewhere that these were originaly made for the 1892/3 Columbian exposition. If so, they might have well made more at subsequent expositions.
  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,945 ✭✭✭✭✭
    20 bucks sounds like a real deal..
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have heard somewhere that these were originaly made for the 1892/3 Columbian exposition. If so, they might have well made more at subsequent expositions. >>



    I think these have been around for years.
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • DenverDaveDenverDave Posts: 2,164

    My Morgan is a 1896, what's yours Marty...?

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,893 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Congrats!....we saw a few of these at the Macon show yesterday....I personally had never seen one. >>

    Hey, Shawn, it was nice to meet you and Wes. Thanks for lunch!

    I saw those at the show, too. There was a whole set of them, in a Capital Plastics-style holder. I didn't look at the price, but the set caught my eye.

    One of our members on the Metal Detecting forum was lucky enough to dig one a few years back. It was a Barber dime.

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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    I once saw one for $50 but I passed. Hmm...should I have bought it? image
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Thats the first time I have seen one. Pretty neat effect.

    I agree we need to see one on a gold coin.
  • LostSislerLostSisler Posts: 521 ✭✭✭
    I saw these at Milwaukee,
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