One-of-a-Kind Oddities...

Regulated · December 27, 2018 3:51PM

I just received this old friend in the mail today - it's struck from the unfinished obverse die for the Dubosq $10 (look, ma - no rim or dentils!):

Who else has a weirdo laying around?

Zoins · December 27, 2018 3:55PM

That is neat! It would be great to identify the paper that is on the reverse!

Regulated · December 27, 2018 3:57PM

I tried a couple years ago with no luck. This die actually becomes the 1852 $10 Wass Small Head - forgot about that...

Coinstartled · December 27, 2018 3:59PM

I'm in! Couldn't resist when this came up at Heritage

Regulated · December 27, 2018 4:01PM

In a box somewhere, i have an 1877 Indian Cent that someone reeded and silver washed to pass as a dime. Your quarter is an even bigger heartbreaker!

PurpleEcho · December 27, 2018 4:04PM

That's awesome! Very, very cool...

I'd post pic of mine, but he went golfing

pocketpiececommems · December 27, 2018 7:21PM

That quarter must have been a clock for daylight savings time. Holedandcreative needs to chime in with his 1856 flying eagle cent

Coinstartled · December 27, 2018 7:38PM

@pocketpiececommems said:
That quarter must have been a clock for daylight savings time. Holedandcreative needs to chime in with his 1856 flying eagle cent

It was consigned from the Burdick collection and was a Whist game counter. Best guess was that it was numbered in the very early 1800's.

A more modern whist counter.

EXOJUNKIE · December 28, 2018 5:09AM

HT-349 / Low 89, R5, Bucklin's Interest Tables, Troy New York. Fine or better by wear but tooled.

Much detail usually missing on this token has been added to intentionally create the impression that it is the Unique Low 91 when it is actually a Low 89. From the John Ford, Don Miller, DuPont and George Tilden collections earlier from Stack's June 2004 sale. Unique as such.

2ltdjorn · December 28, 2018 5:31AM

Cool threads!

ricko · December 28, 2018 6:43AM

Very interesting pieces... the Whist counters have been shown before....Never played the game so do not really understand how it is used. Poker or Blackjack I understand... Cheers, RickO

JJSingleton · December 28, 2018 7:01AM

Not unique but I have seen less than a handful of carved Dahlonega pieces. And if memory serves me well I got this from Regulated back in 2006.

Rittenhouse · December 28, 2018 8:11AM

Here's an obverse cliche of an A. Loudon Snowden mint medal. The reverse is concave. Probably a die trial.

Hydrant · December 28, 2018 9:48AM

Regulated said;
Who else has a weirdo laying around?

Does my brother-in-law count?

MilkmanDan · December 28, 2018 9:53AM

I use this coin to demonstrate three different kinds of Chinese chopmarks. Start with the small punched Chinese character/symbol chops on the reverse. Then move on to the “Happy Wedding” red paper “chopmark” on the obverse, and finally a nice ink chopmark on top of that. I’ve never seen another with all three types. Has anyone else?

DaveWcoins · December 28, 2018 11:38AM

I purchased this "coin" out of the Harry Bass sale years ago. It was previously pedigreed to King Farouk's collection.

I suspect someone sold it to the King as a unique pattern, as the King collected such things.

I have never seen nor heard of another -- I suspect it is unique.

Regulated · December 28, 2018 11:40AM

That's really wacky - I love it!

What's it made out of?

BuffaloIronTail · December 28, 2018 11:46AM

@DaveWcoins said:

I purchased this "coin" out of the Harry Bass sale years ago. It was previously pedigreed to King Farouk's collection.

I suspect someone sold it to the King as a unique pattern, as the King collected such things.

I have never seen nor heard of another -- I suspect it is unique.

Now THAT is something I've never seen!

Man, I really like it.

Pete

DaveWcoins · December 28, 2018 11:49AM

@Regulated said:
That's really wacky - I love it!

What's it made out of?

As I recall, it seemed to be some sort of electrotype, as it was too light to be solid metal. It was then gold plated. It has a matte finish, typical of the period gold they were trying to mimic, I guess.

It is somewhere in the back of the vault. I think it is still in the Bass auction flip.

asheland · December 28, 2018 2:19PM

Great thread!

Namvet69 · December 28, 2018 4:23PM

Pigeon headed eagle, nice.

