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11 cents. Whoopdie doo. Wish I could make a find like last summers - the '32 quarter and '45 Merc.

Yesterday I searched through $150 in dimes, found the usual Canadians I don't want but did find something peculiar, a bit smaller than a dime but still silver - a Philippines 10 Centavos from 1944 minted in Denver. First foreign silver find in coin roll hunting from this year. Other finds this week include a 1926 Merc and a really beaten up 1923 Buffalo, a 1943 Steel and a blank cent from roll searches. Some of the cents I searched this week were the worst - like they had been stored in a bucket with motor oil residue or something.

I only pick up and keep what I can find from circulation. Haven't bought from RCM in years.

Of all that I have seen in circulation I have yet to get one of the 2012 colourised examples in change.

CAN + TOR Last one looks like some 15th century billon or bronze from the continent.

This would appear to be Lancastrian or very early Tudor with the crown placed above the shield - that may be your best shot at identification is finding a type with the crown above the shield like that. This would appear to be Henry II - John, I think I see the lettres R I C on the obverse of the piece - and it is a short cross coin meaning it was struck prior to Henry III. Coins were struck in the name of Henry even through the reigns of Richard I and King John. This one is definitely Edward I based on the style of the hair on the obverse. I wish there was a way to digitally "bend" the coin so I could see the complete reverse legend - in the upper right quadrant I can make out what looks like C A V. This one is a challenge - most of the obverse is gone. The one identifying marker is what appears to be a lettre B - which would be the end of the legend EDW R ANGL DNS HYB - I copied and pasted the image into my photo editor and rotated it about 270 degrees and can distinguish the first characters of Edwards name. Unfortunately the facial markers are indistinquishable on this coin - then you just have to go with most likely - that it is Edward I. It is minted in CIVITAS CANTOR though.

Up until the fall of the USSR Russian and Soviet banknotes were largely overlooked. I can remember when Tsarist notes like the 500 ruble sold for pennies. It was possible to complete type sets like the 1947 series really easily, even the 16 ribbons variety of the notes that were only issued for a short time. Now that Russians can legally collect the notes the prices reflect that. I am glad I collected when I could. Even some of the money that went quickly worthless in 1991 and that I was tossing off the balcony of the Intourist hotel to watch kids scramble for when it fluttered down 17 stories is now worth a little bit of money.

Two Canadian 25c coins. I was cashing in counted change from a fundraiser at my daughter's school - searched $86 and some change worth of coins, found 9 Wheats from 1936-1957, a 1939 Jefferson, a 1948 Canadian cent.

Edison claimed a lot of inventions for himself, but that were actually the work of others. His dispute with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse says volumes about Edison.

Have made my own notes before - some have been around the world a few times. Think I even mailed some from my base in UA at one point.

Edison doesn't deserve a note. At least Nikola Tesla has, he is currently on the Serbian 100 dinar note. Tesla did more electric development than that fiend Edison did.

Harriet Quimby was the first female pilot - and she was a lot easier on the eyes.

Laws are changing such that you cannot now legally import coins that circulated in Cyprus before 1800, nor coins that might have circulated in territorial claims of Bulgaria before 1750 - this is a US law now to stop imports of coins from those places. If US and Russia collaborated more you could see laws prohibiting importing exporting of each other's coins. As for collecting, I think we all have cycles of collecting. For many years I collected avidly. Now I foresee that most of my collection will be sold in the next few years - already started selling off significant USA coins last year - kids graduating from high school soon and need to pre-fund those college educations expenses.

Somewhere in all my junque from our junket to Paris a few years ago I have some medals that commemorate that church - part of a series of medals for various venues all over Paris.

Unfortunately it is true. It used to be I found all sorts of Canadian, sometimes silver, steel cents etc. I did find the silver dime last week - my first reasonable find in some months. I suspect that store clerks even check the machines, and I have seen kids go after the machine too.

'64 Canadian 5 cent coin.

1951 Roosie, alone and forlorn in the coin machine reject slot at my credit union.

Many things on eBay go for low prices until the final seconds of the auction - then fate will tell us what people think of the coin.

Indeed where they show the hubs - and most of the time in video the workers are handling blanks and struck coins with gloves, but a couple of times they are subjecting them to their finger greases

Initially the vault teller gave me two boxes of brand new 2013 cents - I want old stuff so I traded them back for "previously loved" coins. BTW Yesterday I found another IHC in a customer wrapped roll from another credit union - this time an 1890 in VG-F.

The funny part was I bought two boxes at this credit union, and they brought out two boxes of 2013 cents and I asked if they had any that had older cents in them. The vault teller kind of grumbled when she had to take those back and bring out two boxes with older cents in them. I am going to get a kick out of returning with the big box of candy today - to see her reaction!

Because I got halfway through and found one 1957-D wheat and one 1970-S cent and then I opened up this roll: It is either an 1871 or 1874 - beats my oldest cent record of 1882 from a find last year. It is my 13th IHC cent found since 2007.

Slovenija 2 cents 2007 and a Canadian dime.

I'd prefer to see a commemorative for the end of a war as opposed to the beginning of one. Maybe in 2017 the Royal Mint will commemorate the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas becoming the House of Windsor and the shedding of their Germanic majesties origins?

I concur - "Your country needs you!" to become cannon fodder for a senseless war that will only result in another war 21 years later. In my entry closet I have my great uncle's WWI trenchcoat - everytime I see it whilst getting a jacket or something I think of him being gassed by phosgene or something and having breathing difficulties for the rest of his long life. The trenchcoat is a very heavy woolen item, cannot imagine being out in the open in that thing soaking wet.