Funny coin descriptions!

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Jarcek Numista team
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Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 13:04 #
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Okay, just wanted to post this: :D

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34747.html


If anyone stumbles upon something similar, post it here. :D
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ALLRED1950
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Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 13:24 #
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Jarcek that is great. It should be left there just to make people stop and look twice.
It is, what it is, or is it.
Dato Mikeladze
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Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 13:31 #
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))))))))))))))))))))))))) great !!
chomp-master
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Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 13:41 #
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:O
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
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Jarcek Numista team
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Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 13:43 #
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Just going through Hungary coins, consolidating and correcting catalogue entries, but tihs gem I will just leave there. :D
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sferreira
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Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 13:50 #
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The description isn't incorrect, but is hilarious. :O:D
Ducatx
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Posted: 31 Jan 2016, 20:12 #
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:8D
"Celui qui combat des monstres doit prendre garde à ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Si tu contemples longtemps un abîme, l’abîme aussi regarde en toi." N.


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erdvilla
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Posted: 31 Jan 2016, 21:21 #
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Anyone who finds one and publishes the link should also make a screen copy so that in case they are eventually corrected we can known what was the point about them before the edition.
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Eli V
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Posted: 14 Mar 2017, 05:16 #
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I remember reading a description of a Jamaican coin depicting Bob Marley as "Medusa head. ." I almost choked then and there.
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