Conder101

<< I cannot count the number of people I've met, many at the local coin club, who started with Statehood Quarters >> Now how many of them would have been there if the state quarter series had been struck just for collectors and not circulated? Because that is in effect what is going to happen with the presidential dollars. A long four coin per year series that no one is going to see because they won't circulate and after the first year or so will be struck strictly for sale to collectors. The mint has a 3 1/2 year supply of dollars on hand right now. After the first year of the president dollars they'll have a TEN year or more supply on hand. So what happens the second year? Roll sets and bags for collectors, just like they do the Sac dollars now. UNLESS they discontinue the dollar note. Then they will be able to move the inventory and the presidentail dollar series will probably be as successful as the state quarters.

Well considering he is located in Austria and most of the people he will be selling to speak German, why should he translate it to english? I don't see anything on this site that translates it into German.

< On the other hand, 20 ton hydrolic shop presses can be had for less than $200... it ought to be possible to adapt one of those to press a coin. > Consider this, the smallest US coins, the cent and dime, are struck at 40 tons. Silver dollar or silver round size is around 140 tons.

In Liquid Nitrogen I could see a zincoln cent shattering but I would be a bit surprised if a bronze one did. I also would not expect a silver or gold coin to shatter either. (I wonder if clad coins might seperate layers due to shear tensions setup by different rates of contraction.?)

It is possible to get good tea here in the states, but you won't find it in a resturant. You have to locate a good coffee shop, and I don't mean Starbucks. were you can buy some good imported teas. Of course it's imported from England.

Draped bust large cents by die variety English Conder tokens that were actually issued to circulate as money Third party certification slabs/certificates by variety The world sice 1860 by type, no gold or NCLT. German snd French metal notgeld coins by Lamb number.

In the past couple weeks I've picked up United States Large Cents 1840 - 1857 by Grellman Notes on 18th century Tokens by Waters Commercial Coins 1787 - 1804 by Bell and a 2006 Redbook

Some of those Shropshire Coalbrookdale inclined plane tokens are not common at ALL. There are ten differnt varieties with a total mintage of only 309,000 pieces. I still need D&H 6, 7, 8, and 11. D&H 7, 8, and 11 are RR, 6 is only R.

It is rust. Unlike our current plated cents which are punched from the strip and then plated, the steel cent strip was plated BEFORE the blanks were punched from it so only the obv and rev faces were plated with zinc. The edges were smply raw mild steel and subject to rusting.

< over 1.5 million of these were struck and ready for public release before ultimately being rejected. > This 1.5 million were not intended for circulation. They were a test run to see how well the equipment would handle an actual production run. Something not widely known is that the 1974 Aluminum cents were actually struck in mid 1973. < that only leaves the 64 Peace Dollar to surface and all of the Modern US Mythical Coins will have been realized. > I have another one that almost no one knows about. 2000-S business strike Sac dollar. They never made 2000-S Sacs for circulation, but they did do a production test run of them like they did the 74 Al cents.

< I didn't even know there was such a think as coin notgeld. > Yep, issued by municipalities, private individuals, businesses, transportation companis etc. I collect French coin notgeld, and the German municipal coins (I have over 1,200 different varieties of the German issues by Lamb numbers.) I don't do the paper notgeld at all.

< A while back, I bought my wife some Buffalo Nickel ear rings. I like them but she never wears them! > So get your ears pierced. You'll be a big hit at the next coin show.

Although I have some earlier pieces, and my collection of British Monarchs goes back to 955, for the most part I concentrate on the 1787 - 1807 era.

Started studying numismatics in Nov 1966, began collecting in Feb 1972.

Historically copies have had a long standing in American numismatics, especially among collectors of early copper. In the mid nineteenth century when photography was not very commonplace it was not at all unusual for the owner of a very rare variety to have eletrotypes made for his fellow collectors. It would both provide a "hole filler" until such time as a genuine specimen could be had, or for those were another would 'never' be available, and it would also provide an example that could be used to help identify another specimen. If you discovered a new variety or possible new variety you could send an electro of it off to an expert for confirmation. These contemporary electrotypes are collectible in their own right now and can bring a decent price at auction.