ccg Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Stamp collecting was a 70s fad, along with Franklin mint stuff, and fish (piranhas anyone?). Once it passed, some prices never recovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 Picked this one up from the post office this morning... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 Nice half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzkirk Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 Nice Pick-up ! Beautiful Coin Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoRnholio Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 1973 Isle of Man 2 pounds gold. Mintage of 3,612. 15.9 grams of 22k gold, just shy of 1/2oz of gold content. I've always liked this design. It's been kind of a hard one to track down. I was originally looking for a sovereign of this type, but when this 2 pounds presented itself, I jumped on it. Did end up paying 6% more for it than I had hoped, damn customs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Nice gold coin. I like the design a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Neat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzkirk Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Beautiful ! Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 The mailman brought me this today, a date I've not had with some nice color too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Umm.. mailman shoulda come here first. How are you doing on your date set, Jtryka? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Nice half Jeff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Hmm...about that date set, I guess it depends on where you start! For the capped busts, I am only missing 1815 now that I have the 1822. For the reeded edge halves I am missing 1836 and 1839. For the Draped bust, there I am missing a lot, still need 1796, 1797, 1801 and 1802, and for flowing hair I still need the 1794 and 1795. So I guess I am close? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoRnholio Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 1976 Turks and Caicos Islands 20 crown Queen Victoria proof (600 grains of sterling silver, 1.16oz asw). I had seen the coins before but had no idea that they were actually minted at the Royal Canadian Mint. I also didn't realize that (some of?) the coins came with these little books about Queen Victoria's life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Hmm...about that date set, I guess it depends on where you start! For the capped busts, I am only missing 1815 now that I have the 1822. For the reeded edge halves I am missing 1836 and 1839. For the Draped bust, there I am missing a lot, still need 1796, 1797, 1801 and 1802, and for flowing hair I still need the 1794 and 1795. So I guess I am close? "Depends on where you start" indeed! Certainly you don't have a lot of holes left in the whole date run. But if you want 'em all, financially you ain't even started, if you don't have the flowing hair dates. You've started once you get those. But then there is the 1796 and 1797--the two draped bust/small eagle dates... which even in AG-3 apparently are up into five figures. You have your work cut out for you. Good luck! This will be quite an achievement. I am working a copper/nickel/silver type set, 1800-1964, myself... and there is a reason my set starts with 1800! Some of the denominations don't get too ridiculous in price back into the late 1790s but if you push back far enough just about everything has a type (much less a specific date!) that will annihilate your bank account in any grade I'd want to put in a type set (or any grade at all). [Dimes seem to be an exception; I might stretch my budget a bit and squeak into a small eagle reverse (and pull a tinfoil clad one out of circulation too) to have a complete dime type set but I want to put off thinking about that until I'm a lot closer to getting my 19th century types done.] Conveniently for half dollar date collectors like you, there is a type change in 1800; the heraldic eagle belongs entirely to the 1800s (starting in 1801 so you can say "nineteenth century" without someone getting pedantic on you) while the small eagle is a 1790s design. If you get all of the 180x dates you have all of the heraldic eagle series. So you could just say you concentrated on only the reeded edge, capped bust and draped bust/heraldic eagle series OR you can say you stuck to the 19th century. If I am not mistaken you do not have any 1790s dates yet at all, so this might be a convenient way to move the goal posts closer and be able to someday declare victory without a second mortgage. By the way, did you get both 1807s (the draped and capped bust), or are you satisfied to just have any ol' 1807? My favorite purchase from Pittsburgh ANA is something right up your alley: an 1807 Draped Bust half. I also picked up an 1839 (reeded edge, "Half Dol"). Still looking for the "50 Cents" sub type. And I might decide that 1807-08 is a different sub type in which case I need one of those too. (And we won't discuss that I need seven more seated liberty halves what with all the subtypes...) Anyhow. I am finding this pre-1840 stuff (or maybe it's better identified by the initials "JRCS") more and more interesting, that's for sure. Between them and Seated Liberty sub-types for all the silver denominations I have my work cut out for me. Meanwhile, you've picked an area that has quite a following... you might even start delving into die varieties and someday qualify to join the Bust Half Nut Club--I think they also do Draped Bust. I'm a confirmed type collector, emphatically into that kind of minutia, so I will never make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Steve, I think I have maybe 40 die marriages, so I'm a ways off from the BHNC, but I'll get there someday. As for the 1807, that was the date of my first DBH, but later I got the CBH as well, just the common 50/20 variety. As for finishing this set, I am fortunately not working on deadline, so it will get as complete as it gets! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 1976 Turks and Caicos Islands 20 crown Queen Victoria proof (600 grains of sterling silver, 1.16oz asw). I had seen the coins before but had no idea that they were actually minted at the Royal Canadian Mint. I also didn't realize that (some of?) the coins came with these little books about Queen Victoria's life. Very nice Matt. I hadn't seen this before. It is a very nice way to "display" this nice piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Can't say I've seen the book version, only the single and pair (with the 1/2 ounce gold version) in what looks like plasticized cardboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 31, 2011 Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 Here's another one that came today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Nice half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Decent wear too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 The mailman delivered this today. B046 1980 ANA Midyear Series 1896 Educational 5 dollar reverse by UGotaHaveArt, on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 and this too. B151 Stampshow 1991 Victory Stamps by UGotaHaveArt, on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 I assume those are printed on cardstock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Nioe one Art, I think the Educational $5 has to be my favorite banknote design! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 I assume those are printed on cardstock? They are. Intaglio printed on thick stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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