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Collected some when I was a kid and had a paper route in Indianapolis. I remember the big "change" in 1965 and everyone was hording the silver coins. I think they thought it was just a passing thing and the government would come to its senses and go back to silver coinage. When that didn't happen people lost interest and just spent their silver as fiat money. Anyway, I lost interest when I was in high school, then joined the service, started a family, all that. Came back to it in 2000 by collecting the State quarters, got serious about it again in 2003 and started actually "learning" about the hobby instead of just throwing old coins in the cigar box.

5 new numismatic related books from Amazon.com. Three for the library, one for the coin club to use as a give away, and one for me. This time I had ordered Cherrypicking, the guide to varieties.

Oh, 5 figures! Now we are talking some serious money. My wife would just flip. Hell, I think I would be doing some back flips myself.

This was my highest coming in at $238 USD: 1632 Austria Leopold Thaler but recently I took delivery of a 1765 Mexican 8 Reales, and that one is a bit more expensive. I don't have a scan of it handy. FOUND IT! Maybe I can find one tonight and post it later. Here it is, aint' it a beaut!

16D, how about a PM of this dealers web site. Thanks.

Please, Please, Please I pray they do not make this coin. Lord hear our prayer.

Actually, I think the main thought process by these designers was PROFIT.

PM Sent

Churchills

Today the mailman brought to my house: 5 copies of "The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection Edition #2", a PCGS book and some Russian notes that I bought from a dealer at eBay. Love the pre-revolution Russian notes. Very cool looking. I had a good Saturday.

That 1852 is very nice. I like!

You not stupid, and we are not pros. Nope. We are just average people like yourself learning as we go as well. Welcome to the board, and sticking around and just reading and you will learn a thing or two.

and the beat goes on... yeah the beat goes on.

An order of coin collecting supplies... Two gas card bills (damn gas is high) and two coins I won on eBay, a 1922 Peace dollar and an early commem. Both are gifts and will be back in the mail tomorrow.

7 consecutive 2004 new counterfeit measures $20. They were crisp!

#3 is my pick! Love the Stujoe perspective.

Today the postman brought: cable bill... junk mail... junk mail... and my new book on U.S. Type Coins by Q. David Bowers that was sent to me by Art! It is so cool to get things in the mail from other CP members.

No doubt about it, my entire Saturday would be spent cleaning up around, near, under, between and any other area until those Missouri banknotes were found! I would even consider doing a lower GI scope on the cat if I thought it would help find them. Yikes!

I do have a good dealer here in town I frequent. His high end pieces come as expected with high end prices, but you can hold them in your hand and evaluate yourself before you put the money down. I buy from some of the dealers here at CP as well. I get my best deals from some of the users here at CP, the price is always great. (Free) I also use Alaska Coin Exchange as a reliable on-line dealer. Then there is always eBay. Caveat Emptor.

Ummmm, there is nothing there at the web site. No inventory, no pictures. New web site?

I could not agree more there. And you even picked a series that I do not care for. Kennedy halves are another example of when you see a complete, or near complete collection, it is damn boring. Again you do make a good point. Coins do weigh, and they take up space. And if you have been reading the album threads here, you know there are dozens of different ways to try and display these coins, none of them really good in my humble opinion. Ah yes, the shiny yellow coins. Those that have any weight to them come with a really high price tag. I agree with what you said about notes, notes are cool and have great artwork on them. But I keep coming back to that 1632 Austrian thaler, with over an ounce of silver, and hold that weight in my palm, and wonder who in history has also held that precious metal disk. Hard to find 370 year old paper notes to hold.

Ah, but paper has no heft. No weight. No clink when dropped into a pile of like items. Oh to be sure paper is wonderful in its own right, fabulous designs and colors and watermark tricks. Love paper myself. But it is the coins with their size and weight as you cup them in your palm that keeps me going after the precious metals.

The answer has been given. What I was referencing to was that Benjamin Franklin was the first ambassador to France from the young American Republic. That is the reason behind the commem from France on the celebration of his 300th birthday.

Boy SMS, between your problems with local banks not accepting legal tender and your post office, you sure your little local community didn't slip into the twilight zone? Look, Up ahead, a sign...

Larry- Thanks for the advice. Sounds like you too strive to stop the toning effect. I know it is to each his own, but coins that have the circle tone ring around them from being in a old album for years just do not do anything for me. On the other hand, it just might be the thing that lights your fire. And so it goes...