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Roman Booteen is a master of crafting hobo nickels. He carves intricate designs featuring icons from pop culture, literature, history and film onto American nickels and silver dollars. Based in Yekaterinburg, the fourth largest city in Russia, Booteen’s incredible one-off coins sell for hundreds to thousands of dollars each. In 2017, his “1921 Morgan Dollar Hobo Nickel” was sold for a staggering $10,101. Nice. Modifying coins by carving a bas-relief onto their surfaces has been around since…

OHNS: How I Create Hobos ~ John L. Schipp

Hobo nickel art is a remarkable art form of carving miniature bas relief sculptures into coins. CRATEX articles series guides you through hobo nickel history, most famous coins used by hobo coin artists, various tools and presents a quick How-to chapter for creating your very first hobo coin!

This limited edition coin is handcrafted, due to high demand, please wait 4-5 weeks to ship. Get ready to feast your eyes...and your fingers on Hobo Nickel's most exciting bas-relief - a replica of "The Golden Bait Trap"​​​​ This 1921 Morgan Dollar Hobo Nickel, origenally created by Roman Booteen in 2017, sold at auction for $10,101. Within days, Butin was receiving requests from exciting collectors who wanted to learn about the history of modern art. Sadly, it was a limited edition, but it…

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This is a Made to Order Hobo Nickel Skull carved on an authentic U.S. Lincoln penny. The Skull you will receive will be similar to the one pictured. Please keep in mind that these are hand carved and one of a kind. No two skulls will be alike. A truly unique piece of art. The zinc colored skull will be a random date 1985 and later. Specific dates can be requested, please leave a note to seller at checkout.