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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
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Totally awesome.
I love it.
1911 even, that's the year I'm collecting, even better.
Thanks for sharing that, makes my night.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Popout coins are a neat thing to find. Especially as cufflinks. :-)
The mass-produced ones were made by hammering them into a mold. The only thing you need to look out for, though, is if they're cast copies (which is common).
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Valued Member
United States
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How will Chinese counterfeit this?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They generally don't. They were popular in Europe and the States, and making castings was easier than carving them over again.
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Pillar of the Community
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Fyi... all four are definitely NOT cast but original Barber coins. Both pop outs are 1911, one backing looks like 1908 & the others date was completely cropped. And I do not think they were banged over a mold... too many minute differences that could only be caused by hand tooling imo |
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, those are incredible
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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the form of art is known as "repousse"
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeh, pop-out coins is in the same category as hobo-nickels or love tokens and are collected as art-forms. I think these are not treated the same as coins people collect.
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Pillar of the Community
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Very true buddy however, coin collectors while they would never do such a thing to a coin are the largest demographic of buyers for this type of thing... case in point, read one50's response. And I wear a civil war era $1 gold piece love token necklace & have an 1881 morgan money clip (my birth year plus 100)
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The pop out coins are made from dies and are not hammered out
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Bedrock of the Community
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They are very cool...I like
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