First Journal Of 2011 posted by Bammer

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...not many mother mint coins in my collection.

 

Hello all,

 

First, happy new year to everyone!!! I certainly hope 2011 is a great year for everyone.

 

It's starting out OK for me. I have a Canadian nickel on the way for my Canadian Nickel set. Purchases have been slow lately, for a few reasons. Of course, Christmas time always leaves me a little short of cash. Secondly, there are 2 Stack's auctions coming up this month and as always, I have some watched items in both of them. So I need to watch my spending until the auctions are over. It seems I never have enough cash to buy everything I would like from auction, so I'll be thinking and watching to decide what I want to bid on. Finally, as you all may have noticed, I've deleted several sets. This goes back to an entry I wrote in 2010, I'm finding to do all the sets I wanted, cash was starting to be short again, so I've actually have finally defined my interests. (Yes I know I've said this before, but it's official now!!!)

 

So, good bye to most all of my mother mint (Philaelphia) coins. The only sets that will contain any are the buffalo nickels, indian head cents, mint state Sac Dollars and commemoratives. I'm limiting myself to my Wild West theme and western mints. However I do love the 2 cent pieces, so that will be my one concession to the Philadelphia mint. Oh, my Franklin Half set is untouchable when it comes to pulling coins out, so Philadelpia coins will remain there.

 

However, Philadelphia will be represented in my raw collection. I have a nice start on Liberty nickels and I'm also working on nickel three cent pieces and I've already written about my wheaties. Also, later date half and large cents will be represented as well.

 

I'm really wanting to get back to the currency side. I've picked up a few more specimen notes (more recent years) and I'm still wanting to do research on my Mexican speciemen notes this year.

 

So, I imagine 2011 will be another busy year coin and currency wise. I'm already starting to add coins to my Wild West mint custom sets.

 

Picture for this journal entry will be my raw 1907 Liberty Nickel, the obverse.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

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