It's Wacky Wednesday - Post a Wacky Looking Coin/Token!

So, let's liven things up a bit and post some fun and wacky looking coins and/or tokens - errors, weird designs, unusual shapes, funking colors, etc. I'll start.....

Many of you have seen this one before, but I think it's pretty darn wacky!

 

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Wacky wacky..

This is wacky.

 

Here's mine.

Last year, my son got a job helping move a car smasher in an auto junkyard. Underneath the smasher was over $800 in bent change, 13 bucks silver. They also found two bent rings and a smashed pistol.

This is what I got out of it.:hail:

 

Whack Coins Yo!







1924 SLQ



1996-P

 

In a small hoard of these coins I bought were 5 identical grease jobs. It is a BU 1960- D/D sm.date/large date DDO and RPM-1960D-1mm-100, FS-1c-25.5.

Someday, I will send them off

Jim




This is what it should have looked like.

 

A few from north of the border:

 

I spotted this one and just had to have it. When was the last time you saw a medal depicting the floorplan of a prison?

Chris

 

Still Wednesday here

 

Not Wednesday here, but I want to play too

Some kind of odd chemical toning on this one. Also been suggested that it has been contaminated some how.

 

I wish it were still Wednesday.

 

I'll see if these pics display in an additional post.

Guess not, you will have to click on them to see them.

 

Yeah I know its Thursday, but I couldn't resist!

 

There are sure some very "wacky" looking coins folks, I love those shattered dies! Thanks for posting them - hope you enjoyed playing and watching!

 

A day late - story of my life!


Forger’s reverse die of sestertius
mid 2nd century AD – AE or PB? 53.5g, 35x6mm
four-tiered pyre topped by facing quadriga
CONSECRATIO, SC in retrograde

type of RIC 315, 1266 (Antoninus Pius); 333, 1511 (Lucius Verus); 441, 662 (Marcus Aurelius)

ex Dmitry Markov New York Sale XI, unsold

When a counterfeiter prepared his dies, he could either engrave them himself, in a style easily be distinguishable from official mint issues, or he could use a genuine, mint issued host coin. He would then impress this design into a piece of bronze and affix it to the iron die-shaft. This object likely represents a counterfeiter’s first attempt, a practice strike in lead.

 

Is that a real one? Wow did that die get used a lot.

 

Kinda hard to see in this picture, but the mintmark D has a / going through it.

 

"four-tiered pyre topped by facing quadriga"


Funny name for a birthday cake :whistle:

(lol sorry bad joke)

 

If you want to eat a cake that had a body burned on it, by all means. :mouth:

 

Late but here's one.