In light of this day, October31st, Halloween I am posting this special themed thread. Post your scariest ( Unusual, Scary, damaged etc. coins). This is just one. I have many....
Happy Halloween! This display is on my fireplace ledge. We got cheated out of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal because the first hurricane. This is the best we can do this year. Witches and ghosts The cemetary The Monsters and "Little Shop of Horrors" Frank and the Mrs. And this token is pretty horrorable. A better one would cost a small fortune. It was made from iron recovered from the CSS Virginia, a.k.a. The Merrimac.
Shipwreck coins can be pretty scary I think, especially when there were no survivors. And not to mention sitting on the ocean floor for 300 years...
I may have actually tortured this one myself back when I was a kid. It was in my box o' junk and I vaguely remember my brother and I putting coins in the vice and seeing what we could do. I don't think we intentionally put the hole through Abe's head, that's just sick.
"And this token is pretty horrorable. A better one would cost a small fortune. It was made from iron recovered from the CSS Virginia, a.k.a. The Merrimac." Hey, @johnmilton I know yours is in rough shape, but what a piece of history!
I think that Lincoln has an erie look in his eyes on this piece. It reminds me of a science fictor book I read many years ago. There was some sort of ray from space that brought all of the dead back to life, including Lincoln. He didn't last long because most of the "re-annimated" were evil. But if you wanted to imagine THAT Lincoln, he might have looked like this.
On this silver drachm of the Sasanian Persian king Khusro II (590- 628), he looks like a zombie, with sunken eye sockets and half-rotted jaws:
I think counterfeit coins are downright scary. This is a pretty bad fake when compared to a real coin, but could fool those not familiar with American Eagles. (I paid nothing for this coin) Counterfeit coins make me skittish when buying almost anything these days.
