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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Not all gold glitters!: Numismatics, paper money, bullion, and exonumia
 
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Brennanite
Feb 14, 2009
 Digging all of these space coins. Might have to take up coin collecting with more vigor now.

Al Harrington posted:


https://collectivecoin.com/NiceCurrency

I just bought this for myself because that's the greatest portrait I've ever seen on a coin and he looks so pissed off in his full armor, bad rear end!


Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI 1721 Taler (ancestor of the Dollar) PCGS MS62

I love that I knew that dude was a Hapsburg before I read the name. Even in profile on coins, their distinctive ugliness cannot be masked.

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Brennanite
Feb 14, 2009

Shampoo posted:

Pre-Mao China (probably?)


That's a 100 yuan note issued by the Central Reserve Bank of China, featuring Sun Yat-sen. Oddly, the Central Reserve Bank of China was a Japanese puppet bank operating from ~1940-1945 in occupied China.

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Brennanite
Feb 14, 2009

DominusDeus posted:


1920 Pilgrim Commemorative Half Dollar

I didn't know the US struck any commemorative coins (that were intended for circulation) besides the bicentennial series. This is pretty cool.

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Brennanite
Feb 14, 2009

Sesquiculus posted:




I don't usually collect US coins, but a friend offered me this one. A copper Andrew Jackson "Hard Times" token, struck in 1834 AD. Used as unofficial private currency after President Jackson abolished the national bank. The obverse is Jackson popping out of a chest holding a sword and money bag with the inscription "I Take the Responsibility." The reverse is a donkey labeled "LLD" (a reference to Jackson's honorary degree) and the inscription "The Constitution As I Understand It."

This is a hella cool piece of Americana. Can I ask how much it cost?

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Brennanite
Feb 14, 2009
 Is there a magnifying lamp any of y'all would recommend? My dad loves his Indian Head pennies and I thought that might be a nice gift for him, since he's getting up there (and is weirdly far-sighted).

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