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Imaging it well is a bit of a pain, but I just got a 2012P dime with a 'wart' on Franklin's nostril; I'm assuming this is a die chip as well. I always find these kind of errors entertaining, the ones that add a facial feature, like the 1955 "Bugs Bunny" half.

Just what I need, another category to collect! This is a really clever angle, thanks for suggesting it. Huh. I'm trying to think if there's been a more recent instance in US coinage than 1942. I suppose the 1982 change from bronze to copper-washed zinc in pennies was it, but that's not immediately evident to the eye.

I think we're back to where I'm scrabbling for my green crayons for indicating my envy.

That would be a waycool additional category for the next round!

Dispensing with the $1 bill makes sense. The average lifespan of a bill is a couple years; of a coin, a couple decades. I'd even go so far as to say we should dispense with the $5, and issue $2 and $5 coins. Just for pity's sake, give us our Seated Liberty or Walking Liberty designs for them, or something else non-partisan.

Camera's still lost and unreplaced, so no pictures (mainly because the camera in my phone is rubbish), but I only last week discovered that San Francisco banged out some uncirculated quarters last year for the first time in I don't know how long. Since they're not going into circulation, I resorted to eBay and copped the set of five for six bucks including shipping. Shows how much attention I'm paying to current American issues, that I didn't know about last year's coins until this year! Any reason for the one-off uncirculateds?

Neat stuff!

And that is a beautiful example of one!

I have this mental image of the lot of you haunting eBay and quite unknowingly getting into bidding wars with each other.

Went on a selling trip for the first time -- I moved last weekend, and was left with not enough money in my account to cover a bill that I *know* is coming later this week. So I sold my silver proof sets. I've lost interest in them anyway, and with the prices on the 1999 and 2012 sets, it's a set I'm unlikely to complete any time soon. Dumped some old Franklins, too. So I made enough cash to carry me through to my next paycheck, yay. I immediately bought a 1963 Canadian PL dollar for my birthyear set so I've completed another country now. Pulled four coins out of the foreigns bin: a 1941 farthing that still has lots of lustre, a 1977 USSR 15 kopek piece, a 1955 Cypriot threepence, and a UK 1953 sixpence -- I am so glad I carry my catalog as a PDF on my ebook reader! No pictures for a while. I lost my backpack with my good camera in it -- it's either at work, or I left it on the bus and will never see it again -- and my other camera is somewhere in all the wreckage of packed boxes.

Wow, I just cannot disagree more with their choice for coin of the year -- at a minimum because that's not even a photograph of the actual coin. The QR code makes it look like an arcade token, and it just looks gimmicky to me. To my eye, the Canadian $20 silver is a far superior design, as is the Austrian robotics issue. I bid on one of those Lithuanian basketball coins recently -- didn't win, but it's a great design and I'm not even a basketball fan. Lithuanian basketball is special to me, though, because I'm a Deadhead.

Got my first 2012 AtB quarter -- Denali, Philly mint. Also a 2013D White Mountain, making that issue the first one I have PD for.

2011D Gettysburg AtB Quarter -- first Gettysburg, and first Denver Mint AtB I've gotten.

I have to find my 1853 arrows & rays quarter -- there's just enough of it left to make it demonstrably an arrows and rays piece.

If any one of those feathers is on a flying eagle, I will need a new smilie to express my reaction. If I had to choose a favorite cent design, it would be the Flying Eagle. Hm, there's a thought I hadn't entertained before, my favorite designs for each denomination... I'll go with: Cent: Flying Eagle, hands down. Nickel: I'm torn between the Shield and Classic Jefferson nickels. I really don't like the current portrait; I liked the 'peekaboo' design between the original and the current, though. They should've stuck with that. Dime: Another hard choice; it's either the Capped Bust or the 'Mercury' Quarter: Seated Lib Half: Walker, no question Dollar: Another not-easy call because I'm not really a fan of either the Morgan or Peace dollars (to say nothing of the Ikes and small dollars). Draped Bust or Trade, though I do like the Statue of Liberty reverse on the modern presidentials.

This is my current oldest; it was identified as ca. 1595, but the features seem more consistent with an earlier issue, possibly 1571. Either way, it's the Grand Old Dame of my collection for now.

Seconded, thirded and fourthed! Thanks for running this, Art!

Congrats, Bill! That is one gorgeous piece of metal, and well-deserving of the win!

CoinPeople is one of the very few sites I allow to show me ads, since they're actually something I might be interested in.

The contest had coins ranging from the 4th to the 21st centuries from all around the world, and yet the two finalists were not only minted in the same city, but also only two years apart.

Nothin' to apologize for, I nearly gave mine to it!

Whatever it is, I want one. Wow.

I'm gonna hide in the corner with my hands over my eyes... come get me when it's over.

If you're on Firefox, I recommend the Ghostery, DoNotTrackMe, AdBlocker Plus and NoScript addons. I so very rarely see ads on my home machine anymore, I'm genuinely surprised when they pop up on my work machine. So I don't worry about what wheresgeorge.com is up to. I haven't had a lot of luck getting wheresgeorge hits, but I don't obsessively enter every bill that passes through my hands either.

A coin attracts me when it scratches an itch, and getting more specific than that is virtually impossible. Most of my coins fall into one of my thematic collections, but there's a small number that can only be classified as 'Ooo, neat!' and there's no way to profile what falls into that.