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Does Anyone Here Collect PMD Coins?

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 Posted 09/01/2015  12:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rayof315 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I save the "artistic" one's when I find them in circulation. I have one of Lincoln smoking a pipe (pretty well done) that whoever made it, must have made a bunch and sent them out into circulation, because I saw an exact replica of it for sale on ebay. I have two with different states carved in them (not sure why people do that) that I'm compelled for some reason to save, and a couple artjficially toned with designs and pictures scratched in them that we're found in some customer rolled rolls I bought at the bank. Maybe I'll see if I can hunt them up and post a few pictures.
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 Posted 09/01/2015  01:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add djx to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a 2001 cent I found in change last week that reads Bud/Bup 01

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I love BadThad's 1941 cent. It has made an appearance or two in the past.
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I bought this because I thought it looked neat. I have no idea if it was actually created in 1964, but for all you history buffs this is the year that congress passed the "Tonkin Resolution" which gave President Johnson the authority to assist ANY country who was considered jeopardized by "communist agression" in Southeast Asia. The coin is AU, which also lends probability that it may indeed be folk art created during the counter culture movement to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

It could have been created last year for all I know, however the pink 2x2 It lives in looks authentically vintage.
I like to believe it's period art. For $1 I don't feel it was a terrible purchase either way.

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 Posted 09/01/2015  1:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just in case anyone was wondering or forgot, we do have an Official "Post a Counterstamp" thread...

https://goccf.com/t/126486

Enjoy!

(And keep posting the other interesting oddities here!)
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 Posted 09/01/2015  10:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rayof315 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's two coins: The first I found searching through pocket change and show it as I first saw it (i.e., horizontally) through the loop, so that it practically gave me a heart attack as I thought I had found some kind of unusual mule or double strike or something - having to do with the date, 2000.

Finally, I turned it right way up and saw it was Lincoln smoking a pipe. Like I said, whoever made this, made more than one, because a couple of years later, I saw an exact duplicate of it up for auction on ebay.

Next is a coin I bought by an artist who uses all kinds of very small objects (bottle caps, tiny spoons, broken pottery, etc) as his canvas. So this is really more in the realm of an art piece than a PMD coin. My photo really doesn't do it justice. Called "Rainy Day Dream".


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 Posted 09/01/2015  10:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rayof315 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Cool PMD, BadThad; and until joining this forum, I wouldn't have known it was PMD.
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Hey Thad, what are you using to get those macro shots? My scanner is pitiful for such, and the camera's worse.

Here's what I mean. This is the best I could do.

1974 Wash. Qtr. base of the throat. In the loupe, the front part of the indentation looks like a flat plate, and there's a curved line running around the bottom of the effigy, above the date.

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Weak second strike? PMD seems unlikely.
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I love finding gold plated coins in circulation. I put them in a album with my mason pennies. I also like interesting toned nickels that are wildly bright colors.
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Bertensgrad, I found a gold plated State Quarter once...it lives in my type-set book.
I also collect pressed pennies from the zoo...and have a few I found along the railroad tracks. I'll post some images sooner or later.
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Thad: I've got a few just like that. I've always wondered if it was supposed to be a 7 or if the 1 just got drunk and fell.
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 Posted 09/03/2015  01:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CopperCastle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This one's to close to call. What do you guys think...Possible PMD?

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I don't "collect" per se, but I do take time to admire coins that have had a very rough life. In particular, I enjoy 80s/90s zincolns that could *almost* pass for a 4th century Roman coin. We have a thread along these lines in the CRH forum:

https://goccf.com/t/174150

As far as "decorated" coins go, I have found a 2006 Masonic cent (still have that somewhere), and a Kennedy half that was decorated with some sort of resin to give JFK sunglasses and a baseball cap.
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 Posted 09/03/2015  11:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rayof315 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
CopperCastle: Like it!
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