Hobo Nickels

Comment by Garry N on February 13, 2009 at 6:07pm

I dont think I would be able to carve, but if there is some discussion about it, I might try it. Otherwise the background and origins would be interesting too.

Comment by Garry N on February 15, 2009 at 3:50pm

Tom. I found this site APMEX, that has a ton of coins for sale and even has a list of hobo nickels. No pictures unfortunately.

http://www.apmex.com/Category/871/Hobo_Nickels.aspx

Comment by Garry N on February 15, 2009 at 5:24pm

I dont know why not. There are pictures of coins in every other category. Are they reasonably priced?

Comment by Garry N on February 15, 2009 at 5:39pm

not these, just in other categories

Comment by Garry N on February 16, 2009 at 11:20am

wow that last one is quite a beautiful engraving. I heard that APMEX posted the photos on their website. Let me know what you think.

Garry

Comment by Mark Livett on October 29, 2009 at 7:10am

I picked up a hobo nickel a while ago, I am not sure what the South African version of a Hobo is but the coin is from 1896. I understand that this doesn't date the coin to any degree of accuracy but I can't see why anyone now-a-days would want to practice on a coin over 100 years old.

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