I always wanted a BAR Cent and a Nova

Today I found this site www.coinreplicas.com so I ordered one of each. The photo's are from their site, but I did photoscape them. Check them out.:thumb: Maaybe some day I will be able to aford the real thing!

 

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Thanks for the advise, but for 15 bucks each I be a sport.
Plus it's good to help an American company!
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Well they are not deceptive enough to fool an experienced collector, and they are marked COPY, but they are still not legal. The size of the COPY marking is much too small to comply with the Hobby Protection Act. By law the word has to be 2 mm high by 6 mm long and 1/2 mm deep.

 

My Bar Cent copy has much larger letters, probably 3x that of the one pictured...

 

I like them

 

Hah - Call NYPD

 

The bar cent is probably one of the most boring and unartisitic designs in U.S. history. St. Gaudens would puick if he saw them.

 

OK, in that case they would be legal. I guess he used a much smaller punch for his pictures so the punch wouldn't look so obvious. It would probably hurt his sales.

 

That would be incorrect..

FWIW - the St Gauden's double eagle is the most unimaginative and overate art designs ever done and it was lifted whole from a painting.

The Bar cent was a bold and modernistic design, a 100 years before its time, beautiful in its simplicity and deeply moving, a grand expression of the new American Nation and its spirit.

I don't know why people are so excited by St Gauden. He was an artist of moderate ability and no imagination..not that many coin designers are any better. St Gaud was no Van Gough

 

And was lifted whole from a button.

 

wiseguy

 

Nice copy, if that's what you want. I am just not into fakes much. I mean, why not collect pictures of real coins instead ? But, as stated, you collect what YOU want, the beauty of being American !

 

He's not kidding. The obverse USA was of the same design as a button of the time:

http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/bar_cent/bar_cent.htm

 

Still cranky, eh Reub ?

 

I was being toung in cheek and giving a left handed compliment. I'm aware of that. The Irony was terrific. Great thread.

 

BTW - Modern graphic designers would get paid big money to get a font that good.

 

It's nice that you're interested in these. However, I'm not a proponent of replica coins. With the "COPY" punch that small, it wouldn't take much to whizz it off and dupe some unsuspecting newb.

 

And that is how I took it. I needled, you needled back, all in fun.

The pictures show a very small COPY, but in his later post he indicated that the punch was actually much larger and in compliance with the HPA. And trying to buff it off or do damge to the coin in order to hide it wouldn't help. Accorcing to the website selling them they are copper plated pewter. Any artifical wear or scratching/damage would expose the silver colored core. Of course ou could replate it afterwards.

 

Indeed, for this manufacturer perhaps. For every manufacturer that plates as such, there's another that doesn't - if not many times more. Time passes, and next thing that happens, granddad's replica becomes a family heirloom long after granddad is gone.

The HPA doesn't go far enough. Replica coins should be made proportionally larger or smaller [in diameter] than the originals; much like US Code mandates for copies of currency.