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I bought a trime today for $9. great condition but there is a spot where lamination flaked off near the rim, on the obverse. the guy said this was like an error, or rather a manufacturing defect, but didnt appear to be deliberately damaged. he wanted three for a trime with a couple chops on it, and this one seemed better.
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looks like this but its an 1867
the chip is at the lower edge from 6 to 7 oclock, just touches the 1 and the U. two layers of laminated metal seem visible inside. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/scn10001.jpg |
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also the detail is a bit sharper than that partic'ler coin.
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The chipping is due to a zionist plan to make you overpay for percieved numismatic value.....the Jews just stole a couple more bucks from you Anty Ep.
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Since you mention it, I give the dealer only a 1/3 chance of being a Jew. Normally I would have assigned him a 1/10 chance but you know Jews are indeed heavy in this trade. LOL
But then again he might be one of the 100 or so "anti-Zionist Jews" in existence, who knows; but in any case they are about as rare as 1933 Double eagles. Anyhow, I like the guy, he's congenial enough. Thanks for bringing this up, you know, I wouldnt want you to think that I had a problem talking about any such topic. |
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You must have E.S.P.....that is exactly what I was worried about! Seriously though.....trimes are cool. I have a few, and like them very much. Numismatic memoribilia from the "Wild West".:wink: |
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you know I just love collecting stuff, but in coinage you have a combined storehouse of value and artifact of craftsmanship and aesthetic and historical signficance. for someone who cant afford fine art, like me, this is a way to do something that strikes the same chords at my humble level.
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Last year I got one of these from the bank in a roll of dimes. At first I thought it was Canadian because of the lady on it, after closer examination I realized what it was as I had never seen one before. I suppose the reason I found it was because it did not appear to be worn very much at all, it rang like a dime, and maybe someone else had mistaken it for a Canadian dime. It is dated 1868 and is the oldest coin I have ever found in circulation.
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Interesting history:
The Trime by Michael F. Bryan In 1851, under severe competitive pressure, the U.S. postal service lowered the postage on a one-page letter from 5 cents to 3 cents. The act changed the character of American money. This Commentary tells how a confluence of two events, the expansion of steam-powered transportation and the California gold rush, created a problem of �monetary indivisibility� for the U.S. post office, the solution to which was the minting of a 3-cent silver coin, the trime. Besides being the smallest of all U.S. coins, the trime had another distinction: It was the first legal tender with a face value greater than the market value of the metal it was minted from. The trime was America�s first step toward separating its money from precious metals and the eventual creation of our �fiat� money�a money that is not backed by or convertible into any commodity. That is, a money with no intrinsic worth. |
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What do you mean? (excuse me, I'm on full oxygold tonight) |
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Welcome Anty.
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I bought another trime today, not quite as nice but at least VG, cept for the hole in it. which got me the thing for 2.50. pretty good price for a decent trime seems to me.
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Hay there buddy I was looking at your coin and saw something Els that's look's like a Error if that is im right about this , The words "UNITED STATES" look at the word STATES, and you can see the E looking like a boxed H or an E that has a line at the end of the E I could be wrong |
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osum!
Dude, Do trimes even contain PMs? Apologies for the gratuitous post, but we're on full oxy tonight . . . On topic: I'd be in a PM buy mode right now, but I went for musical gear and a classic concert instead, + or - about a K, not to even mention, my bullion guy is about 30 miles away! Jeebus, it's been so long, he might not even recognize me! A fiat surplus is still bothering me, though! |
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It would of been Good if the photo was the actual coin. |
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guess what, I just got a type 1 silver trime. little tiny coin! not anything special, AG or good, 1865
stock photo-- not mine-- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...CS_Obverse.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trime |
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