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This Is one of the coolest 1-cent pattern pieces I ever saw!

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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Smoe serious cool factor there. I like it!

    Anybody tell us anything about the "holey cent"?

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  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    Lord M, Lord M? image
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    I would so own that pattern......sweet image
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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Definitely unique and different, but I wouldn't call it the collest image
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Definitely unique and different, but I wouldn't call it the collest image >>



    Call it the collest? I don't even know what the "collest" is image

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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Now if they just did that to our current Cent we would not have an issue of it being worth more than marked. image
  • MarkMark Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭✭✭
    mozeppa:

    I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

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    Mark


  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess Mr. Simpson would be happy to own it...
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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭


    << <i>mozeppa:

    I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

    image >>



    your comment was so transparent....i saw right thru it!image
  • PetescornerPetescorner Posts: 1,220 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>mozeppa:

    I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

    image >>



    your comment was so transparent....i saw right thru it!image >>



    When are you going to pick your title? image
  • MarkMark Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭✭✭
    mozeppa:

    Your comment--image!
    Mark


  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    not sure Dan....nothing has really spoke to me yet!
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

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    BTW, the inspiration for these coins came from the artist Eastman Johnson. Interestingly, one of his better known works is called "The Counterfeiters". Apparently, the subject was of interest to him. There's probably more info out there that would help complete the picture. Let's see what we can dig up.

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,936 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭


    << <i>mozeppa:

    I'm not so sure about that coin--it's weakly struck in the center.

    image >>



    No, it was struck too strongly, struck all the way through, in fact.
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    Andy ...you're my this weeks HERO! love the red / blue one!image
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've seen quite a few at auction but have never understood the attraction.

    What do you like about it?

    The only one I've ever wanted was one of the specimans engraved by Longacre.
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  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    for me ...the attraction is only that its so different from the usual proof....and the color.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am new to the pattern specialty, but I have never seen the attraction to these coins that look like little washers. I might feel differently about a gold one.
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  • pb2ypb2y Posts: 1,461 ✭
    An 1854 pattern--the only one known.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess they put a hole there to increase the diameter so you wouldn't lose the little bugger.

    Still makes me wonder what's missing in the middle. image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I guess they put a hole there to increase the diameter so you wouldn't lose the little bugger.

    Still makes me wonder what's missing in the middle. image >>




    the cream filling!image
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Holey Cow!"
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Eastman Johnson’s original sketches for holed coins are in the national archives. The patterns look like his drawings. One of the reasons for trying this was to prevent confusion between minor coins and gold coins. People were easily confused by gold plated minor coins – 3-cent and 5-cent primarily – and Johnson proposed using holed blanks to make the denomination readily apparent. Proposals also included making the cents out of CuNi. The same era included edge lettering experiments to make counterfeiting more difficult and prevent crooks from cutting into gold coins, removing some of the gold then filling with platinum or some other cheap substitute. Most experiments stopped when A Loudoun Snowden left in 1885.

    Note the inverted US Shield on the reverse.

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