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Here's several I haven't gotten around to posting before:

Three from COSI, the local science museum:

Two from an unknown series of space-themed medals:

And one from a melt that included metal from Vostok 1, which put Yuri Gagarin in space:

Oh, I like that first sketch, with the hand holding the design elements! That would have made a lovely dime.

It's a 1977.

Canadian quarter. I forgot the date. Standard mooseback.

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What would you focus on?

Right now, "Ooo, shiny!"

Actually, I did pick up the US Mint's medal honoring both the Apollo XI mission and John Glenn, and I'll be getting the ones they issued in honor of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Byron Nelson. The local science museum has three, all of which I've picked up. And there's a Yuri Gagarin medal I picked up that includes metal from Vostok-1, as well as a diminutive Franklin Mint issue that includes metal from one of the Apollo missions -- by includes, I mean they put some in the melt, not that there's a specific embedded chunk.

So, space, science, and golf. There's a combination. Although I know ultimately my criterion is "Ooo, shiny!"

You know, I am getting more and more enamored of medals. They cover so many different subjects, things that coins don't.

Looks like the 'P' is a one-off thing, specifically to mark the Philadelphia Mint's 225th anniversary. And they deliberately didn't publicize it so they could see how long it took for someone to contact them and ask if it was a real thing or not.

It just looks so weird with that P.

Then again, so did all the other denominations when they added it. It just seems kind of random to have it happen now.

I got my first 2017 cent in change today.

Scratch that.

I got a 2017-P cent in change today. Philadelphia-made cents are now mintmarked.

News to me -- I hadn't heard they were adding a mintmark to the penny. Is this a known thing and I'm just not paying attention?

No one's had any interesting circulation finds since January?

Anyway, FDR Presidential dollar. I thought those weren't released for circulation.

I've got one of the 2017 NP quarters. No other change yet.

Late to the party... hippie bird day!

1984 Canadian dime, 2000 UK one penny.

Wow, yeah, I never heard of that one either.

Which kind of answers whether or not I have one.

Has nobody found anything in ten months?

Just pulled a 1995 UK 5p.

One of the machines in the break room decided it would start rejecting perfectly normal coins.

It only rejected AtB quarters. It had no problem with the Statehood quarters, with the old eagleback quarters, or with any other coin.

The only difference I can think of is that being newer coins, they have on average higher lustre, and if part of the coin recognition mechanism is optical, that might have something to do with it. But as far as I know, the mechanism is based on size and weight, not reflectivity. Even if there were an electric eye for detecting washers, an AtB quarter should pass that test since it's definitely not holed in the middle.

Weird. A real coinundrum. Any ideas?

Just thinkin' that it's been a while since we've had any competition around here. I think I'd rather see another PCI happen first, but if there's interest, I could do another UCC this year.

Thoughts?

Oh, and about a dozen kanji, and Japanese numbers -- though I still get confused between 7 and 8, which is awkward since 昭和三十八 is my birthyear, and 昭和三十七 is not.

A smattering of German and Russian, although I usually resort to Google Translate anyway. And a little (very little) Polish by osmosis from my grandparents and by extension from Russian.

Oh, neat! I've been looking at small ingots on the Bay of E by way of building an elements collection -- you'd be amazed what's been cast and/or struck as 1oz rounds and bars (and larger, and smaller).

The color is not particularly accurate. It is bronze, though.

This just in from the US Mint: the New Frontiers medal, commemorating both John Glenn and the Apollo 11 crew:

So gorgeous. Now I *have* to have one! Maybe the coin show this fall.

Wow! I never even heard of such a thing -- very, very cool!

I don't know about glass per se, but I can imagine there might be a sufficiently tough ceramic out there that could stand up to pocket punishment if they wanted to try that again.