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By some reports ol' Ben was also a British agent who provided cover for at least one double agent while serving as the US ambassador to France. If that's true, the commem wouldn't have anything to do with that.

I started with Baltic states silver and then was drawn off to Bulgarian silver and Habsburg silver. I've always been partial to French gold and silver but only recently began to appreciate Great Britain silver. If it ain't silver or gold, I'm not usually interested, though some of the Portugese, Italian and Spanish coins struck in nickel and cupronickel have begun to appeal a little.

5 silver Roosies from Tiffi. Thanks, kiddo. You know how I hoard silver. ;-)

Coin articles written by uninformed "journalists" are irksome. They always refer to a coin's "state of preservation" as if the darn things rot unless they're given constant care.

Odd that he would allow the man to leave the collection with him like that without issuing a receipt or anything with the man's name and a contact phone number.

The clerk you're dealing with is an officious little tyrant, that's all. I had trouble with an idiot clerk who refused to insure anything in a #6 or #10 envelope, saying that they were letters, not 1st class packages. I ended up having to get my congressman's office to contact the USPS with the complaint since the USPS has no internal complaint office for "postal customers" to use. Ask to talk to the postmaster and if the person doing this to you is the postmaster, call your congressman's office and get them to contact the USPS for you. Some of these postal clerks must huff airplane glue before reading their regulation books. They read something in English and translate it into Martian in their half empty heads. ahaha

Don't let that throw you. You can buy one package of Supersafes if that's all you want. Call their toll free number and see.

Funny thing, I used the fast reply in two different topics yesterday and the replies I posted aren't there today.

Case in point for why I never buy from the mint. When they make a mistake, as any coin seller is apt to do, you have no recourse. The mint isn't a business, it's a part of a federal bureau and, as such, is unaccountable for its errors. The USPS is as unaccountable and as hard to deal with in the case of their errors, but I have little choice but to deal with them on a regular basis.

The first one I saw turned up in my pocket change Saturday. Nice design.

Counterfeiting modern coins wouldn't be very cost-effective, would it? Unless there are circulating 5 and 10 euro coins, it would seem to me that counterfeiting would cost more than could be realized by passing the coins.

Try Transline. You'll have to google them up, I buy from their catalog rather than online but they have a website.

I never heard of SGS, but that dollar has enough rub on the heights and contact marks in the fields to make it an AU in my book. MS68 it ain't, IMO.

1976-S 3pc silver proof US Bicentennial set in original mint styrofoam clamshell and cardboard sleeve. $25.00 plus $1.50 domestic 1st class postage or $2.80 int'l airmail.

1986 proof US silver eagle in purple plush case, in pristine purple box w/ CoA. $35.00 $1.50 1st class domestic postage or $2.80 int'l airmail.

Cleaned up nicely as yours is, they can go for as little as $4-6 to as much as you paid. I see Roman coins fairly often but don't buy many of them.

Maybe you bought it because you just had to have one. ;-)

I've had a few go missing in the mail, including a Carson City seated dime I mailed to numisnick at the same time I mailed kuhli some cool commie notes as a gift, neither ever arrived. I narrowly missed losing a Peace dollar today. It was in a square tube in a box of them I had for sale at the flea market and a fellow who has been buying half dollars every weekend said, "Hey, how much for the tube with the silver dollar in it?" I guess I had used that tube for Peace dollars and hadn't bothered to count when I dumped them out to sort and grade them.

Good idea, Art.

It's the shield reverse. Check your PM. I sent a link to an image. It's a little eerie, but the one I have and the one I sent an image of have almost identical coloring in the toning and they're the same grade. The one in the pic has a few rim nicks that mine doesn't have. Thanks, Ed

Once you pick out the best few and put them in 2x2's the rest will bring you $.50 per roll at your bank. Hope that isn't a full bag of half a million cents.

I got a great medal from a junkbox today. It's about 30mm, extremely high relief portrait of Joan of Arc on the obverse and a lower relief image of the Joan of Arc basilica in Domremy. On the obverse is 1412-1431 and below those two dates is 1909. It seems to be struck in nickel. This is now my favorite exonumia find from a junkbox even though I paid silver melt price for it by weight and it turned out not to be silver. I had thought it was low fineness silver from the color.

Great pics, Tiff. That Spanish coin that Erik showed is going on my list, too. Thanks for some great pics, everyone.

Can't make out the breast feathers, but the obverse is up in the 64-65 range, IMO. Is there good detail in the breast feathers? Beautiful Morgan, BTW.

Ahaha... I have two, and put one away for you already before I offered one for sale. I knew this was one you're looking for.