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Boy Steve, your parameters for interesting items at less than $7 fits with just about 35% of everything I buy! Sounds like you should be the winner.  |
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Great entries so far everyone! Just one more day left!
Now where is @Spence with his fascinating budget medievals, or January1May with his bargain bin Roman coins?
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No more entries? Send in your votes everyone  I will be a bit preoccupied this weekend, so apologies for any delay from now until Monday. |
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Just cast my vote...and no I didn't leave the chad hanging on the ballot.   Edited by MontCollector
08/24/2018 1:12 pm
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Sorry, I'm currently at a vacation on the Baltic with only occasional internet access, and only accidentally found out that you were waiting for me.
Can you please hold on the end of the competition for a while (i.e. at least a few hours)? I do want to participate, especially since I was asked for by name...
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where is @Spence with his fascinating budget medievals Graceland. I'll post something to your competition within the hour.  Ok here is my oldest coin that I have purchased for less than $7. It is a cast cash from our own @TypeCoin971793 that I picked up a couple years ago when he was more active on CCF. It dates to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC to 25 AD) and is attributed as Hartill 8.10.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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08/24/2018 8:04 pm
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or January1May with his bargain bin Roman coins? As already mentioned, I was at a vacation on the Baltic. Yes, I did buy a few coins there, at the Kaliningrad weekly coin show. No, I didn't take any photos of them, and none were that interesting anyway. The $7 boundary makes things a bit tricky though: I don't actually recall the exchange rate for when I bought most of my bargain Romans, and if we go by today's exchange rate it comes out to $3.20 or thereabouts, which is just plainly not true. I did look up the price of a Big Mac meal, which turned out to be around $5 today, and no idea how much in 2013. ...Meh. I think 400 rubles would've been below $7 for most of the probable purchase range, and only up to $7.20 at the highest. (And it might well have been 350, which is definitely below.) Would that count? If so, there's an obvious answer...   Elbing, Swedish occupation of, solidus, 1657 Obverse: CAROL GVST D G, crowned CG monogram within inner circle Reverse: SOLIDVS PRVSSIAE 57, arms of Elbing in cartouche within inner circle KM# 65 (listed as "rare"), Numista 96629 (rarity 97 - only my example), Kopicki 9655 (R7, estimated 4-6 examples known) Bought at what was officially in a stamp shop near Belyaevo, for either 350 or 400 rubles (I forgot). |
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Picked this up for 17 cents.   PCGS identifies it as an authentic French Cochin Chinese essay -- graded SP 63 BN. A Belgian company sought the contract for manufacturing cash coins in Cochin China (now part of Vietnam). |
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I won this mint state 1884 Victoria Young Head Farthing on ebay for 99 cents two weeks ago. I was looking for the right place to post the photos. I guess this is it.   Paul Bulgerin
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Looks like we had some decent late entries! |
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I'm a bit confused. I can't remember if I voted or not, and I am wondering about the entries after voting was supposed to start (which are excellent  ).  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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Back in town  I only got one vote before the last four entries, so I say voting starts over fresh. I'll tally up and announce the winner tonight! |
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