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Nice legal tender! I have one that's probably not quite as nice that I got a few years ago, paying maybe $40 over face. They are neat notes, but my favorite C-note is the 1914 series FRN!

Thanks Mau, the 200 is such a crazy detailed design, so different from the 100 or 500, and they are pretty large as well. Perhaps not as large as the large size American notes, but much larger than the current size note. And yes, very nice deuce captain!

of course being just out of college a couple years, we loved the 100! I remember the 20F with DeBussy they were so common! The 50-franc I hardly remember using, the only thing I remember is that was the only one of the new series we saw, a bright blue Saint-Exupery note! All the rest were the old style with the super thin paper.

Well, I received the last of my old French notes, I now have 2,000 worthless francs! These are the type I used when working in Paris in 1995, so they have some sentimental value I suppose (even though I bought them on eBay!). The 500-franc was always entertaining since we said it looked like Pascal had a migraine from trying to fit the ginormous 500-franc note into his wallet!

Nice report! As for haggling, more often than not I turn it back to the dealer and ask something like, "do you have any room on this price?" or "what's your best price on this one?" That way I don't insult the dealer off the bat. Sometimes you'd be surprised at how narrow the markups are on certain items, and with currency especially being in the tank over the last few months, they might be losing money even with what they were asking. I know that's not your responsibility, but it sure would explain their lack of flexibility!

I agree, I think I have 3 Canadian locomotive coins, this one, one from last year, and one from 2003 I think that was a diesel locomotive with 24k gold accents. Very pretty coins!

I almost forgot, this one came yesterday, the latest addition of my trains on coins collection!

I got this one in the mail today, and it's not "Nordic gold"!

The only ones of the new series I saw there were the 50fr. notes, can't remember who was on them but they were very different! I believe all those are still redeemable for euros until 2012, all the others stopped being redeemably in 2007, as I think they were withdrawn from circulation in 1997. Strange rules these Europeans have! Heck, I got 2 bills from 1995 from the bank today, if I was in France I'd have to worry if they were still legal tender!

The older ones that I used are no longer exchangable, yet they still go for crazy money as a worthless piece of paper! So far I have won 2 of the 200Fr., 1 100Fr. and am bidding on a few of the 500Fr. that end tomorrow. I always liked the 500Fr. since they were huge and had a picture of Pascal looking like he had a serious migraine!

I got a small head $20 from the ATM today, also am working on a set of 100fr. through 500fr. notes of the type I spent when I was last in Paris in 1995, I'll post them when I get them all.

Here is the coin, and definite instructions are in order!

Thanks Art, it had horrible photos but it was in an old NGC fatty slab graded MS-65, so hopefully it turns out well! My uncle was born in 1937 and loved cowboys and Indians, so I couldn't think of a more appropriate coin from his birthyear! I just hope he doesn't take a hacksaw to the slab so he can polish it up with his jeweler's cloth!

Well I did win that Oregon today for my uncle, I'll post photos when it arrives.

There are only a few that I think are pretty from the early ones, and quite frankly the way they did them I find quite annoying from a collector standpoint (how many Oregon Trail halves do I need? they minted them from 1926-39!). This one was just an opportunistic purchase as have been all the others that I have.

Well, I don't know how many Art has, but I have only this one, a BTW and several Columbian halves as far as the classic commems go. Though I am bidding on an Oregon Trail that I'd like to get for my uncle for Christmas! The rest I have are all modern commems.

Got this one in the mail last week:

Nice sawbucks MauMau!

Nice Italian notes, I remember spending those in Rome and Florence in 1995! Always thought the 5000 was the prettiest.

I just got 2 of these in the mail today!

I don't think there is any danger of it being confused with a real 1964 peace dollar, since any that exist are subject to immediate confiscation. Although these are not stamped "copy" they do have a clear identifier in the mintmark, which is doubled, and easily compared with all of these coins as minted. Although there is controversy, I think they are cool, and somewhat of a stick it to the man in that technically they cannot possibly be a fake since they are a restrike of a coin that the government has assured us does not exist! Here is a link to the details including the close up of the mintmark diagnostics (just click the enlarged photos): http://www.dc-coin.com/1grabenercoinpressmedallionsaleprice-1.aspx

Now available is this modern over-strike "1964-D" Peace silver dollar, the most exacting and faithful rendition ever produced. Holding this coin in hand gives the viewer a true sense of what it would be like to own an original 1964-D Peace silver dollar. And since these are over-struck on genuine Peace silver dollars, they have the correct weight (no metal is added or removed), correct metallic content, and correct diameter. Even the number of reeds on the edge (189) is correct. And to top it off, all the over-strikes are privately and painstakingly performed using a surplus Denver Mint coin press ! In an ironic twist, the original 1964 Peace dollars are illegal to own. But this modern fantasy is LEGAL and is not required to carry a "COPY" stamp for the following reasons: 1) These are not copies of Peace silver dollars - they are privately over-struck on GENUINE government-issue Peace silver dollars that were originally minted from 1922-1935. 2) According to the US Treasury, no 1964 Peace silver dollars survived - so this can't be a copy of one since they don't exist. 3) Defacing of US coins is legal so long as the defacement isn't for fraudulent purposes.

There is no "Copy"

I got this one in the mail today:

Thanks for that, looks like an image I saw on wikipedia, so I guess this is not a commemorative. As for the polymer vs. paper cutoff, 100 pesos does not seem high enough, after all that's only $8, and a 200-peso is only $16. Even a 500-peso is worth only $40, so these seem really low to be paper and wearing our quickly. Of course I don't know how they circulate down in Mexico, since the last time I was there they had no polimer notes, and the smallest bill was 2,000 pesos with a value of about 65-cents!