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Are those silver? They look nice - I can't remember when I have seen quarter elongates - are there halves and dollars as well?

For the small cent type set..almost 70 years old and looking young as a new born. BTW: I positively hate photographing slabbed coins!

Picked up this tasty little peso today. At $7.50, it's a nice addition to the silver collection.

Another pickup from the Baltimore show...

1926 Sesquicentennial commemorative half. These were designed by John R. Sinnock who also designed the Franklin Half (can you see the resemblence?). They are notoriously low-relief for an otherwise great design. They can get quite pricey - but not in this condition

Nice!

 

I was up there today and didn't even cover the full bourse floor! I usually can comb all the dealer's tables in an hour and get back to buying. But with the new space, jeeesh...

 

I have no money now either.

 

Whatever, new members of the collectons.

Did you ever make it to see the 1913 Liberty head nickel? I kept trying to head in the direction of the booth number but always got side tracked - it was quite a nice show.

Yesterday, a friend and I went to the Baltimore show - what a great time! I have been to this large show many times and always enjoy it a lot. This was the first time that I was able to go on a Friday (the first day of the puplic show). This one was advertised as the "largest ever" and it was, in fact, larger than any I have been to previously.

I picked up quite a few coins there, including these two Jeffs...and....I have now completed my Jefferson album (1938-2004 with proofs).

Added another silver piece. Interesting because it is unusually thick and has a plain edge.

A Phillippines "Macarthur" 50 centavos.

Always room for a large silver in my collection. This one is a "memento" dollar from China.

Nice Jeffersons

Thanks Art. The album only has a few holes left - kind of exciting

Continuing with the Jefferson nickel album project, I acquired these three specimens...

A few new pieces of silver for the collection...

[nice group - the 1/4 anna is especially nice looking

Every once in a while, I seem to purchase some coins for no good reason. I mean, I try to stay focussed on some collecting projects...Jefferson set...Lincoln set...Large world silver...always looking to expand or upgrade some type sets and add to a small late Roman Empire set. So, I really don't know why I bought this mini-dime type set. They were all on a card and were reasonably priced and...well, I just felt like getting them. There is really nothing that I can even use as an upgrade to my existing US dime type set shown here... oh well

Continuing with the Jefferson collection, I added these two...

I am particularly pleased with the 43-S ($3.75). A while ago, I bought a board of wartime nickels...

...and did not notice until later that the 1943-S slot was filled with a 1945-S (way to check the coins you buy eh?)

Thanks for looking!

Real nice shots!

Added some large silver pieces to the collection...

My first from circulation...

Ian already posted a great explanation; let me just add that Mercury was the Roman god of trade and commerce, and that winged staff with the two snakes is one of his common attributes, called a "caduceus". His left arm leans on a rudder, and at the bottom you see a horn of plenty.

 

Christian (boche & kraut )

like this caduceus...

I'm way late on this thread, but I want to add that some have suggested that the use of the caduceus as a medical symbol was through confusion with the staff of Aesculapius- more easily associated with medicine than Hermes...interesting stuff

The cashier at a snack bar saved these two pieces for me!

Not so much now...

That was a very enlightening group of threads for me. Perhaps not earth-shaking or even surprising to those collectors with many more years of experience, but I found it to be substantial...and I don't mean the non-air tight characteristics of a very old style of slab.

Picked up a One Onza of this variety to go with my Two Onza posted earlier.

Purchased a:

 

NCS "Binion Hoard" 1923 Peace today on the way home from Gatlinburg, TN. Decent coin, cool holder, and decent price, $13.

sounds good - pic?

I'm continuing to plug away at the Jefferson album/ set. These two were among my recent acquisitions....15 is the magic number now

Finally received one of these in change...

This is definitely not one of my favorites.

I keep plugging away at my Jefferson set and added a few this week, including these two. I hope to have the collection complete by year's end or sooner.

This 1938 is a golden-toned beauty.

As you might expect, I have been examining a lot of Jeffersons while working on this set. I am particularly noticing the advances in the die work and strike with the more recent issues. Look at the detail definition on this 2000-S proof - pretty impressive, in my opinion.