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I just got David Lange's History of the US Mint, though I admit I didn't purchase it, as it was a prize giveawy from NGC.

The great news is that I got my auction winnings from Stujoe, the nicest "junk" silver I've bought since the 1980s (when you could routinely find barber and seated stuff in the junk silver bins).

The other news is that I got a post card from the mint saying my Marine Corps silver dollar was scheduled to ship between 10/31 and 11/1, and noting that I should ignore whatever it said on the website because the postcard was more accurate.

A postcard from the mint telling me that my Marine Corps commem will be shipping soon....They are referring to the Marine Corps that I received last week.

Mine is still scheduled to ship on Oct. 19!!!

Super FAST Payment as always!

mine is still schedule to ship on 10/26, so maybe by Halloween!

I just checked my order, expected to ship 10/26. Of course the credit card I used is expiring at the end of this month, so who knows whether I will actually get this one.

I got 5 consecutive series 2003A $1 bills today.

If you want to add Liberty Seated quarters and halves to your table, I just put a couple for auction for Hurricane Katrina, FYI.

Modern commemoratives have been restricted to 500,000 strikes, but Treasury Secretary is allowed to increase the total number, which John Snow did for the U.S. Marine Commem. He increased the total number from 500,000 to 600,000.

This rule has really only been in effect since 1993 or 1994 after some of the commem programs got little out of control. Before 1994, there were quite a few coins with mintages over 500,000, including the Bill of Rights, Mount Rushmore, and then you get to the big boys, like the 1990 Ike with 1.1 million proofs, the 88 Olympic with 1.4 million proofs, the 87 Constitution with 2.7 million proofs, and the grandaddy of them all, the 86 Statue of Liberty with 6.4 million proofs! The $5 SOL sold out with a combined production of 500,000 and for a year or two after the sellout, that coin was selling for $500! Now you have things like the 2002 SLC Olympic $5 with a mintage of 5,727 and it's not worth much more than melt! Granted, it is an ugly coin, but come on!

I think this will probably sell out, but of course it won't be the first modern commem to sell out, that honor goes to the 1986 Statue of Liberty half eagle. Of course the 2001 Buffalo dollars were a sellout, and that happened in a matter of days after they came out! Last I checked my unc. Marine Corps dollar was scheduled to ship in October!

I got an envelope chock full of goodies from Tiffibunny! Some mercs and silver quarters from auctions and a bunch of other goodies! Some I will keep, but many of the foreign coins I will give to the kids at my coin club meeting next week! Thanks Tiff!

Yesterday at the gas station I got a 2000-P and 2000-D Sacagawea dollar in change. I didn't even ask for them (and I didn't want them!).

Look at my saint set in my sig line, then look at the empy holes, all of those except the 23-D I have never owned by want to! Besides that I would love a type set of pre-1834 gold, none of which I have ever owned.

Quick Payment, always a pleasure!

Well, it wasn't the mail, but today I went to the local coin show and saw my dealer friend with the box of foreign silver coins that he sells for silver melt value and I found a few interesting coins. I found a 1903 B and 1914 B Swiss 1 Franc coins, and a 1923-S Peace Dollar, and a 1934 Columbian 50 centavos. The Columbian coin is interesting because at that time they pegged the peso to the dollar, so this coin has 12.5g of .900 silver which is the exact metal content of a US half dollar. I never knew about the Columbian peg before today. In the past I usually pick up all the Panamanian Balboas as they are identical to US silver content. All four coins were only $9.70!

I haven't sorted throught the whole thing yet, but there's also 1918-D Walking Liberty Half, 1879-S Morgan, 1897 Barber Quarter, 1897 Barber Dime and a whole slew of stuff.

All that for $32.99??? Man I am missing out!

Very Cool! Congratulations!!! How much did you pay for that lot?

It'll magically become a blank piece of paper.

So no more picture of that guy riding the goose on the back? Wait, that came out wrong...

I like silver dollars, mostly Morgans. I love my $5 Indian the most...even though it is yellow. hehe

Hey! Yellow is the best color, especially if it's a gold coin! I'm glad to hear you got your Indian! Welcome to the wonderful world of GOLD! (Warning: collecting gold is highly addictive and may cause long-term damage to your wallet! )

I mainly collect Saints and US Type, but I also have several sets of modern US coins that I keep up to date.

I'll add it to the list and look tonight.

I believe I might have a few of the less expensive ones, let me check at home tonight, and I'll post what I have tomorrow.

  Some of those would fit right in with my "weird people" collection, esp. that 50. 

I remember going to France in 1995, and my company gave us an envelope with about 2,500 francs for taxis, tolls etc. and one of the notes they gave us was a 500 franc note like the one you have pictured. The only reasons I remember it was that guy has the look on his face that we all had after we spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to fit it in our wallets!

It would depend which 20 kronor note you have. Here is the Bank of Sweden's link. Here is a large view of the soon to be invalid note and a large view of the one that will remain legal tender.

I am pretty sure mine is the invalid one. What can I do with it? Will it self destruct on January 1? I'm sure gald I don't have to worry about this sort of thing in the US!