saw the darnedest thing today...$5 gold turban 1803 over 1802...

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,428 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 12:55PM

  Sounds like you saw a five, not a ten.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 12:56PM

  
  
  << <i>can't seem to find any info on it tho....anyone heard of such a beastie? >>
  
  
  
  Are you sure it wasn't the $5?
  
  

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 12:57PM

  about the size of a quarter.
  
  might be a 5....all i saw was the date, and a turban

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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 12:58PM

  You saw the half eagle.

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 12:58PM

  yeah...dats it!
  
  whats it worth?
  
  in v-g?

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,428 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 1:00PM

  Are you sure it wasn't a Kettle Token?

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
  Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 1:04PM

  nope... its exactly like the one pictured above...
  
  and the date is a 1803 0ver 1802
  
  i don't know much about gold ...but am sure of what i saw on the date ...overdate no doubt.
  
  

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• TomB Posts: 22,097 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 2:09PM

  Don't get too excited about the overdate since all 1803 half eagles are 1803/2 overdate coins.

  Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography
  
  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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• tjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭

  April 18, 2007 10:07PM

  Here's mine:
  

  Tom
  
  

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• Aegis3 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭

  April 19, 2007 3:38PM

  
  
  << <i>Are you sure it wasn't a Kettle Token? >>
  
  
  
  They're not overdates.

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  Ed. S.
  
  (EJS)

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