I just got these two in the mail today. The first is a nice Morgan I needed for my AU/BU set in a Dansco that I bought from a member of the NGC forum:



This second one was a nice merc I bought from Blackhawk, I mainly got it because it is my Dad's birth year.

Nice coins. Au/BU Morgans -- that's a serious undertaking. Lots of work to find all of those puppies in the right condition.

I never said it was a quick undertaking! On the first book I have 29 out of 48 and on the second book I have 19 out of 48, needless to say the real expensive ones are still empty holes!

That's got to be a terrific set. Enjoy it.

This one arrived today from eBay:

Nice color on that half!

Wish Ebay would send me something like that, all I get are bills at the end of the month

I picked this one up at a local show yesterday:

Nice 1809 half.

Nice halfs.

Thanks guys! It seems like 1809 is becoming one of those dates that I can't resist when I see them! In my view it is certainly one of the underrated dates in the series, as 8 of the 23 Overton varieties are rated R-5, I just haven't found any of them yet!

Well, it's been a while since I've made an update, so here are some coins I received in the last few weeks. This first one is a 1941 cent I bought from Doogy for a year set for my Dad:




This next one is a German 2-euro commem for 2007 that I traded with Marvin:



This next one is a pile of silver Mexican pesos I bought today at the coin show:



And this last one is a French 100 Fr. Piedfort commemorating the Statue of Liberty centennial, contains almost an ounce of silver which I bought for melt at the show today.

Very nice.

I got these at the coin club meeting on Tuesday night:



Then I won this one in the raffle (not bad for $2 in tickets):

Nice going. Like the Roosevelt dime.

Me too -- WTG!

Got a 2007 BU set of the French euro coins today. While I don't collect those coins "by year" (just by type), I had to get those - like the pieces from most other euro countries, this year's coins from FR have the updated map of Europe on the common sides.

And on Sunday we met friends of us from the US who are currently "touring Europe"; got one of the new $1 circulation coins aka GW Dollars from them. Well, Liberty looks good, but the portrait is not that thrilling ...

Christian

Payment from Bobbycoin for some banknotes
A Czech 10 kcs note purchased at auction as Unc, but it is VF
Set of Paderborn Germany Notgelds, one with the defecating donkey (got two sets by accident, send one back)
A Greek 50 Drachma from 1964 in Uncirculated
A Swedish 50 Krona in Unc, with Jenny Lind on it.

Today I got the Hungarian "Treaty of Rome" coin. It has basically the same design as the coins of the joint €2 commem program but is a 50 forint Cu-Ni piece. The size is roughly the same as that of the €2 coins ...

Christian

This arrived in the mail yesterday, a purchase from an NGC forum member:

Nice $20.

What's going on with the area in front of her nose?

She has a bad gold, whoops, I mean cold.

this is the infamouse runny nose variety! just kidding, it's just a nice big bag mark, but what can I complain about, I paid less than 5% over melt!

A few items for my Signature Set---

2007S Silver Washington State Quarter PF69UC
2001P Vermont State Quarter MS66W

Nothing I am thinking that my Dutch €5 coin went astray

2001-P MS66W .....what's the W stand for if it's a P mint?

White. I don't know why they use that designation other than it indicates a coin with great mint luster and no toning of anykind. (At least that's my understanding of it.).

Well, the mailman actually brought me nothing at all today, but I did pick up these two at a local show:

Nice buys!!

Perfect timing - right on Europe Day (9 May) my set of the "Treaty of Rome" coins got completed.

I also got the 2007 set from Finland. This year's circulation coins are a little different, on either side, from the previous ones: On the reverse they have the new map that most euro countries started using this year; on the obverse a tiny "FI" was added as a country identifier.

Christian

Got a nice big envelope of Mercury dimes from Scotishmoney. Thanks.

I got this in the mail yesterday, my first French specimen set bought from a board member at NGC:

Like those French 50FF coins, nice big heavy coins that feel like money. These had been demonetised for years when I was in Paris in 2000, and you could buy them for melt, even the BU examples so I picked up several of them, and saved the later 100 FF coins from circulation by getting them at banks etc.

