**Toned 1891 German East Africa 1/2 Rupee (PCGS 66) with Eliasberg pedigree....

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• coinlieutenant Posts: 9,327 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 5:01AM

  Someone should tell that dude that he has a bird on his head...

  siliconvalleycoins.com

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 5:05AM

  Someone should tell that dude that he has a bird on his head...
  
  
  Wilhelm II wasn't the best at taking good advice.......
  
  

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• Newb Posts: 1,401

  August 27, 2007 5:08AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone should tell that dude that he has a bird on his head... >>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  nice coin, too!

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 5:10AM

  It sure makes me think:
  
  

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• RedneckHB Posts: 20,152 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 5:47AM

  Very nice!!
  
  I too bought a coin from a dealer listed in that thread. In fact it was a dealer listed by you.

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 6:24AM

  cohodk---I know, it's tough NOT to buy something when looking through those inventories.
  
  Anybody else want to post a cool toned World coin?
  

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 6:37AM

  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 6:44AM

  Really nice coin, but you know once you go foreign there's no turning back.... As there's just too much nice stuff out there at chump change compared to USA coinage.
  
  I'm very tempted by this spectacular 1855 Germany Frankfurt 2 Gulden PCGS MS67 that Evan Gale at www.aprci.com has, but not sure how it would fit my collecting goals?
  
  I'm still on the fence on this one with one foot dangling on each side!
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• TwoKopeiki Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 6:46AM

  
  
  << <i>cohodk---I know, it's tough NOT to buy something when looking through those inventories.
  
  Anybody else want to post a cool toned World coin? >>
  
  
  
  Ask - and you shall receive:
  
  

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 6:49AM

  Broadstruck, that is very pretty!
  As for how it might fit your collecting goals: I don't think a beauty like that would hinder those goals at all!...whatever they may be.
  
  

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 6:49AM

  TwoKopeiki, I love the reverse on that one.....thanks for sharing it.
  
  

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• Doogy Posts: 4,508 ✭

  August 27, 2007 6:55AM

  here is a toner thread i started on the darkside forum a couple weeks ago. there are some real stunners here!
  
  
  click here for the original thread!

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 7:00AM

  thanks Doogy, I missed that one!
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 7:04AM

  Thanks Seattle Slammer... I know! I'm just amazed at the beauty of some of the German patterns and their cost compared to the US counterparts... maybe in another lifetime?
  
  Also I want to thank Darkmane for his dealer website post as Carl and Jade are new to me but now saved to favorites!

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• DorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 8:52AM

  Diid I hear someone say a guy with a bird on his head?
  
  
  
  

  Becky

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• bidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 10:31AM

  

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  I give away money. I collect money.
  I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
  
  
  
  
  

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• JustBustDimes Posts: 357

  August 27, 2007 10:45AM

  
  
  << <i>Someone should tell that dude that he has a bird on his head... >>
  
  
  
  It is one of those darn Munich pigeons!

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• LeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭

  August 27, 2007 10:58AM

  I've looked at that one for two weeeks now. Sooooooooooooo close to buying it. Very nice addition!! Heres one I used to own:
  
  
  
  
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 11:11AM

  Lee, Great looking Proof Pattern! Odd but without surfing the web and running across these, I have never seen one in any coin shop while traveling through Europe.

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• Cocoinut Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2007 12:56PM

  1700 Great Britain Half Crown, PCGS MS63
  
  
  
  
  Jim

  Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!

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• Doogy Posts: 4,508 ✭

  August 27, 2007 1:12PM

  
  
  << <i>I've looked at that one for two weeeks now. Sooooooooooooo close to buying it. Very nice addition!! Heres one I used to own:
  
  
  
  
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  Superb Goetz Lee, thanks for sharing that stunner!

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• Doogy Posts: 4,508 ✭

  August 27, 2007 1:15PM

  here is Wilhelm II in his later years, sans bird head helmet. i love this coin!
  
  1913-A Prussia: 3 Marks, NGC Proof 65 cameo
  
  mintage of only 6,000 proofs. this one is only one of two cameos graded by NGC of this issue, this one being the higher of the two grades
  
  
  

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• SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,121 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 28, 2007 2:39AM

  Cool, thanks for sharing those everybody....
  
  LeeG, I'm glad I beat you to the punch!
  But I know when I look at a coin for a couple of weeks and DON'T pull the trigger, it usually means I'm about to run into something that I like even more, and I'm usually happy I chose to cool my jets. As you know, when a coin speaks to you, it speaks to you loudly!
  

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• MidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,613 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 28, 2007 2:44AM

  
  
  << <i>As you know, when a coin speaks to you, it speaks to you loudly! >>
  
  
  The problem I have is I love all kinds of coins...so usually several coins speak loudly to me at once...it's so hard to choose!
  
  Very nice coins in this thread too, by the way.

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