October 5, 2020: "Starstruck"

Author:
M. Agre

Concept:
When we first saw this charming, all original Chalmers 6p we knew we’d have to put it in a CRO ad for three reasons:

This is the rarest of the 3 Chalmers denominations (3p, 6p and Shilling) and very much the ‘stopper’ for those attempting to build a denomination set
These are most often found cleaned, poorly struck, damaged or otherwise impaired
They have that super cool and extremely popular star motif which does not appear on the other denominations

So when featuring this coin, MaryAnn opted to focus on that last one (while simultaneously and indirectly hinting at the first two) with a punchy, one word caption.

Captions that didn’t make the cut:
The best alternative of the week was “Star of the Show.“, which probably could have worked I suppose, but seemed a bit too generic for a coin this cool.