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I hosted a few friends last night for a "Coins 'n' Beer" evening... Here are some coins a good friend brought for 'show-and-tell' that you will rarely ever see as individuals, let alone a handful...  Four PEI holey dollars, three PEI dumps (from holey dollars), and one holey dollar with a French dump hammered back into it. Oh yeah, a Lees 4 token to boot...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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WOW!!
If that's what it takes to get into your parties... I'll be outside selling pencils!
Very cool though!
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Canada
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Wow indeed !,..and they're not even made of nickel...
How did they ever get in your door...?
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Which country are these from because they are not Australian holey dollars ?
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Which country are these from because they are not Australian holey dollars ? PEI is short for Prince Edward Island, a province in Canada. Those coins are pre-confederation and at that time PEI was a British colony. |
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FIVE pei holey's and FOUR plugs? in one sitting ?!?! it's days like these that I look at my (modest) collection and wonder why I even bother only thing that beats good coins is good company. congrats on both! |
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Wow, Holey dollars, if you ever find one you would be doing great but..FOUR..  |
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This is interesting, I never knew that there were other Holey Dollars and Dumps besides the Australian Proclamation coins. That is the beauty of numismatics, there is Always something new to discover  Are there any other countries other than Canada and Australia that did this before they had their own official coinage? The last time I had a Beer and Coins evening we were playing Poker  Edited by trout1105
12/12/2016 07:38 am
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I see your dump and raise you the holey dollar!
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That is cool, you learn some thing new every day.
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only thing that beats good coins is good company. congrats on both! Which is why we do this about once every two months... there are six of us who gather together, all numismatists and collectors alike, and sometimes it is a game of oneupmanship... we either BBQ or cook up a big meal, start sipping wine or beer at about 3 pm and after we eat, the coins come out. Bob Forbes used to do this with Warren Waxman and Sid Belzberg in the Toronto area... now imagine THAT table of coins being passed around!! For us, finding good friends in the hobby makes the hobby that much richer and enjoyable... Those PEI coins belong to the person who wrote the book on holey dollars. Also, the Twoonieman comes to the coins and beer, he is also quite the chef... this past Saturday evening, he not only cooked the meal in my kitchen, but he then put this set down in front of us!! Beautiful coins!  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Ahh. to live close to a city where one can find others that have the same interests.  |
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Thanks for posting the pic. It's something I never would have seen anywhere ever. Quote:
That is the beauty of numismatics, there is Always something new to discover  It really never ends, does it? |
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Totally agree with you on the meeting part! I meet only with one other right now and we have a pretty informal "show and tell" session.... which has been fantastic and fun and a great friendship has developed over the years....
Thank you for sharing SPP those are some really nice pieces
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Posted 12/11/2016 9:11 pm
