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Color is off due to lighting for some reason true color is the following of the obverse And when they combined with another store in town. It was a nice find to get four in one bulk buy.

Never fails I know the feeling as it has happened a couple of times when I have stopped collecting something!

It does sound like a government issued medal by the politico's!

An interesting Canadian Confederation from Ontario This side is interesting from the materials listed that it made of. I'm sure the precious metals are just a hint.

with name like that the food might have been of an interesting nature!

Two Utah tax tokens emergency relief fund/sales tax

Here is some of the tokens that I picked up at the Local Coin shop this week end. The first is an adult peep show token The obverse has been photo shopped for posting in a general forum. the second one is the generic heads you win/tails you loose. Again I have photo shopped parts out

The dies are made new, from raw stock not reused worn damaged dies are cancelled damaged so they can't be re done and used again. Scrapped they are not used for years. Thier life span of useful minting is short at the rate they are used to upto 750 coins per minute. http://federalnewsradio.com/technology/2014/08/saving-money-by-making-money-one-engineers-quest-saves-millions-at-the-us-mint/ The above should help some. You cant be mixing the physical of making dies with your metaphysical vibrations mumbo jumbo that has no bearing on the steps used in the making of coins. Do a goolge search for the tv program modern marvels they did one on the mints process of die and coin production.

Thanks, I guess the consensus is they are grease strikes and just pocket change. Grease gets between the blank and die.

This is the other one, under magnification it looks to be after the first one as this one has the rter in quarter and dolla in dollar appear to be some what flattened out. My mother had these and I would assume that they were found at the same time/roll possibly. Due to her current health issues she isn't able to answer.

Have come across two bi-centennial quarters that have the same melting drum is this a truely an error and what type would it be called? This is a regular quarter. This is the melting drum, both are in the same shape and location. I am only posting one of the pics

Ok not in a hurry as have to sort as time permits, along with other more important things that need to be done before snow falls !

My dad liked shiny things I guess from the number of newspaper coinage items he bought! He would buy multiples of themone for each of the grad kids and one for them and for me and wifey. Here is one that I have some questions on. all of them are equally poor in paint dye job! Since we don't have a PM forum I thought I would ask here. 1. Cleaning the colorizing off and removing the gold tone? 2. Has anybody done it and what did you use? I understand that it can be sold as is, but I don't know how many buyers there would be for them.

As most known I'm not a coin collector, but a token and medal collector. Going thu my parents stash they really weren't collectors or hobbyists as the members of this forum. My mother never meet a statehood quarter she didn't like. Neither the blue and red books, with the mintage numbers and prices could convince her that they will more than likely be worth more than a quarter. and that there are plenty of rolled from mint out there tht uncirc. wil probably never get above .30. I have started to go thru the hoard as it were. Mostly newer coinage that have been rolled and turned in to the bank to put back in circ. My 3 part question is. 1. From 1964 on back for quarters washigton and standing lib's are there any that I should be on the look out for that are in good condition? 2. Also nickles both jeff's and buffalo's 3. Also dimes, pre 1964 rosie's and merc's Mostly the important dates, along with pre war nickles or any other things that woud make them worth ore than face value? Thanks in advance.

Time waits for no man or women! and it seems to move at a faster pace the older you get.

Will take the info into consideration and probably offer them on here first, Will check out flea bay and see what they are bringing. Thanks

Having a number of the standard blue tri folders for coins, and making plans to sell them and items inside. Since I am not a coin collector and have no desire to be come one I will stick with tokens/medals/exonumia. What is the best way to dispose of them? Remove the coins and then sell them? Sell them in the ablums? Put the coins in 2x2's and then sell them?

Nope, not when you have a daughter that is a bicenntennial baby and you have a 2+yr old grandson! . But than again the body tends to remind you when you try to do something, it doesn't want to do

Here are some of the first day covers for the bicentennial with the medallions that were in them, There also is a plastic token on the other end of the envelope. Thomas Jefferson Paul Revere John Adams Daniel Adams Patrick Henry Boston Tea Party

It is a very old American Indian and even older symbol for good luck. of course the context changed and could be one of the first politically correct changes of use of word or symbols.Not that the useage of it for the 3rd riech did warrent it! Here is a site dealing with tokens that use them back for that dark time, and thier history. Good Luck Tokens with Swastikas

Well this is the last item that was included in the very large penny swap for exonumia. It was a nice surprise as when he had posted it asking what it was. And was told that it is a old coke advertising good luck charm key/watch fob. I have a couple of Bicentennial first day covers that I haven't posted. But the hunt for new,different and interesting items will have to resume.

Well other than a couple of the same ones on flea bay and one 0on a site selling cereal prizes I could only come up with 3 other than mine, and it appers that there are numerous colors, gold,silver green, blue and one that the picture was so poor the color can't be figured out. Egypt, Paris,Venice I think along with one that I can't figure out the country from the outline. Will keep eyes open. They didn't say how many or where in the blog of may 17,2014 just that they were offered In 1998, Lucky traveled around the world and offered coins featuring world landmarks as well as a passport and travel kit.

My kids must not have noticed the Chrams coins, will have to check them out and see how many different one were produced. Have a couple more FDC with medals that weren't part of the swap will post after the swap is done.