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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.

a morgan dollar

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.

 

1851 Coronet Half Cent  (Sorry for the repeats)

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.

So no more picture of that guy riding the goose on the back?  Wait, that came out wrong...

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

Hum, as much as one's sterotypical image of "Soviet" products, which are often imaged as not well maintained, therefore the chances of a product / machinery working are not too high. So that would mean by some random chance that their refinery screwed up and hence, their only option left was to sell such coins

 

Ukra, where did you get such infomation that Mezhnumismatika sold such coins? 

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.

Krause overvalues (IMO) the 1925 Latvian 2 Lati in unc as well.  I have picked them up for $5-8 from dealers before and the catalog value is around $30.  Maybe the catalog value was set before the bags of Baltic states silver started emerging from former Soviet vaults.

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.

I honestly don't know why Osaka though. It's true that both Paris and Brussels were occupied in WWI. The timing of the Osaka kopeks to me is just completely imcomprehensible, or rather, was St. Petersburg mint too overloaded? It's true that by that time, they were forced to stop their gold ruble mintage and Imperial Russia was economically going downhill.

 

Was ordering such mass coins overseas a lot cheaper than self producing? I guess this is going to be a lot of speculation...

 

P.S. I think I have found an interesting link worth reading, but you need acrobat reader.

 

http://www.esh.ed.ac.uk/EH2_RUS/Lecture1.PDF

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.

Why Paris and Brussels? I still do not understand up to know though... far less reason why Osaka mint too for the 10 and 15 kopeks of 1916...

The Osaka mint issues are fascinating considering that Russia and Japan have had now 100 yrs of animosity towards one another, but back in 1916 remember that the Russo Japan war of 1905 was still near in the memory and Russia suffered a stinging defeat at the hands of Japan. It must have been remarkable that it was easier to deal with a recent enemy than preferentially going to France or Belgium which were in the throws of WWI.

In all of mine, I have one Brussels minted coin. Did Sankt Peterburg just not have the capacity for the coinage during those years, or was it technical or political reasons?

Back when I was in High School Mad Magazine had a spread on commemorative coins we would like to see.

They had one where the mint was issuing a special commemorative coin for every living American.

The way the US Mint is getting, I think someone there took that parody to heart.

State quarters, the new nickles, the Presidential Dollars, the first wifes club thing for the $10 gold piece. What next?

I thought these things on eBay were grossly overpriced. It made a good time for me to sell Scottish banknotes on eBay, since mine were the only non Jack Nicklaus notes.

Curiously they are mispelled on eBay too, Jack Nicholas etc.

If you want a good JN note mailed in a cardboard, PM me. I have contacts there that work in RBS.

I have been mashing them since I was a kid, I started carefully using pliers to do the job. I noticed a long time ago that the staples basically shreaded the coin pages you put them in and could even damage other coins.

I think this was something a lot of us did independently and didn't really talk about.

Somehow a 1957 nickel managed to sneak past the security apparatus and find it's way into our Ukraine Fund jar. It had to be bailed out ten times face.

Probably be my last coin purchase for quite some time, with so many of my coins going out the door.

I used to collect coins, then kids came along.

I have a part time job in sales, and operate a cash register. The only thing I have bought out of the register were a 1964 dime and 5 Wheats, but I see early 1940's Jeffs( no silver though, I would buy those) all the time, but give them out in change.