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Hmm... those look familiar. They're pretty awesome though despite their problems- just my two cents though lol.

 

Haha thanks. I figured they fit the topic and might get more attention as far as attribution.

 

Hopefully! I don't know why no one else chimed in...

 

You must have hit the nail on the head

 

Looks like a couple of old ladies who ate a little dirt over the years. I wouldn't turn them down for the right price.

 

I have some more coins I will post later, I think they might be good for this thread.

 

For those that wonder why so many 100 year old+ silver coins are holed. Back then most men wore pocket watches and silver coins were used as fobs on pocket watch chains. And many of those pocket watch chains were Sterling silver jewelry that would be proudly worn displayed on a gentleman's suit vest .
I own a few of these British made "Albert" silver pocket watch chains made in the 1890's. What's kinda of unique is each link of these silver chains is hallmarked with the Sterling silver stamp.
They also made some very nice gold pocket watch chains for the wealthy crowd.

There is a hobby centered around these antique silver and gold pocket watches and the chains & fobs.

 

"Let her go, let her go, God bless her;
Wherever she may be
She may search this wide world over
She'll never find a sweet man like me."
Oh, when I die, bury me
In my high top Stetson hat;
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
God'll know I died standin' pat.

 

Someone impressed an Indian onto this, what appears to be, worn silver coin.

 

That's actually kind of cool.... I like it!

 

I wanna know how. lol

 

The coin has problems:

Very worn to the point of obfuscation of the date. Crazy frenzied scratching like a numismatic Michael Myers had stared at it for a decade in hell and become enraged at it, mutilating it and tossing it aside when he emerged on his murderous vendetta.

Years later, it was found by Little Johnny who brought it to a coin shop. The proprietor had just come back from an eye exam and his pupils were still dilated, but he was astounded at the luck of the young man before him. An 1885 nickel! He offered the excited lad $250 which was happily accepted. Leaving the shop, he started spending the money immediately in an online bidding war on his phone, only to be reclaimed by One Greater after falling into an open manhole.

The shop owner put this coin into this evil little holder, labeled it, priced it, and displayed it in his case. Many people expressed their amazement at the high value of such a worn and badly scratched coin. Then, one day, a potential buyer wanted to inspect it.

After a very short inspection, indeed perhaps only a glance, the would-be customer announced that the coin was not what it was labeled as. He stormed out after using words like "intentional deception" and "fraud" and the poor shop owner was bewildered.

He sat down, and looked at the coin.

After a a few hours failing to convince himself that the non-customer had been wrong, frustrated that he had lost both the initial investment, and a customer of means, he simply scribbled corrections onto the evil little holder and threw it into the junk bin. It remained there for the short time it took for the court filings alleging "deceptive business practices," and other such officially sanctioned extortionary phrases to arrive in the mail.

The dealer was no longer a young man and his small business could not financially sustain a lengthy court battle. He closed up shop and consigned his entire inventory to an auction firm.

Now it rests with me as the ethereal power of this cursed coin regains strength. My fate is yet unwritten......










The best part of this thing is the obvious disappointment and frustration expressed on the holder. This pleases and amuses me.

 

Bodybaged from NGC,I put it in the holder

 

Great story.

 

I confused on that..... isn't "authentic" and genuine" the same thing? Or am I reading that wrong.

 

The G of NGC is where you are seeing the word 'genuine'

 

1794 Large Cent, S31 Marred field, so PCGS mistakes the marred part as tooling.

 

Where's the marred field? I can't locate it. By the way, I thought a coin had to be ugly to be on this thread, and that coin is by no means ugly! Nice coin!

 

Thanks. Left field, also has a double curl.