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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 2151401, member: 25270&quot;]I stopped at a garage sale today. It was an older couple and they had a lot of collectibles, so I asked if they had any coins. They laughed and said, &quot;No, she just sold all her coins not too long ago.&quot; So I figured I missed out but mentioned that I mostly collect foreign coins. Well, actually they still had some foreign coins (people never seem to think of foreign coins as coins). She went in the house and came out with an album and two small bowls with coins in them. The album was really nice stuff, mostly from the 1960s from different countries with several silver coins, all of the coins in really high grades. I said they were nice but would cost more than I wanted to pay, but I looked through the bowls and saw some decent coins so I ended up buying them for $7. I was pretty happy when I got home and looked through them. About 6 smaller silver coins and several other coins from countries I collect that I didn&#039;t have yet. Also several tokens and a few ancient reproductions. I wanted to share this set of Lundy reproductions. If you don&#039;t know the story, in 1929 the man who owned the small British island of Lundy minted his own coins, called the half puffin and puffin. The British were not amused and put a stop to it, but the coins still exist and they are pretty neat. I am fortunate to have one of the original half puffins. These that I got today are a special set that was made in 1965 to commemorate the original owner&#039;s purchase of the island. I guess they made 3,000 sets, in three types of metal. I didn&#039;t get the gold variety, but I got the other two. I think they&#039;re pretty neat, and a nice garage sale find.[ATTACH=full]412856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]412857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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