Your Best Worst Coin - For Those Who Like 'em Rough

[modofantasma]

So we often show our nice shiny coins how about something different.

Maybe a stunning shield with horrendous damage to the portrait?

Perhaps a proof that arrived looking like it got kicked down the road all the way from the mint itself? 

I'll start us gently with this crown

[Britannia47]

1 hour ago, modofantasma said:

So we often show our nice shiny coins how about something different.

Maybe a stunning shield with horrendous damage to the portrait?

Perhaps a proof that arrived looking like it got kicked down the road all the way from the mint itself? 

I'll start us gently with this crown

For me the reverse is an iconic image - first time the much improved revised G&D appeared on Silver crown coinage 1818-1820

1821 was the defining year when the Silver Crown and the GIV Sovereign appeared, and without the garter!…..Good Stuff.

Pity about the obverse.

[Petra]

1 hour ago, modofantasma said:

So we often show our nice shiny coins how about something different.

Maybe a stunning shield with horrendous damage to the portrait?

Perhaps a proof that arrived looking like it got kicked down the road all the way from the mint itself? 

I'll start us gently with this crown

What’s caused that do you think?🤔😮

[Stuntman]

Did the coin used to be a brooch, or something similar?  

Thanks for sharing.  Good idea for a thread topic too.  I'll see what I have in my own collection that fits the topic!

[modofantasma]

10 hours ago, Petra said:

What’s caused that do you think?🤔😮

 

9 hours ago, Stuntman said:

Did the coin used to be a brooch, or something similar?  

I imagine it was mounted somehow yes. I received it like this in some scrap a while ago.

Like this I guess ..

[Mrpound]

I like the idea of this thread mate, even though it’s upsetting at the same time 🤣 

mine would have to be this one, United States trade dollar which someone kindly enough put a convenient hole in it so I don’t lose it 👌

 

[modofantasma]

16 minutes ago, Mrpound said:

mine would have to be this one, United States trade dollar which someone kindly enough put a convenient hole in it so I don’t lose it

That's very thoughtful of them. It's hardly noticeable honestly 👀

 

[Roy]

[modofantasma]

3 minutes ago, Roy said:

Some well loved bullion 🤤

[Roy]

It was the result of one of my first 'relationship issues' with silver.

I hated the stuff. Handled it, tossed it around, left it on the windowsill for days and then, the final coup de grace, I gave it to the kids to play with.

Once rescued from the garden, I advertised them @ £10 a pop. They sold 😊

 

[AaaGee]

This is sort of my worst coin.

Advertised on Ebay and described as "Silver Coin".

Not silver but bought it for the subject matter. Thats my excuse anyway 😄.

 

 

[trozau]

Not a flattering effigy of Bob Marley (due to the dreadlocks) but still one of my most treasured coins…

1995 Jamaica $100 Robert Marley gold

Edited December 30, 2022 by trozau

[flyingveepixie]

Great topic.  Until I started stacking pms most of the coins I ever owned from when I was a kid were in a state, either worn out, scratched or beat up to such an extent as to be worthless.  

So here's my contribution to the thread,  I picked it up in India in 1984 from a street stall along the Paharganj which is a sort of dividing line between New and Old Delhi and was the in-place to be for overland travelling backpackers back in the day.  It may even be a fake - I have no way of knowing  ..🤔😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Medal_1939–1945

Edited December 30, 2022 by flyingveepixie

[Bigmarc]

Took some digging to find it. Nothing spectacular but I picked this up in a coin shop in Lisbon a few years ago. This is more a personal vendetta than a visual one for my worst. The only davinci coins I can find seem to come from Alibaba so I assumed it was fake for a long while until I decided to test it out. Seems real (weight, magnet, gravity) but doesn't seem to have any info. If it is fake, why would you fake something that doesn't appear to exist and if it is real why is it not on the internet? Years ago I thought I see it as part of a set but can't remember why I didn't follow it up. Anyhow it's just in the junk pile.  

 

[James32]

9 hours ago, Roy said:

If them coins could talk..

You'd likely be in jail 🤣 

[modofantasma]

5 hours ago, flyingveepixie said:

here's my contribution to the thread

An interesting story to go with it even better 

[James32]

10 minutes ago, Bigmarc said:

Took some digging to find it. Nothing spectacular but I picked this up in a coin shop in Lisbon a few years ago. This is more a personal vendetta than a visual one for my worst. The only davinci coins I can find seem to come from Alibaba so I assumed it was fake for a long while until I decided to test it out. Seems real (weight, magnet, gravity) but doesn't seem to have any info. If it is fake, why would you fake something that doesn't appear to exist and if it is real why is it not on the internet? Years ago I thought I see it as part of a set but can't remember why I didn't follow it up. Anyhow it's just in the junk pile.  

 

Seem to be a few variations 

https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=14190

[Petra]

2 minutes ago, James32 said:

Seem to be a few variations 

https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=14190

Does look vaguely familiar from a set. One of those companies that turned sets out 1960s / 70s maybe 80s. Set may be of inventors?

[Bigmarc]

5 minutes ago, James32 said:

Seem to be a few variations 

https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=14190

Yeah I know, had been round the houses with it. Every other coin I own, I can find, gave up in the end because it's not like I can sell it if it doesn't come up on Google. I will plan another trip to Lisbon and "gently" persuade the old boy to buy it back of me. 😁

[Roy]

@Bigmarc

It's an *Apmex round. Limited Edition! lol

https://www.apmex.com/product/103455/1-oz-silver-antiqued-round-leonardo-da-vinci-the-last-supper

*North American Mint

Edited December 31, 2022 by Roy

[Bigmarc]

16 hours ago, Roy said:

@Bigmarc

It's an *Apmex round. Limited Edition! lol

https://www.apmex.com/product/103455/1-oz-silver-antiqued-round-leonardo-da-vinci-the-last-supper

*North American Mint

Cheers Roy, bit embarrassing I couldn't find it. Pity it doesn't show both sides of the coin. 

I stopped buying 999 now just mainly stick to alloyed so will just throw it back in the deal with it later pile. 

 

 

[Roy]

Ahh, I guess you are on mobile?

[Paul]

not mine - but spotted this on my ebay travels 

what to you think it would grade as ?? a good contender for a 70 ??

[SidS]

3 minutes ago, Paul said:

not mine - but spotted this on my ebay travels 

what to you think it would grade as ?? a good contender for a 70 ??

Going by the amount of teeth marks in it, is there some question as to whether it is genuine or not? 😁

It'd be a great pocket piece.

[Petra]

If genuine, as it doesn’t look like new damage, very surprised that it hasn’t been melted down years ago🤔🫢