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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 18:09:35 GMT -8
I traded some of the 40% silver half dollars I found roll hunting for some Canadian silver dimes and UNC Roosevelt's to upgrade for my set at the coin club meeting last night.  At the current US to CDN exchange rate, itès ironic that you can make more for the metal content than what the banks will give you. Nice score...I think. If you bring it north(when I pick you up at the tree line) it will only be worth 72 cents on the US dollar :-/ |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Mar 18, 2016 18:35:33 GMT -8
I traded some of the 40% silver half dollars I found roll hunting for some Canadian silver dimes and UNC Roosevelt's to upgrade for my set at the coin club meeting last night. At the current US to CDN exchange rate, itès ironic that you can make more for the metal content than what the banks will give you. Nice score...I think. If you bring it north(when I pick you up at the tree line) it will only be worth 72 cents on the US dollar :-/ Current melt for watered down Canukistanian silver dimes in real American money is 95¢ each. I paid real American money 85¢ each. I am sure I could get at least $3 each for the 3 deep cameo prooflike 1964's (maybe they are proofs I will have to research) which you can easily pick out from the pic. The older the series the more over melt they are worth. I got stuck with an 1917 Newfoundland dime which does not seem to be true Canukistanian coinage. Maybe they were the last holdouts like the IRA. I have my 1861O Confederate half dollar but to be bold and stick it to the establishment by coining similar coins (I will have to research the story) . . . .   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 19:03:57 GMT -8
At the current US to CDN exchange rate, itès ironic that you can make more for the metal content than what the banks will give you. Nice score...I think. If you bring it north(when I pick you up at the tree line) it will only be worth 72 cents on the US dollar :-/ Current melt for watered down Canukistanian silver dimes in real American money is 95¢ each. I paid real American money 85¢ each. I am sure I could get at least $3 each for the 3 deep cameo prooflike 1964's (maybe they are proofs I will have to research) which you can easily pick out from the pic. The older the series the more over melt they are worth. I got stuck with an 1917 Newfoundland dime which does not seem to be true Canukistanian coinage. Maybe they were the last holdouts like the IRA. I have my 1861O Confederate half dollar but to be bold and stick it to the establishment by coining similar coins (I will have to research the story) . . . . Newfoundland did not become part of Canuckistan until 1949 or their abouts. I would think that those genuine Newfy coins should be worth a lot of money to collectors! Maybe the Newfy coins were the AM ones at the time  |
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Post by ohsown on Mar 20, 2016 18:31:43 GMT -8
Canada Border Services Agency caught a jumper trying to come across with some funny currency. Goods seized and perp sent home packin'. Be wary those ducking the trees. Not even made of copper but a reasonable resemblance.  A two penny piece, almost as bad as a Newfy dime!   Who knew cons would resort to "currency" at this denomination. Nice try but we got ya! |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Mar 20, 2016 18:33:15 GMT -8
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Post by ohsown on Mar 21, 2016 9:29:57 GMT -8
Haven't heard about that until now. If that detectorist ever comes up with something I think it will be a rusted blob like others suggested. I have wondered why counterfeiters didn't go with smaller denominations to avoid scrutiny. That Henning fellow seems to good to have omitted the "P" by accident. Interesting story.
