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10-12-2008, 01:00 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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|  What the..... Right....was sitting here minding my own business when something down on the floor caught my eye.... A coin, didn't think much about that, just another 1 Penny I thought.... Bend down to pick it up, and I notice that it wasn't copper in color, but silver....odd! At a closer look, I see that the figure doesn't look familiar or the other side either....after a bit of rubbing I saw something-something 18... Ok cool I thought, a coin from 1918, could be fun to have for no apparent reason...  Then I remembered that tooth paste can be good at times like these...put some one, use elbowgrease and now it looks like new almost! Problem is that isn't from 1918, but from 1818!! And the gentleman is King George III..! It says, GEORGE III D.G - BRITT.REX F.D Turning over it says, HONI - SOIT - Q and MAL - V - PENSE..... Question.....what the h**l is it?
__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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10-12-2008, 01:59 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| The toothfairey has a hole in her pocket?  might try this place, Jan. Coins of the UK - 10s & 10s6d (and 11s)
__________________  "If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!" http://www.njcacoa.org/ Last edited by Njaco; 10-12-2008 at 02:03 PM. |
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10-12-2008, 02:18 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Cheers NJ, appreciated! The only pic that matches the coin that found, is the bottom right one....I'll see if I can get a decent pic of it. Whoops....I was wrong! Doesn't match any of them.... 
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" Last edited by Lucky13; 10-12-2008 at 02:48 PM. |
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10-12-2008, 02:36 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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| Where did you find it?
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10-12-2008, 02:38 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Right....here goes,  
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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10-12-2008, 02:40 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" | |
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10-12-2008, 02:44 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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| Hey Lucky thats lucky And standing on its side?I'd hold onto it maybe it opens the gates to heaven or something
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10-12-2008, 02:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: my azz is in Mississippi, but, I am a true Texan.
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| Doesn't look like King George...hmm..I wanna know, too. The head is blatently Roman..hmm..
__________________  "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein Life is tough..its even harder when you're stupid. -John Wayne |
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10-12-2008, 02:57 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| I know.....the 1817 and 1819 as you see above looks different! And depending on condition it's worth, I saw, between 60 and 500 quid!  I'll be cleaning this baby up....
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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10-12-2008, 03:00 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: my azz is in Mississippi, but, I am a true Texan.
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| oh HELLS yes! and definitely keep us abreast..quit your giggling!
__________________ "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein Life is tough..its even harder when you're stupid. -John Wayne |
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10-12-2008, 03:12 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Indiana
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btw- nice avatar.
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10-12-2008, 03:16 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: my azz is in Mississippi, but, I am a true Texan.
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| oh GAWD Lucky..PUT down the toothpaste!!!
__________________ "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein Life is tough..its even harder when you're stupid. -John Wayne |
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10-12-2008, 03:47 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Escondido,Ca
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| And you found this in your house? did someone give you change or something? get that sucker appraised 
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10-12-2008, 04:16 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Too late....  Funny though, after 190 years and God knows how many hands, pockets and purses, it looks like new now...and not in such a bad condition that I first thought...Even if I made it less valuable after giving it a clean, I'm gonna go with it to one of those thingmys that deal with coins, whatever they're called...IF there's one here in Glasgow..
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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10-12-2008, 04:36 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | What did you use to clean it? The reason I ask is because if it is even mildly corrosive, it could cause a further breakdown of the details over time. Arsenal is right, NEVER clean them. If you found them in the mud or something, rinse them with water only and dry them off.
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