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Interesting !........What shipwreck ? "salvaged" ?...What does that mean ? Any other details came along with this ? That's all the information that came with it. Quote:
It might hurt if it were made of something other than silver, but for that price I think it is a worthwhile conversation piece! That's my thinking as well. For ~$12, it's something out of the ordinary. I'm going to withhold judgement on it's authenticity until I have it in hand. |
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I like the sense of time and history to those Roman pieces.
That Barber half is interesting too--it almost looks ancient!
Not sure that one would "slab" though!
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1905 Barber Half. Mintage = 662,000 Condition AG I paid $10.83   (just realized this is the second one of these I've bought. 1910 Barber Half. Mintage = 418,000 Condition AG I paid $12.50   It's blowing my mind that it's possible to pick up circulated examples of low mintage U.S. coins that used to be "real" money for such low prices. |
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Nice pics all.......keep em' coming !
WOW !~! .....just some great great purchases here by members ! Each one so interesting and different from the other.....
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SirFerrari .........
I agree with Kurt.....man !....The history imagined with those Roman pieces....Maybe Ceasar himself or Brutus had this coin in their pocket for a time ?..nice pics !
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Thought I'd add this one to the growing list. Poor old thing has seen alot of abuse, but it's one of the keys to the Liberty Head Nickel series - fills a hole. Ralph   |
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Today I received: - China 1 jiao, - China 5 jiao, - Japan 5 yen as a part of the never-ending quest to collect all the dates of those series. And what is more important, - Japan 500 yen (TWO lovely examples)  Why do I like them so much anyway?  |
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Maybe Caesar himself or Brutus had this coin in their pocket for a time ? Well eaglefoot, you're about 400 years off.  But seriously, the history connected to them is one of the main reasons I collect them!  |
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I just picked up a 70 mint set dirt cheap on evil-bay. The seller listed the set with "damage" to the packaging. It was cheap enough, and no one else was bidding, so I took a chance. I was pleasantly surprised that the "damage" was only a small bit of writing, in ink, on the lower right of the envelope! Just under 10 bux shipped! Coins are great. Also picked this up for 13 bux... I didn't really need it, or particularly want it, but the bid was so low, and no one bothered to outbid me... So I got it.   ***Edited to add pic of reverse. Edited by ratio411
08/04/2008 8:16 pm
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I picked these up off of ebaytwo 1950 D nickels (look to be at least AU) $16.10    And I picked these 3 quarters up for $8.93... not much under melt, but none the less, under melt value of $9.29    |
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Awesome deal on the 50-Ds!
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you're about 400 years off  As soon as I posted that, I thought .....now somebody is certainly going to know the years they walked the earth and point out that they couldn't have "touched" these coins !...... .... Ahhh well..... forgive me !......I couldn't tell ya when Anthony dated Cleopatra either ! Nor do I know the date of Kublai Khans death (without looking it up !) I couldn't tell ya when Alexander the Great died. Or when Charlemagne took power.....(768.....yeah I looked it up !...   ) So, my point, I guess I should have researched that a tad before posting !.....  .......good call on seeing my error ! Edited by eaglefoot
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mklpatrick:
That looks like the shadow of a "CC" on the reverse.
That would surely add to the character anyway!
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