It's Labor Day weekend, post something you worked hard for.
DCW
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Happy Labor Day weekend, everyone! Hope you all have some time off from work to relax with your treasures. As I sit here enjoying my coffee on this fine morning before the kids wake up, I reflect on all the work it takes to balance collecting these discs of metal with life's responsibilities.
Numismatics, to varying degrees, is also work. Not just physical work, like putting in extra hours to drum up funds for a new purchase, but there is a lot of time involved in searching, researching, and acquiring new pieces for one's collection. And "Time is Money," as they say in the trade.
It is nice to stop and take a breath once in a while to see where you're at. It brings me great joy to view my collection and to see what I achieved by working hard.
Post a coin, medal or token that you worked your tail off to put into your collection. Take a moment to remember on this Labor Day the time and effort you put forth in making progress in your collection.
1863 Good for a Scent-Excelsior Club, 19mm white metal by Joseph H. Merriam. Boston, MA
While it may not look like much, this is the most expensive piece in my collection.
Just this one example is known to exist, and it is pedigreed back to all the great Civil War token collectors before me.
Bowers-Tanenbaum-Rossa-Fuld.
It took me months to purchase it, but it was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I decided was worth the effort.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
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Appraising a collection my aunt inherited and when I was done she was kind enough to give me two silver dollars of my choice I picked a ms 1886 and ms 1922 for my 7070.
Like photos of your "fun car!"
I worked hard to complete my Morgan CC set.... do not have pictures. That was a labor of love over about nine years. Finished just prior to retirement. Sure, a lot of other coins I have were high priced, however, they do not represent the time and effort put into the CC set. Cheers, RickO
For me it would be this one... No Line Doily Sample
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
This is the one I immediately thought of when I read the title of this thread. I put aside commissions from sales that I worked a little harder on and eventually they added up to a G4 example. My patience was wearing thin and I settled. As always looking back I could still "handle the hole in the set" and have a nicer one as a goal. Now if I ever get the urge again I will have to upgrade I suppose.
It took me a about a year to find this, and needless to say it took a fair amount of financial resources as well.
A couple of years before I got serious about the 1796 Quarter Eagle, there were a number of okay to nice pieces offered at the shows. Then when I did get serious about it, the market seemed to dry up. The few pieces that were around had problems, some of them serious problems that were not marked on the holder.
I worked with a couple dealers, but nothing turned up. Finally I got to attend a major auction where this one was offered. It is now in an NGC MS-62 holder, but I knew from my research that it had been in an NGC 61 holder the last time it was sold at auction. The truth is, there are not that many nice examples of this coin, so you can trace the better ones. The price I paid would have probably been the same as the amount it sold for a couple of years earlier, but the the house increments were slightly different so I ended up paying a little more.
Well, not as cool as BillJones' beauty, but I recently added this to my type set. I needed this "D" mintmark too, so it's a double victory for me.
My pics sorta suck, but i hope you get an idea of what it looks like.
Happy Labor Day and try not to work at all this weekend
Lifestyle
Dang, I couldn't have said it better, except that I turned that hobby (coin collecting) into a second business. Extremely hard work will pay off.
This was too much money for a dime at the time. I don't think I had lunch after the show lol
These two are currently making up for my complete lack of a lifestyle:
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
@Regulated
Sweet coins. I love the Pine Tree Shilling, but I need details on that 1942 cent! That doesnt look like a normal proof
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
The Lincoln Cent is a 1942 pattern in white metal that I've been researching - it's anything but normal, and I need to get writing about it.
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
Wow, it looks copper in the photos. Love it! And I knew I've seen that one before in a recent auction. Sure is hammered
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Hand-wrought silver beer "cann" by goldsmith Ephraim Brasher, circa 1770.
Brasher was a patriot, a lieutenant in the New York Volunteers during the American Revolution. Brasher was employed as an assayer by the nascent US Mint in 1792. It is thought that during this period, Brasher minted the most sought-after coins of the early American era: The Brasher Doubloons. He was a friend and next door neighbor to his most notable patron, George Washington. Mount Vernon still holds Brasher silver pieces.
https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/collections-holdings/browse-the-museum-collections/object/w-32/
--Severian the Lame
@Weiss
I will never tire of seeing this beautiful tankard of yours by Brasher. It is one of the coolest pieces of Americana posted on these boards! Please tell me you drink out of this thing in your man cave
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
1942, thought the same, not a normal proof...
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
It required perusing through many toads to find ones with a "princely" look...
You gotta problem with toads?!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Gorgeous surfaces on all of those.
What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
That toad possesses pristine surfaces... Totally original skin.
Last December I posted a thread with photos of my raw 1950-70 cameo proof and SMS coinage that I have been putting together for almost 20 years now.
It is constantly being upgraded.
It has taken a lot of work, labor and effort to put this collection together.
You guys have stuff up there that there should be a "Love" button for.
Not a shilling. It's a 6 pence or half shilling.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Did not know that, thank you for the correction.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
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@mustangmanbob
Yea, I'd say you've been working hard! Airborne ranger, pathfinder, air assault...hooah!
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Where are those diplomas........
Have been working hard converting coins and plastic into cash to buy art!
Much obliged, @DCW. I do drink from the other pieces in my 18th century silver beer mug collection. Not this one. Not yet, anyway. I've spoken with a local brewer about commissioning a batch especially for its inaugural quaff. I've also considered dusting off the home brew equipment and trying to recreate Washington or Jefferson's beer recipes.
--Severian the Lame
My Type Set & My Complete Proof Nickel Set!
You gots a McLaren AND a Ferrari avatar Traz?
You suck my friend.
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My Type Set & My Complete Proof Nickel Set!
I like cars
. I like coins, too... but cars more!
My Type Set & My Complete Proof Nickel Set!
The "VI" was a dead giveaway.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I've posted photos of this one in a few threads. For over a decade I stocked a little of my coin budget money away each month so that I could have a stash on hand in case a "special coin" came along that I wouldn't ordinarily be able to purchase outright. This baby became mine a few months ago:
Very nice, thank you all for sharing !!!
""Post a coin, medal or token that you worked your tail off to put into your collection.""
Doesn't seem like much but the three dollars in the top row fit your request.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
They sure do! Very nice
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."