Rabone

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.

5300 for the VF 1794 half that I pictured in the thread on John Reich type sets.  I have crossed the 4 figure mark several times for different Overton varieties.  This past winter I placed my first 5 figure bid on a coin but wasn't lucky enough to win it.  (Or I was lucky enough NOT to win it!)

 

Jim

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!

Well yes, that would be a great price if you could find them all in one place. Unlikely. You may have to hit 2 or 3 or 10 sites/offers to find what you want.

 

The above is an example of some folks I know who ask $8. for the '77 set. They could probably fill alot of dates. Not only are their prices some of the lowest in the biz, but on an auction site they're on has a "make a deal" button. When buying multiple items, I can get as much as 25% off the total. Plus, the shipping won't rise dramatically. This site is where I get alot of errors and medals. BTW, some of the Mint issued medals they have are only a buck. Let me know if you're interested. Also, although it's an auction site, I believe all their stuff says closed, it may be their store on the site.

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.

The battery would probably last for at least some good 7 year span, but yes it's true that eventually the battery will die out and it will leak... which is definately not a brilliant idea... I doubt if the designers actually went that far to think of the consequences.

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

PM Sent

(and some Churchills )

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 probably all think I'm stupid for even bothering, because you all seem like pros to me.

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.

I am also missing several civil war era Missouri banknotes.  I am positive they

are around my computer desk somewhere but the whole thing is such a mess

in there I don't know how or when I will make another attempt to find them.

 

Been missing about a year now.

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.

Century Coins (http://www.centurycoinspittsburgh.com/) is my main source for coins.  Everyone give Eileen's website a visit and recommend it for everyone.  And in the Pittsburgh area stop by, she is a square deal collector/dealer.

Ummmm, there is nothing there at the web site.

No inventory, no pictures.

New web site?

heheh...that's the problem, they all look the same! to me, an album full of morgans looks like the same thing over and over with maybe a different mintmark here and there. i don't find that very exciting.

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.

every one of my notes are of a different design, and the lack of heft and weight means i can store them more easily in a very small space. i have about a thousand notes in my collection so far...and if they were all coins, that would be around a hundred pounds!

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.

heheh, the coin albums alone must take up a library shelf worth of space. 

 

i'm really quite impressed with a lot of the gold coin designs i've seen...but that's currently out of my budget range. the only coins i can afford to actively collect right now would be modern cheaper stuff with less than extravagant designs.

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.

but as i was leaving korea in '98 (for the first time), i noticed a small dealer set up in my hotel lobby. what better souvenir than having a couple sets of north korean specimen notes? i've been a strictly-paper kinda guy ever since. 

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...

Hi-

  I put together a 20th century type set with each coin placed in a Cointoin holder and then the holder and coin placed in a 2 x 2 staple type. Then stored the  2 x 2 in 20 pocket 3-ring binder pages. Absolutely no toning now for 10 years. Hope this might help Rabone.

 

Larry 

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...