Yes, those are fun, when they're done well. Just like the modern skull and zombie trend in hobo carvings, the "potty dollar" carvings of the 19th...
Can't let the Ancients board have 'em all. ;)
PS- you've gotta love a guy named "Eggs". :eggface::hilarious:
Congratulations on your first Featured Article. :) I love it when the backstory of an individual coin comes into focus like that. I've had...
@Maxfli should also like this.
I agree. Do you suppose or suggest that the one in the OP is somehow mass-produced and not a hand-done piece? That would be a dealbreaker. Only...
*ahem*
Sweet. The wolf is cool. I want a Celtic stater, too. Gee, I'd really love to be experiencing the Panzerman version of "tapped out of $$$$"...
Somebody offered me really strong money for this one- multiples of what I had paid the artist for it. He "twisted my arm" hard enough that I...
Here is one I had that was done by artist David He. Title: "The Helmsman". Host coin: 1900 Barber dime. [ATTACH]
That's better done than most of the recent fad in "skull" hobo carvings. The leaves in the background set this apart from the usual stuff. There...
@CircCam should like that one too.
Yep. When I hear that from somebody, I know I got a good one.
You ever wanna part with that sucker ... well... ;)
Whoop! Whoop! CircCam alert on Lafayette dollar! Want more pix so I can be properly envious. I've not yet owned one of that type, and I...
That's interesting. It certainly looks like a legitimate error coin. It wouldn't be a strikethrough, though- of that I am reasonably confident....
But a peanut butter-filled cow hoof? Howzabout that, hmm?
I've had quite a few pop.1 coins. It isn't that hard to achieve once you step off the well-trodden US path and out into the wider world a bit....
... so is figuring out how and/or why @Seattlite86 suddenly lapsed into German partway through Post #13. ;)
Yeah, it takes some work. Arabic is tough for me.
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