A bit toooooooo early but who knows what people are buying straight off the mint or from circulation. Show us your great coins!

I seen a couple of coins a person dug up using a metel detector. They are a 1934 Walking liberty and a 1907 dime and to come out of the ground they are in great shape.

Too early? Nevvah. I already got, a few days ago, the 2008 coins that I ordered from the Royal Mint (UK): The annual set including the £2 commem, and the Elizabeth I silver piece. See http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=17278

Also, Cyprus and Malta now use the euro, and of course the "2008" coins that became legal tender yesterday were made in '07. But they have been available (starter kits) since mid-December, and a fellow collector allowed me to hold a Malta euro coin in my hands for a brief moment last year. Does that count too?
(Cyprus) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/the_eu...oins8662_en.htm
(Malta) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/the_eu...oins8677_en.htm

Christian

I have the Cyprus 2008 coins.

I have my "last of old" set ordered from the Royal Mint, no idea when they will arrive. Ordered before I realised there was a whole 2008 set on offer (with £2 coins) but oh well.

Really wanted to get a starter pack of Cyprus and Malta euro coins, we know people in Cyprus but I don't know if they would be willing to hold onto a set for us, also like to get a set of the old ones before they are finally removed from circulation. Anywhere UK based I can get the starter packs?

Interesting fact I recently heard about Cyprus changeover, since the UK still has a few bases over there. It now means that the Euro circulates and is fully accepted on UK sovereign territory! (if only, a small area )

Quite a few actually:

Cyprus Euro Set
Malta Euro Set
UK "Last of the Old" set
UK "Uncirulated" Set
UK Charles 60th £5

That is right - and EUObserver.com, though usually somewhat euroskeptical, could just not resist the temptation, it seems:

Britain also introducing the euro

(a headline roughly in the middle of this http://euobserver.com/9/25384 article)

As for the UK "Charles" £5 coin, well, that one I do not find that attractive. A royal portrait, so to say, on either side, hmm. But the Elizabeth I coin looks neat.

Christian

Yes it's an alright coin I got it more to see what coins with Charles (William V) could look like with his portrait on.

I'll be purchashing the Elizabeth I one next month

I got he malta euro also. Nice!

I really want an '08 silver eagle proof. I also want to get a panda (I don't care what year as long as it's a good looking one)

I already have one:


Hope to get the rest of the new Kyrgyzstani coins soon, and I'm also eagerly waiting for this years circulating coins of Russia

"The Oklahoma state quarters will enter circulation on Jan. 28, 2008. On that same date, consumers and coin collectors can purchase Oklahoma Quarter Bags and Rolls from the US Mint."

From: http://www.coinnews.net/2008/01/10/oklahom...-gate-yet-3936/

It of course will obviously take some time before you see that coin. I don't believe it's like the presidential series in which they are already at the bank on the release date.

Picked up 2 rolls of the 2008 Monroe dollars this afternoon from my bank! One roll will basically be used for trading, with a few left over, and the other for spending.

So one else has gotten any 2008 coins yet???

Got the dollars tuesday, but nothing else.

I got the 2008 ChuckEcheese token.

Almost the end of February and still lucky to find a lot of 2007's. I think there are way to many hoarders now.

I got the Oklahoma quarters from the bank almost 2 weeks ago. Still haven't got them from the mint

Gees Dock, you sure like that place

I got the 2008 €10 from Germany weeks ago, but only this last week did I get some 2008 quarters in change in W. Palm Beach Fl. I promptly spent them.

How about the new bullion coin from the Austrian Mint, the 1 oz Silver Philharmoniker? It's a spitting image of the gold coin by the same name. The 2008 Kookaburra is nice. Lastly, the Perth Mint is starting a new Lunar series starting with the 2008 Year of the Mouse. There a some nice 2008 coins out there. I've still got several to go.

Pictures by me.








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I finally received a 2008 US$0.01 in circulation at G.H Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, last Friday, and then same day recevied one at West Palm Beach int'l airport as well!
Still no 08 Euros in Italy or Germany.

and kudos to QXseries for beating me to starting this thread back on Jan 1st. I had started them the last couple of years

Ciao,
AWACS

About a month ago I picked some of the new DE 2008 €2 commems (Hamburg) up at the Bundesbank - those were "technically" my first '08 euros. And yesterday I got one of those as change at a gas station in Neuss - "practically" the first one.

Christian

So have any banks gotten rolls of anything besides the PD's? Mine are always behind the times so I haven't exactly checked recently.

And thus those were my first '08 coins also Das ist gut!

Have to get one of those for little miss.

Received my first 08...three of these the other day....



looks ok, I guess but not a favorite.

The only 2008 coin I have seen so far is a 2008 d Lincoln memorial that a kind e**y seller send to me as a free gift for ordering coins from him.

Corky

I have the new Presidential Dollar and State Quarter. No other 2008s yet

I think I'm cookoo for kookas after that beauty.

Got my first 2008 cent at the grocery store tonight. I also got 2 new $5 bills a the same time.

I got 2 D nickels while I was in Houston 2 weeks back and I got a P Oklahoma quarter yesterday, and it looks quite nice in my plucked from circulation state quarter book.

I need US quarters for coin-operated washing machines and I bought two rolls at a bank.
One roll was all new 2008 Oklahoma state quarters.

Malta euro set 2008 in special folder Numismata Munich 2008 (it was available only 1 set per entrance ticket at a price of 5 euro). Past years they gave a small set of San Marino 1, 2 and 5 eurocents in the ticket price.

The new UK coins have been revealed... you can see them over here.