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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => European Coins => Topic started by: ElleKitty on October 25, 2008, 02:38:00 PM
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(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/953955.jpg)
I dug this 1797 copper cartwheel penny out of the bargain bin today. When I did, I got this huge cheesey grin on my face, and just sat there looking at this roundish piece of copper. It is worn slick, the designs on the obverse and reverse are all but invisible. I added it to my take-home pile.
I figure most collectors would take one look at this coin, and toss it in the cull pile for melting. I've done the same with other coins, but not this one. For me, this is the culmination of true numismatism. If this piece could talk, the stories she could tell would last three centuries!
Minted by Boulton on his steam press, shipped in kegs to the colony of Australia, it became one of the Proclamation coins. It must have passed through many hands in trade for who knows what items, and crossed the ocean again at least once, to end up in a bin in San Antonio Texas. When she isn't residing in my pocket, she's going to sit beside her big brother, the copper twopenny (who has much better details on him).
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A nice piece of history there, my lady, even if it is worn flat! :D (cheesy grin!)
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You're right EK...if not for those wide rims, I would probably take one look and toss it. :D
However, since it's obviously a "Cartwheel", the fact it shows so much wear suggest a very interesting history indeed. If that little guy could talk!
From what I've been told, these coins were rather ungainly for pockets so they usually served as measuring weights (due to their close tolerances to 1 ounce).
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Hey, I recognise that. That is the coin that my great, great, great, great, great Grandfather "borrowed" that got us shipped out here in the first place ;D
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*falls over laughing.* Should I send it back to you then?
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No, no. Don't wan't any more trouble ma'm. On the straight and narrow now. ;)
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I have a cartwheel. One of my favorite coins.
:) :) :) :)
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Hey, I recognise that. That is the coin that my great, great, great, great, great Grandfather "borrowed" that got us shipped out here in the first place ;D
:D :D :D
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Kitty, show us the big brother as well.
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(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/932342.jpg)
:) The king of copper deserved purple velvet as his background?
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I'd grab up that old cartwheel, too, Ms. Kitty. Nice find! ;D
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Thanks, Kitty.
Great looking coin.
You wouldn't want to have a pocket full of those, back in 1797.
(you would now though)
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You wouldn't want to have a pocket full of those, back in 1797.
--Nor would I want to meet a bloke in a dark alley who had a sack of 'em. ;)
Course, if we eachhad a bag, that would be different. :D
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OMG hehe :D that coin has ek's! :o ;)