Counting Your Change...

[V.C. Brunswick]

Today's Coin Show Finds.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A. A. Weinman was a genius. His coin designs should never have been dropped.

 

[jamespowers]

Today's Coin Show Finds.

That dime is the stand out. You hardly ever find something that old in that condition. Now find a 1916-D in that condition.

 

[CONELRAD]

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


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

 

[LizzieMaine]

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.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

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.

 

[LizzieMaine]

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.

 

[jamespowers]

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:

 

[jamespowers]

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

Yes, silver is always better.

 

[Bushman]

This is what I got out on hand, the rest of my coins I keep in a safety deposit box:

 

[jamespowers]

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?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

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.

 

[Bushman]

It looks like a one ounce Silver Eagle similar to mine. I have a 2015 proof version.

Right you are. My uncle buys me one for my birthday every year.

 

[jamespowers]

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!

 

[Bushman]

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.

 

[jamespowers]

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.

Aha! Now I understand. Geez, that is a shame.

 

[03SVTCobra]

I save mine in 2 buckets. Use it for my puzzle fund

 

[F. J.]

$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).

 

[jamespowers]

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.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Just found a 2013 UK 10p in my till, passed in place of a quarter. That's sixteen cents American. Dear Bank of England, where's my nine cents?