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Picked up six boxes of dimes on Sat morning, nothing fantastic, found: 3,2,2,0,1,0 = 8 Rosie's
Working on a $50 cent bag, avg take so far, still working on it, silver comes first. Still hoarding copper however.

 

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2 boxes of halves today:
Box one: 2 40%ers
Box two: Skunk

 

I'm trying to figure out where to go tomorrow.
I looked at all the nickels and of course the 1939 was the oldest one. No silver. Sure need about 150 nickel flips.
The pennies gave up one awesomely gold tone 2008D.
Two wheats I didn't need so on to the next guy.
In nickels it surprised me that no 2009 showed in 8 rolls.
Need a P and a better D.

 

I hope that next guy is me! I can't get enough wheats for my collection.

 

Hit me with a PM and I could conceivably send you some wheat. Of course no key dates but good solid wheats.

 

5 BWR and 10 CWR yielded four rolls of BU 17Ps, 6 pre-64, a couple hole fillers, a Canuck Nickel and a 20 pence piece. First 20 pence piece CRH. Little man will be excited for the additions to his collection.

 

Nice finds! I know that Matthew Dent's "jigsaw puzzle" designs are a little tricky, but you should rotate that part of your image about 90 degrees clockwise, so that his initials are at the bottom.

Christian

 

My goodness! A coin jigsaw puzzle? I adore jigsaw puzzles! Coins are awesome and puzzles are awesome. A coin puzzle? Double awesome!!
(We should have one for the USA. And the UN should ask each country make a coin that is a puzzle piece that all fit together.)

 

Thanks. I sent you a PM.

 

@NLL
Congrats on your win of the give away! Very exciting! And as I am sorting through my wheats I see I have so many of some years and various mints. After you see what you can get to fill in your 'holes' from @davidharmier60firefox you can let me know what you still lack. It's possible I can provide you some of those.

 

A jigsaw puzzle? That's too cool to not google to see the image.

Finding out it's part of a jigsaw puzzle excited then your following message hyped it even more!

 

Thanks! My day keeps getting better and better!

 

Almost. When Dent won the design contest roughly ten years ago, I found his idea to be a refreshing change. (Here is an interview, with the single designs and the set at the bottom: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/designs-on-your-money/) Problem is that nowadays the penny/pence coins do not show parts of the £1 coin any more, as the latter has a new design. Also, if the UK should at some point decide to phase any denomination out, the puzzle would be incomplete.

Christian

 

I think the link that chrisild posted is what did it for me! Check it out. It has a picture of all the coins together at the bottom of the link and they all go together to fit the design on the one pound coin!

 

Yes, I was reading about that. Still, it's a neat idea that with some planning for such phase-outs, might be great fun. Perhaps some private coin minting company could make a piece to fit into the missing piece spaces. The last jigsaw puzzle I worked (a couple of weeks ago) ended up missing a piece. I do not know where it went. I imagine it is hanging out with one of my missing socks.

 

Nice! And the interview was great. The artist sounds cool.
I wonder how traditional puzzle shaped coins would work? Couldn't be used in machines but could be spent and collected. I could see EU doing it because they have one currency across many countries. (They better do it fast before there are more 'exits.')

 

Right, the UK will soon be out, but that is of course not a euro country anyway. Of the other 27 member states, 19 have the euro, and 8 do not. Don't think there will be more or less in the foreseeable future. And yes, "puzzle piece" shaped coins would not work in vending machines.

But in terms of euro collector coins, Latvia for example issues quite a few coins with innovative designs, see here. If you click on "Load more" at the bottom, you'll get to one consisting of two parts. Poland and Ukraine did something similar for the UEFA Euro Cup five years ago. Well, I am not really fond of such - almost always surcharged - coins made solely for collectors. And unfortunately (attention, end of off-topic comments ahead) such pieces will not be found in coin rolls.

Christian

 

@chrisild

Thanks so much for my breakfast reading material. Am going to enjoy it right now with my eggs, coffee, etc. Yummy, all of it together.


-----(a few minutes later)...
Latvia, huh? Some outrageous coins. Technically amazing and beautiful, too. Who knew Latvia was busy making the coolest coin designs? Oh yeah, you did @chrisild!

 

Through 4 rolls nickels. Found a decent 2007P. A nice 97P &D.
A 69P and a 48P.
Still have yet to see a 2009 of any sort.
And 1979 seems to be a tough one to find too.

 

2009s are more common in customer wrapped rolls. Hit up your friends and raid their coin jars. 2009 wasn't that long ago, so they're out there, but it was a lower mintage year.