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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 8384733, member: 101265&quot;]A buddy of mine has asked me to peruse his coin “collection” to see if there’s anything interesting. I’m far from the expert who should be looking but thought it would be fun to see what he had.</p><p><br /></p><p>instead of an organized collection he brought out 2 heavy duty duffle bags. I noticed he was straining a bit and when I picked them up I found one weighs about 50 pounds and the other 30. All coins plus a number of paper bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>my buddy who is pushing 80 said he’s been collecting coins since a kid and many of these came from his father. There’s also a number of mint sets too.</p><p><br /></p><p>the first batch I checked were all well circulated clad coins. But now I’m venturing into “the good stuff”. Lots of silver halves, quarters, and dimes. Barbers, Mercs and roosies. Vnickels and war nickels. Wheat pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a bag of foreign coins. I separated the silvers from the coppers and there are Reales, shillings, pounds, pesos, pfennigs and some I can’t identify. The oldest are a 1793 Reale , which somebody stamped with H.M. WHITEBECK CIRCUS, AND a 1764 20 Kreuzer, which is in very good shape. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also found 2 Of the first US commemorative coins for the World’s Columbian Exposition at the 1893 Worlds Fair. These were half dollars specially stamped for the occasion. Reportedly they did not sell well since few people wanted to pay a dollar for a half dollar coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I’m not even half way through. </p><p><br /></p><p>But that’s not what this post is about.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was scanning the Mercury dimes and thought I had found a 1941/2. I came to a screeching halt and ran to my microscope for a closer look. Rats, foiled again.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1487997[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1487998[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1487999[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1488000[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1488001[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1488002[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1488003[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1488004[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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