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May as well post my latest hobo nickel as well.

Back in March Billzach very kindly sent me a half-carved nickel to show me how it's done.

For my first real hobo I didn't take him up on his offer to carve the other half of that nickel - it's far to valuable as a study aid plus I'm not good enough yet. Instead I carved a copy to the best of my ability.

As I came up on my 10th coin I went back and did it again, to see if I'd improved (I had).

So this is coin number 20 and obviously time to re-visit my checkpoint.

This one came out pretty well, and didn't take horribly long. I think it only took about 5 - 6 hours but I can't be sure because I did it over a few days. I have some pulled / strained muscles in my right arm (had a pinched nerve locking them up, used them anyway) so I can only engrave for a little bit at a time.

Contacted the collector who's been buying all of my nickels and offered it to him directly (I did the same thing with #10) and he was glad to be able to keep up his streak. Assuming he got that first one from the person who got it, he now has the full set.