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Day 2 This coin was mine before I even starting collecting. My maternal grandfather gave this silver dollar to my mom (for me) when I was just a little baby( in 1967) Sadly he passed away in 1968, so he was someone I only knew fondly from stories and pictures. My mother kept it for about twenty years before it made it to my hands. It's a bit scratchy from circulation or from us kids flipping them around like riverboat gamblers when we were young and didn't know any better lol Its a great sentimental piece I'll always own.   |
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Day 3 1926 10 Dollar US Gold IndianLove this coin design.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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This is my day 3 entry...   |
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1914-D Lincoln Cent I knew that beauty was going to make an appearance! Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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Choice ewxample, congrats!
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 Backstory: When I was a youngster (8-9 years old) my father would take me with him to help do chores for an elderly cousin, Mrs. Squires. By the time I knew her, she was a widow. She lived waaaaaay back in the eastern NC woods and had no electricity or indoor plumbing. She was the type of person who always had a smile on her face and she would pat me on the head when we showed up. One day after we had stacked firewood for her, she handed me this coin as a gift. It was wrapped in several layers of Scotch tape. THIS was my very first classic coin, and it is still my only large cent. Last year, I asked for advice in cleaning the decades of "goop" from the coin, and I recently asked for attribution help. So, what you see here is an amateurish conservation attempt of a N-20 1852 large cent. Thanks to those on CCF for helping me with this project! "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Margraviate of Meissen / Zwickau -- 1 spitzgroschen, 1478:   (my oldest AD-dated coin) |
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Canada
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Day 3 Time for another token. This one was sleeping in the ground for a long time too I suspect, found far away from its homeland. I like the unfamiliar denomination ,again, different from what was usually found on regular issues of the time and place. Irish ten pence.   |
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found far away from its homeland. Curious where it was found at? Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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to chafemasterj : found in Nova Scotia, Canada
from what I'm led to believe, anything and everything was used to make small change in Maritime Canada at the time, apparently there was little coin around which precipitated the issue of our pre confederation tokens
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Day 3 1875 Double dime   |
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1847 Gothic Crown. The coin I always wanted as a kid. Won it in an action (not ebay) about ten years ago...   |
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