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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Hopefully this is the right topic area but mods please move if not. This was an 1892 South African Shilling - has anybody seen this before or have any info on who may have done it - personally I think it's great  Thanks   Moved to Exonumia forum - Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
United Arab Emirates
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That's very interesting and certainly well done! I've never seen anything like that before and wonder if there are more out there like it.
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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As BLadd said "well done' and probably quite a few years back but I'd much rather have the original.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
739 Posts |
There's 130,000 of the originals Thai-vic just as a novelty I think I'd rather have this one
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
Nice. There are in fact two things going on here. The carving of the coin is still practised. Look for, Hobo Nickels on this site or Google. The cutting out is also still practised by many, including CCF member nohope587. See: https://goccf.com/t/132669Paul Kruger or Uncle Paul (Oom Paul in Afrikaans) was often carved and cut upon and you can find a fair few examples, but they will all be different. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I've seen similar. It is sometimes sub-grouped under "Trench Art".
And CCF's NoHope has put some interesting pieces on display here on CCF.
I don't approve of vandalizing coins, but I do appreciate "Art", although I realize that it's a fine line ...
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Here is a guy in Western Germany who has already made lots of those "carved" coins: http://www.muenzenschneider.de/ If you click on "Münzenauswahl", you'll get a menu with lots of countries. Select one and view the pieces. Yes, I prefer "intact" coins too, but some of these are very nicely done ... Christian |
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Valued Member
United States
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I've also got a few pieces that have been cut into jigsaw puzzles. I have about 5-6 including a large Russian coin that's been cut into a 26 piece puzzle.
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 Australia
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ZAR coins are often found engraved with all sorts of patterns on them. They're considered "trenchart" and can be found with both pro-Kruger and anti-Kruger symbolism; they were presumably made by soldiers and POWs on both sides of the Boer War. The addition of a hat and pipe was a common anti-Kruger engraving. This website is run by a keen collector of South African numismatics and illustrates numerous kinds of trenchart ZAR coins. You'll also see, down the bottom of that website, a piece almost identical to yours though in better condition was sold on ebay in 2009 for £127. So as you can see, to the right people, such pieces are worth much more than mere "damaged coins". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is a very, very cool coin. It's like a love token on steriods.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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That's fantastic work nohope and many thanks to all for info and links.
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Pillar of the Community
United Arab Emirates
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chrisild, the guy in Germany has done some pretty wonderful work. All of his art is extremely good looking and they appear to be for sale. Thanks for the link.
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Pillar of the Community
Serbia (Srbija)
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I found similar one few days ago too:  My collection on Numista page: 7500 different coins and counting... https://en.numista.com/echanges/pro...hp?id=129798 |
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Posted 12/07/2012 04:54 am
