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syzygy

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  1. Received my first SQ of the year. I like this one - reminds me of the 1935 Old Spanish Trail commemorative half.
  2. Thanks for the Travencore tip - that made it easy to look up in my Krauss, but now I'm confused. I see km#43 and km#49 as possibilities. There is only one picture for both (presumably this is for km#43). There is slight difference in the characters at 7:00 on my coin (maybe that means it is km#49, but again no pic). KM#49 is listed as ND 1906-1935. Do you have an identifying number in your world coin book?
  3. Got two needed additions to my off center memorial lincoln year set from Lost Dutchman! The 1963 is a beauty. The other one is rough and a little hard to read but I pretty much agree that it is a 1960 as labelled. I went through my lincolns looking at the positions of the numerals on all the 60s dates and 1960 fits the best - agree?
  4. As a little bonus, the Dealer gave me a Washington dollar in change - my first one! I can't say that I really like the design, but I don't dislike it as much as many have expressed. The edge lettering is kind of cool.
  5. I didn't need this Kennedy at all, but I really like the series. For $5.50, I thought it had some nice eye appeal, allthough it is scuffed a bit.
  6. Had to get one of the Churchills for 50 cents - a notably 'ugly' coin .
  7. It's been a while since I have had any new acquisitions. So I stopped off at a local shop and picked up a few interesting pieces - these are from the 6/1.00 bin. A nice 1944-S Centavo with a lot of red remaining. My first coin from Jordan. One of these days I have to start putting together a country collection. Lots of luster on this one. Don't know what this one is - obviously damaged but interesting - guess I will be searching Krauss. From India I believe.
  8. Received this 55 in change last week. It's in pretty decent shape.
  9. Ahhh White Castle - cheap, thin and greasy - by the bag. Didn't think they were still around.
  10. The Caballito Peso. I have long wanted an example of this beautiful design. 1910 Mexico 1 Peso KM #453 .903 silver, mintage 3.8M
  11. I guess I am late on this one, but I got my first SD SQ in change today. Not a bad looking design at all.
  12. Splendid collection of halves. I have exactly 1 Canadian half, but I really like the designs.
  13. I retired this 66 year old Jefferson today.
  14. My first purchases of the year turned out to be a couple of large hunks of silver...a 2007 SAE (previously posted in the 1800-forever, 1 coin per year thread) and this 2007 Panda.
  15. Not coins but notes. Picked this up at the non-profit used book store for $1... I don't collect notes and know very little about them, but this is loaded with some nice pictures and info. One day I would like to get this note as a complement to the Bison coins. I don't imagine I could get these 1979 prices though...*sigh*
  16. AUSTRIA 1645 3 Kreuzer Archduke Ferdinand Charles (I think) PS: I would be grateful if someone could tell me the KM# for this piece.
  17. How do you suggest that "Surface conductivity" be measured? Using a decent Ohm meter, I can not distinguish copper from copper-plated from potentially brass plated - all give readings near .1 on the lowest scale, as I would expect. Did a little bit of digging and ccg's memory is correct as Ken Porter's site sells some of these and shows a letter from the mint acknowledging that zinc can be inadvertantly dissolved in the copper plating rendering such a color (link here). CopperCoins says that there is virtually no way to distinguish a brass-plated cent from one that has miscolored due to other contaminants. Certainly there is a way of detecting the content of the plating, but I do not have easy access to any destructive flame mass spectroscopy whatchyamhiggie. I shall keep thinking about this.
  18. Hmm interesting possibility - I wonder if there is a way to definitively tell if that is the case with this coin.
  19. Searched some cents today. I didn't specifically buy rolls to search but my cent coffee can was overflowing, so I rolled a few. Looked at a bit over 800 cents and found: 183 copper and 600 zinc. Two coppers were wheaties (1955 & 1958-D). Out of 30 1982s (D and P), 28 were copper. Found a couple of filled mint marks and the only other notable find was a very brassy looking zincoln - shown here next to a typical 1994. Caught my eye right away. Weight, however, is right on target with the zincoln (2.46 gms). Maybe I will do a specific gravity test, but I think it is just a zincoln that, somehow, got a weird color.
  20. A friend of mine took a trip to Singapore recently and was kind enough to bring these back for me. She also gave me these: that Ringgit is pretty nice.
  21. Gotta love these new pig dollars
  22. Picked this up after work today. Really gorgeous toasty toning. This is the second one like this that I have purchased.
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