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Counting Your Change...

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Today's Coin Show Finds.

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CONELRAD

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Although I can't claim to have found these in my pocket, they are a bit out of the ordinary.

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Mid-1930s sales tax tokens from Alabama and Louisiana.
 

LizzieMaine

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Somebody stuck us with a Canadian Loonie the other night -- minor Canadian coins have always passed at face-value here, but we draw the line at the dollars. But I got at least a dollar's worth of fun showing the kids how it can stand on edge, and then using it in a coin-snatching demonstration.
 
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Somebody stuck us with a Canadian Loonie the other night -- minor Canadian coins have always passed at face-value here, but we draw the line at the dollars. But I got at least a dollar's worth of fun showing the kids how it can stand on edge, and then using it in a coin-snatching demonstration.

Too bad it wasn't a 1935-36 Voyageur.

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LizzieMaine

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I carry a 1923 Peace dollar my grandmother gave me on my tenth birthday and sometimes plunk it down on the countertop to show the kids what Real Money used to look like -- having been raised on modern Mickey Mouse coinage, they're always astounded that such a thing ever existed.
 
I carry a 1923 Peace dollar my grandmother gave me on my tenth birthday and sometimes plunk it down on the countertop to show the kids what Real Money used to look like -- having been raised on modern Mickey Mouse coinage, they're always astounded that such a thing ever existed.

And you can tell them how that dollar is worth at least twenty of today's dollars. :doh:
 

Bushman

I'll Lock Up
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I saw that but it has a ding on the edge and I wondered if someone had spent it as a dollar. :p That would be a really cool find!:D

Actually, that ding is from when I dropped it and shatter the case, which is why it's loose and not with the rest of my collection.
 

F. J.

One of the Regulars
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The Magnolia State
$12.50 in silver . . .

I went to the bank yesterday and got some half-dollars as I usually do, . . . except I got twenty-five that were minted between 1965 and 1969, with a predominance of ’67’s.

Kennedy halves made from ’65-’70 are forty per cent silver and the ’64’s are coin silver (90% Ag).
 
I went to the bank yesterday and got some half-dollars as I usually do, . . . except I got twenty-five that were minted between 1965 and 1969, with a predominance of ’67’s.

Kennedy halves made from ’65-’70 are forty per cent silver and the ’64’s are coin silver (90% Ag).

Good finds with silver at $15 an ounce nowadays. Geez, I remember when it was just $5.
 

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