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To all of you who are dabbling in or thinking about collecting colonials
MidLifeCrisis
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Colonials are not like other coins for a lot of reasons - crude minting process, poor planchet quality, heavy use in the colonies making uncirculated pieces very difficult to obtain, etc.
However, no matter how rare or unusual or cool (owning any coin from the 18th Century is just cool) eye appeal should still be your number one consideration, in my opinion.
Colonials are not like other coins for a lot of reasons - crude minting process, poor planchet quality, heavy use in the colonies making uncirculated pieces very difficult to obtain, etc.
However, no matter how rare or unusual or cool (owning any coin from the 18th Century is just cool) eye appeal should still be your number one consideration, in my opinion.
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Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
Edited to add pictures
<< <i>Its a newp and its post colonial and well worn...and I like it
I do too!
"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
running like a water color in the rain...."
its a whole new world....
If your collecting is stuck in a rut...
colonials are the answer.
Just bought this one... and totally love it!
<< <i>MLC - while not a colonial collector, I've always had a special attraction to the Rhode Island Ship Medal. A wonderful design, theme, and story behind the "correction" to fix the mistaken message. I patiently await seeing one in your collection! (edited to add - since I can't afford one) >>
Yes, I agree. Rhode Island Ship Medals are very interesting. I look forward to adding one to my collection. Really nice ones are WOW coins. But they are not cheap, and a nice one with a traceable provenance is very hard to find!
Here is the six pence. The negative - it's off-center, which is typical. The positive - the preservation does not get much better than this ... a PCGS AU-55, and it's all there.
Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner.
Its almost like the Red Book section on colonials 'on steroids'. Highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in any of these pieces to get ahold of this book. money well spent.
Great to see some nice colonials.
So much to comment on in this post. First, very nice Baby Head, was that from the recent Stack's Auction?
I agree that the Rhode Island Ship Token is a truly cool and enigmatic token. It actually was the star of an episode of the Family Guy because the show's creator went to the Rhode Island School of design. Charles Bushnell, the famous collector/historian believed it was actually Dutch made as a spoof on both the Americans and English with each side "vlugtendeeing" (Fleeing) from the Island depending on which battle or event you were looking at. But having vlugtendee scrapped off one side and replaced with a wreath makes Bushnell's view hard to accept.
Its funny that ambro51 called the Bower's Encyclopedia a Colonial Section Redbook on"steroids". Because that exactly what it was set out to be. They were going to publish a slimmed down redbook like edition subsequently but that never came to pass mostly because the Redbook worked just fine. But as I said, exactly its goal plus cleaning up a bunch of lose historical ends left by various people very much including Breen.
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