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Oh my! Is it still there?

 

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Okay here's one I've never posted here before, it's an 1850 Two Bears Dancing Token, made by Lauer, a rare one for sure! Included a link in case you never heard of these and there's even one on the bay.

https://coinweek.com/kagins-september-2018-west-coast-coin-auction-lots-you-need-to-know/

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1751001066...ME1c5oF2GJBMr9OnVkbZV5VWc=|tkp:Bk9SR_TM0rWPZQ

 

Ok, mine is not valuable or exciting, but my wife who is an elementary school teacher was emptying some boxes in storage. We found this…

 

Never posted this one because it doesn’t really fit anywhere and I don’t know much about it.

 

Here's one I never showed on here, though I mentioned in Jan 2020 that I had bought it at a coin show, along with some other coins.

It is a Silver Drachm.

I took it out of the holder to photo it as the mylar covering was all wrinkly and so here's my best shot with my phone camera.

This was put on the holder that it is Sassanian Empire 591-628 AD; Ardahir Khurda (though maybe that should have been spelled as Ardashir Khurra, though I've no idea really, I just googled the former and it didn't give me anything but did come up with the alternate spelling) KhursoII, Defaced a bit; YR-11 (there is something else under the sticker that put on that it was 591-628 AD, and I can't read it clearly) and on the back a notation UFO717DDMD so maybe that is some sort of personal id number by someone who owned it before me.

Maybe someone can tell me a bit more about this coin if one is knowledgeable on it. I did not measure it but the center portion, with the beads included is approximately the size of a U.S. Quarter (.955 inch diameter) and the whole coin is just shy of a 1960s Mexican silver Peso (1.375 inch diameter, both measurement I did not measure but just googled, so hopefully both are absolutely correct) --- based on two coins I happened to have near me to give some sort of reference to it.

I really love what I am assuming is the front of this one (photo to the left) not just for the clarity but also for the 'color'. Not sure what the images are.

 

Yes. But I think it's called the Mustang Ranch now.

 

Hmm. Never heard of it. Bunny Ranch maybe?

 

I first became aware of this coin when it showed up as a suggestion at the bottom of an eBay page. I fell in love immediately but the one on eBay was from a seller who seemed pretty shady, and I didn't like any of the other ones available either. So next I checked on MA Shops. They had one available. It was in a details grade holder and was selling for what to me is an almost unthinkable amount of money to spend on a coin. Still, I was really thinking about pulling the trigger. Then I had the idea to check the website of a coin shop about 20 miles away from me that specializes in foreign coins and has a monthly ad in World Coin News. I looked and sure enough they had the coin I wanted listed. I sent an email and got no answer, so the next day I called and was surprised to find out they still had it. I just happened to have a half day off of work the next day so I went there and bought it. I still paid twice what I've ever paid for another coin for this, but if I had bought the one on MA Shops it would have been four times what I'd ever spent. So the coin in question:

1848 Venice 5 lire. 1848 was a year of revolution in Europe and this was produced by the revolutionary government. Only 11,000 were made. Pretty good job by those rebels, I must say!

 

There's three Norns of Fate in Norse Mythology.
https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/the-norns/

 

Here's some that I'm pretty sure I haven't posted before. Roman Catholic High School Medal, from the year my dad graduated from there.

1970 dime, which looked like 1979 (my birth year), so I bought it. Oh well, still a nice off-center addition!

1996-P Washington Quarter missing the obverse clad layer

 

They were handing these out at a local coin show, making everyone millionaires!!!!