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nencoinnencoin Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭✭
An HK-852(a?) struck over a Peace Dollar!



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  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421
    How in hell did that happen? It's cool though.
  • kookoox10kookoox10 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭
    Stunning, I'm perplexed as well as to how this ended up in the press. Can anybody guess what the VAM would be? image
  • nencoinnencoin Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭✭
    According to the HK book, Bashlow (who bought the dies from Q. David Bowers' company, Empire Coin) produced "a few trial pieces in various metals." This is presumably one of those trial pieces.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sweet... Bashlow also struck them over $20 Liberty Gold pieces.
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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool!
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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    any idea who owns the dies now??
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>any idea who owns the dies now?? >>



    Robert Bashlow donated them to the Smithsonian when he was done.
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,516 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It would be cool to see the a Peace dollar struck on a so-called dollar!

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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Awesome!


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,612 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How in hell did that happen? >>



    Ask Dan Carr.image

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  • numismanumisma Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>To bad it wasn't a 1964 Peace dollarimage >>



    That is the very first thing that popped into my mind. For some reason I thought that I saw a 1964 ghost date. lol

    Does anyone know what the S is at the 6:30 reverse periphery?

    Very cool So-Called Dollar trial piece!
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the "S" represents Silver and is on the Bashlow restrikes while the Dickeson issues from 1876 in Silver had nothing. there is also a slight difference in thickness between the two.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The mention of the '64 Peace dollar raised a question in my mind..... I wonder what will happen to the extant piece(s) when the current owner(s) perish. image Cheers, RickO
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    amazing.
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  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,289 ✭✭✭
    That's just pretty flippin' cool.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kewl! Had not seen that one!
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  • You know Ricko, I bet that since 1964, that has happened to owner of one. But I also bet that it changed hands before the demise. Unless it was an untimely death. Certainly something to think about.
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>How in hell did that happen? >>



    Ask Dan Carr.image >>



    Apparently it was carefully and intentionally crafted that way.
    The perfect upright alignment of the over-strike is evidence of that.


    PS:
    It doesn't have the word "COPY" on it anywhere.
    So where are the folks who usually complain about such things being a travesty ?
    This could fool some novice collector into spending a lot of money on what they thought was a genuine original, right ? (not)
    Personally, I think it is a very neat item.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,554 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>How in hell did that happen? >>



    Ask Dan Carr.image >>



    Apparently it was carefully and intentionally crafted that way.
    The perfect upright alignment of the over-strike is evidence of that.


    PS:
    It doesn't have the word "COPY" on it anywhere.
    So where are the folks who usually complain about such things being a travesty ?
    This could fool some novice collector into spending a lot of money on what they thought was a genuine original, right ? (not)
    Personally, I think it is a very neat item. >>



    Mr. Bashlow used these dies circa 1961, well before the Hobby Protection Act of 1973 required that henceforth imitation numismatic items be stamped with the word COPY.

    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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