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I'll second everything everyone else has said so far, and only add that I never buy anything that would hurt more to lose in the mail than it's costing to buy. Other than that, I have never had more than minor annoyances come of online purchasing. There are a couple sellers I never use not because there was a problem with the purchased item, but because they added my email to their spam mailing list without my permission and started annoying me daily or weekly. Both were reported to their local BBB and no further contact has been had.

This'd be my oldest with a certain date. I have an Elizabeth I sixpence, but I haven't nailed down which issue it is yet. I think it's 1571, but I'll hold off posting until I have something certain. 1622 Sigismund III poltorak (1½ grosz)

I have got to get me one of those. They're just gorgeous, and the standing Britannia is right up there with the Walking Liberty as a beautiful design.

So far they haven't, and HA isn't a little off the beaten path auction site. Surely they know about it by now. I don't think there's anything in it for the Mint to interfere in the auction. If a whole slew of dimes-on-nails suddenly appeared, then they'd probably have cause to act.

One of the news sites says there's a chance it was deliberate, but no one seems to know. I can't imagine how -- the machines that bang out business strikes go pretty fast. I wouldn't want to get my hand anywhere near the die and I don't see how a nail could have been fed with the other blanks.

Heritage is auctioning the weirdest error coin I've ever seen -- and if I had the scratch, it's weird enough to get even non-error-collecting me to bid on it: a US dime struck on a 6d nail. I mean, seriously. The images are well worth a look (and they won't let me embed them here anyway).

DO WANT. That's gorgeous.

Oh, well and truly circulated -- I'd say between VG and F. Oh, and i forgot, I also got a 1974 Canadian nickel in the same haul. But that seems considerably less interesting in comparison.

Not one Steelie. Not two Steelies. Three Steelies. One from each mint. Wow.

I'm going to have to check that auction site out; my German language skills are rusty, but they're not completely corroded, and if I can make heads or tails out of it, it might be a good source for coins I've found tough to get over here.

Shiiiiiny. Those are gorgeous.

1977 UK 1 penny (and miscellaneous loose American change)

I have one of Carr's proof astronaut bimetallic dollar patterns; I would have loved to see that coin adopted, and there are several other designs of his that I would like to get -- especially the parody state quarters.

And also, a 1941 and a 1957D Jefferson nickel.

Lucky Pierre strikes again -- the same machine that has already spit out two impaired proofs and a silver quarter, has delivered another silver quarter, this one a 1958D. Woot!

I'm not sure I want to see it extended. I kinda miss the old eagle.

Yes, I did, when I was getting some halves. I got a handful of mixed SBAs, Sacs and Prexys... and two Ikes.

I'd rather see the commemorative series moved to the half dollar or dollar to encourage their circulation. Certainly the half gives more room for an engraver to work with.

Yeah, it's going to be weird to see the eagle back again. Unless they embark on another project.

Fortunately, the financial hit is only about 30¢ -- proofs from the 90s are cheap and plentiful. I'm more amused than anything else; it was quite too weird to be annoying.

I was a little puzzled by a missing proof 1993S Jeff I'd bought last weekend. I figured I'd left it at Evil Twin's place. It turned up today in my shoe. Outside the cardboard flip, which was also in the shoe. Methinks any chance of getting a PR69DCAM are now pretty minimal... I have NO idea how it got in my shoe, or why it took until today to notice it.

The results are in! The Jeffs are on the Jefferson Project page (which I was horrified to see I hadn't updated since 2012!). For the Ikes, a 1973S silver clad slabbed by PCGS and graded MS67. For the birthyear set, an East German 1 pfennig and two West German 1 mark pieces, mintmarked G and J -- since I already had D and F, that closes out West German marks. The Czechosloviakian 25 Haleru closes out Czechoslovakia. There's also 5 and 10 centavo pieces from the Dominican Republic, and a very upgraded East African 50¢. And in the category of "Ooo, pretty!" there's a 1961 Katanga 1 Franc, a 1964 Jersey 1/4 shilling, and a 1679 Chuck Jr. farthing. Well, I'm pretty sure the last digit's a 9. It doesn't look like anything else.

Wow, I haven't updated here for a while. Picked up a few for the Jefferson Project; mostly recent BUs and proofs, but one older one, a proof 1954 with very very subtle rose and blue toning on the reverse that I'll never be able to capture photographically. I've decided that I'm going to end the collection with the end of the classic Schlag portrait. I just can't work up any enthusiasm for the current Miss Hathaway nickels. So I consider the Jeffs to be a closed series which I shall complete, rather than one that needs to be maintained annually.

Swung by the bank to get some cash, decided to get a roll of dollars, and asked if, perchance, they had any half dollars. Four dollars worth, so I handed over a fiver. She handed back the halves... and then a dollar coin. A 1971D Ike in gorgeous shape. I'm going back to that branch.

Afraid I don't know anything about its value, but nice find! Wish my yard had stuff like that in it.