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Hobo Dollar?

direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
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I've seen better carvings but I dont run into peace dollars carved that often.

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I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


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  • BullishBullish Posts: 374
    That's interesting? But to ugly for me. Some people will try anything, for a buck!
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  • CoinsAreNeatCoinsAreNeat Posts: 628
    Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Post mint damage. Body bag due to mutilation.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,563 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doesn't look vintage to me, but I may be wrong.
    TD
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a vintage carving... poorly done... ask Bill Fivaz for his opinion.... Personally, I would not waste my money on that coin. Cheers, RickO
  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Attached is a scan from the current issue of Bo Tales, where Bill Fivaz wrote about the beautiful hobo-style carved Franklin Half Dollar that Gail Baker and Ken Hallenbeck commissioned Steve Cox to make for Bill to aid him in his recovery from heart surgery.
    There's a dapper bearded gent in a derby on the obverse and the reverse has a heart with a band-aid across it with the text; "From Your Friends ANA"

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  • INXSINXS Posts: 1,202 ✭
    Steve Cox does excellent work. i recently commissioned a Laurel and Hardy Hobo Dollar from him and it's a hit with everyone that see's it.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like one of the cast of Return of the Living Dead! image
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  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    That pic is scanned from a magazine, so the contrast is really off. It's probably just as nice as the one INXS writes about above.
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Carved or not, I'd pass on that Frankenstein!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



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