Post your "unfortunate ones!"

20 heller Austrian empire 1893
holed and filled again

 

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2 lire 1949, Italy
key date
It seems that someone used glass-paper on it.

 

Oh the humanity!

 

Ouch... well, at least those are common dates

5 centesimi Italia 1939 king Vittorio Emanuele III

50 centesimi Italia 1940 king Vittorio Emanuele III


Scratched on both sides probably with a pair of scissors
20 centesimi Italia 1913 king Vittorio Emanuele III



Used as a button? 1 centesimo Italia 1895 king Umberto I

 

A coin I inherited, what I'm guessing was my grandfather's filler coin for a Peace dollar folder. I was pretty disappointed when I looked up the value for 1928-P's in the Red Book.

 

Yea that does look like
John Belushi

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freddy_Krueger.JPG

 

My 1876 holed set

 

"Post your "unfortunate ones!""

Seriously? Post all my coins?

 

Poor thing but can't complain too much couldn't afford an undamaged one

 

Here are a couple of the odd balls I picked up @ the LCS today. Being a token collector I tend to buy what strikes my fancy of the odd ball etc.

Called shot the buffalo, 1917 appears to be a .22 slug. It appealed to me since I have read most of the old circus and wild west shows books about the trick shot actors. Meet a few of the modern era ones. They would shoot a bunch of them and sell them after the performance. Probably a faux one but @ the price $2.00 I couldn't pass it up for the sideshow collection.

One of them gold plated ones again being in the junque bin box/½ off couldn't pass it up for a buck. Might end up as a pocket piece.

 

Here's mine.

 

A bicentennial quarter that looks to have been in the gutter since, 76. Looks to have spent more time with George facing up and the reverse sliding along the cement!

 

These ones, I guess...

 

I won't be able to sleep tonight

 

Not sure what you mean by "faux" here -- I don't see much sign of wear on the obverse protrusion, but I also don't see any color difference on the reverse indentation, so it looks like it was put away just after the shot and kept for a long time.

 

My meaning is that like with fakes, there are people that are taking coins out in the yard and shooting them today and since people started collecting stuff. Circus/carnival WWshow collectors all want to think that they have the general articles. With Flea bay and the silly prices some people ask. I could even give the a cert of genuineness with about 20 minutes of computer work.

I had friends that ran a small general store couple of gas pumps and antiques. When their kids were small dad would help them cast some musket balls and bullets of the style from the civil war. Take the out in the yard and bury them for a couple of months, after wetting down good. they always had a batch resting in the soil. They would dig them up and put them in an old cigar box with a crudely written child like sign. "Found locally cast civil war mold balls and bullets". Now the mold was from pre-civil war era. So they weren't lying! Charged .50 cents for the balls and .75 cents for the bullets. They sold a sh*t load of them over the years, and they were on the outskirts of fight area in Va. and they were over the mountain in West by god Va.

The people that bought them thought they were getting a deal. And the kids got candy money. I was there when a slimmy civil war dealer, came in and picked up a hundred balls and bullets I had made the weekend before, He was selling them for a lot more telling people that they were from farms on the out skirts of major battles that are national parks.
The guy was really bad news he would try to screw my friend when he was buying uniforms, guns and bayonets along with swords etc. He was the one that always end up on the short end.

Since the standard sales disclaimer was "well the family says this belong to unk Silas etc and he was in the civil war. of course being a local I have to take their word and not call them liars" I never asked if the stuff was real or other, and he never told me.
So since I didn't pick it up after it was shot, I would say if it was real.

By the way how many do you want? with the new qt's shells and a dirt box in the shop, I can supply as many as you want for .50 above the cost of the year of the coins.
That is what I mean by faux.