fantasy: An object having the physical characteristics of a coin, issued by an agency other than a governing authority yet purporting to be issued by a real or imaginary governing authority as a coin.
fantasy: a coin that has nothing to do with reality.
fasces: the ax bound in a bundle of sticks that appears on the back of Mercury Head Dimes struck from 1916 to 1945.
fantasy piece A term applied to coins struck at the whim of Mint officials. Examples include the 1868 large cent Type of 1857 and the various 1865 Motto and 1866 No Motto coins.
Fantasy issue
A coin that was never officially struck, such as an 1868 U.S. large cent or a coin issued by the non-existent nation of Sealand.
Fasces
A Roman symbol of authority consisting of a bound bundle of rods and an axe.
Fantasy
A medal struck, not as a possible coin design (pattern), but simply as a piece of art/sculpture in a numismatic form. Many fantasy coins have become collectors items eg.
Fantasy - Usually a representation of a rare or never issued coin. A good example are the recent fantasy coins of Edward VIII, created in limited numbers, ...
fantasy piece
Refers to coins that are whimsically struck by the officials of a Mint.
fiat money ...
Fantasy Coins include unexpected pairings of mis-matched dies made by Mint officials to create artificial rarities for personal gain or at the request of collectors.
Fantasy piece:
Was this coin made by a mint celator during off hours as a joke or political statement on the emperor? The coin is accepted as ancient, but is it an official mint issue?
Commemorative: ...
Fantasy piece - Piece de Caprice as Dr. Judd has referred: "Coins produced by Mint personnel using the Mint equipment and facility that were un-authorized.
Fantasy Note - This is a fake note of a design or denomination that may not even exist. Some of these can look quite real to the casual observer.
Federal Reserve Bank - A district or branch bank of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. ...
Fantasy coins
Private agencies (e.g. International Numismatic Agency in the United Kingdom or Europ-Mint in Switzerland) have created some fantasy euro coins intended for sale to collectors, ...
The fantasy types have been classified into two groups namely: (A) Chinese types designated as 'FC', and (B) Tibetan types designated as 'FT'.
Beware of fantasy pieces struck at a much later date. These are totally unofficial and were privately minted to give collectors a portrait of Edward VIII for those who collect by monarch.
Like many other "fantasy" coins before them, the 1884 and 1885 pieces were clandestinely struck for Mint crony William Idler and were unknown to the numismatic community until six pieces from Idler's estate were sold by dealer John Haseltine in 1908.
Their is no evidence as to the origin of the Fugio dies but it is known that Bushnell had the Scovill Company produce several fantasy colonial items for him in the 1850's.
" The problem with some series of government countermarks is that there are a lot of fantasy stamps. The issues of the port of Sumenep on the island of Madura, off the northeast coast of Java are good examples.
The story of Helena's pilgrimage is certainly not fantasy. In his Life of Constantine (c. 340 A.D.), Eusebius wrote (only about ten years after her death) that Helena lavished good deeds on the Holy Land, and "Although well advanced in years, ...
He also wrote mysteries (many of which were collected in the Black Widowers books) and fantasy. In fact, he has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except Philosophy.
There are also modern copies and fantasy issues of these charms most of which are plated and easy to differentiate by their thickness.
15, 2004 and it represents a fantasy piece. The reverse with Roma on a pile of arms was minted for all coins denomitations under Trajan. However when you enlarge a coin 8x, what looked like superb detail often turns into a cartoon-like image.
Evidence suggests that this is pure fantasy: Researchers have found drawings of virtually the same female head in Longacre sketchbooks from 10 years earlier, always with the same adult proportions and the same long "Greek" nose.
Various private mints have created replica or "fantasy" crowns featuring Edward VIII. Here is one. It is features a reverse which is similar to the genuine crown but not identical. Furthermore the weight is only 20.
Apart from the regular coinage a large number of so-called `fantasy' coins abound bearing the portraits of generals or governors of some of the provinces.
Mint Director Henry Linderman ordered "fantasy pieces" madedated 1868using the old dies in storage. Struck both in copper and nickel, fewer than a dozen pieces are known today.
His life seems like a story pulled from a fantasy adventure novel. A British adventurer looking for fortune is in the right place at the right time and becomes the absolute princely ruler of a nation in the east.
He also had a sense of whimsy, and created from his own dies some fantasy pieces of "colonial coins" that had no counterpart in originality. Perhaps he was a protégé of W.
either Irish Loyalist issues of Charles I of circa 1645 or Dublin tokens of the 1670's, but which in either case were made a legal tender in New Jersey in 1682; the mysterious and unique "New England Stiver," now thought to be a 19th century fantasy; ...
Double-obverse coins were never a tradition in China and it is unlikely to be an authentic issue. There are other double-sided fantasy coins that are believed to have been cast during the 19th century for the collector's market.
He would then trade these restrikes and fantasy coins to local collectors for rare coins lacking in the Mint collection. These restrikes were made from 1858 through the summer of 1860 and again in 1867-68.
When the prices stabilized, the only people left buying coins were knowledgeable collectors who would not accept “MS-67' as anything but a fantasy grade. Dealers were forced to tighten their standards to survive.
Small Date and Large Date; 1842-O Small Date and Large Date; 1853 Recut Date, no Arrows or Rays (1853/ 1853); 1853, 3 over 4 (Arrows and Rays); 1854-O, Huge O; 1856-S, S Over Small S; the unique 1866 proof No Motto example, believed to be a fantasy ...
Two months into penning The Sea Djinn, her Dubai-set children's novel involving the kidnap at sea of its hero's parents, Linda Davies was kidnapped for real by the Iranian navy. She tells Mark Smith about fear, fiction and fantasy.
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