Fun surprise package from the Netherlands today! (Thanks, Andres!)

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  1. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    I say "surprise package" because in the time it took to cross the Atlantic, I had forgotten @Andres2 had told me he was sending me this.

    What a fun gift! Thank you!

    This is a handsome set of ancient coin replicas put out by BP. I'm not sure when. I like these better than the series of Presidential tokens put out by Shell Oil in this country in the late 1950s/early 1960s. These are quite classy looking replicas in their green frame.

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    This is likely to be as close as I'll ever get to a Croesus stater or Syracusan dekadrachm.

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    It came this afternoon. Apparently Customs had opened the package, and also rather crudely tore open the inner envelope... then never resealed it! It was open when I received the package, though happily the contents were intact and none of the tokens had come loose from the frame, because they would have fallen out of the open end of the package.

    This set looks nice on the wall near my bedside table, above the vintage etching @dadams sent me. Since those two things hang below the chronometer from the boat we lived aboard when I was a kid, they're among the first things I see when I open my eyes.

    Thanks, guys! :)

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  3. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    Very nice!
     
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  4. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    NEATO!
     
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  5. Endeavor

    Endeavor Well-Known Member

    Cool!
     
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  6. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    That is SO cool! What a fun set!!
     
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  7. Andres2

    Andres2 Well-Known Member

    Glad it ended well with customs Rob, These were issued in 1969 both in France and the Netherlands.
    Here's the French version in a red carton, not so chique.

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  8. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    ..how very thoughtful n nice! :)
     
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  9. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

    Cool sets guys.

    I got this one in a jar of Nutella :)

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    NUTELLA CESAR 1995 Coscinny Uderzo in Exergue
    Laureate draped bust of Caesar

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    Laureate head right

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    Uncertain Italian mint :)
     
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  10. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Fun thread!!
     
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  11. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Zeus help me... now I want to collect vintage replicas of ancient coins :D
     
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  12. alde

    alde Always Learning

    Very nice. It makes a great wall display.
     
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  13. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Thats neat
     
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  14. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    Very nice!! Very generous of @Andres2 too!

    I have a couple of the US and Canada oil company token sets. I didn't know there was one with replica ancient coins. I will have to look for one of these now. I like it when I can combine my love of Gas and Oil memorabilia and Coins.
     
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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Well, it helps if the replicas are almost 50 years old and mounted in a nice little board.
     
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  16. dougsmit

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    Yes, perhaps, but what I like are replica/fakes with a story. I would like a genuine, original Becker fake now over 200 years old or a struck Paduan. So far my best item in the category was a dekadrachm passed out with bicycle catalogs in 1898 by the Stearns Bicycle Co. located in Syracuse (NY, that is). They used Roman numerals because even the educated cyclist of the day would have stumbled at 1898 in Greek.

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    To me, the highlight of the catalog was a code page giving words you could wire to the company to order specific items but not incur a large expense at the telegraph office. Why say "Ship by express a replacement Dunlop tire for my Combination Tandem bicycle" when "clock" would serve the same purpose?
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  17. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    What an interesting anecdote!
     
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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    I've sent Andres' Dutch BP replicas on to @Aethelred, since we're about to be doing home renovations at my place and all of my worldly goods will be displaced.

    I think they'll look great on the wall of his shop. I'll still get to admire them when I visit. :)

    I just revisited this thread since @Evan8 posted a Stearns Bicycle dekadrachm from Syracuse (New York), like the one @dougsmit posted above. Neat stuff.
     
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