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BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
I'm saddened to find out that the obverse design is instead a portrait of General Ambrose Burnside and his famous sideburns image

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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day.


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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>



    He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons imageimage
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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • coin4salecoin4sale Posts: 375 ✭✭✭
    looks a little like Grover from sesame street
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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,042 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm saddened to find out that the obverse design is instead a portrait of General Ambrose Burnside and his famous sideburns image

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    This is funny as hell!!!image
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  • Hahahaha!

    I wonder what kind of reactions I would get if I did my beard that way today.

    I think I could pull that off and I have just slightly less (well ... actually about the same amount) of hair on top of my head as Burnside too.

    I think I will save that picture and if I get the nerve up to do that I will have to post a comparative composite. image
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That style of facial hair was moderately common in 19th century Europe. It was favored by two emperors, Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and Alexander II of Russia.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hahahaha!

    I wonder what kind of reactions I would get if I did my beard that way today.

    I think I could pull that off and I have just slightly less (well ... actually about the same amount) of hair on top of my head as Burnside too.

    I think I will save that picture and if I get the nerve up to do that I will have to post a comparative composite. image >>



    Please keep us posted! image
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,727 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>



    He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons imageimage >>


    Not sure I get the joke.image

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>



    He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons imageimage >>


    Not sure I get the joke.image >>



    If you look at the photo of Burnside he's unable to button 4,5,6... 7 was a major stretch.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,727 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>

    << <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>



    He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons imageimage >>


    Not sure I get the joke.image >>



    If you look at the photo of Burnside he's unable to button 4,5,6... 7 was a major stretch. >>


    Now I get it. I'm a little slow before I've had my second cup of coffee. image

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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like he ate a porcupine.
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That coin looks like the inspiration for one of my favorite straight men of all time:


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  • kimber45ACPkimber45ACP Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The reason those buttons were undone was because he had a concealed shoulder holster...had to be open to quickly reach his firearm....Cheers, RickO
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    These replies really had me laughing!
    His nose looks like Alice the Goon from the old comic, and, the Popeye cartoon.
    Not a flattering image.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I wonder what the Ambrose thought when he saw one of these back in the day. >>



    He might have been happy as it only shows the top 3 buttons imageimage >>

    yeah, no kidding, lmao.
  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a great token. I've never had that one......
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,685 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How many of you think that this is Lincoln? The dies were cut by the same Rhode Island die sinker who cut the Burnside die. It is believed that the last name of this die sinker was Charnley. He had problems with faces, which came out rather cartoonish, but he was the only CWT die sinker used capital and small letters on his dies.

    This obverse variety is quite rare. It appears on a number of Civil War tokens, but all of the varieties that include it are rare. The CWT varity number is Fuld RI 700G-1a. It is rare enough that the late Steve Tannenbaum wanted to buy it from me after I won it in an auction. I don't think that he had seen another one. It is rated as an R-9, 2 to 4 known.
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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FYI, the reason those three buttons were open was for him to insert his hand (ala Napoleon) for picture taking purposes. In many CW images you will see higher ranking officers (particularly generals) with the hand thrust inside the jacket. Napoleon was an icon at that time and his tactics were taught to and used by officers on both sides of the conflict (with disastrous results).

    Edit to add...Bill, that Lincoln piece is excellent.

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