or Why can I not find a single 2009 quarter in change...
Hi All,
I got some change at the bank today for a community yard sale I am participating in next Saturday. Besides fives and ones, I also got two rolls of quarters. Since I had them in hand, I figured I would take my chances and try and find some 2009 quarters to fill my extra whitman page.
Unfortunately, I did not find a single 2009 in either roll. I did find a bicentennial quarter, more of them seem to be popping up lately, Ma
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are more than mutilation.
Every coin we encounter in circulation has its history and the older the coin, the more more history has accrued. One of my favorite collections is my set of Chopmarked U.S. and Foreign coins.
A lot of people think they are simply mutilated coins but I prefer to think about the many hands through which the coins have paseed and the many merchants that placed their mark on the coin.
I have the following chop-marked coins in my collection:
1. U.S. - Trade Doll
Posting my thoughts
Now that we have put the Statehood Quarters behind us and are looking, sort of, forward to the upcoming National Parks series, I just want to weigh in on my top 5 statehood designs, since to go beyond five is to include mediocrity.
1. Hawaii - The only statehood quarter that really works well with the actual state incorporated into the design. The noble warrior reaching his hand out to those beautiful islands is both simple and striking with more than a nod to the wonde
To jayh749's tale
I recently registered a coin that I had just purchased on EbaY. When I hit the SAVE button, I got the dreaded message stating the coin was currently in the registry of some other individual.
NGC would contact them on my behalf and request they "release" the coin so I could add it to my registry. In my two years with the NGC registry, this is the third time this has happened. I think one of the coins was a proof mercury dime and the other was some very generic Roosevelt d
Or are they just waiting in a vault somewhere
It is so frustrating. I bought an extra page for my Whitman bookshelf album to hold circulation finds of the 2009 quarters. So far, and we are well into 2010, I have only found the American Samoa and Puerto Rico Denver Mint quarters in circulation. When I was filling my States album, I ALWAYS managed to at least find one of each quarter, although not both mints, before the end of each calendar year. I cannot believe how difficult it has been to
A little rumination on the allowance of PCGS coins in the NGC registry
I have been a collector for over 40 years but have only recently begun exclusively collecting coins certified by NGC or PCGS. Truth be told, the reason it took so long for me to enter this area was a kind of silly prejudice that I could HOLD my coins while those poor souls with slabbed coins could only gaze at their hermetically sealed beauties from outside it's plastic cell. Silly yes, but that's what I thought.
Now
I just need to be patient.
I have been working on a Winged Liberty dime date set for a few months now and have found the 1918 and 1925 seem to be very difficult to find. I recently bid on a 1925 which was bid up to, what I thought, was a highly unreasonable 50% over the listed numismedia value. Now I understand those values are just general guidelines but I also note that most coins, on Ebay or Teletrade, do not normally exceed those listed values by too much and often are obtainable for qui
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