Post a picture of a holed or damaged coin that you’re happy to own...
MrEureka
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As far as I know, this is unique. I would love to find a better one but I am not holding my breath.
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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It was only fifty bucks, and I have another primo specimen...
Wow, wow, wow.
Here I go...
Rare Spanish 2 Reales from Mexico City, Philip V type. A key date, this one was absent from the generally comprehensive Norweb group, to give some perspective.
Justa $300 filler for a 15mm coin that would cost around $45K if it ever becomes available in BU. The lucky detail here, is that the hole is punched away from the date that usually ends up unreadable. I also enjoy holed silver crowns for my various key rings.
Andy, yours is spectacular.
myEbay
DPOTD 3
I'm happy to have this 1829 Estado de Guatemala real, test punch mark and all
Highly enthusiastic about world coins, contemporary circulating counterfeits and unusual stuff
Not special, but keeping with a 'South of the Border' proclivity, here...
This one had a really gnarly hole, I fixed it a bit, years ago...
Not a coin, but a funeral token---and the cancellation ring stamp on the obverse and reverse were punched as a form of receipt, so the 'damage' was intentional by design---so this is probably more of a tangential fit for this thread. But, it is Halloween soon and nothing says Halloween like this...
NETHERLANDS. Maastricht. St. Martin cast brass Funeral Token (Begrafenisloodje). Issued 1733. Receipt for prepaid funerary expenses. Skull and crossbones; star below / S MARTINI, Saint Martin riding horse left, head right, giving his cloak to a beggar to right. Minard 357. Cancellation ring on horse and skull (evidence of payment for funeral)
Jeremy Bostwick
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One of these would look great in my collection - hole and all.
8 Reales Madness Collection
Love that 1732-Mo 2R
Latin American Collection
Should I add that to your want list?
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I will take the button...
Scratched, cleaned, hairlines... Yet I have never seen another one, so happy to own it despite its imperfections. Proclamation medal, Emperor Agustin, Oaxaca Mexico 1822.
Middlesex Spence D&H #749
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
My entire collection costs about the same as that holey dollar - I think I'll pass for now
8 Reales Madness Collection
@farthing
I understand the "problem", but it wouldn't bother me.
Very nice!
1684 English Farthing. AU "Environmental Details
I have several which I posted in the past:
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/961848/filling-holes-with-damaged-coins-anglo-saxon-collection
Wiglaf of Mercia. Less than a dozen known of this shadowy English monarch of the 9th century.
Aethelwald Moll of Northumbria. Three known of these even shadowier English monarch of the 8th century.
A holed example of BHM 653 for George III's 50 year jubilee.
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Ireland, early 18th century token.
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Some lovely coins in this thread, holes, damage, and all.
With regard to comments like “missing from the Norweb Collection,” which I am also guilty of making, I’ve come to the following conclusion.
They were missing not because of their absolute rarity (like the marketers seem to imply), but because of their condition rarity. Mrs Norweb didn’t want a comparatively low grade coin in her collection of high grade coins, so she simply did without and waited for a nicer one. Given the availability of good coins during her collecting tenure, I can’t imagine she wasn’t offered every rare coin available. She just chose not to buy some of them.
While the above coin is a beautiful and historically important coin, you have to agree it wouldn’t fit her collection. Same with my 1732 Mo 2R.
Good stuff, thanks for adding this @pruebas. I really respect the magnificent collections that were “ok” with some holes because the available examples didn’t fit the quality. It doesn’t lessen the accomplishment to me, in fact it goes to show just how tough some of them must be in high grade. As you pointed out, they were offered the nice stuff if it existed.
The chopmarks on this one explain why there probably aren’t any (or many) high grade examples.
Aside, slightly OT -- I vaguely remember Mrs. Norweb appearing on some episode(s) of the original 'Jeopardy' game show on television, hosted by Art Fleming. IIRC, Mrs. Norweb played on behalf of some charity, and she mopped-up several games. She may have worn a mink stole (one of her personal trademarks) on one episode! She was presented as a great and imminent lady and scholar, and it made an impression on me. This was when most television was still mostly in black and white.
Young Mr. and Mrs. R. Henry Norweb
The older Mrs. Norweb
Then there is the story of how Mrs. Norweb sat on one of Walter Breen's chocolate candy bars, while wearing a mink coat, at some coin dealer's office (maybe J. Ford's office). They did not have the guts to tell her, and she left with a candy bar stuck in the back of her mink. [IIRC, QDB wrote up this incident some years ago.]
Have I said this week that I despise spellchecker?
I made a further biographical comment on Mrs. Norweb that was perhaps incorrect. I will research it some more.
That's neat to hear that she was on Jeopardy.
My wife appeared on the show last year, and I've tried out too (but was not invited to appear).
Years ago, my Dad gave me this coin in a group he said my Grandpa brought back from his WWII service. If I remember correctly, he was in Africa, India and various Middle Eastern places on his tour.
It’s about the size of a US silver dollar. The design is cool and the hole doesn’t bother me in the least as I know it’s passed through some important family hands.
This is a jewelry piece. I often imagine a high official in the church wearing this around his neck. I purchased several years back from a forum member in England,
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This thread needs @oreville !
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Sixpence
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
It may be true that it "extremely scares in any grade", but your piece is absolutely terrifying!
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Mr. Eureka,
and it is all in the eyes of the beholder. But it is still a 1889 10 cent.
that may be so
I take this one any day for $3.
Lets see your Canada 1889 10 cent with a hole please.
@carabonnair
Lots of people would be very happy with that sixpence!
All the important design elements are all there!
Some I have pictures of:
A member here owns a 1955/55 PCGS holed cent I'd love if he would post again.
peacockcoins
@HoledandCreative
Those are all excellent, especially Henry VII.
George II is so nice (and a Lima treasure coin) that one might rue the hole just a little bit!
Dang! A spinner made out of a 55 double die!
Nice square nail hole in a Saxony half thaler 1547.
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Only one I found in any auction records - none to compare with and detailed as rare on KM without pricing information. Can not be picky and bought it in spite of the surface damage.
Taler Custom Set
Ancient Custom Set
Don't blame me! You're the one who said your coin "scares"!
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ok , you win!
This William III halfcrown has what looks to be a W.B on the reverse. I think this matches most closely to William Burch who registered his mark in London in March, 1788 according to http://silvermakersmarks.co.uk/
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This is hard to see because it's really dark and a scanner can only do so much. My grandfather brought this back from WWII. I was unable to ask him about it as I never met him. I like to imagine the two damage marks were this coin protecting him from shrapnel or some such, but probably not.
I cannot believe I missed this thread!!
Mrs. Norweb was my mentor as she really took a liking to me when I attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. We met at the bank safe deposit we both attended in Cleveland, Ohio back in 1972. I saw almost her entire collection as she was so very proud of it. The first coin she was proud to show me was the holed 1795 $10 her father gave to her as her very first coin she ever owned!
Later on I was fortunate enough to buy such coin at an auction as she told me she would never ever sell that coin as it was closest to her heart.
But had it not been for tradedollarnut's help I would have lost out on that very special coin with the hole in it!!
No pics???
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NGC details for the reverse rim damage.
Conder Token Gallery https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMCiunai6NjOxoo3zREkCsAnNm4vONzieO3u7tHyhm8peZmRD_A0MXmnWT2dzJ-nw?key=Rlo2YklUSWtEY1NWc3BfVm90ZEUwU25jLUZueG9n