Let’s see some Cap & Ray material
MEJ7070
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I don’t own many nice coins in the Cap & Rays universe, but found one I really liked today and snapped it up for my collection.
MS 63
Would love to see some of what you guys have to show off! Post em here…….
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Few amazing coins: Norweb-Abuelo's 1902CN JQ 2/INV 2 graded with a PL designation.
1908, common date, uncommon grade 66+
Another condition rarity, MS66:
Latin American Collection
As expected…..some absolute bangers posted already. Great coins guys.
My only current Cap & Rays 8R. Many of the chopped versions of these out there are hideous. This one was definitely dipped with some type of jewel luster at some point, which would normally be an immediate No Way from me, but the cool chop marks won out as I just haven’t seen many others that present this well overall (imho).
I think (and hope) that this is the only coin still in my collection with obviously “unoriginal” surfaces. I really like it anyway and it’s a really fun coin to study.
Mentioned by RESPLANDORES as very rare and top pop.
Former Clyde Hubbard .
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Picked this up at a small local show, think it was the only mexico peso on the floor. 1904 CN graded MS 62 PL.
Nice, both attractive and unusually early for a chopmarked Cap & Rays!
Been wanting to pick up one of these for years, finally decided to take the plunge. While the host coin is incredibly common, this is one of an estimated 1,000 medals prepared from coins salvaged from the wreck of the German light cruiser SMS Emden after it was ran aground by the HMAS Sydney in 1914, in what was the first naval engagement and the first victory for the Australian Navy. While they are not an official military decoration, they were believed to have been presented to the Australian servicemen that participated in the battle, with the remaining pieces offered for public sale as a fundraising effort.
So this is a Mexican coin, exported to China, stored on a German WWI cruiser, and taken as a war prize by Australian naval forces!
@ChopmarkedTrades Extremely cool medal and great explanation/write up of its history. Love it!
Thank you for sharing.
Some super coins above.
I never got any above a 64 and I really thought a couple could have been 65 and one of them a 66. These were the best ones I had ever seen in person and I passed on hundreds of them. I figured out I really can't grade these. I was at one time going to break out the ANACS 66 but figured NO.
You didn’t say it had to be Mexican!
This is only a 64, but a very attractive 64.
That one had to be a copyright infringement @pruebas
It’s mine. One of the pieces that had a 7+ month vacation in sunny southern California!
I meant the US Mint stealing the design.
Awesome! Never seen one of those steam coinage tokens with anything resembling that kind of color. Love it.
Thank you. It’s a very rare silver example, not copper or bronzed copper.