Yes, that is a nice coin, my favorite in the set since it's bigger than a silver dollar! I think 1974 was the first year that it was a 50 F coin, as prior to that it was a 10 F coin, and prior to that it was a 5 F coin! When I was in Paris in 1995, the largest coin they had was the 10 F coin, which was a bimetallic. The 5 F, 1 F, 1/2 F, 20c, 10c and 5c coins were all the same as the ones in this set. Of course they also had 2 F coins which were not in this set.

Actually the largest circulating coin was the 100FF, but it was more for show than anything else. The 20FF coin is a trimetallic, but again like the 100FF it was more for show than anything and you had to ask for them. The 2FF coins were first used ca. 1980 or so. I never liked the 2FF coins design, it cheapened the Marianne design of the 1/2FF 1FF and 5FF coins. I think I have a year 2000 set somewhere that has everything from the centime to the 20FF coins in it. I once had the year 2000 gold franc, but I sold it and wisht I hadn't.

I have to agree on the 2 F coin, though I still like the sower design better than anything that's circulated in this country over the last 60 years! I also got a 1992 1F coin that was a commemorative that I thought had a very nice design too. And now from what I've seen, the French euro designs are but an empty shell of what they used to have!

I liked the circulating commems there, I saved the Jean Moulin commems, and the Marie Curie coins whenever I got them. Some of the funniest experiences getting coins there in France was going into banks and asking for rolls of coins, like the 5 centimes, they actually laughed at me for wanting them.

A nilce envelope with some Lincolns and Jeffersons for my Dansco sets.

Well today brought the following

Hindenburg 5RM
1935d
1936a
1936d

Hindenburg 2RM
1937d
1937e
1938b
1938e

I got this one in the mail today from eBay:

I wish eBay would send me something like that, all I ever get is a monthly statement billing my charge card for sellers fees

i just got 20$ worth of wheaties today!!! which almost cost me 100$ ill have more soon i have to buy myself somthing for my bday

Man, and here I am selling mine for 1.25 a roll, lol. If you're looking for bulk wheaties, online can cost so much more than local shops because of shipping. And most won't ship in $9 bulk boxes because they don't have them on hand. I on the otherhand love those things, it's a great way to ship large amounts of anything.

I have 5000 wheats, though thoroughly searched for 14-D's etc. There are early dates in them, like teens and twenties. At some point if I didn't have to ship them at great expense I would like to sell them. I went through them several years ago, and then a couple of months ago my kids had them spilled all over the dining room table looking for pennies for their Whitman folders.

sounds like i need to start ordering from you would your wheaties be rolled up by decade or just 1909-58?

Mine are all common stuff, so it's really only the 30's-58 but there are some stray 20's and maybe a few teens as well. I did separate them into decades in earlier dates and individual dates for later years, so I have a few partial rolls.

When I got them they were obviously searched through for anything highly valuable though, then again any "unsearched" penny hoards have been unless you know exactly who owned them for the last 50 years, lol. My grandpa has about $100 face in rolls of silver coins and wheatbacks, indian heads, morgan dollars and so on in a safe from when he owned a service station that he lost the key for 15-20 years ago, so those I know those at least are unsearched, lol. Someday when he either finds the key, or has it cracked, I know what I'll be doing for a few hours, lol.

Back when I was about 10 or so my Grandfather had a safe full of old coins(he didn't trust banks) My father let me search through them, but being only 10 I really did not appreciate the significance of them and my aunt later took them all to the bank. I remember buying one 1878 Silver Dollar, in bright BU, but the rest of them I left. Now I wonder what I passed over.

my uncle donnie is an extreme collector of guns and coins when he was building his house her puts bags of coins in the wall so no one would steal them of course being almost 17 i didnt belive him so he went and punched a hole in his bedroom wall and there was a rolls of morgans!!! id like to buy his house

I wouldn't dare to punch a hole in a gun collectors bedroom wall

today i got 1911-30s wheates for my book and 88,89,90 and 91 proof lincolns.