I have always wanted one of these!

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• bigmansam88 Posts: 1,209

  January 26, 2008 10:13PM

  

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• MWallace Posts: 4,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2008 10:37PM

  Nice piece of exonumia!

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• RickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭

  January 26, 2008 10:41PM

  Now that you've acquired one of those...are you still going to continue coin collecting?

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• Newcomp103 Posts: 2,223 ✭

  January 26, 2008 10:42PM

  
  
  << <i>I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!
  
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  Congrats!....we saw a few of these at the Macon show yesterday....I personally had never seen one.

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  January 26, 2008 10:45PM

  
  
  << <i>Now that you've acquired one of those...are you still going to continue coin collecting? >>
  
  
  
  Are you kidding!!! Everyone knows I don't collect REAL coins!!!

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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• DenverDave Posts: 2,164

  January 26, 2008 11:32PM

  
  Funny you brought this up...
  
  I've always thought they were Kool and when Kryptonitecomics sold his I was lucky enough to get it at auction...
  
  Yesterday I was at a small coin show here in Denver and a dealer had three of them for sale...
  
  According to this dealer they were made at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition Worlds Fair in Seattle Washington as a souvenir. They had different size dies to accommodate different denominations of coins, this dealer had two Morgans and one Barber Half...
  
  Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...?
  
  Here's mine...
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  January 26, 2008 11:41PM

  
  
  << <i>Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...? >>
  
  
  
  The dealers here were asking $100 each for them.
  
  I picked mine up on E-Bay for $20!!

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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• ksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭

  January 26, 2008 11:54PM

  Nice.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 26, 2008 11:56PM

  
  
  << <i>I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!
  
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  Yeah, but think about how much cool stuff you could have by now if you were actually willing to pay more than 20 cents on the dollar....
  
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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 12:00AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>I have seen them at shows but the dealers always wanted STUPID money for them! Well now I have one!!!
  
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  Yeah, but think about how much cool stuff you could have by now if you were actually willing to pay more than 20 cents on the dollar....
  
  Spock out >>
  
  
  
  
  But Tom, I'm poor!!!
  
  

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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• astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 12:01AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...? >>
  
  
  
  The dealers here were asking $100 each for them.
  
  I picked mine up on E-Bay for $20!! >>
  
  
  
  Um...$20 is a steal...congratulations. But the going rate is around $100 or more for these, so stupid is a relative term. Or, a term for relatives.
  
  Lane
  
  P.S. Anyone have a pop-out 20 cent piece?

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 12:03AM

  The dies are still out there. I've seen many Kennedy halves and Ike dollars popped-out like these coins.

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 12:07AM

  
  
  << <i>The dies are still out there. I've seen many Kennedy halves and Ike dollars popped-out like these coins. >>
  
  
  
  There were a set of dies on E-Bay last summer. They went in the $750 range!

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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• edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭

  January 27, 2008 12:09AM

  Ah, but do you have any of these?:
  
  

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• CoinHusker Posts: 5,033 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 12:10AM

  What size is it? I've seen dime, quarter, half and dollar size.

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• DenverDave Posts: 2,164

  January 27, 2008 12:52AM

  
  Wow... $20 is a deal, I paid $80 for mine...
  
  This Dealer had them at $150ea and his did not have the bezel...
  
  Anyone ever hear the 1909 spin or was this guy fishing...?
  
  With the dies still out there, dating these things is problematic...?
  
  

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• holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 1:06AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>Marty... What do you consider Stupid Money...? >>
  
  
  
  The dealers here were asking $100 each for them.
  
  I picked mine up on E-Bay for $20!! >>
  
  
  
  Lemme know if you ever want to sell I will give you $5
  
  

  

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,868 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 1:12AM

  Anyone ever see a gold coin popout?

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  January 27, 2008 2:28AM

  I have heard somewhere that these were originaly made for the 1892/3 Columbian exposition. If so, they might have well made more at subsequent expositions.

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• blu62vette Posts: 11,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 2:59AM

  20 bucks sounds like a real deal..

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  January 27, 2008 3:38AM

  
  
  << <i>I have heard somewhere that these were originaly made for the 1892/3 Columbian exposition. If so, they might have well made more at subsequent expositions. >>
  
  
  
  I think these have been around for years.

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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• DenverDave Posts: 2,164

  January 27, 2008 11:41PM

  
  My Morgan is a 1896, what's yours Marty...?
  
  

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 28, 2008 2:59PM

  
  
  << <i>Congrats!....we saw a few of these at the Macon show yesterday....I personally had never seen one. >>
  
  Hey, Shawn, it was nice to meet you and Wes. Thanks for lunch!
  
  I saw those at the show, too. There was a whole set of them, in a Capital Plastics-style holder. I didn't look at the price, but the set caught my eye.
  
  One of our members on the Metal Detecting forum was lucky enough to dig one a few years back. It was a Barber dime.

  
  
  

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• tightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭

  January 28, 2008 3:03PM

  I once saw one for $50 but I passed. Hmm...should I have bought it?

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  January 28, 2008 3:07PM

  Thats the first time I have seen one. Pretty neat effect.
  
  I agree we need to see one on a gold coin.

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• LostSisler Posts: 521 ✭✭✭

  January 28, 2008 3:14PM

  I saw these at Milwaukee,
  

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