[CLOSED] LordM Giveaway #63 (instant giveaway: 1865 3c piece)

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I think young Matthew had a good idea >

If it was "on purpose" soldered to a chain for display sake (like a necklace), I don't think they would have done it at the 10:30 (or 7:30 to display the front upright) position. Woulda hung crooked.

 

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So ! When is winner picked ?.

 

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I am surprised nobody recognizes what happened to this coin. The story is well known.

Generals Sherman and Grant were well known imbibers of corn squeezings ie moonshine and of 5 card stud poker. There was a moonshiner in Virginia that made excellent “likker” that they fancied. One night they were playing and the betting was fierce and the drinking was constant. Soon the jug was emptied as the final drops were split between them. Sherman had 4 clubs on the table but a diamond in the hole. Grant had a pair of 7s showing. Sherman bluffed that coin, his “lucky” coin, which was his last bit of money and Grant folded his hand. Sherman pulled in the pot but gave the coin a kiss but he dropped it into his whiskey glass where a few drops remained. He fished it out and not wanting to waste a single drop, put the coin in his mouth to suck off the final bits. Grant, trying to be a good sport, slapped Sherman on the back and Sherman bit down hard, leaving his dental records on the coin. I know that’s true because I read it in a comic book 50 years ago.

 

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It came out of the desert as a horse with no name. (that will test ya)
It was a white one.
Semper Fi

 

Well, I already have several so can't/won't enter but If you ask me that is without a doubt the results of "Dragon Drool" (very caustic) This is why dragons prefer gold and silver.. they don't disolve in the drool

 

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I believe that the flan was defective. The obverse damage is consistent with a weird planchet.

Striking would have obliterated any reverse planchent problems, so I suppose it is most likely a strike through, of some sort of cloth. Too thin to be a string, so maybe a scrap piece of the canvas they used for bank bags?

 

@lordmarcovan you can take me out of the giveaway now

I just bought this for a dollar at the Arcadia coin show today. It was used as a screwdriver but still cool!

 

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I'm thinkin' somethin' fell on to the coin as it was being minted, and therefore we see the imprint of this mysterious object forever imprinted on this coin.

It happens regularly, ya know.

Thanks for the fun Lord M.!
imprint

 

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It looks like a piece of yarn was melted to it and then removed...heck, I don't know!

 

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In March of 1865 the US mint was still being pushed to provide coins for commerce, and the best that they could manage was to provide some base metal coinage.

The three cent piece, at the time, still had some buying power, and it was determined that it was the best use of the mint's machinery & operations.

That day, which happened to be mid March, in fact, March 15th, was also known as the ides of March. [Apologies to Julius Caesar]. And production of a small quantity of three cent pieces were struck that day.

After counting up the production, the coinage was delivered, by request, to the local Chase Manhattan Bank, at 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue, and given out to the tellers for distribution. These coins were not popular since no one had calculators in those days and multiplication of the three times tables were not taught in school back then, since the number 3 was considered to be an evil number. [No one knew why, but they all accepted it as the truth.]

Later that day a familiar gentleman came into the bank to cash his pay check from the theater where he worked, and was given the only coins on hand, 100 three cent pieces for his $3.00 check.

He spent 99 of those coin in the following 30 days, but one coin had been lodged into his right pocket. lining. The next day, he traveled to the theater, Ford's theater, named after a good friend, Gerald Ford, who would one day become President - although he hadn't been born yet.

That evening the actor entered history when he shot President Abraham Lincoln. After the shot he jumped to the stage where he yelled in pain. Everyone assumed that he had hurt his ankle and they was why he yelled.
Nope, the truth is stranger than fiction.
John Wilkes Booth had put his just fired gun in his pocket and the heat of the barrel pressed against the three cent coin in his pocket. which heated up and burned thru his pocket to attach to his leg, which gave him a three degree burn.

The coin fell off his leg to the stage as he ran and was found the next day as a cleaning man swept the stage. Not one to waste money the cleaner put it in his pocket where he later spent it on a nice expensive cigar.
Fast forward 156 years and a coin collector saw the coin in a dealer's junk box. Unaware of the story behind it, the collector who was on a strict budget, bought it for his collection.

And I swear that is the truth, as my great great grand father told me the story last night.

 

Entry Post It was to be fused to a silver clip so that it could be worn by a dark eyed Hazara girl in the Vale of Bamiyan. The folk there were much more used to doing this with Sassanian, Parthian, and Safavid coins dug up from dust cover ruins along what we now call the Silk Road. When the the girl save the coin, she shouted, "Baba! thinking it was fake, so the coin was snapped off just before fusing and ended in the coals. Many years later, the girl's great-grandson sold it to a hippie on his way to Katmandu. He traded it to a towkai for kopi in Kuala Lumpur, whose son sold it on e-bay in 2008.

 

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It's absolutely pareidolia. Y'all think somethings there, but it ain't.

 

Super little giveaway @lordmarcovan and well done to @john-charles for having the lucky number.
Great fun, as always thank you