Awesome Hobo Morgan Dollar (Futurama fans will appreciate greatly!)
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But... four-figure awesome? I don't think so.
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The reverse could read "Bite my shiny metal ..."
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There is an excellent market for high quality hobo nickel carvings. Especially pieces done on silver dollars. I figured it would go for at least $700 USD, and it has surpassed that and more. Could nearly double my estimate by the time it finishes today.
Holy price tag! That's cool but not $1k + cool imo. Great artistry though! Mike Kittle had one I almost was forced to buy. It was a Morgan carved in the likeness of Jeff Daniels charcter "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski. Unfortunately I didn't see it until the last day of the show and already blew my wad, and then some.
That's something I'd like to see.........however I believe it's Jeff Bridges
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I saw this on reddit the other day. Didn't get around to posting it here.
There is an excellent market for high quality hobo nickel carvings. Especially pieces done on silver dollars. I figured it would go for at least $700 USD, and it has surpassed that and more. Could nearly double my estimate by the time it finishes today.
Damn. You called it dude!
Too bad nobody has the brains to bring it back and make more episodes instead of the other drivel on TV.
I'm not entirely surprised by the final sale price. I can see why people would want/like it.
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Holy price tag! That's cool but not $1k + cool imo. Great artistry though! Mike Kittle had one I almost was forced to buy. It was a Morgan carved in the likeness of Jeff Daniels charcter "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski. Unfortunately I didn't see it until the last day of the show and already blew my wad, and then some.
Don't have a close up pic of just "The Dude" but here it is w/ another coin of Marilyn Monroe that I sold:
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It sold huh. Well that was a few long beaches ago lol. See you in a week!
Holy price tag! That's cool but not $1k + cool imo. Great artistry though! Mike Kittle had one I almost was forced to buy. It was a Morgan carved in the likeness of Jeff Daniels charcter "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski. Unfortunately I didn't see it until the last day of the show and already blew my wad, and then some.
Don't have a close up pic of just "The Dude" but here it is w/ another that has been sold:
I think that type of photo engraving is done by laser or computer-controlled milling/engraving machine. It isn't too difficult to convert the brightness of each "pixel" in a digital image into a depth (darker=deeper) and then cut to that depth. 3-D sculpted surfaces are more difficult to do than these which are mostly flat with intaglio-like engraving.
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