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Great "Hobo" Great Britain Crown 1820

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 Posted 01/26/2012  12:42 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ilikeikes to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I HAD to have this one for my Coins of Great Britain Collection...a real "Hobo" type coin, usually seen on USA Buffalo 5c, this one was done by Gosh-Knows-Whom, back in the day..I don't think these are common.
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01/26/2012 12:45 pm
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 Posted 01/26/2012  1:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Boy, someone did a number on poor George!

Edit: With this Pistrucci's rendition of George almost any addition would be an improvement.
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01/26/2012 1:28 pm
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 Posted 01/26/2012  5:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Apollo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wait, is that a phallus on that equidae, man they where perverted back then ....
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 Posted 01/26/2012  5:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CaptainFwiffo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is it perhaps a politically motivated defacement? It seems like the portrait was made to look Frenchy.
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1820: KG3 died 29th January. He had not been lucid since 1810.
There were uprisings and plots throughout the U.K. -
Feb - Cato Street Conspiracy in London, five conspirators were hanged and beheaded on 01st May.
March & April - rebellions in Scotland - three hanged & beheaded (last beheadings in Britain)
- and rebellions in Yorkshire.

So, I agree that 1820 was a "hot" year, in political terms, but I can't see the connection with this Hobo-Art.



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I have an ordinary one of these in about VF, paid $70 for it about 2 years ago.
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