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Serious Contender for Most Abused Historical Coin

Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,829 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 28, 2018 3:10PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Came across this last night in a box of miscellaneous junk that I bought a long time ago - so no need to tell me to pass and look for a better one ;)
Records indicate I paid $1.25 for it, probably about melt value at that time.
So how'd I do LOL.


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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lot and lots of mileage left in that....good for small change among other things.

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,595 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If this coin could talk it’d be going “Owww..” over and over.

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  • MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love it!!!! Great deal!!!!

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2018 3:40PM

    Generally speaking, such an award for habitual coin abuse MUST go to the Mexican 8 Reales coin.

    Supposedly,this is a plate coin from 'Chopmarks by Rose'. I've owned it about 15 years, and it just resurfaced in my messy mess last week:

    This puppy has been chopped enough that it is slightly concave.

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This seems to fit the bill:


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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭✭✭

    HoledandCreative needs to post a pic of his 1856 Flying Eagle cent. :)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That chop marked Reale is amazing... I do think it is the one in the Rose book...will have to dig it out of my library... Cheers, RickO

  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 29, 2018 8:07AM

    Serious Contender for Most Abused Historical Coin...The Hunley $20 imo.

  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 29, 2018 8:51AM

    You could use mine as a candy dish, but I think Bill has mine beat:


  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 29, 2018 8:22AM



    This things been around, guess one could always add a script name and date if you could find a spot.

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lots of serious contenders!

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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,959 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To the OP:
    Nice and a great price

    Frank

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  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not too badly abused.


  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The mark of Zorro........................


    Pete

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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think Bill's visited every major marketplace in China, and a few minor ones.

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  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The original post is absolutely absurdly beaten...that's a really cool piece!

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The original post is absolutely absurdly beaten...that's a really cool piece!
    It looks like it was turned into a crude love token with the script lettering and holed, then later counterstamped on the reverse, then later graffiti was done to the reverse. Yes, I wished it could talk!

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 24,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like that coin!

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  • CoinlearnerCoinlearner Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here is one that was deliberately defaced. Why anyone would damage a higher grade coin,is a mystery.

  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Didn't AirplaneNut have a coin that ANACS gave like 6 or 7 different problems?

    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A really pathetic Bust Dime if I remember correctly.

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