Woohoo! My first US newp in a while! (with GTG poll)

Whoopsie. Did I just open another Pandora's box?

 

To change the subject back to my US coin newps, here's the one I bought from @ToughCOINS.

I bought this 2001-P dime with missing obverse clad layer from him yesterday.

Not only had my Eclectic Box gotten light on US material, it was also light on moderns, with nothing "newer" than 1929 until I bought this yesterday. I'll send it off to PCGS along with a nicely toned 1944 cent I plucked from an amazing roll I once had.

I'm not much into moderns except for some World proofs, and have never had any interest in Roosevelt dimes (except when finding silver ones while detecting, or in change). Certainly I have no interest in clad Roosies.

But when Eclecticism is one's whole collecting philosophy, one must branch out and explore new things occasionally.

Besides, this one's from my daughter's birthyear.

 

ROFL

Unless, of course, his duties as Chairman of Wooderson Gallery & Rare Coins & Expert Grader are too strenuous. He may just be a busy man, slinging sacks o' Saints & Stellas seven days a week.

 

Back to the Buffalo, there is the matter of that one little dark speck (carbon spot?) near the rim at about 4:00 on the reverse, but I don't find that terribly distracting and it's more like a "Cindy Crawford beauty mark" kind of thing.

Good thing it's tiny, and not any higher up, or people would start all the "pooping buffalo" talk ...

 

And now, after @Deacon Ray did his digital magic, to match 'em to my standard format...



He even "shadowboxed" the one I didn't buy.

I ran out of "mad money" to splurge. It was either both the nickel and dime above, or just the half dollar below. I might go back for the half later - or not - depending on circumstances.

 

More than a few! I already have plenty, at less than half that age!

Man, it's still hard to get my head around the idea that there are now some Buffalo nickels over 100 years old. I'm just getting used to the idea of Lincoln cents passing their own centennial.

 

Hm. Weird. I've tested it. Works fine for me. Anyone else have that issue?

Try again?

Anyway, it's an MS65. Standard holder. Graded within the last 5 years or so.

 

That would drive me bonkers.

Our hotel property management system here at work runs off Fred Flintstone's Browser Internet Explorer, so that has to be our default browser, since the PMS doesn't play well with Chrome and more modern browsers. So anytime I send a hyperlink in an in-house email, or put one in a document, and you click on it, it opens in IE by default, and 2/3 of the time doesn't work.

Of course in my downtime, in the wee hours when my work is caught up, I'm on CoinTalk in a Chrome browser.