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Pillar of the Community
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I did an entire collection of holed Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents. Was fun looking for them and very cheap. (Never could find the S mints though, someday). Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Especially for the 1861 3cs this is nuts.
Estimated survival is 7,500 with 1,000 mint state. You do not have to settle for a damaged coin.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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@Paralyse,
Thanks for information on the subject.
I love reading these historical thoughts or analyses.
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Slightly off topic, here's the kind of holed coin that interests me...and a lot of other bidders... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1853-G-1-Ca...AOSwJH1ZKiUCThis appears to be an 1853 BG-530. The Nouizillet "N" mark is obliterated by the hole. It's a common (600 survival) California fractional but it appears to be the real deal, and with an $83 bid is not much above its gold melt value. I've read stories about these being holed to keep them together on a piece of wire, but more likely it was an earring or on a charm bracelet. Whatever. They're part of the Gold Rush, and are very affordable private mint coins. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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06/01/2017 4:09 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Dad was an Army vet, a history teacher in New Orleans & a Civil War buff, and I got dragged (not unwillingly) to a couple of battlefields like Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove when we would visit the family in Arkansas. He would bring me home Minie balls and bullets and even a couple of buttons and a rusty belt buckle in a little glass case, once, and a metal pint-size replica of a "Napoleon" cannon. We would both devour the latest Michael Shaara and then Jeff Shaara novels as they came out (I'm reading Jeff Shaara's new book "The Frozen Hours" about Chosin/Korea at the moment!) and also non-fiction.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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paralyse , thanks for your comments. I had some similar thoughts but I am no expert on the subject. It does seem possible that some soldiers might have done it -- but as you wrote, it would not have been a great idea that got repeated for all the reasons that you mentioned.
It always seems to me that holed coins were jewelry charms of some sort.
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United States
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Sometimes a holed coin is the only way for some collectors to get hard to find coins at a reasonable price. I collect bust half dollars, and I just bought an 1812-101 Large 8 overdate. I paid over a 1000$ for the holed coin, but an F-20 would have been over 8000$ if you can find it. Without the hole this coin would a vf range coin
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I don't know about holes, but what came to mind is chop marks on Trade dollars. Those can go for just as much as an undamaged example, assuming it otherwise has eye appeal. Personally wouldn't buy a holed coin though unless it was otherwise unaffordable, and a type I really wanted. |
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