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Do you detect anything unusual about the reverse of this trade dollar?

CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seems a little off. I seem to recall an eagle on most of the Trade dollar reverses.

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    Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,350 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is actually real neat. There was skill used in that one.

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    DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Graffito

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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is totally hardcore.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Final lot at Heritage tonight. A bit under $2000.

    I didn't buy it...but sure is cool.

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    AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 25,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess graffiti doesn't kill the value, 'eh?

    cool for sure, but tooled.

    bob :)

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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,631 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fantastic!! Looks like engraving on paper money plates.

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    ChopmarkedTradesChopmarkedTrades Posts: 559 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If that engraving really is nineteenth century, it's far and away the best that I've seen on a Trade Dollar.

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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Aaaah, who needs that?
    Today we have DCarr. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

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    koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Outstanding!

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    Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Seems legit ;)

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    DDRDDR Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is the most detailed and intricate chop mark I have ever seen.

    David
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    ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't know what it is exactly but I like it :)

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    kazkaz Posts: 9,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wouldn't it be great to know the story behind that one?

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like Dickie Smothers.

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    Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭

    Love token of sorts

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Musky1011 said:
    Love token of sorts

    Probably....likely the date is when "Ballie" passed.

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    1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Groovy. Pun intended. :)

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

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    HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very detailed. Steady hand to make all those hash marks in the portrait.

    Reminds me of the dot matrix printer “art” from a few... decades ago.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @topstuf said:
    Aaaah, who needs that?
    Today we have DCarr. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    I don't think he engraves coins but he does engrave dies for striking coins.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mannie gray said:

    @Musky1011 said:
    Love token of sorts

    Probably....likely the date is when "Ballie" passed.

    That would be my guess. This was engraved several years after TD's stopped being produced and after they lost their legal tender status. I'm surprised a Morgan dollar wasn't used.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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    Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Okay, so who is that dude? And what is he looking at? At least he is groomed to the nines. Peace Roy

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Namvet69 said:
    Okay, so who is that dude? And what is he looking at? At least he is groomed to the nines. Peace Roy

    Probably no one famous. His family apparently loved him enough to hire an engraver to create this remembrance of him.

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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    Looks like Dickie Smothers.

    Mom always liked him better. >:)

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    CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,432 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very interesting. Never seen anything like that before.

    The marking on the obverse suggest some sort of attachment points. To make it into a bracelet or pendant or something else .

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    TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a very cool piece.

    Trade $'s
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    DCWDCW Posts: 7,811 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really awesome piece for anyone that collects TD and/or exonumia. I've never seen anything quite like that. Anyone here pick it ip?

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    abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat coin, and WELCOME BACK!
    I know you stated you were definitely leaving and not coming back due to all the constrictive rules, so I am grateful you changed your mind.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now that is unique... Very well done - professional I would say. I have not seen anything like that from that period. Cheers, RickO

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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 10, 2018 7:01AM

    @CaptHenway said:
    Looks like Dickie Smothers.

    Somebody dicked with it. But it is cool.

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    RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Quite an elaborate chop mark! ;)

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    JBKJBK Posts: 17,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Outstanding. Probably done by an engraver, as in a printmaker who engraved plates.

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    OnastoneOnastone Posts: 4,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I looked on Google, and searched online....couldn't find anything to clue me in on who this was or what importance June 21 1886 represented. This coin is also shown in the current issue of Coin World, Nov. 2018 issue, and they just call him a gentleman in the portrait with delicate engraving. "The obverse shows evidence of it once being mounted with a pinback."

    The coolest thing about this coin is the carving is in the style of a banknote.

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    fiftysevenerfiftysevener Posts: 943 ✭✭✭✭

    Looks like Lee Van Cleef in one of those Clint Eastwood movies

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    jabbajabba Posts: 3,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish for engraving skills like that very cool item


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    CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @abcde12345 said:
    Neat coin, and WELCOME BACK!
    I know you stated you were definitely leaving and not coming back due to all the constrictive rules, so I am grateful you changed your mind.

    Should be okay as long as I stick to raw silver coins with engraved images of comedic straight men of the 1960's!

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