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  • jt88jt88 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hong Kong "Tian Tan Buddha Statue" Medal 1993 NGC MS68 BN, 32mm. This medal is made of copper material left over from the casting of the Great Buddha. It was released after consecration.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • TheGoonies1985TheGoonies1985 Posts: 6,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just went threw the full topic some extraordinary coins!!!

    NFL: Buffalo Bills & Green Bay Packers

  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,582 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jt88 said:
    Mintage is only one. So it is unique 100 pounds. The hallmark on the upper right is very typical British style, just like the hallmark on the silverware.

    @jt88 said:
    Pope Paul VI personal gift to Edwin/Buzz Aldrin after the historical Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969

    You are on a roll, @jt88!

  • jt88jt88 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am pretty sure there are many out there but people just don't send it to grade.

  • AbueloAbuelo Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2025 8:30PM

    Time for another Top Pop. There you have this Chihuahua 50 centavos. Not just Top Pop, but the only coin certified for the mint and year combination. You know, almost as rare as a Morgan dollar...


  • AbueloAbuelo Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2025 8:57PM

    Here is another one. Twice as common as the previous one as there are 2 coins graded for the mint and year combination... and this is the top pop!


  • SametsSamets Posts: 168 ✭✭✭

    What a great thread!

  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭✭

    Most of the pop tops I had 10 years ago have been left in the dust, but this one might keep the title for a bit longer.

    1761 Teutonic Order 3 Kreuzer - MS-66

  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 17, 2025 7:47AM

    sorry, wrong forum

    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is this pop top by Grading Service or pop top with all services combined? Thought I would ask so I know how much work is involved at the outset. I know… the question could have been asked years ago.

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  • KiwiNumiKiwiNumi Posts: 189 ✭✭✭

    @coinkat said:
    Is this pop top by Grading Service or pop top with all services combined? Thought I would ask so I know how much work is involved at the outset. I know… the question could have been asked years ago.

    Either one. Plenty of posts in this thread stating their coin is top pop by PCGS but NGC has higher graded coins and vice versa.

  • AbueloAbuelo Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @johnjohn10 a 68, very impressive. Congratulations!

  • threefiftythreefifty Posts: 80 ✭✭✭
    edited March 18, 2025 4:29AM

    I have posted this one before, I realized it was technically tied for Top Pop (VG10) at PCGS after I bought it. I am not sure what the line is between those graded Genuine (as most are) vs straight grades, perhaps the host date has to be visible? Either way, it's one of my favorites!

  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @threefifty said:
    I have posted this one before, I realized it was technically tied for Top Pop (VG10) at PCGS after I bought it. I am not sure what the line is between those graded Genuine (as most are) vs straight grades, perhaps the host date has to be visible? Either way, it's one of my favorites!

    These Sinaloa pieces are curious. Is there a book that describes the conditions that led to this issue?

  • AbueloAbuelo Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TwoKopeiki these were casted in the sand during the Mexican Revolution. Very famous as such. Any book on revolutionary coinage from Mexico will describe them.

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 19, 2025 5:29AM

    Guyana in the House! The only graded specimens and unknown to exist until published earlier this year, copper-nickel and graded MS68 and MS 69:

    1976FM, Prooflike Uncirculated, Five Dollars -

    1976FM, Prooflike, Uncirculated, One Dollar -


    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For the Modern British crowd- 1965 Churchill DDR - MS65-currently the only one graded by our Host

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Last one for now- 1891 Florin- still is the only MS example graded by our Host - MS64

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  • ClioClio Posts: 576 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @johnjohn10 said:
    I really used to collect British for awhile before concentrating on my German and Swiss. I had the pleasure of attending the last (the last for this location since they were going to shut the hotel down for renovations) London Coin Fair at the Cumberland Hotel across from the Marble Arch in September 1994. Upside just fantast material! Downside my wife was with me and pregnant with our first child so my budget was next to nothing. To go back now!!!

    These are a couple of the the coins from the show that are still at the top. I have other 3 Pence, 6 Pence and Shillings I got there but they are only 66 or 66+ and not at the top any more.

    I continue to be incredibly envious of your shillings. You really did well with that first group and in all my searching I own maybe just 1 which can come close to hold a candle to them.

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  • johnjohn10johnjohn10 Posts: 45 ✭✭✭

    @Clio said:

    I continue to be incredibly envious of your shillings. You really did well with that first group and in all my searching I own maybe just 1 which can come close to hold a candle to them.

    You have some super coins, really like your early shillings. I wish I would have started collecting the earlier ones. Now very hard to find them in the "wild" which I prefer!

  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 22, 2025 5:41PM

    Well, help me post this one - Great Britain 1848/6 Halfcrown, MS64. The only graded specimen and Top Pop:

    https://d1htnxwo4o0jhw.cloudfront.net/cert/72058670/37206867.jpg

    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
    Well, just Love coins, period.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some very attractive coins have been added

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1735 Shilling- only MS example graded by our host

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The only one graded by our host- this is actually a tough coin to find in any grade

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