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Has anyone ever seen a "potty" Half Dime?

MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Has anyone ever seen a "potty" Half Dime?

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep... at a coin show in Seattle, five years ago. Cheers, RickO
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    MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    I have seen numerous potty dollars, some potty half dollars, a few potty quarters, and even a potty twenty cent piece, but in all my years of collecting and studying half dimes (and related exonumia), I have never seen a potty half dime. May I assume that you have not either, or do you have one to show us?
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    noownoow Posts: 387
    Can someone please post a picture of a potty?
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    DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Can someone please post a picture of a potty? >>



    Potty
    Becky
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    astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Can someone please post a picture of a potty? >>


    Crude ... but gives the general idea.
    imageimage

    I have never seen a potty half dime. That seems like a mighty small canvas.
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    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>May I assume that you have not either, or do you have one to show us? >>



    No, unfortunately I don't have one. I have never even seen one, even thought I assume they exist. I have only ever seen one "Potty" Twenty Cent piece.
    HERE I have a "potty" Dime, Quarter, and Trade Dollar. I hope to eventually add the others to my collection.
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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Astrorat, you beat me to the post of your Twenty Center. Yes, crude, but rare and I like it.
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    noownoow Posts: 387
    LOL, thanks for the pic!
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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's my Potty Quarter that I just received today.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,201 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I personally never saw a potty half dime. Only ever sold one twenty center.
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I personally never saw a potty half dime. Only ever sold one twenty center. >>

    Tom, was it the twenty-center above? image
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    See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's amazing what passed for humor in the 1800's.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Do the folks that collect potty dollars also collect those large cents with the spelling of CENT changed by re-engraving the E?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Do the folks that collect potty dollars also collect those large cents with the spelling of CENT changed by re-engraving the E? >>



    I do, along with other engraved exonumia, i. e. Love Tokens, Hobo Nickels, coins engraved with The Lord's Prayer, etc., etc.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,201 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I personally never saw a potty half dime. Only ever sold one twenty center. >>

    Tom, was it the twenty-center above? image >>



    Can't remember the image. Was sold to Les Burzinski(sp?) up in Wisconsin. Was there a catalogue of his collection when it was sold?

    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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