Merry CARRstmas to me :)

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Cascade, Dec 22, 2016.

  1. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Grader, Founding Member

    My latest @dcarr piece. I bought it as a Christmas gift to myself. I've been watching it for a month or two when the seller had it at $199 then dropped it to $128 so I nabbed it. Its a 2015 Moonlight Mint open house broadstruck Moragn overstrike with the "Daniel Carr for President" obverse and Moonlight Mint Open House reverse. I love the "Daniel Carr for President" obverse. Its like an artist's self portrait and this being on a Morgan sealed the deal for me, I just thought $199 was high but the $128 was priced right. This is my favorite die pairing of all the MMOH overstrikes too :)

    http://www.moonlightmint.com/dc-coin_event_tokens_list.htm

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  3. Cool piece. You just reminded me that I need to buy myself something for Christmas. :)
     
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  5. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    Careful with that. I just did something similar, and ended up spending 5% of my take-home pay for the whole year on one coin....
     
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  6. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    not sure I liked it struck on a Morgan dollar. that seemed wrong to me.
     
  7. Dimedude2

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  8. COCollector

    COCollector Well-Known Member

    I'm still trying to decide which commemorative gold to get for my late Xmas gift.
     
  9. COCollector

    COCollector Well-Known Member

    How about something on an ASE?

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  10. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    Fakes, fakes and more fakes ..................
     
  11. Dave Waterstraat

    Dave Waterstraat Well-Known Member

    It looks like a real Morgan Dollar to me right down to the double first 8 (VAM-17?)
     
  12. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

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  13. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Grader, Founding Member

    I'll have to check it against 17
     
  14. Dave Waterstraat

    Dave Waterstraat Well-Known Member

    Just added another member to my ignored list.:)
     
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  15. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Grader, Founding Member

    Then you really won't like my 2016 MM Open House overstrike Rick...

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  16. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    I didn't say I didn't like them, just fakes, that's all ...
     
  17. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    Your kidding right, not a chance it was struck on a us minted coin . He's not looking to do anything against the law ......
     
  18. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Grader, Founding Member

    Do you not understand what he does from the umpteenth amount of threads by now. They are legal as novelty pieces. There is no intent to defraud. Lets not turn this into another 50 pages of legal misinterpretation though. Its Christmas ;)
     
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  19. Rick Stachowski

    Rick Stachowski Motor City Car Capital

    Lol .. And my Birthday was yesterday, 53 now ...............
     
  20. Cascade

    Cascade CAC Grader, Founding Member

    Happy birthday. That must have sucked as a kid. Did you get double presents or half?
     
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  21. ldhair

    ldhair Clean Supporter

    I don't have a problem with any of the coins posted in this thread. They won't fool anyone in the future. They are novelty pieces.
     
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