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lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Let's see your "creatively damaged" coins, be they hobo carvings, love tokens, counterstamps, graffiti coins, coin jewelry, or anything else odd or interesting done with a coin!



This started out as "HOBO & LOVE TOKEN TUESDAY", but there's so much more to it, and I can't always keep up with a Tuesday schedule, so let's make it an ongoing thing, hopefully something like the Seated and Barber megathreads.



Here were the first two threads. I encourage anyone who posted their stuff to those threads to repost 'em here, and we can keep this going with the occasional bump when somebody adds something interesting.



HOBO & LOVE TOKEN TUESDAY (vol. 1)

HOBO & LOVE TOKEN TUESDAY (vol. 2)

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll post my late-July newps here once I've got the pix uploaded and such.



    In the meantime, post yer goodies! Let's see some cool, weird, beautiful, ugly, bizarre, and/or interesting stuff!

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,145 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks, DC. Hope you continue to post stuff. I know you've got plenty. image

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow... very nice Dan....

    And thanks LordM...this is a great idea... Cheers, RickO
  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's a quarter

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  • NVUNVU Posts: 284 ✭✭✭
    I will snap a few pictures of my hobo collection in my next visit to SDB and post them here. In the meantime, repost of what I have to keep this thread going.

    "Odin" by Marcus Hunt
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    "Windy" by Howard Thomas
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    Fun thread. image

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    LordM,



    I love these threads. My kind of stuff.

    I hope to start getting some pictures together and start contributing next week.



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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Twobitcollector

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    That's neat. Very intricate looking.



    PS- but it doesn't look like it's done on an actual Buffalo nickel host coin, somehow?



    Is that a larger struck token, by any chance? Silver round, maybe?

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  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A couple stars of my collection

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    The dime is from San Francisco. The star on the cent seems slightly irregular.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like those starry coins. Particularly the IHC, for some reason. They've got character.



    Lance's popout Barber stickpin is also nice- nicer than the norm for those, I think.



    I am way behind on my recent newps and hope to add a few soon.

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  • TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: lordmarcovan
    Originally posted by: Twobitcollector
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    That's neat. Very intricate looking.

    PS- but it doesn't look like it's done on an actual Buffalo nickel host coin, somehow?

    Is that a larger struck token, by any chance? Silver round, maybe?


    It's a silver round

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1892 Columbian Expo Half Dollar made into a cigar cutter. Well made. Blade is spring released by pressing the button on the edge. A friend that collects items from the Columbian Expo says that this is only the second one of these he has seen. He has been trying to obtain one for his collection for over ten years and has yet to find one for sale.



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  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That columbian cigar cutter is off the charts!!!!
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  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A draped bust large cent - what looks like an "M" in a heart. Someone suggested Martinique, West Indies. I don't know the Sheldon number.

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, DrunkenSquirrelDude!



    I've seen those Napoleonic-era Cartwheel coppers before- you know what I think of 'em. image



    But what is that love token with the waterbirds on it? That is fan-freakin'-tastic! Looks like a pretty large host coin... silver dollar?

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: lordmarcovan
    Wow, DrunkenSquirrelDude!

    I've seen those Napoleonic-era Cartwheel coppers before- you know what I think of 'em. image

    But what is that love token with the waterbirds on it? That is fan-freakin'-tastic! Looks like a pretty large host coin... silver dollar?


    Morgan dollar .
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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DUIGUY, Great pieces!!! These are not as nice as yours, but it reminded me of a couple of Britannia pieces I own.



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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: MWallace
    DUIGUY, Great pieces!!! These are not as nice as yours, but it reminded me of a couple of Britannia pieces I own.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow...NVU, that 'Windy' nickel is awesome....Cheers, RickO
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: dcarr
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    I'm prety sure this is thee nicest one I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing this one Danimage
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MWallace- we can't all have pieces like DUIsquirrel.



    I like your Cartwheel coppers just fine.

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  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since I have the starry cent and dime above, I couldn't resist this

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  • dukiduki Posts: 72 ✭✭


    Just bought these off ebay.

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 19, 2017 4:01PM

    From LM.:)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If I could post a picture... It would be of the Frog love token I got from LordM.... I know he posted pictures of it in one of the previous threads. Cheers, RickO

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    If I could post a picture... It would be of the Frog love token I got from LordM.... I know he posted pictures of it in one of the previous threads. Cheers, RickO

    :)


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  • CyndieChildressCyndieChildress Posts: 429 ✭✭✭

    @dcarr said:

    Wow.!.! Cool artwork

  • CyndieChildressCyndieChildress Posts: 429 ✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan said:

    WOW ~ So neat.!.!

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All I see are X's.?

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great picture of the frog LordM...Thanks... Cheers, RickO

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,614 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @grip said:
    All I see are X's.?

    Same here...what happened?

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  • nk1nknk1nk Posts: 477 ✭✭✭✭

    Really enjoyed this thread!! Some of the older guy/gals probably won't know what a fidget spinner is but this ones pretty cool.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I dunno what keeps happening with the images.

    H&C's most recent post above this one are all broken now, too.

    Pix seem to show a while and then go bad.

    I thought it might just be me, but no- apparently this software has issues.


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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LordM, It's happening to me too.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow. A Hawaiian half cutout!

    H&C, your stuff never ceases to amaze.

    Probably makes the more mainstream folks cry or gnash their teeth, but I love it. Those "heartbreaker" coins can be heartbreaking and appealing all at the same time.


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some nice coins here.... not sure why the images reverted to IP addresses... but worth checking out... Cheers, RickO

  • KnellKnell Posts: 456 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't know if this would qualify as coin art but I thought I'd share a couple of posters I bought just because they have Buffalo coin and Peace dollar coin in them

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Knell said:
    Don't know if this would qualify as coin art but I thought I'd share a couple of posters I bought just because they have Buffalo coin and Peace dollar coin in them

    That's more "art with coins" than it is "coins with art", but it works, as far as I'm concerned. Cool posters.

    Why do you suppose they put the coins in them?


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