SECRET SANTA 2025!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, Secret Santa! I opened the package in front of my whole family and it was a big, fun, show and tell ordeal.

So many people do not even know that we had a three cent coin!

Some silver pieces in the mix and we had a good discussion about that precious metal going above $75 an ounce today!

I pull out the buffalo nickel and Catherine and the boy both call out “Tatanka!”

Thanks again, Secret Santa. You brought joy AND education to our Christmas evening with all these historical goodies!

 

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Thank You "Secret Santa" for the Two gorgeous coins and a "fatty" Cigar also!!

 

Opened my secret Santa gift.

4 sequential serial number $1 bills
1941 Washington quarter
1962 Roosevelt dime
1943 War nickel
Swedish 1907 25 Ore
5.75 gram silver bar/charm
And over a pound of pecans

Thank you Santa

 

Thank you Secret Santa. This was an awesome assortment. I was very impressed.
Can't say thanks enough.

 

Thanks again Santa. You were very kind.

#1 5 grain silver "bar"
#2 2 Canada one cent 1907 and 1913
#3 5 cent bar token from Chicago
#4 1913 Barber dime
#5 1929s SLQ
#6 1898s Barber quarter
#7 Licinius I Roman Empire (my first ancient coin)
#8 Strawberry token form Sarcoxie MO (new to me)

The photos aren't that great

 

The pecans are a great score! They are soooo expensive in the store!

 

Very cool!!!!

 

Things got busy on Christmas and I forgot to look here. The gifts are all nice; my favorites are Jersenbay's (Licinius has some pretty neat LRB's) and Silvermike's. Someone really put some thought into that one; a neat English coin and the reference book. The latter is my all-around favorite.

My numisforums Secret Saturn (we celebrate Saturnalia) was pretty generous. The GRB far East trade dollar is pretty neat and I'm not sure how much it's worth in bullion value, but with the outrageous price of silver, that alone is pretty generous. It adds to my only other modern, a Morgan, which unfortunately suffered environmental damage when unnoticed pinpricks in the stapled 2 x 2 caused it to create carbon spots at the pinpricks. So it's my only undamaged modern.

 

I believe everyone has gotten a gift, at least no one has mentioned they haven't!

 

That was indeed very generous of my Saturn. I'm very grateful for the stately gift. It also scratches the itch for a modern. It's about the same size as a Morgan.

Perhaps next year I can be paired up with him,with me as the gifter. I also really, really enjoyed last year's gifts.

I ended up buying my giftee an ex-Knobloch coin, an Antoninus Pius with great toning.

 

Last but certainly not least. Family issues and a nasty cold caught visiting the family delayed me posting. Some neat pickups. Including my first ancient coins

 

OK, so I'm late...family stuff and doctors stuff (nothing urgent).
I am overwhelmed by my SS (not Social Security)!!

First a Cartwheel


Then a gogr...goar...fantastic looking Bavarian 3 mark!!!




Thank you SS (not Secret Service)