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want one? I think I have a spare one

or sand paper

ok whenever I run into a glitch, I'll report it, ok?

Here's another one, I got it when trying to post in the "anser a question, ask a question" thread. IPB WARNING [2] mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) (Line: 120 of /ips_kernel/class_db_mysql.php) There appears to be an error with the database. You can try to refresh the page by clicking here. Error Returned mySQL error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) mySQL error code: Date: Wednesday 06th of July 2005 10:14:08 AM We apologise for any inconvenience

NOOOOOOOOO definitely no brush!!!!!!

mine isn't here yet, but since I was one of the last to sign them, I have a fairly good idea what they look like. I think only Sir Sisu and Stujoe signed after me.....

being non-US, that would certainly fool me. I've never seen a $100, so how would I know this one is fake? unless you can feel it immediately......

It was too hard for me.... considering it being in a foreign language for me. Hey, how about if I do one with dutch words????

wow, thanks Bill for the givaway And thanks to the rest for the congrats

I'd like to participate please

I'd love to help you out, AE, but all I have is 1901-present

hmmmmmmm

That's a gorgeous "Palmita", Blackhawk!!

In World War 2, the Netherlands were occupied by the Germans. Since our queen was not recognized as ruler by the Germans, it was not allowed to have portraits of the queen. Obviously, the Dutch people didn't agree with that, but keeping the portraits would bring them in serious trouble. Therefor, many different ways were found to "bypass" the regulations. One of them was to use pre-war coins and convert them to jewelry and utensils. The first items in this thread is a dish made out of Dutch silver coins, partly cut away and then soldered together. They all still carry the portrait of the queen. (It's an awsome dish, 16d, did you see it in real life or just the picture?) Another way is putting coins in charm bracelets, broches, necklaces etc. Many women in The Netherlands still have a necklace or broche with a silver or gold coin in it, given to them by their (grand)mother. I happen to have yet another item: This is a tea or coffee spoon, made out of a half cent and a 2.5 cent, connected to each other by a twisted copper strip. This spoon was made by my late grand father (from my father's side) and given to me when he died. My mother has a similar spoon: This one is made of a "dubbeltje", a silver 10 cent coin and a half gulden, also silver. The metal strip in between is also silver. It's unknown who made this spoon, but it's certain it was not one of my relatives from my mother's side.

Received a 1979 "D" Susan B. Anthony dollar for my type set, as well as a set of 1943 Steel cents, "D", "P" and "S". The "S" will definitely go in my type set, the others may as well, if they're better grade than the ones I already had.

Yeah, I have that one too, just no picture of it

From one Erik to another Eric: Happy birthday!! I wish you all the best, good health and fortune for the rest of your life. I hope you will enjoy your birthday! Erik

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I have a few, some brand new, some a bit older. Here's one: (my own scan) Tiff's got the same one, I think her pic is better:

I've got several british coins that look like that morgan, not really strange as those large bronze pennies circualated soooo long....

btw, those stamps that AEtheling and Dagit showed, I have most of them too

When I was a young kid, like 5 or 6 years old, I was given part of a stamp collection that had been from my father , in his youth. He stopped quite soon, lost interest. The other part was given to my brother. IIn that time I actively colected stamps, getting them off envelopes, trading them with friends, who got them from envelopes, etc. Every now and then (birthday, santa claus) getting packages of stamps. All in all, it didn't cost me, as the stamps all came from envelopes. I also got the colection of a sister of my grandfathers, when she died. I didn't know the woman at all, but the stuff had to be divided amongst the survivors and my grandparents thought it would be neat for me (my brother had already stopped). I was like 8 or 9 at the time. Then, I also started picking cents out of change, to build up a year set, and when that was nearly complete, I started with 5 cents "stuivers" as well. Didn't have much money to spend so started with the small denominations.. At some point, when collection coins became more expensive (I had 1 cent, 5 cent and 10 cent nearly complete and taking 25 cents out of change had a larger impact on my cash flow), the coin collection went into hybernation. The stamp collection did that a few years afterwards, for a similar reason as AEtheling said: the commems. It became impossible to keep up with the PTT to collect all those commems they're issuing: hey the sun shines, let's issue a commem to that. For many years I didn't do much with both collections, other than picking a stamp from an envelope, when it looked neat, or when I found a coin that could fill a hole in my collection. I still have the albums (and cigar cases) with stamps, but I hardly look at them anymore. Coin collection woke up when I started traveling and I took home coins from that country as a souvenir. Then I finished my study and started working so had a lot more money to spend on the coins and I started filling holes in the 25cent, 1 gulden, 2.5 gulden, 5 gulden, 10 gulden and 50 gulden coins. Introduction of the euro also did a lot. Gulden coins becoming much harder to get, made me look for different sources and I discovered Ebay and a dutch auction site. I fould a coin there that intrested me, but I wanted more info on the coin, so I looked it up on internet. One of the highest ranked hits was OmniCoin. There I found a neat picture of the coin I was looking for (i have no idea which coin it was) and also a link to "discussion forum", which brought me here.

And he did One of Colin's famous, no, actually two of his famous auctions that I won arrived: A bunch of 1966 coins and some nice US, German and French cons for my collection, including a US 1945 mercury dime "micro S". And a nice note

bummer, I'm too late