I've been buying 1973 (my birth year) Eisenhower dollars. Here are some pictures of them, along with pictures of a silver Canadian dime with King George on the obverse. I'm waiting for them to come to my mailbox. All pictures are by the sellers.
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Just spent about $550 on junk from my dealer...I scored like never before. Here is the list of notable "album fillers." 1916-D 25c good, 1898 25c VG-F, 1893-S 25c AG, 1917-S x4 AG-G 50c, 1917-D AG-G, 1918-S AG 50c, 1918-D x2 AG-G 50c, 1920-S x2 AG-G 50c, 1923-S AG 50c, and about 20 barber quarters in the mix. All of the $20 face 50c's were walkers!!! WOOT! 17x face for my junk tonight!
That's great history right there! You have to wonder who's hands they've touched throughout all these years......
I pulled this one out of a BWR tonight. It's not in bad shape for being 105 years old and still in circulation, doing what it was intended to do. This is (obviously) the oldest Lincoln cent I have found (my previous record was 1910) and (obviously) the first VDB I've found. I have a couple more VDBs that I purchased and the VDB mark on this one is much stronger than on the other two (on one of them you can barely, and I mean BARELY see the VDB, even with a magnifying glass.)
What I like about this assortment of old and worn coins is that they bring back my initial wonderful memories of my beginnings in coin collecting. I was given a small assortment of similarly old and worn Barber dimes and quarters, Standing Liberty quarters and Walking Liberty halves from my grandmother in 1969. A second lot was given to me as a gift in 1980 after graduating from junior college. These old coins were later augmented with other circulation finds that would be encountered over the next 10 years, the oldest two coins found in circulation are my 1834 Bust dime and an 1852 Liberty Seated dime. The coins are flat and stack like industrial flat washers. These coins had seen many, many transactions in time, been to many places, kept in many pockets and purses, bought many items. Were they minted for a purpose? Absolutely. Are they collectible? Some would say no, better to go to the melting pot. It's "junk silver," a term I abhor. I say they ARE collectible and not just for their bullion. They are history. They are commerce. They are value. They stimulated a 9-year old boy to collect coins. They are worth much more. I still own all these coins given in the spirit of enjoyment, love and scholarship 45 years ago.
Wow. Thats an awesome story. Luckily I have a dealer who only collects barber dimes, but he leaves the rest of the Barbers, Walkers, Standing Quarters, etc in the "junk." I too love the "where has this coin been and what has it seen" aspect of collecting.
My very first coin was purchased from a junk pile 65 years ago. It was a three cent silver,barely legible. I still have that coin. It is valuable absolutely not but it has memories attached to it.
I agree. MS 70 coins are nice, but the circulated coins have a story to tell. It's fun to wonder what all was purchased with these coins since they were minted and how many hands they passed through.