money goes in banks......banks are collectable?

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• Regulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 3:35AM

  I don't think those are OT at all. Very cool group. I like Humpty Dumpty particularly.

  
  What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake
  

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• RBB617 Posts: 498 ✭✭

  August 14, 2006 4:07AM

  Great banks. As a kid I collected banks to put all of the coins I'd searched in. A couple of years ago my parents gave me 8 - 10 petty cash boxes filled with coins from those banks. The banks were in a seperate container. Now my young sons are enjoying the banks.

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• dimples Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 7:14AM

  nice bank collection.....I too had a bank collection when I was young the best being a 1939 worlds fair bank.
  
  Thanks for the memories!

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• CarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭

  August 14, 2006 7:19AM

  My grandparents had a few mechanical ones. It was great fun to see the cent get wisked away into the depths of the device. I wish I had them -- I don't know what happened to them.
  
  Is your clown or elephant mechanical?

  Carl's Coins website w/ links to Carl's auctions
  

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• pbfloyd Posts: 745

  August 14, 2006 7:57AM

  Most of them are mechanical. The clown with dog is called " trick dog". It is a cast iron bank from the 30-40's. At one time I was going to collect them. They are a lot like coins: condition is everthing,rare ones cost a fortune, and there are plenty of fakes.

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• Whizzard Posts: 955

  August 14, 2006 8:04AM

  Ohh. Nice. Is there one where the character picks up the coin and deposits it inside his head? That was my favourite bank from childhood.
  
  

  What do you think, Mr. Bigglesworth?
  

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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 8:33AM

  Banks are cool, mechanical banks are ubber cool.
  I had the pleasure of seeing a 5+ mill mechanical bank collection once---mostly large bronze mechanical banks. It was a sight I will never forget.

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• DNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 8:35AM

  The banks are neat but I like the case. Is it old?
  

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• Drizzt Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 8:38AM

  
  
  << <i>The banks are neat but I like the case. Is it old? >>
  
  
  
  I thought that too when I saw the pic....maybe a "You Suck" for the display case.

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• lkenefic Posts: 9,310 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 8:45AM

  I have a modern replica of the "Trick Dog". My son used it to torture an 1853 Large Cent...Leo

  Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;
  
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• pbfloyd Posts: 745

  August 14, 2006 8:46AM

  Yes the display case is old. I got that from an antique dealer in rhode island several years ago. She had it between 1820-60. She told me how she came dated it but I can't remember. I think the metal is silver. It is not for sale...........unless someone has a coin..................................

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• Drizzt Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭

  August 14, 2006 9:03AM

  lol...I wouldn't have enough to cover shipping.....let alone the bubble wrap needed

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• shuckins Posts: 849

  August 14, 2006 10:12AM

  Is that an Ernie Banks baseball bank?

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• pbfloyd Posts: 745

  August 14, 2006 10:19AM

  connie mack

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