Sir Sisu

EXCELLENT mail day yesterday!! My "secret" santa package arrived! It could not have been more perfect!! 2 Awesome coins to check off my "Wantlist"!!! Many Many Kiitokset! I also received another coin towards my type set: the coin was in pristine condition -finally a real winner from eBay- except that the package and everything in it reeked of cigerette smoke; even the 2x2 plastic flip was pungent!

Finland should not be too difficult : only Mint sets were issued in those years, and they are not extremely pricey.

Yesterday: the secret santa coin that made a quick stop at my home before continuing its journey to its new owner.

Some nice small shiny silvers from 28P.

Perhaps because they were frozen solid for the whole trip?

Finn 2004 commem €2. It seems like there are some still out there.

2 more coins to check off of my want list!

3 silver Mexicans that are going towards my type set!

Received an auction win from 28plain today. Very nice coin!

Have you checked out banknotebank.com? It is Omnicoin's sister site and you can post notes there.

Some cool looking Coinbucks plus a couple of nice items from Art!

Those are pretty nice finds from circulation! Especially that tombac. The color alone makes that very different than circulating pieces.

Oh yeah, real nice!

The most recent Finnish commem and a bunch or great coins from Jose- some of which are going towards my silver crown/dollar-like type set.

Ditto on both accounts! (and ditto on the thanks! )

It has been found! That in itself is worthy of a sauna and a beer! Looking at when I come up on the schedule, it appears it will most likely still be winter here so a sauna will definitely be in order, especially coming over from the GWN!

Received a Canadian dollar from Franz!

It would feel strange to call it luster because of the strong matte surface, but yes it does have a nice appearance. Mine unfortunatley has a single small (0.5-1mm) spot on the obverse where the surface is more smooth and "shiney". So I am guessing it is wera or a defect on the die surface. As I only have one I cannot compare the sharpness of my strike to another. Besides the one blemish, I think it is a very nice coin.

I finally received mine yesterday. I agree that the difference is very subtle, at least with the coins in the set I received. Had I not known about this before hand, I do not think I would have noticed the difference very easily. The 2 Kennedy's in my set look like they were pulled out of a cash register!

Not anymore. Whew! It took so long, I thought it might not make the journey.

I finally got my 2005 US Marines BU commem and US mint set!

I was already envi us reading this post. Then you had to go post the pic too! You got a nice mix of dates there.

I got two cool ones in the same day: Finland €0.20 2000 and 2003! Both have very low mintages.

No coins. But I did get a videocassette in today's mail though! .............

Me too!