My *holed* US 19th Century type set as of January, 2025 (+ June update)

Not the greatest photos in the world for seeing the coins, but eh, what can you do. Haven't gotten around to individually imaging them all yet (indeed, I wonder if that will ever happen at all).

 

Wash yer mouth out with soap! I would never drill them. Aside from being economically stupid (by ruining good coins), that would be "cheating" for a true holey collector to do that.

All of those holes are at least a century old.

 

Thanks. It might stretch some people's definition of "wonderful" a bit.

But hey, sometimes wounded coins need some lovin', too.

 

I still need a holey 20c piece myself, as you can see.

 

My holey 1860-O Seated $ came from you.

 

Thanks. People do it with dead bugs, so why not holey coins, right?

 

My first coin purchases since January were for this holey cork board collection. The quarter was cheap. I overpaid slightly for the 20c piece.

By my reckoning, I now need only the following to complete this collection:

Braided Hair half cent
Barber half
Seated dollar with motto
Trade dollar

 

When I was a kid, in 1977, I met an old Black man in a nursing home in Fernandina, Florida (we kids were volunteering to read to the residents).

They said it was his 114th birthday, and that he had been born in the year of Emancipation, in 1863. (Meaning he would've already been 102 when I was born.)

Now, if you look at modern records on supercentenarians, I'm not sure if any male has had a documented lifespan that long, aside from one Japanese gentleman who lived to 116. Having been born to former slaves on a plantation, this man's records might not have survived anyway. So he was not a documented supercentenarian.

So maybe he was 114 and maybe he wasn't. But he was easily 100+ years old. He was blind, but could walk with a walker, and shook my hand and said, "Pleased to meet you".

I remember my own great-grandfather, who was born in 1879.