Some paper money looked pretty neat also - especially the "Educational Series" of 1896:
Posted on 06/03/2018 11:46:35 AM PDT by ETL
Described as the most valuable U.S. nickel in existence, a rare nickel from 1913 is expected to sell for between $3 million and $5 million at auction.
The Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, one of only five ever produced, will be auctioned by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in August.
“The other four 1913 Liberty Head Nickels have gone on to private collectors and museums, including the Smithsonian,” explained Stack’s Bowers, in a statement.
Named for Louis E. Eliasberg Sr., the banker and famed coin collector who bought it in 1948, the nickel will be auctioned at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money, which runs from Aug. 14 to 18 at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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Hawaii-Five-O season 6 episode 14 “The $100,000 Nickel” summary:
A rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel, one of only five ever made, is to be auctioned at a coin show held at the Ilikai Hotel. European master criminal Eric Damien gets con artist and sleight-of-hand expert, Arnie Price, freed from jail so that he can switch a cleverly-made fake with the original before the auction. But things do not go as planned, as Price, fearing capture, tries to dispose of the nickel in a news rack, and the chase is on to recover the nickel before anyone else finds it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0598155/
Strange Inheritance season 1 episode 5 “$3 Million Nickel”
A man inherits what’s said to be a counterfeit 1913 Liberty nickel.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4391280/
‘Strange Inheritance’ TV series features George Walton 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin
Virginia siblings likely to make millions in auction of rare 1913 nickel
AKA a dangerous faggot.
If I remember my history, earlier the Gov’t produced a similar five cent coin without the word “cents” on it.
Interesting. I’ve got some liberty head nickels, but NOT one of those.
I always thought the winged Mercury dime was a beautiful coin and liked the reverse, but it’s funny I never looked at the reverse that closely. Interesting story about the reverse at the link you provided. Thanks.
The beautiful, classical inspired coins of the late 1800s and early 1900s were just perfection. Then it all went into the toilet with the obverse of the Roosevelt dime, putting the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the Wheat Sheaf penny, and removing silver from coins. The cupronickel-nickel clang sound is still harsh to my ears compared the the beautiful sound of a pocket full of real silver.
It doesn’t matter much anymore. With the currency debased 15X sincerely my childhood, coins are pointless now and hardly worth keeping. I keep a roll of quarters in the car console for meters and the occasional newspaper, but that is it. 90% or more of my spending is via plastic or Apple Pay now.
The non-front side of a coin (et. al) is referred to as the obverse.
Thanks. I thought it was obverse (front) and reverse (back). No?
Been decades since I used to collect coins!
Some paper money looked pretty neat also - especially the "Educational Series" of 1896:
Never saw those before! Thanks for the pics. Those are indeed gorgeous. What a lost art form.
oh dang- i just threw one of those in a wishing well
I think I bought a candy bar with one back in ‘56.......
There was also an episode of the Amos & Andy show that involved a rare nickel.
Andy found an 1877 nickel, and contacted a rare coin dealer to find out if it was valuable. The dealer wrote back to him that he was interested in buying it for $250. The Kingfish intercepted the letter, and concocted an elaborate scheme to separate the nickel from Andy. Once he got the nickel, he called the dealer, and then realized that he had put the nickel into the pay phone. He confessed to Andy, and they agreed to split the profit if they could get the nickel back.
The two of them tried to break into the coin box while a plainclothes cop happened to be standing outside the booth waiting to use the phone. They were arrested, and pleaded their case before the judge. The judge believed their story, gave them a stern lecture, and they walked out free men with the nickel.
The Kingfish insisted that Andy should call the coin dealer from the phone right outside of the courtroom. Andy put the rare nickel into the phone and dialed the number. He told the Kingfish what he had done, and his friend walked away in anger.
But Andy had outsmarted his conniving friend by intentionally dialing a non-working number, and got the nickel back when he hung up the phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZzJ0qcF9w
Hopefully, it's still somewhere around the house.
Denomination: "zero" cents
Thanks. Will take a look at those later.
Lol! Thanks. Loved that series. Have most of them on my PC which is currently in storage.
Make sure you get a few credible appraisals before selling.
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