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While I can show the progression of my collection in the order in which items are added to this thread, it makes it difficult to see how the styles of the medals progress through time. While it is not complete, I have posted many of the badges on flickr and I keep the flickr set ordered by date. The items can be viewed in time order there.

Very nice Bill. I like the set on flickr it does make it easy to view them all. Added anything lately. I certainly haven't. The prices have risen quite a bit and especially the two and three medal sets with the silver in them. I can't even imagine what the rare sets with the gold medals are worth these days.

Beautiful collection Bill. How many of the Pond items do you have in your collection?

I'm intrigued by the statement that you "made" encased pennies. Do you mean that you were a maker of encased pennies or do you mean that they had booths where you could make your own encased penny? I've never heard of the latter case? Rolled cents, yes. Encasing a cent, no? It sounds like an interesting story.

I've procrastinated on this long enough.

As I recall there were a number of machines that looked something like slot machines. The cent was already encased in an aluminum ring but you could put your name around the cent on the aluminum. You entered the letters and the machine stamped it into the ring. Don't remember how many you could get. If I can find mine I'll post a picture.

1795 1/24 Thaler, Hesse-Cassel.

18mm

 

This small billon coin was also known as a groschen.

Love the rampant lion on this.

Me too. Great looking coin.

Very nice. I always enjoyed my well used coins becuase of the history I could image surrounding them.

This is a great thread and I check it frequently. Unfortunately I have nothing to contribute or perhaps fortunately as I do not need another coin area to fuss over.

Nice coins tommy. I've nothing near this old. I guess I'll wait for the thread to cycle through again.

Art,

 

Canada has done a number of them in the past, those were all silver dollars, but some were only 0.500 fine, others were 0.800 fine. These latest ones are all $20 face value and contain an ounce of pure silver. The series done from 2000-2003 were part of a larger transporation series, so for each year there were 4 coins, one from each mode of transport: rail, auto, sea, air. I've only pursued the rail series. The newest series is focused solely on famous Canadian locomotives, and it started in 2008, so there arer now 4 coins in that series. In the new series, the first was the Royal Hudson, then the Jubilee in 2009, the Selkirk in 2010 and the D-10 in 2011 (this was also done on the 2002 issue I just got). It's a pretty fun series!

Thanks for the info. Makes an interesting collection if you're into trains.

I really like the train coins. How many are there in the complete set? Are they all silver? Are they dollar or half dollar size?

That's a great specimen note. I image they are quite difficult to find.

Just got a 1977 FRN $1 in change. It's in great shape for a note that old. Strong center crease but no tears or missing corners. Clean surfaces. No scan - can't get scanner working right now.

Can you tell that you've stumped me? I never thought of it before. The number of places, mints, years is so large the I've just randomly picked things up over the years. So, you started a new project; I'm putting together a page with as many of the coin producing states as I can find from the period 1789-1815 and will build new linked pages to those that I've collected at least one example from. The first major re-organization of my site in years frankly.

Interesting project. Can't wait for the results.

nice notes everyone.

Appearently Gettysburg was the first 2011 quarter.

 

Does anyone know how many Territory quarters there are? I've got DC, Guam, and NMI so far.

I believe there are six territories quarters.

Wash. DC

Puerto Rico

Guam

American Samoa

US Virgin Islands

Northern Mariana Islands

Got a 1957-D Roosevelt in change this past week.

I like having the pedigree on some of my coins. While I don't think the items that I have are significantly increased in value because of the pedigree I have been tempted a few times to acquire coins from collections such as the Eliasberg collection. I have a note that came from the Q.David Bowers collection. It's really neat for me because I've read so much of his writing and enjoy it so much.

Nice finds. I haven't done any searching in a long while. You folks have me enthused again. I'm asking for some rolls for Father's Day.

Very nice Jeff.

Very nice medal.

Beautiful notes.

Part of being extremely cheap is avoiding paying extra for so called pristine coins. (I admit that I do have one MS70 rated coin in my collection )

One of the things I enjoy about coins from that era is the obvious wear. These items were used and used and used. It's fun to think of all the things they may have purchased and all the people who may have had them.

That's a neat medal. It's amazing how many of these types of things were produced and sold.

Re: rounding of wear, maybe it isn't wear and it's just the flow of the metal on a worn die?

 

Which brings me to my next question: since the dies for many of these medals and coins didn't have long lives, what errors and varieties that we see in modern (think late 1800s US) coins won't exist on dies with short lives?

 

In other words, since heath care and veterinary care is so good these days, we're seeing new diseases and complications because humans/pets have never lived this long before! What "diseases and complications" are not seen on short lived dies?

That's an interesting question. I'm wondering if anyone has really investigated this and has an answer.

Very neat coins. I especially like the Genoans that you've pictured.

Great looking halfcrown.