Indholdsfortegnelse for April 2019 i Coins

I was recently working in a bank and happened to be by the coin counter. The worker there was kind enough to let me look through the rejected coins. It was not as amazing as some people report, but there was some fun stuff, starting with a nice 1943 wheat cent and three Canadian nickels: 1947, 1949, and 1950. The 1949 is probably AU with very sharp hair detail. The last and oldest coin was a 1918 25 pfennig, probably in VF. Most of the rest of the coins were newer Canadian or just beat-up U.S. coinage. It was still a nice find for being in circulation, so never give up looking when opportunity is there. Bob K. Worthington, MN Wow, today at work I received as change from a…

WHEN I started collecting coins back in the 1950s, I initially focused on Lincoln cents. The main reason for this was cost: I could keep 50 Lincolns for every half dollar spent. I picked half dollar because that was my allowance through most of the 1950s. The key dates at the time were well known and the object of every collectors’ search. They were the 1909-S, the 1914-D, the 1931-S, and of course the Holy Grail, the 1909-S V.D.B. Of the big four, I found only the 1909-S and the 1914-D, two of each in grades from Good to Fine. Actually, the 1914-Ds were both Goods, and the 1909-Ss were in Fine. I obtained my first 1931-S through a trade involving one of my 1914-Ds. The 1931-S was in Fine,…

THE YEAR 1986 was the middle of the second term of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. On a high note, it had been designated the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. On a much lower note, it was the year the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff. But this was also the first year of what has become a remarkably successful program that came from the United States Mint: the gold and silver Eagles. For collectors of big silver, this was indeed the start of something big – as in one-ounce silver big. The regular issues From the get go, the idea was that the United States silver Eagle program needed to get up and going against other silver one-ounce coins that were already on the world’s markets and…

WITH THE rise of coin collecting as a national hobby in the late 1850s, the new collectors turned to two areas, old coins and those being currently being struck. Those with limited means usually began by collecting cent pieces, especially the Flying Eagle and Indian Head coins. The fascination with Indian Head cents lasted well into the 1920s when it became more popular to look for Lincoln cent dates. Today, there is a comeback for the Indian Head cent as interest continues to grow. As early as the 1880s, it was generally realized that some of the dates were more difficult to acquire than others, especially the 1877. As time went on, other dates also proved difficult to find in circulation, as well as some of the more interesting varieties…