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Are you talking about a Swedish 5 Ore? I don't think the Danish had ore coinage out at that time.

Actually I think towards the end of his reign he did restore the monarchy to a certain extent but I would certainly not consider the period of his rule as "monarchy"

Did the lady know what she was selling?

It's a shame they didn't go with Peddle's design... it looks more historically accurate and is more artistically pleasing to the eye than Barber's edition

There should a coin version of a Razzy (the awards given out every year for the worst movies that coincides with the Oscars) that would be just as entertaining. Top of my list is anything produced by the likes of the Franklin Mint for countries like Liberia or Somalia. I actually saw guitar- and motorcycle-shaped coins that had Somalia on it... talk about trashy. We could basically take the same categories used for the Coin of the Year and flip it for the worst coins.

Sorry I should've added that clarification... yes you are correct. The small cent I am using is the pre-1982 95% copper cent; the dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars are all pre-1964 90% silver weights; and the nickel is the non-silver 20th century variety, which I believe is the same weight. In other words, the weight reference is more in line with the kind of coins we are collecting rather than handling on a daily basis.

Hey everyone One set of coins I have been intrigued by of late has been pre-1950 Danish territorial coins for Iceland, Greenland, the Faeroe Islands, and the Danish West Indies among others (and I'm sure I might be missing a few). The Greenland ore coins from the 1920s have a polar bear on them. I am wondering if anyone here has coins from these areas?

I got to print this out for my own library

that is awesome!

That's what I was thinking... its easy to determine or guestimate a coin size when you are getting it from a store but it is a little difficult to fully grasp the size if you are buying it off the internet and are trying to look it up online. For instance I know my Guernsey 4 Doubles I just bought is a little larger than a standard US quarter.

I have been trying to get in on those South American dimes for a while. As it stands the only silver coin I have from South America is a 1936 Venezuelan Bolivar.

Hey there everyone This is something I did a while back to help me gauge coin sizes in terms of diameter, thickness, and weight. What I did was take the standard sizes of US small cents, dimes, nickels, quarters, half dollars, and large dollars. Here's what I got: Small Cent Diameter: 19.05 mm Thickness: 1.55 mm Weight: 3.11 g Dimes Diameter: 17.91 mm Thickness: 1.35 mm Weight: 2.5 g Nickels Diameter: 21.21 mm Thickness: 1.95 mm Weight: 5 g Quarters Diameter: 24.26 mm Thickness: 1.75 mm Weight: 6 g Half Dollars Diameter: 30.61 mm Thickness: 2.15 mm Weight: 11.5 g Large Dollars Diameter: 38.1 mm Thickness: 3.1 mm Weight: 26.73 g

The 1964 quarter is 80% silver too btw

btw I would take a magnet to the 1968 Canadian quarter... if it is not magnetic, it is half silver. Halfway thru that year they switched silver to non-silver coinage w/ no identifying marks differentiating them

Ok I think most of the stuff has been answered but would like to follow up on some unanswered points: The 1858 dime would be (or rather SHOULD be) a seated liberty dime and given your description it would be what is known as a cull. Its still cool tho and has silver value so I would hang onto that. The 1916 Barber dime and the 1939 Mercury are also great old coins with 90% silver in them (ppl will buy them as investments or as collector items depending on condition but there is always a market for them). Indian head pennies are also cool coins to have and could range anywhere from roughly a dollar up depending on condition, rarity, etc. 100 wheat pennies are worth about a dollar...you might get 2 cents for them and get 2 dollars out of it lol... I will always keep a wheat when I come across one tho so keep em they are awesome The 1851 cent may be your most valuable US coin in there... it is whats known as a Coronet Head Cent and can vary on price depending on condition. I would check on ebay to see what these are selling for to give you a good idea of how much to expect... according to the NGC price guide (which is really more a shot in the dark than anything else but does give good general ideas of value and rarity) the price can vary from $18 from a coin in Good condition upwards to over $2,000 for an uncirculated (which I am betting this coin comes nowhere near). Is this coin well circulated/worn? The Swiss coin is a 20 Rappen and is I believe copper-nickel and rather common.

Here's what I got (using ebay photos):

The value is whatever someone is willing to pay for it

Once I get everything I will photograph... I am actually excited because most of them (with the exception of the US quarter, which is really bought for investment/bullion purposes (and for cheap)) are all XF+

Hey there everyone thought I'd sharee my new purchases for the month from ebay (I get paid once a month with my job and today was payday): 1889 Guernsey 4 Doubles 1920 Ceylon 25 Cents 1293//24 (1898) Turkey 1 Kurush 1944 US 25 Cents I will go to "a place" tomorrow and pick me up an 1870 Canadian dime too. Not exactly the Art quality haul but thats the beuty of this hobby is that you can still get cool stuff for cheap.

I received word from my father that the grab bags he bought from the place in St. Augustine yielded an 1860 half penny, 1837 Belgian 2 centime, 4 Indian heads, an Liberty nickel, an 1865 US 2 cent piece and an 1894 Greek 5 lepta among other things. With coppers like that who cares about silver lol. Not bad for $10 combined. I will photo and send when I get back to Jax.

Ah then in that case I am very familiar with SQL and in fact build the queries on that. You are brave to do the additional research and scan everything... like I said before my primary objective is to keep inventory to avoid duplicates where possible.

I guess you can call me a Luddite but I am not sure what SQL is... I have been using Access now for several years with my jobs and so building dbs with that program comes naturally to me. I have a simple db that is purely data only but it is in three different formats (form, table, and queries) and can not only be exported into Excel or pdf but also into Word. Queries can be set up for multiple fields and date ranges... so say I want to know exactly what Indian Head pennies I have in my collection so as to avoid getting duplicates I can run a query for "United States" "Cent" and "1860-1909" and it will give me a quick printout of everything I have with notes included. Art it might take forever to go thru everything but I think you would quickly find that as you go thru the coins one by one it would be worth your while. I know I have found a rare issues West German coin (believe it was a 2 or 5 Mark) that had a rare mint mark "G" that was actually illegally made by a mint worker and had a really good value to it... that coin would be sitting in a drawer somewhere or given away had I not taken the time and trouble of going thru everything. In my opinion coming from an archival/museum background one of the key components to keeping physical control of a collection is maintaining an accurate and precise inventory of your holdings. In worst case scenarios where theft is involved, you need to be armed with information to provide the police. I also make sure my family/next-of-kin is aware of what I'm doing so if I were to drop dead tomorrow they would know exactly what I have, where to locate it, and some basic idea of what to expect for it. Most of us who have been into coin collecting can spot good coins, have an idea of their value, rarity, etc. but most of us myself included have next-of-kin family members with zero idea about values or what to expect.

ps I don't sell coins for profit but rather to reinvest into the collection... I wanted to get my nephews some silver dollars and was able to sell off some of the stuff from the St. Augustine grab bags (as well as this from this hoard) to get together enough to buy two silver dollars.