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Offline featherz

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Tooled $10 Coin
« on: May 25, 2003, 02:55:14 pm »
who would tool a $10 coin? Check this one out:

This was worn enough to be a $5 coin before they tooled it. <G>

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Re:Tooled?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2003, 06:49:05 pm »
Holy cow! That's one messed up coin!
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Re:Tooled?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2003, 10:36:09 pm »
Yep! That one is on several people's 'tooling' pages. I call it Mr Tooly. :)

Hard to read but I think part of the new 'legend' is 'emperor'.  ;D
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Re:Tooled?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2003, 10:42:36 pm »
HAHA, that IS funny  ;D.  I should try to make a NERO out of one of my slugs.  Your coin must have been one of that tool's first tooling attempts  :D.  Did the guy/gal base his scrape work on what was already there you think?  Any idea who the coin was of BEFORE it got butchered?

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Re:Tooled?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2003, 11:07:40 pm »
Most likely a Tripolis - Either Elagabalus or Caracalla. I have an ugly but identifiable Elagabalus here of the same type:

By the way, I got Mr. Tooly for free. I was buying some other coins and I thought it was amusing, so I had the seller throw it in. :)
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