jlueke Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 The picture hides the hairlines, but this coin has been cleaned a little more than I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Banish that cleaned horror from your presence. I'll PM my mailing address.. A great coin. I really like the West African coins and notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I LOVE IT!!! It's got a weird thingy on it! I love weird thingys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Oh my, I'm in love. I've accumulated the odd piece with "primitive" art always meaning to start a collection some day. I have a couple of African masks and a beautiful art book from Belgium covering masks, but I had not seen your piece. That's spectacular (can you tell us more if you pay careful attention to the date and time I chose for your 1000th post, you are getting close and there are still days to go!!!!!). In any event, thanks. I like the coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted February 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Well, I tend to post more on cold weekends where we stay at home The image is an Ashantee (Ashanti) fish. The Ashantee are the natives of Western Africa, this image is of a gold weight. The weight was used to help in the barter of fish for gold. CGB on Vcoins has a bunch of these for sale, for those of you who need one. I'm sure the auction site does as well. The new issues are bi-metallic. My piece is actual a nickel trial strike for the silver coin. Even though the mintage was 2000 compared to 100,000 the cost about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I swore that I was putting purchases to rest for the next month, but I just had to have something like the piece you shared. Well, they had another piece in aluminum with the fish design. That let me stay with a primary collecting theme and add an interesting piece of art. Thanks for the tip. Looks like I'm out of the 1000 post running. I didn't factor in the weather even though my wife was born and raised in Minneapolis. Stay warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Well, I tend to post more on cold weekends where we stay at home The image is an Ashantee (Ashanti) fish. The Ashantee are the natives of Western Africa, this image is of a gold weight. The weight was used to help in the barter of fish for gold. CGB on Vcoins has a bunch of these for sale, for those of you who need one. I'm sure the auction site does as well. The new issues are bi-metallic. My piece is actual a nickel trial strike for the silver coin. Even though the mintage was 2000 compared to 100,000 the cost about the same. I found a site for Vcoins. But couldn't find any West African coins on it. What am I doing wrong? Help? Link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I found a site for Vcoins. But couldn't find any West African coins on it. What am I doing wrong? Help? Link? http://www.vcoins.com/world/cgb/store/dynamicIndex.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted February 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I found a site for Vcoins. But couldn't find any West African coins on it. What am I doing wrong? Help? Link? Make sure you search the world coins section not the ancient coin section, tbe latter is the default. Vcoins World Coins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Make sure you search the world coins section not the ancient coin section, tbe latter is the default.Vcoins World Coins Don't know what I was doing wrong before but I got it this time. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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