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So what are some of the more interesting, off beat, coins in your collection?

SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
US Coins primarily, but if you have an interesting non US coin tell us about that also.

For me a few are:

1. A clipped 1969 D Kennedy half;

2. Two die clashed 1965 SMS dimes;

3. A split planchet (reverse side only) Jefferson nickel;

4. A 1963 proof set and a 1964 proof set in OGP with five coins that are Cameo in appearance (two sided frost on the devices and deep mirrored fields; some of the coins may even warrant a Cameo designation);

5. A 1961 DDR proof half dollar (the big one) that may be a Cameo that I found in an OGP set;

6. A 1923 silver coin from Central America (Costa Rica if I recall) with a counterstamp; and

7. A 1944 circulated Walker that has a small hole in it and that has an engraved inscription from a WWII solider (the inscription mentions Hawaii so I suspect the coin was obtained by the solider while on active duty in Hawaii during WWII and that he put the hole in it and used it as a pocket piece or on a key chain). I found it at a local bank branch sitting in a tray of coins including a number of half dollars.

How about you?

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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

    Picked up a broadstruck steel cent many years ago. I don't collect errors, but I've always like it.


    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A quarter that lost it's skin. The one on the left is just for comparison.
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    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fun splasher - die by Longacre.

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    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    LOL, all of them.
  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,944 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My local coin club meets once a month. We always have raffle tickets and a nice selection of assorted coins to choose from if your number comes up.
    I try and choose a coin I would normaly not buy for myself... I've won probably 5 or 6 different times, here are some of my choices that have nothing
    to do with my collection... just what I found to be interesting.
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