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Message:: [QUOTE="Brent hobonickel, post: 7972288, member: 109300"]Thanks!! I really like them a lot!! I mostly do classic hobo nickels. I did so a Marilyn Monroe hobo nickel once when I started. It took me 12 hours. I was really new at carving hobo nickels. I did Mickey Mouse once- that was fun. In 2022 I want to carve up more classic designs. I also will be doing some modern hobo nickels and love tokens. With those coins you actually take the surface off the coin so its smooth. You can leave the date and the lettering. A classic buffalo nickel is more like carving then engraving. I will also be doing bulino engraving which is small dots that form an image like pixels in a photograph.  I also want to do some limited one of a kind challenge coins that I will be donating to military units and government agencies to give out. The US Mint gift shop in Philadelphia and Denver carry my hobo nickels. In 2022 I want the US Mint gift shop to carry detailed hobo nickels that I carve. In January I am buying a special microscope that I can film video with so I can post videos of me engraving  hobo nickels.[/QUOTE]