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It's Columbus Day!!! Post a coin with Columbus on it!!!!!

illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I really like the Colubmian Halves, but I think my favorite coin with Columbus is still the 1992 Dollar... the reverse is just too cool.


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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think that the Columbus $5 gold commemorative is one of the best designs in the modern commemorative series.

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    Not as nice as Todd's, but I liked the toning
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    This is Better Then CC in a SpeedBoat...image

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  • fastfreddiefastfreddie Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kind of reminds me of those Notre Dame helments last Saturday but the coin looks way better.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is a medal, not a coin. This piece with an obverse by Augustus St. Gaudens and a reverse by Charles Barber was awarded to exhibitors and others who displayed something at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. It was packaged in a very neat aluminum case.

    St. Gaudens was none too happy to have his obverse paired with a work by Charles Barber. It was not too far from the truth to say that St. Gaudens almost put Barber's artistic abilities on a par with those of a blacksmith. St. Gaudens' design for the reverse of this medal upset the leadership at the Exposition because a nude man (St. Gaudens' son, Homer, was the model) appeared on the reverse. The fact that Barber had some topless ladies in his disign did not seem to phase the powers at be.

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  • baddogssbaddogss Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's actually a large size Milan Medal. I need to get the holder redone, one day.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,183 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice tokens jmj. image
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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This stamp features the same portrait as the Columbian half, but facing in the opposite direction.

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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some really neat pieces posted image

    This one I bought on Teletrade awhile back because it had a lot going for it. It was dated 1909 (my favorite year for coins). It has Columbus on it and the Columbian Halves are one of my favorite classic commemoratives. And it's from Joliet, IL which is where I grew up. I tried to do a little research on this one via the Internet and haven't found out much more than what is on the slab label. It says Columbus University on the coin, but I know of no such university in or near Joliet. Anyways, it's pretty cool and I think it cost me around $30.

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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a superb medal, Bill. And the nicest photos you've ever shown us!
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