San Francisco Mint Sunday! Post yours also.........

And finally, this one I just added to the Giveaway Gallery, if you would like to enter the current giveaway for a chance to win it (or some different prize of your choice).

 

The giveaway comment (“and finally…”) was referring to the last coin in the sequence, which followed below the text. The Philippine peso.

I’m not giving away the Pan-Pac dollar. I just bought that one for my collection. It’s a $700 coin. I mean, sure, I love y’all and all that, but… c’mon.

 

Thanks. I love it, too. It’ll be a long time before that coin ever ends up in one of my giveaways!

I had the pleasure of visiting the Old San Francisco Mint in 1986, on the only trip I’ve ever taken out West. I bought a proof set there, and took advantage of where they had this big press you could strike your own souvenir medal on.

So I’ve visited the mint museums at San Francisco, Charlotte, and Dahlonega, but not Philly, Denver, Carson City, or West Point.

 

Oh, speaking of Philippine pesos, I posted the one from my giveaway stash above, but forgot to post the one from my collection!

It has really nice cartwheel luster, though I’m not totally enchanted with these photos of it.

 

Here's an early S-mint quarter eagle which was once on my old Holey Gold Hat.






I still have the hat, and wear it to coin shows, but alas, it is no longer covered in gold coins like it used to be. I sold all those during some lean times in the Recession.

It's just the plain old "Holey Coin Hat" now (no gold).

 

I was Rob Dobbs for several years, after my stepfather adopted us (I later went back to my birth name). But to honor my late stepfather's family, I knew my hat box had to be a Dobbs hat box. The hat itself is neither an antique, nor is it a Dobbs hat- but the box is a vintage Dobbs hat box.