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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Seriously, what's the story with these things?

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Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • RobbRobb Posts: 2,034 ✭
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    I was expecting John Wayne.
    imageRIP
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting... I would not even try to explain the last one... unless it is 'home made'.... Cheers, RickO
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The bottom is a die trial or splasher in aluminum or lead.

    The top looks like it was struck on a brass planchet... also a set up strike image
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hello imageimage
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,416 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like these were not struck from the same dies that struck the regular coins. For starters, these appear to have greater relief.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,646 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mr. E
    lost me with the second pic. wazzup wid dat?

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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    The second one is a Pilgrim Klippe image
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was the brass one the first known Chuckie Cheese token redeemable in the Mayflower galley image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • truthtellertruthteller Posts: 1,240 ✭✭


    << <i>Seriously, what's the story with these things? >>




    I remember being offered a similar(or the same) aluminum piece about 8 years ago. It was supposedly "discovered" in a November Michigan State Coin show auction where it was purchased for several hundred dollars only to be offered at several thousand dollars. It was viewed by several knowledgeable commemorative collectors/dealers who had never seen such an item before. The aluminum piece did not have the same die characteristics compared to the actual struck coin.



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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I have concluded that there are a lot of unusual numismatic items kicking around.
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    I just added this one to my set!!

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

  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And this is what Marty's coin looked like 85 years ago...

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    3 rim nicks away from Good

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