Bring out your artillery......

coinsarefun

......gun themed coins that is



Stefanie















and make sure they are locked away

BECOKA

So your husband is back and your posts are wiser?

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True, so true


Stefanie

DUIGUY

Big guns are allways followed with small guns.

Mesquite

Did you say artillery? A couple of Ft. Union NM shots.

reds

savoyspecial

it is surmised that this counterstamp was done by a "J. Cannon"





greg

ricko

Now there is a whole new idea to bring two of my hobbies together - firearms and coins. Had not seen coins/tokens with firearms before.. except for some NRA challenge coins... Cheers, RickO

ajbauman

Here's a token I'm actually selling on the bay at the moment...

Link 1

And a similar relation here:
Link 2

I couldn't get to photobucket from my work computer to post the pics alone.

messydesk

I wonder if it's illegal to spend a Massachusetts quarter in Chicago.

ambro51

Some years ago I used to do live fire with the NSSA, which is a civil war type organization shooting muskets, carbines and revolvers of the CW period at targets, in timed competition.

I was on a very good team, and we usually finished up our targets well within the 120 second time frame. Just for fun, we used to wire up a nickel under our 50 yard target frame, since we had to fire our weapons at the end of timed shooting into the backstop to clear them, we would all shoot for the nickel.

Now, I dont know if you've ever looked at a nickel from 150 feet away, or ever fired a 140 year old gun at one...but it is mighty small and very tough to hit.

One of the guys managed to get his father re-interested in the hobby, and at the age of 82 he came back with us, got back into uniform and started shooting again. After our hanging tile event (16 4" tiles hung from wires) was done....we shot for the nickel.

Well, damn if that old man didnt hold tight on the target, and hit it!! He jumped up and down yelling " I HIT IT" " I HIT IT"!!

So after the match, a few of us got out there behind the frame and searched and searched for that nickel, and finally found it. Bent just about in half from that .58 caliber minie ball, we gave it to him as a rememberance of the event.

None of us realized we were digging in a bunch of poison oak growing on the berm............

adamlaneus

This is all i've got...



22LR on nickel.

rwyarmch

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I found my next quest
Thanks....., I like it very much


Stefanie

NHSBaseball

LSU's only Heisman winner- he was heavy artillery in 1958 and 1959--- he also liked to print his own money!