Zoins · December 28, 2018 4:37PM

Two silver planchets bonded together from being struck on the US Mint's first steam coinage press struck by Joe Rust with dies by Ron Landis. The first steam coinage press is now in the ANA museum so I'm not sure when it will ever do any striking again.

Cameonut · December 28, 2018 5:45PM

I inherited a number of run of the mill love tokens from my grandfather. One even had my name on it (common name in the family).
I'd rarely seen a gold love token and had the chance to buy this one from a local dealer.

dcarr · December 28, 2018 6:15PM

I'm not sure if this is really one-of-a-kind, but unusual regardless (I originally posted about it in September 2013).
"Good For" $1 coin show token struck over a 1922-S Peace Dollar, Circa 1960s.
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It took some time to figure out what the over-strike dies were.
I've seen at least one of the over-strike dies used for a brass token.
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dcarr · December 28, 2018 6:21PM

One of several of my modern retro "mint sports":

cameonut2011 · December 28, 2018 6:25PM

@Regulated said:
I just received this old friend in the mail today - it's struck from the unfinished obverse die for the Dubosq $10 (look, ma - no rim or dentils!):

Who else has a weirdo laying around?

What is it exactly?

HoledandCreative · December 28, 2018 8:18PM

My avatar, 1796 Quarter

Regulated · December 28, 2018 8:56PM

@cameonut2011 said:

@Regulated said:
I just received this old friend in the mail today - it's struck from the unfinished obverse die for the Dubosq $10 (look, ma - no rim or dentils!):

Who else has a weirdo laying around?

What is it exactly?

It's an obverse die trial or splasher for a $10 gold coin privately struck by Theodore Dubosq in San Francisco in 1850:

The rim and dentils had not yet been added to the die when the splasher was made. In the 18th century, trials of unfinished dies were called cliches - I'm not sure if the term was in use when this was made...

BlindedByEgo · December 28, 2018 11:05PM

Neat oddities, guys - thanks

Zoins · December 29, 2018 12:10AM

Here's my Toivo Johnson 1976 restrike die trial, likely done by his son. It looks like this was minimally double struck, over a bi-centennial half dollar in a different position each time. This is the only die trial I've ever seen struck against a coin. Not sure the reasoning for this, but it's pretty neat, gives it some historical and scale perspective.

Lakesammman · December 29, 2018 7:41AM

Longacre made the Dubosq die - the splasher is about as close as you can get to his handiwork!

Below info is from a post 2/11 by Rick Snow, taken from Longacre's diary.

Wed. April 17, 1850
Gave Mr. Cross the dies (1 pair) with the necessary directions
to be made for Dubosq and Co.

johnny9434 · December 29, 2018 9:28AM

@Coinstartled said:

@pocketpiececommems said:
That quarter must have been a clock for daylight savings time. Holedandcreative needs to chime in with his 1856 flying eagle cent

It was consigned from the Burdick collection and was a Whist game counter. Best guess was that it was numbered in the very early 1800's.

A more modern whist counter.

hand got a new job after the Addams family got cancelled by the looks of it

Lakesammman · December 29, 2018 1:52PM

Posted recently but fits the category.....

Regulated · December 29, 2018 2:42PM

You have no idea how close I came to buying the horseman for myself.

Zoins · December 29, 2018 3:36PM

@Regulated said:
You have no idea how close I came to buying the horseman for myself.

At least it went to a forum member who posts about it and shows it off

Lakesammman · December 29, 2018 7:01PM

Here's another oddity - still waiting for Regulated to figure out what kind of bird it is - struck over a Mass and Cal $10 - die trial?

KeithMS70 · December 29, 2018 10:43PM

Awesome thread!

Broadstruck · December 30, 2018 2:49AM

1892 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company – Obverse 38mm Diameter Medal Die Adjustment Trial Strike

Without a doubt one of the coolest exonumia items I've ever had the opportunity to purchase.

A unique test strike struck on a thick over sized brass planchet for a 1892 prize medal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company.

William Fredrick Cody had commissioned London die-sinkers Baddeley & Reynolds to design this medal during one of his overseas tours with Annie Oakley when they performed for Queen Victoria.

Jetstream · December 30, 2018 1:16PM

I purchased this as part of a very large hoard of Buffalo Nickels that were all raw and unsearched. The hoarder accumulated buffalo nickels since childhood in the 1930's (according to his children) and the hoard was several thousand. I found this in it. Most interesting is the image appears to be a 1916 DDO. Not the best picture, today is my first time posting with a photo.

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