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Has anyone ever made a Numismatic chess set??

2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
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What coins represented each piece?? King-Queen-pawn??

Suggestions??

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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,644 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Clearly the King would have to be QDB.

    HRH could be the other king.

    I'll let reader decide who is black and who is white.

    Longacre would be the jester, except that there is no jester in chess.

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  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    You could do one side in silver, one side in gold.

    For the Gold Set, the UHR could be your king. I say a Liberty Head Eagle as the queen (Double eagles may be too large for the board). Buffalo 1/4 ouncers as your Knights. 1/4 ounce ASE's as your Rooks. Statue of Liberty Commems as your Bishops. 1/10 ounce Buffs as your pawns.

    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Aren't we call pawns in the game the noble dealers play?
  • 2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
    It might be easier to have one side obverse and other reverse.

    Now to pick the pieces...............


  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Colonial era coins on one side; Early US Federal on the other

    1 king - Gloucester Token
    1 queen - Myddelton Token (or Higley Copper)
    2 rooks - Bar Coppers
    2 bishops - Fugio Coppers
    2 knights - Massachusetts Pine Tree Shillings
    8 pawns - Virginia Halfpenny

    1 king - 1795 Turban Head Eagle
    1 queen - 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar
    2 rooks - 1794 Flowing Hair Half Dollar
    2 bishops - 1796 Draped Bust Quarter
    2 knights - Chain Cent
    8 pawns - 1793 Half Cent
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please, do not denigrate the honorable game of chess with such ignoble characterizations. The Staunton design is the official design and any other, while possibly artistic in nature, is unacceptable for serious play. Cheers, RickO
  • Billet7Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Colonial era coins on one side; Early US Federal on the other

    1 king - Gloucester Token
    1 queen - Myddelton Token (or Higley Copper)
    2 rooks - Bar Coppers
    2 bishops - Fugio Coppers
    2 knights - Massachusetts Pine Tree Shillings
    8 pawns - Virginia Halfpenny

    1 king - 1795 Turban Head Eagle
    1 queen - 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar
    2 rooks - 1794 Flowing Hair Half Dollar
    2 bishops - 1796 Draped Bust Quarter
    2 knights - Chain Cent
    8 pawns - 1793 Half Cent >>



    I hear Bill Gates has a set like this!
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On behalf of chess players everywhere, please don't!

    There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.

  • 2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
    How about PCGS slabs vs. NGC slabs?
  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭


    << <i>Please, do not denigrate the honorable game of chess with such ignoble characterizations. The Staunton design is the official design and any other, while possibly artistic in nature, is unacceptable for serious play. Cheers, RickO >>





    Yup
  • GFourDriverGFourDriver Posts: 2,366 ✭
    No, but I've played checkers with coins.
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What coins represented each piece?? King-Queen-pawn??

    Suggestions?? >>



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  • kruegerkrueger Posts: 904 ✭✭✭✭

    There are books written that I have seen on how to make chess sets from all kinds of things, including coins.

    Many prisoners of war have made chess sets from what ever they could find., even during our Civil War.

    Some are agast at this , but I think it would be very creative to make one from some interesting world coins.
    Lots of kings , queens, knights pictured on coins.

    Krueger
  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>Please, do not denigrate the honorable game of chess with such ignoble characterizations. The Staunton design is the official design and any other, while possibly artistic in nature, is unacceptable for serious play. Cheers, RickO >>


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    ......Larry........image
  • Billet7Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭
    Gimme a break, he can play chess with whatever he wants to!

    You think the first chess set was a Staunton design?

    One great thing about chess is the rich history and diversity that it has endured. The game of chess has been played by kings, paupers, popes and lepers. The game has been around for centuries, it evolved to it's current state around the mid 15th century, but existed in some form since the 6th century. Chess is historic, timeless and romantic. Books have been written about it, songs have been sung and fortunes have been made...and lost through it's power. The chess set is a patchwork quilt of history and a testament to the genius and ingenuity of man. I daresay he would be keeping with the tradition of chess more by building his own than by using the "standard" chess board.

    I hope he does, I for one would like to see it.
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wanna buy some numismatic chinese checkers?

    Man, they;ll dup anything
  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Please, do not denigrate the honorable game of chess with such ignoble characterizations. The Staunton design is the official design and any other, while possibly artistic in nature, is unacceptable for serious play. Cheers, RickO >>






    OOOOOOOOOOOOO please go dip some original coins white! image
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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would relate it to the relative value of the chess piecesPieces Symbol Value
    pawn 1
    knight 3
    bishop 3
    rook 5
    queen 9

    so
    pawn cent
    knight 3 cent silver
    bishop 3 cent nickel
    rook nickel
    queen dime (an approximation)
    and King has an infinite relative value, but could be Morgan or Gold piece

    one side heads one side tails


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  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭


    << <i>Clearly the King would have to be QDB.

    HRH could be the other king.

    I'll let reader decide who is black and who is white.

    Longacre would be the jester, except that there is no jester in chess. >>



    Laura would be an obvious choice for Queen!
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    Have you ever played a game of chess with different pieces other than Official Chess pieces....image......It's Darn confusing I tell you....image
    ......Larry........image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "OOOOOOOOOOOOO please go dip some original coins white! "

    In your honor, I did... two commemoratives, (Stone Mountain and Booker T), a Morgan with blue-green fields (NT), and a gold toned Buffalo.
    So...PI** on you.... Cheers, RickO
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, but I've played a lot of checkers with widgets.
    I could imagine black in gold and white in platinum pieces, for the VERY Serious players.

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