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United States
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Of all the coins that you own, what coin strikes up the most Conversation and Intrigue amongst family,friends and fellow coin collectors. (Coins that have a story behind them) I'll Start with my 1961 Bashlow Restrike of Philadelphia Engraver Robert Lovett's 1861 Confederate Cent. As the story goes Mr. Lovett was contracted by New York Bank Note Company about creating a die for a Confederate Coin, high lighting his ability to make mint grade die's. NYBNC was at that time engraving and printing Confederate money for the Confederacy and wanted to win the contract as Supplier of choice. Mr. Lovett agreed to a contract and proceeded to make the dies and took some 10 to 12 impressions(with several making their way to New Orleans in April of 1861) for approval. Due to the outbreak of hostilities,nothing more transpired with Lovett. In fear of treason Lovett burried the dies in his basement. And the story goes on as to how Bashlow obtained the defaced dies and made new hubs for the 1961 Restrikes. (a very good and interesting read) I find this coin's history to be one of the most interesting story's in the History of U.S. currency. Some may disagree.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thats an interesting coin for sure. For me it's not one coin, but my 7070 set. Whenever I show it to someone, they always comment how they never knew there was a 20C coin, a Trade dollar or a 3C nickel, etc. |
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 United States
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Very interesting!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll go with a 20 Cent coin for most interest getting.
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New Member
United States
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Hello everyone out there! My name is Juliana & I am new to this page. Currently the coin I have that gets the most questioned is this 1944 Wheat cent...as you can see, it's missing the copper coating on the obverse. I have tried searching Google to find another one similar to this, but I'm not having any luck. If anyone can tell me about it, including possible value, I'd very much appreciate it. Thank you in advance!  |
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Australia
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Hello and welcome, JewelsRN.  One cent coins in 1944 didn't have a "copper coating" - they were solid bronze, the same colour all the way through. So what you've got there is just a normal coin that's had some kind of grey plating or paint attached to it. Sorry. Since we're bumping this old thread and it could probably have some more air-time as it's an interesting subject that had few replies, I will ad my own. Once a year, I give a presentation on "coins" to the students at my church's Conversational English class. I try to bring along coins from the countries that the students themselves come from; most of them have never seen their own country's old coins, and it usually sparks lots of interest from those students. But the coin that has sparked the most conversation generally (which is kind of the point of bringing along the coins) was one that I brought along one year to represent the Philippines: a Culion Island Leper Colony 10 centavos 1913. It sparked considerable debate on the role and attitude of government towards infectious disease control (this was before COVID) and whether putting lepers into isolation colonies was appropriate. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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 to the Community, JewelsRN! |
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United States
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Jewels And I look forward to seeing more stories about coins as I think of one about mine. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This one always gets comments when I show it. Japan 100 Mon.   |
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Russian Federation
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TBH there's a big difference between "strikes up conversation without having to bring it up" and "inspires lots of discussion from me". I have some coins (mostly ancient) that absolutely have a story behind them, but the coins themselves don't look like much and I have to add the story manually when I'm showing them off. The coins that strike up the most conversation without me having to start it are probably the Catherine II 5 kopek pieces; so huge and chunky they're hard to avoid noticing. I've got a bunch with various gimmicks (clipped, overstruck...) and I'm not sure which is the most intriguing. Probably the overstruck one but I don't think I have pics of that. I do have pics of this one, which has a very blatant die clash...   |
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Lately for me, its a group of worn 1922 coins from the UK for one reason.
My main stamp club is having it's centenary this year and they wanted exhibits of 1 or 2 frames (16 or 32 pages for those of you who do not collect stamps) and I decided to do a display on the Club and Auckland city every 25 years from 1922 to 2022 and in this display I had a page of facts like who was the mayor and the size of Auckland city.
I also had some photos of the city and scenes. Some images of the latest car, phonographs (Another obsession of mine), fads (1997 for instance was Tamagotchis and Beanie Babies). Finally I showed some of the stamps of that year and the coins in use.
This was fine for 1947, 1972, 1997 and 2022 as I just showed NZ coins, but in 1922 we used British coins and I showed some "B" examples like a VG Halfcrown and a worn penny/halfpenny - that really worn 1922 shilling I have and a threepence.
Anyway people came up to me, telling me I had made a mistake, because there were these British coins from 1922 instead of NZ ones from 1922. I had to gently inform them that we did not have our own coins in 1922 and used British ones until late in 1933. One clown even told me to put a 1933 coin in then as they may have used that in 1922!
This is because the History teaching in this country is mostly woke PC stuff rather than actual real history and children do not learn much about NZ history before the 1960s, except selected bits and pieces like the Treaty of Waitangi and the Maori resistance movement against the Imperialist Devils (Formerly know as the NZ wars of the 1860s).
On the other side of the coin, one person blasted me for the lack of Australian coins, as we did use them in 1922 but only the bronze as the silver coins were Sterling and we used the 50% ones of the UK.
Not really conversation as I don't really exhibit the fact I collect coins to the public (Poor country, too many crooks around) - but interesting at least.
Next time I do a display for a stamp club, I will stick to stamps.
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06/15/2022 9:40 pm
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United States
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I think it would be my 2021 type I and II AGE 4 coin sets.
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