let's see your "hole in the head" coin(s)!

Doogy · January 30, 2008 2:28PM

The phrase comes from my wife, whom upon seeing one of my more recent purchases (this 1887 Jubilee Bust Double-Florin) stated: "you need another one of that coin, like you need a hole in the head!" Frankly, I wasn't surprised by her comment, but the fact that she noticed that I had this exact coin already; 6 of them to be exact

Anyone have a "hole in the head" coins, ones that is the exact year, type and mintmark (if applicable) as the others; but you seem to buy more anyway?

.........and yes, Lord M., your holey hat counts. You may indeed hold the record for holes in your head when wearing that hat!

bosox · January 30, 2008 2:59PM

I own about 160 Canada cents dated 1858.

clarkbar04 · January 30, 2008 3:35PM

My wife thinks that about any coin!

RareSov · January 30, 2008 11:06PM

For a while I had 6 x 1873M Sovereigns, 4 in MS60, a MS61 and MS62

Hard date to get in any sort of brilliant condition, lots seem to have cabinet friction, marks, weak strike or all of the above

Am down to just the MS61 and MS62 keepers

laurentyvan · January 30, 2008 11:19PM

I cannot (in good conscience)
respond to this thread.
Since my wife has no interest,
her reliable radar is dead.

She mumbles and grumbles-
but nothing specific:
like the noise of the ocean
in the southern Pacific.

rwyarmch · January 31, 2008 5:08AM

I've had to take the position that these are not duplicates as long as I can tell them apart!

Daltonista · January 31, 2008 8:24AM

The pix aren't mine...just scarfed them from the Net, but I do have several dozen of each of these types. Figuring out varieties is something I'll get to someday...just part of my retirement planning for now. The only interest my wife takes in my various collections seems to be when the bills come in for the vault space at the bank. Her dad, on the other hand, seems sort of impressed by the high-bore Dalton silver and the stories behind them (why they were needed, etc.). My siblings have always wondered what sort of chromosomal defect I ended up with that turned me into a collector but spared them...great thread topic right there!

Preussen · January 31, 2008 11:02AM

Something like this

-Preussen

coinpictures · January 31, 2008 11:25AM

Aw, heck yeah. Let's see...

For a while I was collecting both NGC proofs and PCGS specimens of Romanian 1867 coinage... ditched the NGCs.

Several Baden Death 2 Mark pieces in MS65-67.

Scads of 1880-S and 1881-S Morgan dollars... of course all have different color toning.

Bunches of 1972-73 toned Canadian silver dollars...

I've thought about picking up dupes of various and sundry fractional farthings.