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Mexico a beginning of a collection

Posted 11-08-2009 at 08:28 PM by chip

I have sort of followed my inclinations and opportunity and I noticed today I have about two dozen examples of mexican coinage. My dad left three Mexican coins in his estate, a 72 moreles peso, a 68 cuahmotec 50 centavos, and a 1950 25 centavos.

Mexico had the first operational mint in the new world,established in Mexico City, still operating today, the mint mark is a large M, small o, expressed in various ways thru its history. There are numerous branch Mexican mints but the Mexico...

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Eating the elephant

Posted 10-25-2009 at 03:04 PM by chip

When faced with a daunting task, it can be overwhelming. It does not matter what sort of task or goal it is. In my nature there is that part of me that wants what I want and I want it now, not later BUT NOW.

This is the essence of immaturity, the babe that cries for a suck, the toddler wailing for a piece of candy. It is in most all of us, that are human, and in most all societies it is just a part of human nature, raw and UNformed, UNinformed, UNdisciplined.

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My oldest coins

Posted 10-15-2009 at 10:48 PM by Billy Kingsley

I thought I would add this post to my blog as I recount my 10 oldest coins, and 5 oldest US coins, as of 10/15/09. It might be interesting to see how that changes throughout the years!

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Here we go...
#1 Circa 300 BC Greek, possibly Sicily/Syracuse
(seller's pic)

#2 121-122 AD Rome, Hadrian, As. It looks a lot better in person!

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Silver Dollars

Posted 10-11-2009 at 07:08 PM by chip

As I have posted before, my interest in coins has arisen out of settling my late dads estate. My father was 79 when he passed last february. He had lived in the same house for almost 60 years.

Living in one place like that for all that time, things tend to accumulate, when people move often some of their stuff does not move with them, it is given away, it is sold off at a rummage sale, or it is just left behind. My dad was divorced from his second wife back in the early 80s, so it...

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I did something crazy.

Posted 10-03-2009 at 01:35 PM by Billy Kingsley

Well, I went and did something crazy. Totally out of character for me.

I joined the NGC registry.

Now, if anybody has been following my posts for the past 15 months, it should be fairly obvious that I'm not a big fan of graded coins. That hasn't, and likely won't, change. And, in fact, the only coin that I have that is graded is a coin from a company that doesn't even rate onto NGC's registry!

But...Odds are, I WILL end up with a graded coin or note at...

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