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  • Syracusian
    Syracusian Posts: 6,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lordmarcovan resubmit

    I immediately had the same thought. It looks definitely 64 or better IMHO, with nice original colour and perhaps a weak strike on the reverse, that is the cause of the final grade.

    Otherwise, these coins did not circukate, right? More than half of the $1 Panama Pacific mintage has been certified by the two grading services, in near gem to superb gem unc grades. I wonder if the old commemorative gokd dollars (Louisiana, McKinley etc) were sold at face value or at a slight premium to explain to the public that these were legal tender but not meant to circulate .

    In fact I've read somewhere that the classic commemorative silver half dollars of the 50 type set , were sold at $1 a piece, so that the public would not use them for circulation. I believe that the surviving numbers in top condition are proof that they got the nessage.

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @SimonW said:
    @lordmarcovan resubmit

    @Syracusian said:
    @lordmarcovan resubmit

    I immediately had the same thought. It looks definitely 64 or better IMHO, with nice original colour and perhaps a weak strike on the reverse, that is the cause of the final grade.


    I think @simonw was referring to my unfortunate Saxony thaler, not my US Pan-Pac dollar.

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  • Syracusian
    Syracusian Posts: 6,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Still the same to me.

    Perhaps other members can weigh in on your Pan Pac grade. I thought that the risk/ price ratio is worth it, but all I saw is an image.

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  • angelo43
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    I would resumit I think your right about a cleaning long ago. I think the high spots being white got you the cleaning designation. Great coin though. I'm amazed that a coin 462 years old can look that good!

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 15, 2026 9:47AM
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    @Bob13 - I see we both posted Saxony thalers recently. Wanna swap? ;)


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  • Bob13
    Bob13 Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lordmarcovan said:
    @Bob13 - I see we both posted Saxony thalers recently. Wanna swap? ;)

    I'm good! Give me some time to enjoy.

    My current "Box of 20"

  • SimonW
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    @MEJ7070 said:
    CRO EB pickup….should work very nicely as my pillar 4R in the colonial America set

    VF 30

    Well done, I almost bought that one.

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  • Plus00Vltra
    Plus00Vltra Posts: 126 ✭✭✭
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    @SimonW said:

    @MEJ7070 said:
    CRO EB pickup….should work very nicely as my pillar 4R in the colonial America set

    VF 30

    Well done, I almost bought that one.

    Me too...!

  • MEJ7070
    MEJ7070 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @pruebas I know very little about coal medals….but I find that piece to be fantastic. I also find the entire concept of “coal medals” extremely interesting.

    Really cool medal!

  • SimonW
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    @pruebas the Ticonderoga medal sounds interesting. Do you have a pic?

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  • pruebas
    pruebas Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2026 3:30PM
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    @SimonW said:
    @pruebas the Ticonderoga medal sounds interesting. Do you have a pic?

    @SimonW the medals were company advertising medals, not specifically for Ticonderoga pencils. I only mentioned the pencils as being made by Dixon in my school days.

    This one is from a second pair that came up recently at Stacks. Prior to these, I thought each of mine was unique. So this image isn't that of my medal, but an identical one. (All are unslabbed due to fragility.)


  • MEJ7070
    MEJ7070 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    So…..like, if you touch a graphite or coal medal your hand gets a little dirty, right?

    Or is it compressed so much that it somehow would no longer have that effect?

    (I didn’t know a coal medal existe until today.)

    Great information Pruebas.

  • SimonW
    SimonW Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Can you write with the coin?! That sounds fun

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  • Sergey74
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    Not my direction but one I have. As the story is it was found among about thousand or two in Moscow when an excavator was working for building. Mexico, 1620's.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited March 1, 2026 9:25PM
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    A lot of people asked me to add the story demanding the details (really nobody), so... In September 1627 Spanish silver fleet had come to Veracruz. Entire winter and spring the ships were loaded with silver coins. Most of them was 8 reales overdated 8-7. There was big Holland private fleet near Cuba in summer 1628. On September 8 being in Matanzas bay the Spanish under admiral Juan de Benavidez-Basana were attacked by them under admiral Peter Haine and their goods were taken away. There were about 80 tons of coins and silver bars. As you know there was The 30 years war in Europe and much money was spent for the war affairs and some money was send to the Eastern Europe including Moscow for Holland ambassies to trade. The treasure of which the coin was a part included exactly the dates.

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  • SimonW
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    edited March 4, 2026 9:05PM
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    It's been minted in Mexico, but it is considered a Spanish coin? Does this mean that as soon as it was minted, it was shipped to Spain, without ever circulating in Mexico?

    What makes you say it’s minted in Mexico? Looks like a Madrid mint coin to me.

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  • Syracusian
    Syracusian Posts: 6,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Ooops, sorry. It didn't even cross my mind. I took it for granted that M meant Mexico city mint. 🥴

    Thank you.

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  • SonnyD
    SonnyD Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
    edited March 6, 2026 10:39AM
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    Ukrainian MIG-29 Silver Medal
    Only 200 issued to Ukraine pilots/officers. TOUGH 🥵



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  • Samets
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    @PickledThrickels said:
    Neat coin/token make for the Culion Leper Colony in what was the US Philippines. I won it by accident off of eBay. No complaints

    These are so hard to find in condition that will straight grade! So far I have been able to find 1 that graded straight and I have one more that I'm hoping will make it.

  • MEJ7070
    MEJ7070 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Added another “flan reforme” (overstruck) French Ecu. Collecting Brazil 960 Reis sent me down other avenues of coins struck on other coins.

    AU 58

  • PickledThrickels
    PickledThrickels Posts: 124 ✭✭✭✭
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    Nice key date brass threepence. Paid $0.25 for it as part of a lot

  • bramn8r
    bramn8r Posts: 983 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Upgrades

  • islemangu
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  • syl
    syl Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭✭
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    Wow! Would I love to see that in-hand! Beauty!

  • SonnyD
    SonnyD Posts: 217 ✭✭✭
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    Felt a little crazy that nobody was bidding in this one. Not unhappy for $25 though.
    Sorry to the consignor, it should have been appreciated more.

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  • Boosibri
    Boosibri Posts: 12,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @pruebas please don’t tell me you are going to do Irish now as well. I don’t need that competition 😝

    Latin American Collection

  • pruebas
    pruebas Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 16, 2026 6:59AM
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    Don’t worry @Boosibri, I’m only going to collect aluminum Irish coins struck before 1884. But I’ve decided to collect Chilean coins by date.

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