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NEWP- If two heads are better then one then what are three heads better then?

JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited February 23, 2018 8:00PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Ok I also collect macabre themed medals and tokens. For the record I’ve never pulled a wing off of a butterfly. I picked this up today at Long Beach from CRO who was holding it for me. I wanted to reholder it skull side up.

mark


It’s also being regraded.

It will live in the same box as this

Walker Proof Digital Album
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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,610 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great looking medals, both of them. I saw them in John's Early Bird email and knew they wouldn't last long.
    Congrats

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,725 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool pair! B)

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  • CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool!

  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Skull side up. Wonder if PCGS has ever seen that written on a submission form?

    Way cool ... you think it might fit in a normal size slab? ... seems close ....

  • shishshish Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those are some nice Skull's & Chopper's. B)

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I thought skulling was a Summer Olympics event!

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No ‘please’ ? .... you’re pushing your luck buddy! :sunglasses:

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The lady who wrote that was totally cracking up

    m

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The one skull on your new coin reminds me of this!

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 23, 2018 10:06PM

    3 can keep secret if all 3 are dead! :smile:

  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome triplets!

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice, I like it !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • gtstanggtstang Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember seeing it on CRO's website.
    Sweet piece! Congrats on the purchase.

  • DaveWcoinsDaveWcoins Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭

    Super cool item!

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,381 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It amazes me that things that old still exist in that kind of condition. Over the years it should have been pulled out countless times for show and tell and to show friends.

  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    great medals!

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  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had noticed the piece hiding in Atlas’s extensive inventory a few weeks before it showed on CRO early bird. Their usually thin descriptions said the Man depicted was a scientist who studied races and the medal depicts three different races skulls and their differences. I guess they would know.

    Neat piece, I figured you would be all over it.

  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ausgezeichnet!
    You must have quite an eclectic collection, from what I remember of some of your other acquisitions.

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  • uscoinguyuscoinguy Posts: 150 ✭✭✭

    This one of the best features of this forum- I get so see great items like these that I never knew existed. Very cool- thanks for sharing.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool pieces.... That is the type of macabre piece I would pick up at a show..... I just like weird things like that. Cheers, RickO

  • numismagramnumismagram Posts: 151 ✭✭✭

    That one is an awesome piece with great toning! I've had a few in bronze, and always love getting them in stock, along with other skull/skeleton tokens and medals. If you're looking for more info on the type, here is a brief article I wrote about them for the e-sylum: http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n05a28.html

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jeremy that is way awesome! Thank you from the top of my noggin

    m

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Today’s Topic: 諺 / ことわざ / Proverb
    Kanji: 三人寄れば文殊の知恵
    Kana: さんにんよればもんじゅのちえ
    Translation: Three heads are better than one.

    Okay, so the English equivalent is “two heads are better than one,” but the Japanese say three instead of two and, rather than comparing it negatively to one person, they compare three people favorably to a bodhisattva. In Buddhism, there is a Buddha (or “bodhisattva”) of Transcendent Wisdom named Mañjuśrī, or “文殊” in Japanese. This deity wields a flaming sword of wisdom that slices and dices through ignorance and hypocrisy.

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  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 21, 2018 8:55PM

    You've been on a tear lately Mark, some super nice Newps. Keep them coming!!!!

    And BTW, that proof Walker is gorgeous.


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