If the 1796 Trade Dollars aren't bad enough...

ziggy29 · August 24, 2006 5:16AM

Apparently they have 1865 Washington Dollars in Italy.

ebaytrader · August 24, 2006 5:18AM

At least it's marked as a facsimile.

ER · August 24, 2006 5:21AM

100% positivi

AceK · August 24, 2006 5:22AM

They made Washington look like Mussolini.

coyotelittle · August 24, 2006 7:14AM

Hey, Whatsa a matta? Thatsa gouda coin. The Pope, he agiva to mi mama. He saya itsa reel.

Whizzard · August 24, 2006 8:46AM

Fac simile must mean something very different in Italian.

Conder101 · August 25, 2006 5:49AM

In Latin it means Do likewise, be similar etc. At one time there was a "colonial" coin known as the "Good Samartan Shilling" This are a silver coin roughly the size of a pine tree shilling but on one side it had a picture of on man helping another. People related it to the parable of the "Good Samaritan" from the bible and explained that the inscription Fac Simile was an admonishment to "Do likewise" or be a goodsamaritan yourself. Eric Newman proved that it was a fabrication made by Thomas Wyat in the 1860's and since then ithas dropped completely out of sight. It is somewhat difficult to even find a reference to it.

Leiana · August 25, 2006 5:53AM

I speak spanish, not italian, but the auction says something like "Money coin with the purpose of serving the collector to get to a level of collecting in attesment to the original offering." Or something similar.

-Amanda

ziggy29 · August 25, 2006 5:54AM

<< <i>I speak spanish, not italian, but the auction says something like "Money coin with the purpose of serving the collector to get to a level of collecting in attesment to the original offering." >>

I hate it when Babelfish babbles.

zzzz · August 25, 2006 5:58AM

100% feedback ... you need to look no further ..

Barndog · August 25, 2006 5:59AM

Google says it means this:

BEAUTIFULST RICONIO OF 1865 ONE DOLLAR USA COINS CURRENCY COINED WITH the PURPOSE TO SERVE the COLLECTOR IN ORDER TO PLUG the EMPTY TASCHINO IN COLLECTION IN WAIT TO FIND ORIGINATES It THEM

ziggy29 · August 25, 2006 6:01AM

<< <i>Google says it means this:

BEAUTIFULST RICONIO OF 1865 ONE DOLLAR USA COINS CURRENCY COINED WITH the PURPOSE TO SERVE the COLLECTOR IN ORDER TO PLUG the EMPTY TASCHINO IN COLLECTION IN WAIT TO FIND ORIGINATES It THEM >>

Ah. So it's a copy so I can fill the 1865 hole in m Washington album.

Leiana · August 25, 2006 6:01AM

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<< <i>I speak spanish, not italian, but the auction says something like "Money coin with the purpose of serving the collector to get to a level of collecting in attesment to the original offering." >>

I hate it when Babelfish babbles.

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That's my own translation.

I don't like babelfish very much.

-Amanda

If the 1796 Trade Dollars aren't bad enough...

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