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Saor Alba

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  1. BTW one of my more fascinating finds in nickel rolls from a few years ago was a British 20p coin - seven sided - that was somehow masquerading as a nickel - and it was in a customer wrapped roll. Nothing like getting 30c worth of coin for a nickel
  2. Sealed boxes come from Brinks or other money handling companies. In my experience I usually have better finds with those, since they passed through coin counting machines and the coins rarely if ever get noticed. Customer wrapped rolls are a mixed bag - sometimes you get lucky, other times like one last week they are a bust. I bought $20 worth of customer wrapped last week and there was one 1958 well beaten up and nothing else prior to 1964 - obviously they had been searched prior and the '58 didn't make the cut of what the other collector wanted to keep. Now I am sort of being embargoed by means of having cleaned out all the nickel supplies at my local banks at least temporarily. So hopefully the lunch gift cards, and the sixpences handed out to tellers do the magic today or Monday.
  3. Ex Chet Krause: Now part of the Beauties on Banknotes accumulation.
  4. I own some pedigreed coins, with storied ownerships over 100 years. But for me, it is not so much about the fame or infamy of who owned the coin - but rather the quality of a collectable that they aspired to collect. I have some coins that were previously owned by Michael Tallent, Lucien La Riviere - not famous in the sense of popularity in the media but for the high quality of the coins that they acquired for their collections. Such said, famous/infamous collectors such as King Farouk maniacally acquisitioned whole collections of rare materiel, then carelessly handled it - the famous 1933 Double Eagle from the USA bears witness to having been mishandled, perhaps even dropped on occasion. It is conjectured in collecting circles that Farouk was as careless with his coins as he was with his appetite for food and women. Do I desire to possess a coin that Farouk fondled, and perhaps occasioned to drop? Nae chance o' it.
  5. BTW Santiago, your African notes images are stunners. I am always on the prowl for those after Dave M. has posted them too.
  6. Most exciting find in the $60 I searched in nickels was a solitary Buffer, dateless. Found a decent pawful of pre '60 and S mints.
  7. It pays to buy gift cards for bank tellers. I do like finding silver of any sort in my roll searches. But now I have $794.50 worth of halves that I am going to have to unload on my other bank
  8. I searched $800 worth of halves, churned up 11 40%'ers and no 90%. Then I sifted through $100 worth of nickels earlier this afternoon - no buffers, a '43-P and a 45-S, several other pre-1960s, and several S-mints. Also got several of the pre-1980 Canadians, a Cayman Island 10c coin, and a British 5 pence. I do love the instant bingo of finding that silver, my favourite teller more or less had to convince me to take the $800 in halves - usually I have no luck with halves. The war nickels are a nice find too.
  9. Silver nickels are just so flipping exciting to find, as are Buffers. Incredibly I have retired 9 of the little darlings in the past month, along with the two Indians. Thanks Finn for getting me on the nickel kick, I had pretty much been mining cents for the past 4 years and was getting a wee bored with them. Halves were good to me a couple of months ago with the big find, but have been a bust ever since.
  10. '54-D nickel in change at Baskin & Robbins.
  11. Yeah, nothing like a nearly 30x profit
  12. JT, I just went through $500 worth of 1934s the other day. I bought enough that I ended up spending off several of my 1950 dated notes. I wish I could find more of the 1928 FRNs, but I do occasionally find the red seal deuces from 1928 at my banks. BTW I am looking for the wrappers you sent me for the Ike dollars, I churned up a bunch more of those too.
  13. It is the loveliest banknote ever created by Bank of England, a true classic that replaced the classic "white fiver".
  14. I don't usually get good Canadian quarters in the US - only the moose ones. I do find decent, and old cents though.
  15. GIV also had a wife that inconveniently kept following him and attempting to make him behave. She never succeeded, and death took her before her time.
  16. Great, now you guys are going to make me have to dig out me banknote with the Royal Progress arriving to Scottyland an' image it to share.
  17. For Scotland it was a big deal. Not since the time of Charles II and James VII had a British monarch visited Scotland, it was as though they were some backwater not deserving of a Royal Progress. Not only was the event commemorated on medals, but also even banknotes of the time saw fit to issue commemoratives - probably a first. As the reverse of your medal states, "Scotland hails with joy the visit of the sovereign" clearly attest too, it was a significant event for the time. Even Sir Walter Scott wrote about it.
  18. I have seen articles in the British press suggesting that at times 1 in 40 coins is suspect. The problem with the real coins is that they wear down pretty easily from heavy usage so that the fakes blend in well with them.
  19. Searched 18.000 cents from Friday to last night. Will report on the finds later since they are still being audited by my two teenage princesses - they check the spoil pile and find still more since their eyes are better. But there were a couple of amazing finds.
  20. I have had situations like that where I ask if they have half dollars to give me in change and then get a '64 and have to contain my excitement so they don't get the idea to save them instead of give them to me
  21. The bags come from one of my banks(I bank with seven different banks), my part of the deal is they DON'T come back - they go to another one of my banks where I run them through the coin machine at no charge - but there I have a deal that I take all their unwanted $2's, the Ikes, all halves etc. The bank where I get them has a lot of commercial depositors that bring in lots of loose coins for deposit. Crazily enough it is a very old bank with only three branches. The coins in the bags are loose - not rolled. The nickels come in $200 bags, the cents in $50 bags. Right now I am working on four bags of cents that came in from the same deposit as the nickels where the Buffaloes came from. And yes, there are a splattering of wheats and one other really significant find and I am only about halfway through the bags, I have sifted through 9.000 cents last night and am ready to start the other 11.000 this morning. I have to buy a gift card for this teller this morning, she has been great about calling me when the goodies come in.
  22. Rarity is a factor with high demand coins like Syracuse, Athens etc, but not so much with some really not well known, not well documented coins like those from the northern Black Sea region. Not that I mind that I can find some coins occasionally that are much scarcer than their well known cousins for a mere fraction of the price.
  23. I have been searching the cents for quite awhile - getting kind of boring. Last week I bought a $100 box of nickels and turned up a dateless Buffer, a few early Jeffersons some S mints - and really I like the find vs. reject ratio a bit better than cents. So this week my bank teller said they would have a bag going back to the Fed unless I bought it - these are all cashed in merchants receipts that get fed into their coin counter and credited to the merchant's accounts. The bags are in the amount of $200. Yesterday I went in and saved the bag from the infernal Federal Reserve bank in Chicago and instead brought them home. Wowzer! 7 Buffers: 1920 1935 1936 1938-D 3 dateless Jeffersons 1940 1941 x 4 1942 1943-P silver! 1944-P silver! 1945-P silver! 1946 1948 x 3 1950 1954-D x 2 1954 1956 x 2 1957 x 2 1957-D x 2 1958-D x 3 1959-D x 2 1959 x 2 San Francisco minted nickels: 1940 1941 1943 - silver! 1947 1952-S x 2 1954-S 1968 x 7 1969 x 6 1970 x 16 Canada 1980 - only save because the ones from before 1981 are worth double face melt right now. Then there was an orphan cent that somehow found it's way into the bag but then it was a 1974-S! I am still ecstatic about finding 7 Buffalos in the whole lot. I would have never thought I would have found one in circulated nickels until last week, then I found the one. I cannot believe I found 7 of them, but can only conjecture that because of where I live(community with lots of older folks) that maybe it should not be so unusual. None of the Buffalos will win any beauty or grading contests but I am happy with them.
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