Twelve Days Of Your Favorite Coins.

Day 6
1971 NRA Medal Marlin 39 with Annie Oakley on obverse and the reverse of the 1971 NRA Medal Punt Gun text on the reverse.
Another mule medal.

I have posted about this a couple times elsewhere, but I just picked up a nicer "correct" version to make this set even better.

Below this error image are two correct Marlin 39's and a Punt Gun for comparison.

Day 6
This is the first Morgan dollar I have put into my collection. I " negotiated" this one about twenty years ago or so. A good friend of mine who knew that I "liked" coins came by one day after work; he said he found it inside a brown paper bag inside a wall cavity in a cottage he was currently renovating. I asked what wanted for it and all he said was he'd trade it straight for a pack of cigarettes...done and done!
I like the design and heft of the coin in your hand. I'm sure these wore holes in many pockets during their time.

Hephthalites. Nezak Huns.. AR drachm. "Napki Malka" series. .
Circa 515.680 A.D.
Obverse..Bust right wearing winged-bull head-dress. Pahlavi legends nycky MLK-A
Reverse:Fire altar with attendants, Solar wheels above.
3.41 grams....24.64 mm.
Vondrovec [Göbl] 198

Kingdom of Sardinia -- 80 lire, 1826:



I like the elaborate shield on the reverse.

Pepactonius...Love the detail in that 80 Lire piece.
Awesome eye appeal.

Day V

My first Bolivian coin .

The coin that started it all for me - my primary school teacher said that some British pennies had a lighthouse on them and others didn't - and then I got one in my pocket money with a lighthouse AND a ship! In the late 1960s to find a Bun Penny in as good a condition as this was very unusual:


This is the later 1874 obverse with the slightly aged portrait of Queen Victoria.

I think you got that wrong.