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1954 Pice from a box that had not seen daylight since the 70's...

icsoccericsoccer Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 28,390 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Beautiful.

    One has to wonder if there are many left of these in any condition.
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    harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Horsey!
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    sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Very nice!
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    bidaskbidask Posts: 13,894 ✭✭✭✭✭
    COOL
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    That's really cool!

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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Oooo, lions. Very niceimage
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    StorkStork Posts: 5,205 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What's the backstory? That is a nice looking coin!


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    WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was this coin from a 1950's cereal promotion?

    I am asking because I remember some cereal which advertised then:
    "send in 25¢ and a box top and we will send you 25 foreign coins".

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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭
    Neat piece. Bombay Mint, 136.758M were minted (KM 1.3), so chances are that there are still a few of these about. Nonetheless, I suspect they circulated with tremendous velocity, so there might be only a few in that condition! These coins were demonetized sometime after 1957.
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    icsoccericsoccer Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭
    Backstory:
    I went in Friday to my B&M shop. The man who runs the store was trying to "clean up". I do not know if all B&M shops are the same...
    to some degree I assume they are....lots of piles, boxes, backrooms we all want to go through...etc.

    While cleaning he found a box that was filled by the owner traveling as a coin dealer through India and China (Hong Kong). I am not certain of the exact date of the
    trip but I believe he said it was in the 70's. He attended a coin show in Hong Kong to buy and give the trip some tax status..... while traveling...

    In the box were "GEM" coins from the teens to I believe 1960. I purchased a nice group of Chinese dollars, a South African Crown, beautiful Phillipines coins and some dollar size silver coins I am still trying to decide what they are. I purchased what I could afford...alas several coins were coded at a cost of $150 each plus and he was going to have to research them before selling.....

    The Pice was "free"...or as my wife said...no it was not! LOL



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    FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    Post some Philippines please!

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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,253 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>One has to wonder if there are many left of these in any condition. >>

    I have had several from bulk lots, mostly AU-UNC, with ample Red on them. Even a full-Red BU piece or two. I'll have to see how many I have left. I used to come across them fairly often, actually.

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    tychojoetychojoe Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    Ohh! So "Pice" isn't actually a mis-spelling in the thread title!

    Cool pony and lions. And a Brahman bull on the pedestal?

    The expression in the pony's eyes and mouth is sublime.
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,253 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SSP- I just stuck a nice BU 1955(b) coin of this type into the 6/15 Weekly Swap thread. There is no picture of it, but it is a lot redder than the coin in the OP. I call it MS63 RB, but it is almost full Red... and hey, it's only a buck-twenty-five!

    (Let's see how quickly it disappears!) image

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