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Since many of you may be snowed in by the Pi Day Blizzard (on the east coast of the US), here's a one-day activity: post your pie coins, currency, tokens and medals. They can be appropriate tender from India, Pakistan or Burma, or civil war tokens, or even medals depicting the Greek symbol pi or scrumptious pies. Here's a start... 1956 Pakistani one pie (with die clash), atop a dime for size comparison.  If you're confused about pi day then congratulations, you're probably not a nerd, but it is still worth a web search. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Who doesn't like Pi ?  sorry couldn't resist |
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@NickelGuy That's almost the coincidence of the age! Nice one.  Posted elsewhere, here's my contribution:   In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
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Macedon, AR drachm, 323-317BC, Sear GCV 6750 (reverse):  Two pi's in "PHILIPPOY" on the reverse, although their shape is a bit different than on modern coins. |
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That's clever, Pepactonius! My daughter snarfs up my Greeks as fast as I can find them. Classics major. That'll be $3.14, please.  Edited by Biedercoins
03/14/2017 07:45 am
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NoPoMoCo wins for the best topic idea of the year.  Biedercoins wins for posting the best reply.  (and a bonus prize for having presence of mind to use Ikes instead of some "lesser" dollar.  ) |
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Pillar of the Community
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Wouldn't do it any other way, jbuck. Got lazy when I should have been pulling Half Cents. I'm hoping there are more postings to come. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very clever fella's . . (runs and gets coins and camera)  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Good concept, thanks for giving me ideas!   |
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Oh, now, flag4 just upped the game.  |
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Yes, flag4's concept of pi possesses some irrationality , but I also like the drachm, which highlights the ancient origin of pi. Also glad to see the CWTs, which support pie bakers everywhere! |
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Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Bedrock of the Community
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Excellent topic. Pretty sure that everyone on this forum is a nerd to some degree and appreciates this!
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Hehe, I'm a nerd and can't help myself. 52Raymo has posted more than a unique coin-themed 19th century pie crimper. It's a tool to estimate the value of pi = the number of crimps around the pie edge divided by the number of crimps across the diameter.
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Here's my Pi(e) token... with an amazing clash and die cracks. I don't think the die lasted to long after this one.   |
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Posted 03/14/2017 01:50 am
