Greetings, Pilgrim!

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• Robb Posts: 2,034 ✭

  July 25, 2008 8:10AM

  
  
  I was expecting John Wayne.

  RIP

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 9:14AM

  Interesting... I would not even try to explain the last one... unless it is 'home made'.... Cheers, RickO

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 9:22AM

  The bottom is a die trial or splasher in aluminum or lead.
  
  The top looks like it was struck on a brass planchet... also a set up strike

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 12:09PM

  Hello

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 12:11PM

  It looks like these were not struck from the same dies that struck the regular coins. For starters, these appear to have greater relief.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
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• derryb Posts: 37,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 12:12PM

  Mr. E
  lost me with the second pic. wazzup wid dat?

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• secondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 12:14PM

  The second one is a Pilgrim Klippe

  "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 12:24PM

  Was the brass one the first known Chuckie Cheese token redeemable in the Mayflower galley

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• truthteller Posts: 1,240 ✭✭

  July 25, 2008 12:27PM

  
  
  << <i>Seriously, what's the story with these things? >>
  
  
  
  
  I remember being offered a similar(or the same) aluminum piece about 8 years ago. It was supposedly "discovered" in a November Michigan State Coin show auction where it was purchased for several hundred dollars only to be offered at several thousand dollars. It was viewed by several knowledgeable commemorative collectors/dealers who had never seen such an item before. The aluminum piece did not have the same die characteristics compared to the actual struck coin.
  
  
  
  TRUTH

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• ColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 8:42PM

  I have concluded that there are a lot of unusual numismatic items kicking around.

  Coin Rarities Online

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  July 25, 2008 10:08PM

  I just added this one to my set!!
  
  

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

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• Barberian Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 28, 2008 7:47AM

  And this is what Marty's coin looked like 85 years ago...
  
  

  3 rim nicks away from Good

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