The 40s nickels often have a slanted striation to the metal as well as being that tan-yellow. I go through boxes of nickels pretty regularly and...
It was special for 8-year old me! :-) Still got it in my Buffalo nickel book. Good sharp date. I think I paid like 50 cents for it. I...
Read a rew posts back abould halves. I bought a box of halves two weeks ago. My bank had to special order it. No silver. No coins newer than...
I found a 1941S big S last night, going through a box of nickels. It was the rarest coin in the box. About a month ago, my Dad bought all of the...
Dad got me started with pennies when I was 8. Sometime that year, we went to a coin show in a local mall and I bought 2 Indian Head pennies for...
Oh another way to keep it interesting is to collect foreign coins. I always pull foreign coins out when I find them and recently started a...
You'd have to hoard an awful lot of them to lose significant investment gains. Anyway, I'm still building my collection, filling my primary and...
You're probably right about the proving part, Chris. The copper disc is just exactly the right size to fool me, though. Find it hard to think...
Sorry if I confused you. The copper disc came in another roll of dimes. I think it may be a copper core blank, but don't know. I found both on...
Silver in the ocean... well the coins probably all looked pretty rank. It's not a good metal for exposure to elements. If they were gold, then a...
Here's another shot of the back of that dime, along with the copper core, or whatever. The copper piece is just a bit smaller than a dime, so I...
Wow seriously? That's awesome!! Whew. Well I figured it was rare. Mine's circulated. Came to me from my bank in a plain old roll, so I have...
Lucky! I only ever found one merc some many years ago, and my uncle took it. Since then I've found 6 silver dimes, but they're Roosevelts....
Thanks! Yeah I got pretty excited when I saw it. :-) Is there an established value for such a thing? Just curious. It will stay in my...
Sorry, posting from my phone and it's fighting with the board software...
Curious to find out the value of this dime I found. It has a back and a rim, but no face (obverse). Found it this year in a roll from my bank....
Ah. Sorry! Newbie to the community. I did visit the shop in the next town over, looking for Dansco pages. They weren't very friendly to me...
Hi stldanceartist, LCS being... local coin shows? I haven't been to a coin show in probably 30 years. :-) Actually I had put my collecting on...
Great article! I've been looking hard for a large 41S and finally found one today. All of my coins are from banks and loose change (eg...
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