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A recent purchase...some may consider it a modern
Bochiman
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but I like it anyways 
Pictures aren't mine...they show the detail very nicely but not the luster the coin has...inhand, more of a darker chocolate with luster.
Thoughts?
Pictures aren't mine...they show the detail very nicely but not the luster the coin has...inhand, more of a darker chocolate with luster.
Thoughts?
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
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Very cool Bochiman...
AB
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
What is the history on this one?
Oh, I LOVE that coin...that's a meaty one....love the cud on the eagle's head!
When forum member pistareen lectured back at Spring PNNA he mentioned that 1000s of these pieces were brought by Gray when he left New England on his expedition 1787. He brought them to trade with NW natives who prized copper above gold.
That's a good looking piece of historical copper there Bochiman.
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The metal contained within was forged perhaps some eleven billion years ago in the furnaces of stellar fusion within the primordial population I stars within the early universe. Only gradually would they coalesce and find their way to the remnants of a great supernova that would gradually coalesce to form the early Solar System, delivered to a molten Earth in a cataclysmic collision with a second celestial body that would disintegrate but in so doing bring about the formation of the Moon. But, the mining of the copper and its refinement by humans is, by comparison, a recent development. In cosmologic time, this coin is very fresh indeed.
Nice coin! Detail on the Indian's head and eagle's wings looks good.
<< <i>Anything not struck by hand is modern ...
Told you guys "some may consider it a modern"
There's an Astrorat in every crowd
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
<< <i>which color hat did you get? .....and I love the piece!!!!!! >>
Tan
<< <i>Being from Mass, that's on my 'must have' list, (so's a Pine Tree Shilling, but maybe after graduation...sigh). >>
I ALMOST went for something like that instead.....came REALLY close.
Damn CRO...Damn them and their mystic and magical way of draining one's wallet
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
<< <i>Is the metal blob on top of the eagles head considered a cud, or is it a separate variety? >>
It's a die break that resembles a horn on the Eagle's head (sort of), and is listed in the Redbook (and thus slabbed by PCGS) as the "Horned Eagle" variety.
I knew it would happen.
I'm envious.
<< <i>You mentioned CRO... Is it slabbed? I thought it was raw. >>
The "modern" part of the title caught you, eh?
No, it isn't raw....it's PCGS'ed and CAC'ed.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
<< <i>I've wanted one of those for a long time! Yours looks outstanding with just the right amount of detail vs. circulation.
I'm envious.
That makes two of us !!
Love the Mass Cent
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