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Mar 21, 2016 18:52:32 GMT -8
A two penny piece, almost as bad as a Newfy dime! The 1864 2 cent was the first US coin or paper bill to bear the motto "In God We Trust" Be aware of the large and small Motto varieties. |
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Post by ohsown on Mar 22, 2016 10:44:41 GMT -8
I saw the 2 varieties when doing a quick check on the net, this one appears to be the more common large logo. Not in the best of shape, just a neat old coin.  |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Mar 22, 2016 17:33:27 GMT -8
I saw the 2 varieties when doing a quick check on the net, this one appears to be the more common large logo. Not in the best of shape, just a neat old coin. The 1864 2 cent was the first US coin with the motto "In God We Trust". Silver coinage adopted the motto in 1866. Now you need a silver trime and a nickel 3 cent and a 20 cent piece to complete your oddities collection. A Stella would also be nice.       |
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Post by ohsown on Apr 5, 2016 17:58:41 GMT -8
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 6, 2016 16:00:11 GMT -8
Here are a few from the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Several years ago a coin dealer I was having appraise some stuff said to take them to the bank for face value as the siler or collectable value wasn't as high. Still have them for now. Don't let the yellow cast from the lighting fool you, these are silver.   Nice. Never take any old coins to a bank and cash them in for face value  I picked a fat rim near date 1979 SBA from a tellers tray tonight. This is my second one and both came from tellers trays. I haven;t found one in the couple of boxes I searched.   |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 8, 2016 17:15:34 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 17:53:05 GMT -8
Josh, As a numismatic, do you know if the faces on these coins were modeled for the engravers? |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 8, 2016 18:06:53 GMT -8
Josh, As a numismatic, do you know if the faces on these coins were modeled for the engravers? Numismatist  Anywho most of the coin designers over the years were the chief engravers of the coin dies employed by the mint at the time. Starting in 1907 with the Augustus St Gaudens gold eagle and double eagle coins the mint solicited outside design ideas from sculptures. Their are rumors as to who modeled for the designs all the way up to the current Sacajawea dollar. Most of the current president coins are modeled after the presidential portraits int he white house. I need to get me a pair of these which were restruck in the original approved design which did not make it to circulation. Maybe at the end of the month when I am debt free I can finally be on the hunt for a true pattern coin.    |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 18:18:17 GMT -8
Josh, As a numismatic, do you know if the faces on these coins were modeled for the engravers? Numismatist Anywho most of the coin designers over the years were the chief engravers of the coin dies employed by the mint at the time. Starting in 1907 with the Augustus St Gaudens gold eagle and double eagle coins the mint solicited outside design ideas from sculptures. Their are rumors as to who modeled for the designs all the way up to the current Sacajawea dollar. Most of the current president coins are modeled after the presidential portraits int he white house. I need to get me a pair of these which were restruck in the original approved design which did not make it to circulation. Maybe at the end of the month when I am debt free I can finally be on the hunt for a true pattern coin. I stand by 'numismatic' because you are well and truly addicted to coin collecting  The presidents are easy enough to figure out who the models were but I was wondering about the ladies like in the previous post. Did the artists/engravers use their wives, daughters, girlfriends or neighbours as models? |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 8, 2016 18:27:40 GMT -8
Most of the sculptors used models or combined the best traits of multiple models for the final image.
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 8, 2016 19:19:27 GMT -8
This one came in the mail today. I had been putting of buying one for the last 3 months sine my debt free deadline is 3 weeks away but since it was on Ebay and they took a credit card and I could float it until the next billing cycle interest free I had to pick one up before the sellout and $30 price hike. And while checking the payoff amount I see Chase now has a 1.5% cash back credit card, 0% for 15 months, and $150 if you spend $500 in the first 3 months. And guess what: the new 24K .9999 2016 reissue dimes come out in 2 weeks. I think I can cover the spread, pay no interest, continue to build my moving cash fund, and pocket $150 on the deal. I think I am going to be late to work on Monday when I bring donuts to my favorites Chase branch and get one of the many bankers I am on a first name basis with to hook me up. I always feel like a VIP when I show up there every week and everyone in the building says "Hi Josh" when I walk in  You gotta hook up those that hook you up. Buy, share, and give do not translate from Urdu to English. Jus' Sayin'.  |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 10, 2016 12:01:24 GMT -8
I stopped at a bank in a grocery store today while out running an errand. This bank USED to be a hot spot for NIFC dollar coins as soon as they were released from the mint. I don't know if someone has a subscription from the mint and just doesn't want to cancel it or a collector dumps the rejects from rolls or bags ordered from the mint or whatever. I haven't found any NIFC there since the Kennedy dollar came out and I got 1. Today the teller said she had $8 in halves. As she grabbed the stack from her tray I could see the bright and shiny rims of new halves. I figured they were probably some NIFC I had spent in the area that somehow made them back to a bank. As she was stacking them in piles of 2 I could see the high relief design. Scored 10 2016P halves.  |
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Post by Tyrone Jenkins on Apr 11, 2016 15:35:24 GMT -8
I got these from the bank today. The ultra rare first printing of the new $100 that should have been released when they were first announced but kept delaying the bills release due to "printing problems" which I believe the real story is a shit ton of the new bills were hijacked before they were supposed to be released into circulation so the government held off the release until they could catch the theives with the new bills because they couldn;t claim they got them in circulation and they couldn;t spend them because noone was supposed to have them. I also finally found my first radar note :party:   |
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