u/GringoGrande

1935. Always fun to pull a Wheat Cent! A spendable 1984 penny as well.

For any non-native English speakers the correct term is limelight.

Weirdest piece I have personally come across (not that I scrap more than a few hundred bucks a year).

The copper wires are glued/epoxied/bonded together.

The piece that they sit in doesn't have plastic inserts holding the wire in place but actual metal that is solid and does not move.

This is one of those "I want to get it apart out of stubbornness" pieces now not a "From a time perspective it makes sense".

Thank you.

After posting the Art Box Prop Card I figured I would add another item from my collection. Perhaps not as interesting or rare as the Art Box Prop piece but I enjoy precious metals collectibles and this would be the rarest that I own from the Harry Potter world. The inability to post more than one image unfortunately makes it difficult to get a good shot of the details of the coin.

Coin Highlights:

Contains 1 oz of .999 fine Silver in Proof finish.

Limited mintage of only 5,000 coins.

Presented in a beautiful wooden coin case and Harry Potter-themed packaging.

Obverse: Features Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II effigy. Legal tender in Niue.

Reverse: This coin has a brilliant, proof finish with a view of Dobby the House Elf sneakily using his magic with a snap of his fingers.

Due to a recent post by /u/Tooth-Senior and a question by /u/inksta12 I am sharing my Art Box Prop Card.

I had never researched these before as I have several Harry Potter items that range from mundane to unusual.

Artbox apparently went out of business in 2012 and the definitive archive appears to be located at: https://www.thepottervault.com/

Thanks to the post by /u/Tooth-Senior in researching my card I learned that there were autograph cards, prop cards and more and that cards had different rarities which were likely a result of, at least with the prop cards, having to do with the size of the prop.

The card I am posting is x/500 while another prop card has less than a hundred pieces produced.

This definitely was an interesting rabbit hole to explore. In the meantime here is the front of the card. I will add the back momentarily. Apologies for the poor lighting.

Edit: Forgot that the sub allows only one image with the post and you cannot add images to additional comments. I wanted to show the back of the card. Unfortunate.

Can anyone help me figure out the value of these coins? Also help me verify their legitimacy?

Pictured meeting with other leaders of England, France and Ukraine.

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