Scottishmoney

Demi Franc, Franc and Deux Francs from France, thanks Blackhawk.

Merci beaucoup pour les monnaies Francaise de la XXeme. Very happy with my French silver coins from the 1918 era. Great seller, have bought from repeatedly, and always pleased.

Interesting linen bag from the Royal Canadian Mint, dated 1963 it held $60 worth of Canadian cents that year. I wonder why $60 and not $50, unless the Canadians just wanted to be different eh? Also an early 1960's Federal Reserve Bank bag from the FRB in Chicago. No, I don't collect these, they have uses, like storing bulk lots of British pennies etc.

I got a 1918 from a Chevron in California once, I think it is my earliest coin ever from circulation. On that trip, about 2 weeks, I came back with several early Jeffersons, a silver dime, and several wheaties. I worked for Chevron for 7 yrs so I think they owed me

Well today my daughter got a very convincing 1847 counterfeit Seated Liberty Dollar, and a 1917 USA One Dollar bill, she is on cloud ten right now. She still can't believe the USA made such large dollar bills.

Hopefully tomorrows mail run brings a package from unclebobo, and an envelope from tiffybunny. Those are my daughters allowance for last week. She is getting antsy for them already.

Done well with wheats this week, a 1947 again, and 1951. The 1951 actually was handed to me with the rest of a payment from a customer, I saw the wheat stalks when it was in the customers hand.

Maybe it was the colour that was the problem

Nice banner.

Okay, this is lame, but I found a 2005 Bufferson in the washing machine a few minutes ago. I don't see many of them, and am glad for the donation:)

Two Dutch 5 Euro coins from Trantor_3, one for the daughterly one, and another for our Adoption Fund Auction.

Even my 10 yr old daughter has bought a few of the USA Morgans.

I have never owned a 20¢ piece, or a shield nickel Of course I have never owned a Bust Dollar, or the early gold, but at least I have had one example of most everything else.

I have every Mercury Dime in a Whitman folder except the infernal '16-D It is the closest I come to a complete set of anything.

I think one of the curious features of the later date half cents is the fact that they very rarely circulated when they were minted.

Nothing. Zip. Nada. No Ukrainian CD's no 5 Euros from Trantor_3 nothing, nyelza.

Some is getting goosed on the back of the note? OMG

Because I found out about Mezhnumismatika selling older Tsarist coins through their outlet in Moscow and wrote them. I got a printed catalog from them which included Baltic countries coins, mostly Latvian. I don't think anyone screwed up on melting the coins, I just think it was curious that they were still around some 45 years or so after they were confiscated when the USSR invaded the Baltic countries. In the mid to late 1980's and full steam ahead in the 1990's there was a lot of stuff being released into collecting circles in the ex USSR. At that time it was not yet legal to own collector coins there, but I know of a lot of people that in fact were.

Baltic countries silver coins started being sold by Mezhnumismatika in Moscow back in the mid 1980's, you would think by now Krause would catch up. I have to wonder how these were never melted by the Soviets?

I really like the political tokens from that era, someday I would like to find a Thomas Paine token. I also like a very common one, the Incline Plane at Coalbrookedale.

1944 - P Silver War Nickel, well worn, about a VG or so, but still any silver in change is a nice thing.

Looks cast and polished to me. Wouldn't touch with a 10m pole.

Going through a cash drawer at work, several Philly nickels from the 1940's and 50's, nothing too special, and a couple of common 1940's wheats, all of which will be unleashed on an unsuspecting customer.

Paris was not occupied during WWI, but was rather too uncomfortably close to the front lines, and the big guns could be heard in Paris. At any rate I think it would have been difficult to transport anything to Russia via the western route, ie the Baltic or into the port of Murmansk as was done during WWII.

I think you are right that it had more to do with geography than politics. It would be interesting to find out where the Osaka coins were intended to circulate. But perhaps it was even easier logistically to have them shipped to the West of Russia from Japan in Asia, than it was to get them from Paris or some other western city during WWI. The logistics of shipping anything across Siberia is still daunting, even with a railroad that has recently become double lined, and a widely used air transport system. Some cities in the Northeast of Siberia have overland roads connecting them with the rest of Russia, but they are only passable during part of the summer months, and of course during winter when everything freezes over. Otherwise everything comes in by ship or aircraft.