Yeah, coins seem to be toning super fast. Must be climate change. :D
And still the best modern commem, in my humble opinion.
Agreed. Not enough wear to be VF. Probably dipped, but appears to retain some luster.
Probably a good idea.
@Pop70 this is the way to go. You can't turn them into coin collectors, but you can leave them a coin related memento of their grandpa. Until one...
I'm hesitant to respond since we're not going to agree on this and I don't want to precipitate an argument, but since you asked... No, I don't...
I made the same mistake at first too . . . we're so used to seeing bust halves, but dimes not so much.
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I'm not knowledgeable about this series. What should the edge look like?
I'll bet the majority of members here who started collecting as a child would tell the same story. The coins get relegated to the back of the...
Old coin designs were worthy of commemorating? Seemed more like an absence of real ideas to me. We'll have to agree to disagree on those. Agreed....
I think there were other factors contributing to the demise of stamps and BB cards, but yes, "too much crap" from the US Mint isn't helping...
I was using "OK" in a different sense. I don't collect US series, just types, so if I'm going to have only one example of a coin, I like it to be...
Seconded. Thanks to the OP for sharing.
One of my favorites too. Here's mine (color is way off; actual color is like Corgi's). One of these days I intend to pick up a better example, but...
Agreed . . . just like US, Canada, UK and pretty much every other major coin issuer. That's why I decided to limit myself to just EU countries...
As modern coinage goes, the €2 commemoratives are a reasonably interesting series (more so, I think, than recent US circulating commems). I've...
Mardi Gras beads are kind of like the 1960s. If you can remember them, you probably weren't there.
Exactly. Certifiying coins that really don't need to be certified. But hey, hawking them keeps Mike Mezack employed, so I guess it's OK.
You're worrying needlessly, Randy. It's what happens when we get older and start having "intimations of mortality" (apologies to William...
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