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Revenant

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Somewhat unsurprisingly the search for the 1924 Double Eagle at the coin shop was unsuccessful- they didn't have any 1924s but the manager gave me his card and said to call on Monday and he might have something upstairs, not on the floor.

After that, we spent some time looking at the foreign and ancient case.

Shandy wanted to look at a coin from Sicily from ~220 BCE that was about $160 but she decided the design didn't really speak to her - but it's an idea I'm going to remember for down the road. There are options there.

The things that got my attention were mostly some Hong Kong Trade dollars - an 1902 in VF35 and an 1898 in MS61 - and an 1890 Au details Japanese yen.

I loved the Japense Yen design. If it had been a nice-looking VF or XF, I probably would have gone home with it, but I couldn't forgive it for being cleaned and how flat it looked when the light hit it.

I did hold up the MS61 to Shandy and show her the spin on the luster as you tilt it and did the same with the Yen and pointed out the difference.

The VF35 trade dollar had gotten my attention first and I only later noticed the MS61 just because the VF had an almost perfectly antiqued look that made the details that remained really pop and the coin read well for the eye, even through the case.

I ultimately chose to take VF35 home, which surprised Shandy a fair bit. She said the VF is what she would have gone with, but she'd have expected me to go MS. But, while it was MS, it was MS61, and the fields were beat to heck, and I just really liked the look of the VF. So here we are:

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Revenant
On 6/16/2024 at 7:32 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

Nice! :golfclap:

I take it you agree on loving the look and the character of that VF35? This has me thinking about getting a similar US Trade Dollar to go with it.

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On 6/17/2024 at 1:00 PM, Revenant said:

I take it you agree on loving the look and the character of that VF35? This has me thinking about getting a similar US Trade Dollar to go with it.

I do like the look of that coin. Good, honest, even wear, with a lot of the details still clearly visible, and as you said the grime and tarnish in the fields and nooks-and-crannies brings out the details. I like.

Rereading this post reminded me of something, Italian coins, specifically some cull 500 Lire caravels that I had purposefully brought over to one of my siblings homes to pass out to the kids. All the kids seemed fairly excited and we played a guessing game where, depending on their age, they had to tell me 2-3 things about the coin before they could have it, they had to win/earn them. When the two youngest girls, both under the age of 10, turns came and I handed them their winnings they gave me this strange look like "why are you handing me this dirty piece of trash coin", as they held them gingerly with their index finger and thumb at an arms length. xD One flipped the coin over to look at the portrait of the woman on the coin and when I told them it was Renaissance/Italian Barbie and those were her sailing yachts on the back, boy, they couldn't stash those things away fast enough. lol I had to come clean about it not too long after as one of the older kids called me out. :roflmao:

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