Wow, this like the oldest slab ever!! Pre dates Capital Plastics!!

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• BryceM Posts: 11,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 2:49PM

  Looks like something that used to hang in the principal's office, only his had a handle on it.

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• Justlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭

  January 29, 2012 3:20PM

  So THAT'S how they get woodgrain toning!

  Let's try not to get upset.

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• ajman Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 7:50PM

  I think I'll pass.

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• stev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 8:28PM

  My Grandfather had a wooden board that held his penny collection. He drove nails in the board to hold the coins in place.

  Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?

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• DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 8:45PM

  Maybe it's me, but that just looks awful.

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• Mockingjay Posts: 121 ✭

  January 29, 2012 8:59PM

  I think I would have switched to collecting stamps.

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• Staircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 9:10PM

  
  Thanks, but I wooden be interested in this.
  
  
  
  
  

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,831 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 9:23PM

  That's not a slab---it's a coin board. Neat item though.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 11:07PM

  PerryHall is right, but as a coin board, it might predate some of the folders.... interesting as a relic, but not practical. Cheers, RickO

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• golden Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2012 11:29PM

  
  
  << <i>So THAT'S how they get woodgrain toning! >>
  
  

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• pontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭

  January 29, 2012 11:32PM

  
  
  << <i>So THAT'S how they get woodgrain toning! >>
  
  
  
  thats funny!

  
  
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• garrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 1:29AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>So THAT'S how they get woodgrain toning! >>
  
  
  
  thats funny! >>
  
  
  
  
  Exactly, all I can say is WOW

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• messydesk Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 1:39AM

  There's someone ATS who would be quite interested in that, I would think. It was made with the knowledge that there were no 1910-D cents, and that there were 1909 with and without VDB, but there are slots for all three mints for 1921 and 1922, so it would seem it was made between 1913, when it seemed apparent that all 3 mints were going to continue making cents, and 1920.

  John
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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 2:49AM

  Man, that is cool!
  
  Just imagine - back when the robber barons were amassing great personal fortunes and building unprecedented collections, some little guy wanted to have a coin collection. The only way it was going to happen was by doing it themselves. Hard to know when it was made - perhaps 1913 like suggested or maybe during the great depression?? It looks exactly like the sort of thing my grandpa or father-in-law would have made.
  
  If you've been to the Americana exhibit at the Smithsonian, this is as cool as any home made weathervane, whirly-gig or tramp art on display there!
  
  Can't wait until it arrives.

  "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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• messydesk Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 3:02AM

  
  
  << <i>Can't wait until it arrives. >>
  
  
  

  John
  Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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• rainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 7:40AM

  Neighbor two doors down had the same board (circa 1958)...seriously, it looks exactly the same!!
  
  Brings back some very old memories...

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,220 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2012 5:21AM

  
  
  << <i>I think I would have switched to collecting stamps. >>
  
  perish the thought lol

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2012 5:23AM

  Funky... and cool. I like it.
  
  Don't think I'd have liked it to the tune of a hundred bucks, but to each his own.
  
  It's a nifty relic. I remember seeing a collection (date set) of holed Indian cents (or was it large cents?) nailed to an old barn board. Straight after me own heart, that was.

  
  
  

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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2012 5:29AM

  Don't think I'd have liked it to the tune of a hundred bucks, but to each his own.
  
  I love antiques and primitives in particular. Agree that's not everybodies cup of tea.
  
  I have a buddy with a beat up weathervane that he paid $65,000 for - now that's not for everyone either.

  "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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• okracer Posts: 436 ✭

  January 31, 2012 6:28AM

  
  
  I like it.....didn't get it....but I do like it.
  
  

  
  ......I collect old stuff......

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• leothelyon Posts: 8,489 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 31, 2012 2:01PM

  The trouble someone went through to make that board, not much can be said about the coins, if they are the original coins.

  The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2012 5:04AM

  Board arrived and it looks cool in person. Has that old, antique oak look.
  
  I have it in the garage disassembled and clamped - needed regluing.
  
  Coins are common dates, nothing valuable. Alot of 1920-P's.
  
  Can't wait to hang it on the wall.

  "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2012 5:18AM

  Lakesammman, Let me know if you want to buy any more as I'll drill press some aged shellacked oak with a with a forstner bit... Any denomination you desire!

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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2012 5:47AM

  I've seen Ambro's shop pictures - he's doing me a HTT board.

  "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2012 6:11AM

  
  
  << <i>I've seen Ambro's shop pictures - he's doing me a HTT board. >>
  
  
  
  Most likely a far better choice for getting that distressed look!

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• CoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2012 7:40AM

  
  
  << <i>Don't think I'd have liked it to the tune of a hundred bucks, but to each his own.
  
  I love antiques and primitives in particular. Agree that's not everybodies cup of tea.
  
  I have a buddy with a beat up weathervane that he paid $65,000 for - now that's not for everyone either. >>
  
  
  
  Hey -- don't rag on that weathervane. It took me all day (and 7 coat hangers) to bang that out!
  
  OK -- How about a "Primitive" coin then? This is actually a mixture of gold & siilver. I picture some prospector squashing his day's finds into a coin-shaped object and then scratching a design on it. But honestly I have no idea what this thing is about. It is about the size of a $5 gold coin.
  
  And no -- the image(s) are not reversed. This is the way it looks:
  
  
  
  

  John Agre
  
  Coin Rarities Online

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• robkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 18, 2012 8:28AM

  KOOL !!! I LIKE IT !!!

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