The coins came in the mail this afternoon with some cool stamps! My first gold coin/token, @lordmarcovan elongated penny, and some interesting holed coins! Very cool to see a half dime! I think I will take inspiration from LordM’s holed Indian head cent set on a cork board and make a holed half dime set. Thank you very much!!!
Yay! Thanks for posting the loot. It’s fun to see, because sometimes, even in the short time between my sending something and it being delivered, I forget what-all I put in there by way of extras.
@lordmarcovan I'm curious as to how you made the die/stamp to create your own elongated coins? Very cool And yes, I would be interested in the 1851-O half dime holey if you'd like to swap. Now that I think about it, I don't have a coin from the New Orleans mint!
I’ll send you the 1851-O and you can send me whatever you think is fair as a swap (maybe something I can put in the giveaway pool). I was going to keep it for my holey type set, but like the 1847 I sent you, it’s got the hole in the wrong place. (I’m a picky holey collector. LOL) As to the elongated coins, that story is here.
Oh- and enjoy the holey collecting! It’s a lot of fun and usually inexpensive (unless you start going for Seated and Bust dollars and gold). Beware, though- it can be habit-forming! If you’re not careful, you might end up looking like this goofy-lookin’ fella!
Since I'm rather new to the forum, I was not aware that I was supposed to post pics when my goodies arrived from you Lord M, however, if I win again in the future, now I know!
@Matthew Kruse - your Lord Marcovan elongated cent is a Type 1B- the Type 1 variant with no hole. Which, in retrospect, is kind of ironic, given that I sent you a bunch of “holey” coins. I wasn’t thinking about that. Given that you’ve got a holey collection going now, you need a Type 1A LordM elongate (the holed variant). I’ve already shipped you that holey 1851-O half dime, so just remind me the next time I’ve got something headed your way, so you can have the Type 1A holey elongate as well. Edit- oh, and I suppose you’re gonna need some of those little map pins, too, for your cork board. So I’ll send you the holey elongate and some map pins.
Haha, I read about the two different types of your elongated cents but I didn’t make the connection either! Thank you!
