Got a favorite filler? Let's see it!

Daltonista

I don't usually go for fillers, but the Isle of Wight has been a glaring hole in my Dalton silver collection for many years.
so I picked this one up on eBay to tide me over until I can find a more "worthy" example.

I like the floater and fliers...its barque is worse than its bites.

Anyway, let's see YOUR favorite filler! Show it off here!

Best to all ~
Tom

ormandh

Filler? It looks like it could be a scarce piece. -dan

wybrit

Can't find an UNC of this date yet, so I am still using my first example (I think MacCrimmon was a young man of 25 when this coin was struck). Back in them good old days just before decimalization, you could actually get these in coin rolls from the bank. I always thought that was pretty neat.

MacCrimmon

<< <i>Can't find an UNC of this date yet, so I am still using my first example (I think MacCrimmon was a young man of 25 when this coin was struck). Back in them good old days just before decimalization, you could actually get these in coin rolls from the bank. I always thought that was pretty neat.
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Quite! Back in '81 whilst I was sitting for exams at Exeter a young Dudley Pembroke slammed a jingling £5 canvas bank bag of 1881 halfpennies down on my desk. Twenty-four hundred blazing red coppers it was; a blinding experience, wot?

1jester

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<< <i>Can't find an UNC of this date yet, so I am still using my first example (I think MacCrimmon was a young man of 25 when this coin was struck). Back in them good old days just before decimalization, you could actually get these in coin rolls from the bank. I always thought that was pretty neat.
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Quite! Back in '81 whilst I was sitting for exams at Exeter a young Dudley Pembroke slammed a jingling £5 canvas bank bag of 1881 halfpennies down on my desk. Twenty-four hundred blazing red coppers it was; a blinding experience, wot? >>



And that's why they call you One-Eyed Mac, isn't it?

lordmarcovan

<< <i>I like the floater and fliers...its barque is worse than its bites. >>

Thou'rt a punster, I see.

I really like your piece a lot. But then, you could probably have guessed that I of all people would.

My favorite filler is not a filler 'cause it is holed- after all, holeyness is a prerequisite for that particular collection- but because somebody further abused the coin, apparently trying to obliterate a counterstamp of some kind on the obverse. Despite its homeliness, you probably don't need to be told that it's a relatively scarce coin, and is the only US $3 gold piece I've ever owned.

wybrit

Quite! Back in '81 whilst I was sitting for exams at Exeter a young Dudley Pembroke slammed a jingling £5 canvas bank bag of 1881 halfpennies down on my desk. Twenty-four hundred blazing red coppers it was; a blinding experience, wot?



I think mine was one of the 2400 - it fell off the desk and attached itself to the bottom of a chair leg where it remained for about 85 years.

Cladiator

Here's my filler...

HoledandCreative

Very nice filler, Cladiator. I'm looking for one of those with a hole in it.

SYRACUSIAN

I don't have fillers, here's the exception that confirms the rule:





1851 drachma, one year type coin, absolutely necessary for my collection, it is housed in an old Anacs holder UNC details, scratched net AU55, but the scratch is not nearly as distracting as in the photo (wrong imaging angle). It might stay with me for a long time, not only because of the total lack of availability of this coin in unc, but also because of the steep price that a choice unc would fetch if offered for sale.

Daltonista

Wow...I think that's called "raising the bar," Dimitri.

All our fillers should look so good!



Best to all!
Tom