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Today's Coin Show Finds.
Today's Coin Show Finds.
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.
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.
Too bad it wasn't a 1935-36 Voyageur.
This is what I got out on hand, the rest of my coins I keep in a safety deposit box:
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Where did you get the circulated Walking Liberty from? Change?
It looks like a one ounce Silver Eagle similar to mine. I have a 2015 proof version.
It looks like a one ounce Silver Eagle similar to mine. I have a 2015 proof version.
I saw that but it has a ding on the edge and I wondered if someone had spent it as a dollar. That would be a really cool find!
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.
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).