In it's final hours.
Still plenty of great prices available for fillers and a few high MSs in 59's including a Top Pop 10c.

Have a great Night !

just so you don't forget

On 11/28/2023 at 9:11 PM, CIII said:

Boy, that's alot of 59's!  Which 1959 coins are you particularly fond of, or what coins were the hardest to part with?

Being my birth year I was fond of all but the 1c 59 and 25c 59, ok and the 5c 59d, were my favorite due to their strikes and liking those particular denominations. The 10c 59 I was pleased with due to it being rated a Top Pop in its category.

They will be missed equally.

narrowing what I'm going after and the result is the sale of the coins listed below.

Have a look-see and see if something catches your eye !

A few nice ones 58' flying eagle, 08' buffalo, couple very nice 59's(at least in my opinion & NGC)
...and a nice assortment of other 59's that had me in 2nd place for that year @ NGC.

Happy trails/bidding and thanks for looking !
 

Ed G.

Although I don't have a coin that was repurposed for a old fashion tool, I do have my modernized leveling (coin) tool that works perfectly after losing the rubber foot on my coffeemaker. ...and it's probably cheaper then buying a another rubber foot...haha.

 

Ahhh...pipe dreams
For those that wish to see what the yearly or cash payout may be after taxes for your state try here (MM game stats available also): https://www.usamega.com/powerball/jackpot    Ohio would let me have $216,260,073 (approximately)

For myself, I'd like to get a coin from each country in the world that was in existence in 1959. Not by simply buying the coin on the internet or local shop but to travel to each country and purchase it there, where feasible, and not a place where doing so could be life threatening.
    I think the adventure itself would be a greater reward than the coin(s).
Just me thinkin' out loud.

cough cough ... 59' is a Excellent year I might say 
Nice addition HH

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hoard-of-5500-roman-era-coins-found-in-germany-180979086/


 

Hoard of 5,500 Roman-Era Silver Coins Unearthed in Germany

The coins were buried in what is now the city of Augsburg around the third century C.E.

Livia Gershon

Daily Correspondent

November 18, 2021

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The coins span the reigns of Nero (54 to 68 C.E.) to Septimius Severus (193 to 211 C.E.). Andreas Brücklmair / Kunstsammlungen & Museen

Archaeologists in Augsburg, Germany, have discovered a huge collection of more than 5,500 Roman coins dated back to nearly 2,000 years ago.

The coins “are denarii, the standard silver denomination during the first through early third century [C.E.],” Stefan Krmnicek, a numismatist at the University of Tübingen, tells Live Science’s Owen Jarus.

Weighing in at a total of 33 pounds, the find represents the largest single hoard of ancient Roman silver ever found in Bavaria, Ancient Origins reports. Researchers found the trove in an old riverbed while conducting excavations ahead of construction of a housing complex. 

Augsburg, located about 40 miles northwest of Munich in southern Germany, started out as a Roman military camp built under Emperor Augustus between 8 and 5 B.C.E., notes the History Blog. The camp grew into the town of Augusta Vindelicorum, which later became the capital of the Roman province of Raetia.

As Sebastian Gairhos, head of Augsburg’s archaeology department, says in a statement, the money was probably buried outside the city in the early third century and washed away by a flood hundreds of years later.

He adds, “The coins were thus scattered in the river gravel.”

The treasure was worth 11 to 15 times the annual salary of a common soldier (between 375 and 500 denarii).

Other discoveries made at the site include an intricate oil lamp whose handle is shaped like a crescent moon. Monika Harrer / Stadt Augsburg

“This amount of money must have been enormous by ancient standards,” Krmnicek tells German broadcaster ZDF, per a translation by Arkeonews. “It [was] certainly not owned by someone who belonged to the lower social pyramid, [but rather] people who were active in the military or in trade.”

The oldest coins in the cache were minted under Emperor Nero (reigned 54 to 68 C.E.), while the most recent date to the time of Septimius Severus (reigned 193 to 211 C.E.). Rare coins from the reign of Didius Julianus, who ruled for just two months before being killed in 193 C.E., also appear.

“Augsburg’s rich history has now become even richer,” says Mayor Eva Weber in the statement, adding that the find offers more evidence of the city’s significance within the Roman Empire.

Excavations in the river bed have previously yielded a number of discoveries, including weapons, tools, jewelry and dishes, as well as an intact bronze oil lamp whose handle is shaped like a crescent moon. As the city announced in June, the finds suggest that Augsburg was the oldest Roman base in Bavaria. The artifacts provide evidence that women lived in the camp and that its earliest residents came from across the Roman Empire, including Italy, Spain, North Africa and southern France. 

During the Roman era, the Raetia province, which included portions of present-day Austria, Switzerland and Germany, was significant for its strategic position, per Encyclopedia Britannica. Raetia controlled two important highways—one connecting Italy with the Danube River and the other between Gaul and the Balkan Mountains. This meant the province could block routes that invaders from the north might use to attack Italy.

The city is planning a temporary exhibition of the coins, along with other discoveries from the Roman era, between December 17 and January 9. Researchers are continuing to study the coins, seeking information about their history and former owners.

 

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On 12/8/2021 at 4:34 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

@EdG_Ohio

Actually my question pertained to your coin, and by extension to all gold Buffalo fractional denominations minted in this century. It seems they do -- and I have since learned there are gold Buffalo nickels for sale, which I assume are gold-plated.  

My apologies I misread, yes, my particular coin does have a reeded edge although difficult to see in this Anacs holder. I may have it re-plasticized but not a huge priority.

According to this guy around 09'

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I haven't purchased from the U.S. Mint or elsewhere since the inflated cost of the new bullion coins except the transition between ASE type 1/2. (OK, I bought that pretty 08'-w G$25 buffalo )
You can never disagree that the more older and rarer of coins will always bring a higher premium but I've been purchasing instead some bars while the price has receded some and hope for the best in the future...or my kids/grand-kids future.
Avg. cost for this one was  $23.61 per oz, that includes any taxes, fees & S/H.

 

Overall I think it's a attractive coin but with the dings along the rims on either side and the softness of the hair and what appears to be some minor "scratches" near the PEACE and a few other locations.
I'm going to stick my neck out at AU58/MS60, perhaps high but I'm still a newb ... hahaha.
It would be easy for me to say higher due to the fact I really like the reverse on these a lot.

On 12/7/2021 at 10:41 PM, Quintus Arrius said:

@EdG_Ohio

I showed photos of your coin to my wife, a U.S. citizen born elsewhere and the question she asked bespoke of her total unfamiliarity with our coinage:  "How come we never get one of these in change?" I believe having seen Buffalo Head nickels posted by others on this thread, she confused the color of yours with theirs.  

You've done very well with your acquisition. I would be curious to know if, unlike the nickel, the various gold denominations have reeded edges.  

From what I've read so far a reeded edge has been used off and on through U.S. Mint history for some time now, most recent is the U.S. mints AGE 1oz 2021 coin. Main reasoning behind past practices is to help thwart trimming the AU from edges and counterfeiting.
I have to admit I'd have to research more on the various types this was done to in previous years starting in the very late 1700's.