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Looks like pretty pure silver for the second one. How debased are the coins you typically come across?

Beautiful toning on the commems and nickel. Great strike on the 1879.

Perhaps there is someone among our ranks who feels so compelled to develop their own guide.

Interesting. I'll have to remember that. How often do they update prices? What are they based on?

Nice. I personally like the Auction Archives at Heritage: http://coins.ha.com/common/auction/pricesr...wse&stage=1 That's been one of the most valuable tools in my collecting. I actually learned about it in the same article I learned about coinpeople.com in.

Wow. What a great resource!

Ahh yes.. Well one of the fellas here had those coins for sale. They were just too beautiful (and a good deal) to pass up! My budget isn't great, so the little funds I do have, I try to use on my U.S. series. But, deep down inside, I do like some world coins!

Brevity is the soul of wit...

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Check out this site: http://www.stellacoinnews.com/index.php/re...y-half-dollars/ It's most of the DLRC reference on Walking Halfs. What a great resource! All for free on the web!

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Jeff, lovely notes as usual. Are you working on a set? I couldn't figure it out based on the sundry notes of your collection.

Thanks, everyone! I forgot to post about one other addition I've made in the last few months: Richter # 1777, Martin # 1060, silver shooting medal, 1898 Albisgütli (Zürich) Cantonal Shoot. Engraved by Fritz Landry, Neuenburg. 26mm, VF+, 3,000 minted My first shooting medal. I've always admired them. When Rod Moore (schutzenfester) opened up his new online store, I just had to have one. This one, luckily, was there! You could not get a US issue as nice as this, as old as this, and as rare as this for such a good price!

Exactly. These type of notes are the type that get one started on collecting. I found a silver certificate many years ago in change. The first time I ever realized old designs existed before our current ones! I've been hooked since! Watch out! You may catch the Bug!

I'm horrible at updating this thread for two reasons: 1) I don't add to my collection that often (every 2-3 months) and 2) my scanner hasn't worked for a while. But I am making an effort to change both of those points! I decided to frequent my local dealer more often in hopes of finding a few nifties for my collections. We also have a new scanner. First, a note on the new scanner. As you'll see, the pics are subpar. Even when my old scanner was operable, I could never get pics I was satisfied with (another reason I didn't post). Why use a scanner? Because I don't have a good set up or a lot of know how on digital photography with my point and shoot camera. Even if I did, I rarely hook my camera up to my computer (i'm a procrastinator). To help solve the issues of scanner/camera set-ups, I'd like to propose a dedicated forum to those questions. Check out my proposal here: http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=26048&hl= I bought a few things since my last update. From memory: - 1911-D Barber dime - XF - for my Barber dime series - maybe another barber dime - maybe a type coin or two that I found interesting - 1935 A North Africa $1 silver certificate STAR note (good for one dollar of silver when redeemed) - signatures of Julian and Morgenthau - yellow seal - Emergency note issued during World War II for use with the Armed Forces in Europe and North Africa. Friedberg # 2306*. Certified Fine 12 by Currency Grading and Authentication, Inc. The population of star notes is not shown but I estimate 500 were issued (the Hawaii star note had 500 issued for 35 million standard notes. North Africa had 27 million standard notes printed.). Despite the rarity and value, it is only a semi-key compared to others in the silver certificate series. Almost all of the 13 notes I'm missing (of a 56 note collection) will require a good deal of luck, patience, and $$$ to add to my collection. Yikes! Bought at summer Baltimore coin show. - 1929 - $10 Federal Reserve Bank Note - Richmond (my hometown) - XF - FR 1860-E. Population 1.36 million. Nothing too special about this. I saw this at my coin dealer (they're stocking some nice currency for once!) when I was looking for something for Elverno for Secret Santa this year. I got him a $20 of the same issue and I got myself the tenner. I thought it was a good deal and I don't have any notes of this type. It's in good shape and, best of all, from Richmond! Now before I get to my recent purchases, here are my 2010 collection goals: I should add "share my new purchases regularly"... Anyway, I dipped into the local store yesterday and found what I hoped to find: 1908 Liberty Head "V" nickel - UNC - mintage: 22.7 million 1912 Liberty Head "V" nickel - XF - mintage: 26.2 million I told you they weren't great pics.... They are additions to my "V nicks in XF+" series. This is probably my favorite series. It is very doable and, with one obvious exception, should be possible on a modest budget. I haven't made much progress because I can never find suitable examples. Rarely do I find any XF or AU coins. They are usually more worn or, if uncirculated, expensive and/or slabbed! Last night, I got out my Barber Dime die varieties book to see if I could diagnose a particular interesting variety for these two new additions. Alas, 1912 has no interesting varieties listed as 1908 was the last year of any possible varieties (the date was struck into the master die starting in 1909). Luckily there were many 1908 varieties listed! I checked them all against my coin and no luck. I looked hard in the denticles and around the digits for any traces of misplacements. Nothing. I set my book down and realized it was a Barber Dime book... DUH. So I went online looking for a good die varieties book for the V nick series. I'm hoping someone can point me towards some. Websites, books, anything. Does anyone know if the following books go into varieties in detail? - Peters, Gloria and Mohon, Cynthia, The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels, DLRC Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 1995. - Wescott, Michael, with Keck, Kendall, The United States Nickel Five-Cent Piece, Bowers and Merena, Wolfeboro, NH, 1991. - A Guide Book of Shield And Liberty Head Nickels: Complete Source For History, Grading, and Prices by Bowers - TREASURE HUNTING LIBERTY HEAD NICKELS/FLYNN & VAN NOTE I did find this OK site: http://www.libertynickels.org/variety.php? It's a better resource than nothing but I'd like to find something as exhaustive as the Flynn book on Barber Dimes. I'll wait a few days to see if anyone has comments about the above books before I set my money down. That's all for now.

I'm starting to really appreciate Canadian coinage. Thanks for sharing!

http://www.libertynickels.org/variety.php? It's a better resource than nothing but I'd like to find something as exhaustive as the Flynn book on Barber Dimes. I'll wait a few days to see if anyone has comments about the above books before I set my money down.

Does anyone know if those references (or any) show die varieties?

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It's notes like this that make me check this thread!

Mark, I suppose the tiny pin holes in older notes are from the bugs in coats and closets. I presume thats what you were referring too. Is this the true reason?

Kidding! I'm just giving you guys a hard time

Less text and more pics!