Post your Pillars!
Inspired by the recent "I Bought a Pillar..." thread, post your Pillars:






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I had a little flashback to when my Dad used to call "pillows" - "pillars".
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Recent photography by a board member, turned out very well:
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Wow those are nice!!
Makes the one I posted look like it has one foot in the refinery crucible.

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1740 'Ship wreck' 4 Reales Pillar3 -
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@dcarr said:
Not quite what was asked for, but technically they fit the request

Well that is cool
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These things have some pillars on them. They are all I have.
I just realized I have some DC pillar stuff squirrels away.
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Awesome typeset Boosibri........ Here is my one and only ...... for now

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OK... this thread has pushed me over the edge.... been thinking about getting one of these for a while... (I do have a counterfeit).... but off to the BST and ebay.... time to get one.... Cheers, RickO
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@ricko said:
OK... this thread has pushed me over the edge.... been thinking about getting one of these for a while... (I do have a counterfeit).... but off to the BST and ebay.... time to get one.... Cheers, RickOThe AU ex Norweb coin in CRO would be a good choice.
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It is darker in hand. Got it from Coin Rarities 8 years ago. Going to put it on the BST tonight.
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Oh.......those pillars! Had me going there for a second.

Nice coins, BTW.
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
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I have a handful of them, but this is probably the highest grading example:

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great coins in this thread!
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@steveben said:
great coins in this thread!Indeed!
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HK-485 Piece of Eight/Treasure Island Dollar from the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition
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I really like these coins and would like to get the smaller denomination coins too.
Here's mine, with seller pics. Nice coins everyone. Thanks, Bob
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A recent acquisition, I paid out the nose for it, but they're tough as nails to find!

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slightly better pics...


A Mexico 8

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Currently own this one in PCGS AU50. I like these coins a lot, and can see myself purchasing more.
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Nice pillars. Here are a couple cobs of mine with nice full pillars; a Carlos and Joanna 1 reales (1547-1553) and a Phillip V 2 reales (1706).
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Would this nice marketing ploy qualify?







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Here are a couple I picked up in the wild several years ago..had to do a quick check to see that I didn't post them earlier.
These old threads can be tricky 🤔


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So manny beautiful pillars posted. I hope to own a nice example soon but, have this little piece for now.

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@coinsarefun said:
So manny beautiful pillars posted. I hope to own a nice example soon but, have this little piece for now.
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Okay, I’ll trade ya straight up!!

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@coinsarefun said:
So manny beautiful pillars posted. I hope to own a nice example soon but, have this little piece for now.
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CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album FOR SALE SOME will mark final ones before auction
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A few from my archives.
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A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
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