Now M is getting rather presumptuous.

Nothing like old gold to warm the heart, I thought on that one, it is a beaut and would be my oldest USA gold, but my other current pursuits are taking up so much time and research.

This morning the mailman left me these little beauties!

A gorgeous 1851 Cent





A quite nice 2 Cent piece 1864





And this little coin of Ceylon, 19th Century...





Okay I did get some others but I haven't got time to photograph everything!

I love the original toning on the 2 centers

Got these in the mail last week!

Great mail day folks. WOW!

The "mailman" didnt bring it, they kept trying to deliver when no one home, but it finally found its way home.

All these days without mail are going to turn me into a conspiracy theorist

Maybe you need to start winning some contests.

Advertisements for a roll-around scooter and a Senior Citizens home. Are they trying to tell me something?

Jtryka--that 1819 half is very nice! Great detail offset by the patina.

Here's a half that was delivered here today: the 1948 50c (Canada)
Only 37,784 were minted (per Charlton catalogue), and it was a great deal!

Not the best shot through the ICCS holder (MS 62):

That's a great '48 half.

Thanks...it does have that common problem of this series where detail in the crown is lost due to the obverse portrait, but I have no real complaints.

Kurt that is a fine looking coin. When I seen it I just said beautiful.

1794 Hastings Halfpenny Token:

Nice tommy

Yesterday's mail contained a very nice Christmas card complete with a mini-collection of Canadian cents from Izzy. Hey thanks Izzy I think I'll have to do something with my Canadian stuff this coming year. Maybe 2x2s or even an album or two.

A beautiful Austrian;





This is just such a stirring banknote.
Also a lovely Canadian, two Portuguese ladies, two Irish ladies, two Hong Kong ladies, one from Romania, and one from Laos.

Those are great looking I have never been into collecting Banknotes But those are beauties

today i got 1967 canadian proof set from a secret santa!!! woot! my first set from canada!!!

An ANA membership.

Gosh she is a beautiful lady. You are very fortunate to have such a great picture of her.
Do you ever wonder who she was?

Corky

Today I received, 1960, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1990 U.S. proof sets.

Yesterday I received 40 different uncirculated rolls of Lincoln mems, and one roll of 64 p uncirc Jeffs.

This has been a good week!

Corky

wow sounds like a very good week!!!

P.S.

Oh, and I got two star notes in change at the bank when I cashed a check today.
G03631903* and G03111510*... and to think I thought I would never find anymore.

Corky

(((1967 canadian proof set from a secret santa!!!)))

Wow! You are one lucky dude Dustin!
Hmmmm... wonder where my secret santa is vacationing?

Corky

Well, I had seen according to USPS that it had been delivered on Thursday, but the cruddy campus mail system didn't get it to me til tonight. I told them they had it and they said they didnt. Then suddenly I open my mailbox later and BAM tons of mail that had been here for a few days. Great service... can't wait to leave them.

Anywho, the new addition from Heritage will be in my thread

Enjoy

2 1/2 shillings coin from Biafra, when it tried to separate from Nigeria. These coins are hard to find, although notes seem to be plentiful. I hunted this particular denomination down for the leopard depicted on it. I collect coins with cats on them. I'm quite proud of this newest addition!

Congrats. I had no idea about this little country-wannabe.

Great coin. I hope you enjoy it. I've seen the Biafra shillings before. There was one at last year's Ocala show that I wanted to buy but the dealer had already sold it and was holding on to it for the buyer. Turns out to be a good buddy of mine that bought it. AND it was a steal.

I got this a few days ago for my Peace set.

1923-S?

The UPS guy brought me some coin reference books. A whole box full.
1. 'A Quick Reference to the Top Lincoln Cent Die Varieties' by Wagnon, Peterson and Flynn.
2. 'The Lincoln Cent Doubled Die' by John A. Wexler
3. 'Reprints' by Joja Jemz.
4. 'Over Mintmarks and Hot Repunched Mintmarks' by Flynn and Wexler.
5. 'The Jefferson Nickel RPM Book, Update 2001-2002' by James Wiles.

Of course, my hubby doesn't yet know this is a very late or very early Christmas present from him.

Corky

Yes, it is a 23-S, I have a 23-D and 34-D on the way. But at least I got this in the mail today:

Nothing but some loser ad from some third world mint that took it's website down last Tuesday when they expected it would crash due to orders. What a bunch of idiots, who the hay do these Kazakhstanians, whoops I mean US Mint think they are?

Tuition bills from USC. Plus property taxes due...
And the new 2008 Redbook!

Awaiting a 1740 Swiss 1/4 Taler from Canton Basel in extremely nice condition...

My latest purchase. I know at least one CP that will like this.

1830 CAPPED BUST HALF DOLLAR (Lettered Edge) (O-111, R.2.) (Ex. Jules Reiver Collection) AU-58

Hmm, I smell a future PCI entry

You are right. There IS at least one. I always enjoy seeing Jules' old coins in the hands of collectors.

Edit to add: And so would have he.

gpnyc... thats a stone cold killer of a coin.

make that at least TWO CPs

Heck, common date...1830s are a dime a dozen, especially with tarnish like that! Of course you know I'll give you dibs if I ever decide to part with my O-118.

I was hoping that a couple of Swiss Misses would be coming my way today, but alas I wait....Oh the impatience of waiting.

I got this one in the mail today for my Peace set:




And these a few days ago from a trade with Marvin (I never noticed till I took the pics that these have a medal allignment). I really like the Thuringen design on the lower left.

Nice Peace, jtryka. I think the 34-D is one of the last 3 I need.

Well, "medal" and "coin" alignment are American terms that would not make much sense in many other countries. Every German coin has this parallel alignment, and pretty much every euro coin regardless of the issuing country. Actually I don't think there are many European countries that use the inverse alignment. As for Asia and Africa, I would have to look that up, but I suspect not many have it.

Yes, the Elisabeth von Thüringen (Elizabeth of Hungary) is a very nice design. Wilhelm Busch is OK too, especially the woodcut style background. The Saarland coin ... the theme design is fairly dull, and the federal eagle seems to suffer from an electric shock.

Christian

Oh, Christian, compared to the federal eagle of the "50 years of German television"- commemorative, this suffering federal eagle is quite a very attractive one, huh?

Nothing that I know of, I didn't feel like driving into town to see if I have any goodies.

Well, if you have a television coin with a blank screen, why not have a "solid" eagle that cannot fly? The eagle on the Philipp Melanchthon (1997) coin for example http://www.eurocollections.com/images/image.php?image=1828 was pretty bad too.

And to be on-topic: Got a couple of Polish 2 zl commems ... except that I already had the ones from the "coins on coins" series. The others are neat additions to my collection. Too bad they have so many issues per year.

Christian

The mailman was kind to me the last couple days:




And a new addition for my Type 2 Liberty set: