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  1. Skipping 1940 and moving on to 1939:
  2. Especially in 1820, great portrait by Pistrucci, but ugly person.
  3. Let us not forget the play-doh princess, Queen Isabella II of Spain on her 1850s issues where she had no chin.
  4. Stop picking on poor old Winnie. Good grief, Queen Victoria had the unique distinction of being both on the loveliest with the Gothic crown and then later on with the jubilee issue from 1887-1890, the butt ugliest crown.
  5. I convinced my credit unions that that activity was a waste of talented minds. One of the young and blonde tellers still goes through some of the rolls herself - she said she was "bored" and wanted something to do. And then she handed me her finds, early wheat cents. I suggested she should collect them herself - since they can be a perk of the job.
  6. The crud is probably what got it rejected from the machine. In fact it saved it from having to be circulated more. Poor old 81 year old codger can finally retire.
  7. Otherwise when they get accumulations of coins they have to break up the rolls and bag them and send them off to Brinks - time consuming, not to mention that it cost the credit union to send the coins to Brinks. They take in more rolls from commercial customers than they give out - resulting in an overage. Some of the credit unions I am a member of do NOT have coin machines - so the tellers have to deal with the rolls. If they can get rid of them without having to break them open and bag them they are just pleased as punch.
  8. Credit unions filling up my voicemail like nobodies business. Just don't feel like searching coins until Monday or so. Maybe.
  9. A ridiculously large search when one of my supplying credit unions got dumped on apparently yesterday. 26 March $300 CWR 10c 1 1962-D 1 1998-P struck with two misaligned dies, so both reverse and obverse are out of alignment - first error I have ever found in dimes. $200 bank bag of 5c 27 40s dates 5 40s and 50s S mints 1 1945-D Silver - Denver minted coins are always nice to find, I would estimate I find one of them for every 35-40 S and P mints. 3 cents masquerading as nickels. $150 - in three bank bags of $50 each in cents - 15,000 coins! 5 pre-41 wheats, 18, 25-D, 27, 34, 39 39 40s and 50s dated wheats 5 S mint wheats, 42, 44, 47(x2) and '49 - the latter one is MS-60 - dark red example. 2 BU 50+ year old coins, 59-D, and 64-D 2 Canada GVI, 42, 43 1 Canada YH, 1964 - bright red BU 25 Canada YH 1 Dime masquerading as a cent. 22,000 coins examined in one day! This search actually created a backlog for searching - have a couple of more places to visit later today but not really that ambitious to search again so soon.
  10. I wish they would do more off metal strikes, like all the coins in silver, or gold etc. Even the cent in 95% copper like the 2009 would be nice.
  11. Best bought in the west, where prices are cheaper and it is legal to remove 50+ year old antiques from the country.
  12. This is from Montenegro, which was then a principality independent of Ottoman Empire.
  13. It took me three years of heavy searching of cents to find an IHC. In the past three months I have gotten four of the little darlings - even from customer wrapped rolls. It is sort of like playing a slot machine - you cannot predict what is going to happen really, but unlike a slot machine it is a gamble that is a lot cheaper and has lasting thrills. I have all my significant finds in little coin books - need to count how many 100+ year old Lincolns and IHC's I have sometime.
  14. 25 March Credit Union $30 CWR 50c - no silver, but solid BU bicentennial halves that I won't keep $100 CWR 10c zilch $18 CWR 5c 1 '48-S 1 40s dated coin 2 Canada 65-81 $50 CWR 1c 16 40s and 50s wheats 5 68-74 S 2 dimes 4 Canada GVI - 42, 44, 47, and 47ML 7 Canada YH 3 Canada '67 25 March - another credit union: $330 CWR 10c - zilch, zip and nada $70 CWR 5c 2 S mints, '47 and '54 7 40s dated coins 1 '45-P Silver 2 Canada YH, 12 sided 1 Canada 65-81 $10 in CWR 1c 2 40s and 50s wheats 2 YH All in all a blah blah day at least I got the war nickel.
  15. I have an 1884 Morgan that is enclosed in a large ring that is on my key ring. I got it for melt at a pawn shop a few years ago. Alternately my zipper pull is a 1992 Ukrainian 25 kopek that I got in change in Ukraine a few years ago - it already had a hole on it like it had been worn already so I put a loop in it and use it as a zipper pull on my jacket.
  16. NBU does design and print it's own notes currently - not sure what those G+D notes are or if they are even real ideas for notes to be printed in the future. Here is a test note I bought in Kyiv a few years ago: This is printed by NBU in secure facility in Kyiv. In the first years ie 1992, coins were minted in Luhans'k, but now they are also minted in Kyiv.
  17. 24 March A credit union that I last visited on the 14th. $140 CWR 50c 1 1966 Silver 40% $300 CWR 10c 1 1960-D Silver 1 2002 UK 5p $40 CWR 5c 1 1939 2 S Mints - '47 and '53 4 40s dated coins 1 1942 S Silver War Nickel $30 CWR 1c 2 47 and '54-S mints 7 40s and 50s wheats 5 68-74 S mints 1 dime 4 Canada GVI, '42 '45 '47-ML '51 5 Canada YH The halves were ones they have had previously and I passed on even last time - they said they believed they had been searched by the depositor that brought them to the bank. Well they must have missed the '66.
  18. But here I did find something over a 100 years old that is grody to the max:
  19. This really is discriminatory to older coins - there just aren't a whole lot of them that can compete on a level playing field with the obscene amount of garbage being cranked out by the US mint on a daily basis.
  20. Most of the presidential dollars and a disparaging number of the First Spouse series are automatic qualifiers. Some recent commems like the Ben Franklin dollar qualify based on the WTH were they thinking - ie make it as ugly as possible. Of the presidential dollars - the only one I got one of was the Lincoln - and only because I collect numismatic items with Lincoln, from the earliest $10 bills issued during his lifetime to that prexibux.
  21. Ah the Intis - I remember for several years there those were our Christmas goodies from Art
  22. 21 March - a bit of a marathon today, lots of financial institutions to visit and coins to search: 1st bank: $10 CWR 50c - zilch, zip nada $15 CWR 1c 1 '58-D wheat 1 '70-S mint 1 Canada YH 2nd bank: - the bank where boxes of coins are not "officially" sold to non-commercial customers, but boxes of candy buy off the tellers: $100 box of BWR 5c 1 '41-S 9 40s dated coins 1 Canada YH, 1963 1 Bermuda 5c 1983 $25 box of BWR 1c 1 1928 13 40s and 50s dated wheats 1 '70-S memorial 1 Canada GVI, 1943 5 Canada YH 1 Canada '67 3rd bank: $250 Box of BWR 10c 2 1956-D, 1960 Silver - not bad to find two silver in a box of BWR - usually 1 is the norm. $100 Box of BWR 5c 1 '41-S 7 40s - this box sort of stunk. $25 Box of BWR 1c 2 1934-D, 1936 1 '50-S 12 40s and 50s dated wheats 1 1960 in BU - a very pretty 54 year old coin 3 68-74-S memorials 5 Canada YH 1 Canada '67 4th Bank - where I cash in the coins to deposit into my account, and they don't charge for coin counting - A bit of a story here now - one of the younger tellers has a habit of saving stuff and showing me but won't sell to me because she is a bit of a collector. We have been bickering back and forth about her having to sell me the stuff that comes in. She found a Series 1957 SC $1 and a Series 1928-G $2 this week and showed them to me. So I conjured up a deal and sweetened it with crisp uncirculated Series 1957 SC star note and a Series 1953 $2 in EF that I sold her for face value - but she had to agree that she could keep all old bills that come in, but she will sell me all the good coins for face value. After paying me the $3 for the paper money she went on a hunt through the bank for stuff I might want and dug up a 1965 Kennedy half in EF that I bought for 50 cents. 5th bank, where I also cash in coins - had a long talk with the tellers there, about my reward programmes, you know, baseball tickets, hockey tickets, gift cards, candy etc. Hopefully this will convince them to sell to me instead of my competitors. They have my number.
  23. Scotland - James IV plack, possibly a contemporary counterfeit.
  24. Nice for a EF-40. I don't really care for slabs myself, but sometime I want to find a decent ACG slab just for chits and giggles.
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