QUOTE("Sir Sisu")
:crazed: WOW! Your wife has not only picked up some commems with great designs but some VERY NICE samples!! Hmmmmmmmmmm, think she might adopt me? 
Full Version: Do you collect US commemoratives?
QUOTE("bustchaser")
Well, it's obvious that she has great taste...look who she married.
As for adopting...you may have to wait about 13 years. She still has 39 commems to complete my set.
Jim
QUOTE("Sir Sisu")
Inhertance would suffice for me. :wink:
QUOTE("Stujoe")
Wow, I concur that your wife knows how to pick coins! Does she actually collect?
QUOTE("bustchaser")
No, she spends.
Jim
Jim
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Today's arrival
QUOTE("bustchaser")
I like the Washington/Carver...I think it and the Booker T. Washington both seem to get a bad rap because they came out 15 to 20 years after the big frenzy of the earlier ones.
Jim
Jim
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Picked it up real cheap. I like the toning, could live without the rim knock, but it was really cheap.
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
The first of 2005:
QUOTE("Stujoe")
I haven't popped in this thread in a while. Nice recent purchases. I like that new JM commem too!
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Today's arrival
QUOTE("Art")
That's a nice coin. These used to be dirt cheap. But from what I read the interest in them has picked up considerably.
QUOTE("Art")
The Marshall is really nice. It appears to be very high quality. I'd guess we're talking PF69 / MS69. Of course coming out of the Mint they should be 69/70 grade coins.
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
First Flight Commem Half Dollar.
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
James Madison Bill of Rights Commemorative Half Dollar
QUOTE("Art")
Nice half dollars. I like the half dollar commems as a follow-on to the original commem program. Many people do not realize that most of the original commemorative were Half Dollars.
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Y'know I actually think it's weird that they don't do more halves. We do 2 commems a year why not one dollar and one half?
QUOTE("Art")
Or have a Dollar and a Half for each issue. More options for the collector. Maybe they could do something like Dollar in proof and half in unc and then alternate on each new issue.
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
That would be nice too. I'd go for that.
QUOTE("MoneyGeneral")
i dont collect commemeratives but some are real koool
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
First Flight Uncirculated
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
First Flight Proof Dollar
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Library of Congress Dollar Proof
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
White House Bicentennial Proof Dollar
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Columbus Quincentenary Half Dollar
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
Columbus Quincentenary Dollar
QUOTE("Art")
These are nice commems. You're really building quite a collection.
QUOTE("Tiffibunny")
I owe a lot of it to you. 
Ok, I had to do it. I have something to add here in a minute once I get it into Omnicoin.
I know it's foggy, but I got it as an extra in a large purchase. I absolutely LOVE the eagle on this coin. It's one of the very few Olympic Commems I can handle.
I have an Eisenhower Commemative but other then I have none
QUOTE(Tiffibunny @ Jun 15 2005, 01:28 AM)
I know it's foggy, but I got it as an extra in a large purchase. I absolutely LOVE the eagle on this coin. It's one of the very few Olympic Commems I can handle.
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If you give that guy a bath in acetone and then de-ionized water, you'll get rid of the fog. Just don't rub it - the acetone will leave scratches. Dip it.
Thanks Art. I did buy acetone a while back, never did bring myself to use it.
I think that one is beyond the help acetone could give. I've had a few of those olympic dollars. The eagle is a nice'un indeed.
Hate to tell you, but that dark splotching looks like a job for Tarnex. Don't waste money on that "MS-70" stuff. It's worthless and will leave weird looking tracks on your coins.
Hate to tell you, but that dark splotching looks like a job for Tarnex. Don't waste money on that "MS-70" stuff. It's worthless and will leave weird looking tracks on your coins.
QUOTE(Tiffibunny @ Jun 15 2005, 12:28 AM)
I know it's foggy, but I got it as an extra in a large purchase. I absolutely LOVE the eagle on this coin. It's one of the very few Olympic Commems I can handle.
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What is with the headless, legs cut off naked man and woman on poles?
The original Olympic's were all male events, and yes they participated in the nude, but they had legs and heads! And there were no naked women there. Must be a LA California thing.
I collect primarily modern BU pieces. Here is my most recent acquisition:
1993 World War II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coins
Half, Dollar and Gold $5
1992 Olympic Coins
Now I generally hate Olympic and/or sports coins, but I absolutely love the design of the half. I don't care much about the dollar. Got as a set for my birthday.
Now I generally hate Olympic and/or sports coins, but I absolutely love the design of the half. I don't care much about the dollar. Got as a set for my birthday.
I think it's mighty purdy.
I've been slacking on my thread here...
More beauties. Always liked the commemoratives but alas, I have none left.
i'm a late comer. i started collecting modern commems. i think it's 1988. but i do bought a lot of 1983 to 1987 silver dollars around 1990's. i ended up in 1994. the last modern commem that i bought is 1994. and now i bought some benjamin franklin. but that is on waiting list.
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I likes!
-Bobby
Some new additions to the official "Babydoll Memorial Collection" that I picked up since her death last May...as you can tell, I don't have the eye she did. 
I think it's wonderful that you're continuing the tradition. That's just beautiful.
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