Post a Beautiful Colonial Coin
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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.
They are involved almost religious coins..far more than a disc of copper. It IS the past. its here...in your hand.
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Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
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i could live with this on anyday
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i could live with this on anyday
Yes, it's a good thing that Cardinal showed up to the thread.
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Yes, it's a good thing that Cardinal showed up to the thread.
Thanks!!
Here are a few more of my colonial favorites:
And, while not actually a coin, this one is my overall favorite:
MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Thank you very much!
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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).
Mike
<< <i>Well after all of these great coins on display here I hesitated to post my one and only from that period. Here goes.
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Hi Mike,
A very nice coin to be proud of.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
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What a killer piece!
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.
Specialist in Irish Numismatics
http://www.irishcoinage.com/
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
Does this "8 bits" qualify as a colonial? Now in a PCGS AU55 holder:
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.