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Roger deWardt Lane spent a great deal of his life to accomplish a collection as well as a detailed documentation of it, which resulted in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SMALL SILVER COINS with sub title Brother can you spare a dime It describes all approximately dime size silver coins from the last 200 years, issued in the whole world. You can find it here: http://www.dewardt.net/brother.html

Indeed, very nice!! At first glance I thought she was wearing glasses.....

Perhaps someone just threw through the cancelling machine to create "rare" items? Not too uncommon, when certain coins are demonetized. Here in NL, after the euro was introduced, we cound / had to hand in our gulden coins, and we would get the corresponding amount of euro's back. Those handed in coins were all cancelled by putting them through a machine that "wafelled" them: That way, the cancelled coins could be sold as scrap metal, without the risk that they would be handed in again.

Nice cents, Art!! Is that a die break on the obverse of the second one, under her chin?

@Wabnoles: SQL is short for "Structured Query Language". It's the language that is used by most database systems to query information from a database. e.g., when I enter the following query: SELECT * FROM coins WHERE country = "United States of America" AND denomination = "1 cent" ORDER BY date it will give me all USA 1 cent coins in my database, ordered by date. And this query can easily be expanded to include more fields I want to select on. You probably use it too, not knowing it's called SQL. I totally agree with you that it's a lot of effort to get your coins entered, but that is't definitely not "lost time". Since I want to add quite some infomration to a coin, I need to do research on my coins and the high resolution pictures I take reveal things I never noticed before.It turns out I happen top have quite some coins with mint errors like die breaks or coins that had partially filled dies. Or I discover varieties I never knew of.

The second coin/token depicts José Marti, who was born in 1853. He is depicted on several Cuban coins, mostly in the 1950's and 1960's. But all those coins have a different reverse, see KM# 26, KM# 27, KM# 28, KM# 30, KM# 31. There is one coin that looks a lot like it, KM# 29, 1 Peso, 1953, but that is silver, not gold. Perhaps yours is guilded by someone? Pictures borrowed from http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/munten/landen/cuba/3177819-cuba-1-peso-1953-centennial-of-jose-marti

I have no experience with Access at all, never used it. The program I'm developing uses SQL underneath, so I can query whatever I like. There's no universal query field yet, where I can neter a query and execute it, but that's on my to do list. Also not present yet, is a way to export things, except to a printer. Exporting is also on my to do list.

Somehow I can't see any pictures here, but do you mean something like this? The Netherlands, 10 cent, 1900? or 1901?, silver 15 mm diameter

wow, those are gorgeous

wow, wasn't that for some contest MANY years ago??????

The Netherlands 1837 cent: Diameter 22 mm Weight 3.845 g (originally....) Mintage 5,202,040 Mint mark Caduceus Privy mark Torch Minted from 1817 to 1837 Minted by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt Designer C. van der Kellen sr.

USA 1837 cent:

My favorite coins are coins with a classic design, with e.g. a portrait of a ruler at one side and a nice coat of arms at the other side. Preferrable in a larger size, say 30 mm diamter and larger. A gothic florin is a very good example of what I mean: Or actually most larger pre decimal UK coins and coins from other countries from that era.

Ugh, tough decision...... The're both beautiful..... But, being a coin collector, I went for the coin.....sorry medal....

I've added a number of things to my database program: I now also store: - Thickness - Shape - whether a coin is a bimetal or not I will soon add a field for "alignment" The new fiels required small modifications in the edit screen and in the main screen, and I now also display the flag and Coat of Arms of a country.

Small correction : that coin was issued after queen Beatrix announced her abdication, and before the "inauguration" of Willem-Alexander. Therefore, it's "Queen Beatrix and Prince Willem-Alexander". That's also why her portrait is on top and his is behind hers. The legend says (translated) : "Beatrix, queen of the Netherlands 2013 Willem-Alexander prince of Orange" and the date January 28, which was the day that the abdication was announced. The first coin with King Willem-Alexander is already issued, it's a 10 Euro commem, see http://www.herdenkingsmunt.nl/het-koningstientje-2013/nl/product/27/

The new 5 euro note, from the ATM, in crisp UNC condition. And last week I got an "old" one, also in crisp UNC conditon. Both are stashed away now, no longer circulating

It looks like a 1922 United States dollar, usually called "Peace" dollar.

Thanks CCG, that would make sense, looking at the composition, diameter and thickness.

Here's mine. You can recognize a bit on the obverse, the hair net of Queen Juliana. the reverse is all gone. What is visible are imprints from irregularities in the surface of the track or the wheel. I do not remember which side was up when I put it on the track (was in the first half of the 1980's).

Thanks Lostwords. When digging up info, I run into a conflict between two sources of info: Regarding Canadian large cents, (KM# 1, KM# 7, KM# 8 KM# 15 and KM# 21), my two Krause catalogs all list them to have a weight of 3.2400 g. The Numista website however lists them all as 5.67 g, I do not have access to a scale that can measure these small weights, so if anyone can shed some light as to which source is correct (if any).... Since my 2004 Krause also lists the smaller cents (KM# 28 and newer) also at 3.2400 g, I assume Krause is off regarding the large sents....

Yeah, could very well be. I have a Dutch "stuiver" (5 cent coin, pre euro) somewhere that I put on rail track long ago, looks kinda similar.

ok

Yeah, when looking at the list of quarters I posted, it seems that almost anything allows them to issue a commem, in variations clad, silver, gold, proof, colored, etc....