Post a Beautiful Colonial Coin

ambro51

There certainly are Beautiful Colonial Coins. They inspire awe, they have survived an existence we can only dream about. Their still being with us...are looking good...just a wonder.....Oh...If only they could talk. Tales of early collectors, the first time it was "put away". The last person to spend it in commerce...early auction sales, deep dark walnut paneled rooms, gentlemen in wool suits and gold rimmed spectacles....examining it. Centuries ago.. In a collection. Generations, maybe 10 generations of collectors...having held the coin.

They are involved almost religious coins..far more than a disc of copper. It IS the past. its here...in your hand.

AnkurJ

ambro51

cardinal

johnny9434

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i could live with this on anyday

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Yes, it's a good thing that Cardinal showed up to the thread.

ricko

Superb description ambro51... as nice as the old colonial coppers themselves... Cheers, RickO

cardinal

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Thanks!!

Here are a few more of my colonial favorites:







And, while not actually a coin, this one is my overall favorite:

Justacommeman

stunned

MJ

mariner67

All outstanding....the Libertas is really mind blowing it is so beautiful.
Thank you very much!

ebari

New Purchase

ebari

Another

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NotSure

This would be the second coin in my 'Box 'o 20' (a Pine Tree shilling would be my first) and will be when I graduate, get a real job, and have more disposable $$ for coins. Being from Mass, I have ALWAYS loved the shillings, cents and half cents.....but this half cent is a totally gorgeous coin!! I don't know how I missed it first time around (was probably getting the team ready for our Turkey Day game.....which we wound up getting our 'hats' handed to us in).

etexmike

Well after all of these great coins on display here I hesitated to post my one and only from that period. Here goes.




Mike

ebari

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Hi Mike,
A very nice coin to be proud of.

HoledandCreative

kaz

LanLord

Holy cow, that thing looks like it's in better shape better than some of the moderns coming out of our mint at this very time. How did they do that?

Baley

My goodness. I mean, after seeing the Gems posted, here are my "good-4" -ness entry-level colonials

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What a killer piece!

ebari

Here I'll post an ugly one, but still one of my favorites

ambro51

boiler78

Man I hate following Cardinal but I haven't seen either of these types in this thread yet.............. so here's my contribution.

kaz

Thanks folks for posting such a great variety of Colonials so far. Some great looking coins!

53BKid

Spectacular. Thanks for the posts!

johnsl

A couple of St Patrick's halfpennies I bought last week:





The first has some porosity and the second is quite weak - but distinctly different varieties and quite an unexpected surprise in the midst of a lot of modern coins.

There were 4 farthings with them - nothing special, but I'll post them if anybody's interested.

Nice to find these in Ireland - as the vast majority of them have followed their earlier siblings and taken the 'Newbie' route to the US in the past few decades.

( So technically these aren't colonials as they are pretty certainly examples that remained in Ireland :-| )

P.S. Just posting 'cos I logged on to guess the price of the St Gaudens on Friday next, and decided to leave something.

BS

ColonialCoinUnion

rawmorgan

keyman64

Awesome stuff! Great contributions from Carinal and boiler78 of course!

ambro51

TwoKopeiki

Some amazing coins posted in this thread. Thank you for sharing those!

Does this "8 bits" qualify as a colonial? Now in a PCGS AU55 holder:

BillJones

This is an "okay" but not great example, but the Noe 1 Pine Tree shilling is generally viewed as the most attractive variety in the series.




The Rosa Americana pieces were made out of crazy concoction called “bath metal” (75% copper, 24.7% zinc and then they threw a couple of flakes of silver in for good measure), but high grade examples can be attractive.