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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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So I finally opened mine, and what can I say... a huge THANK YOU to pyrbob! It's like some kind of cosmic joke or something... how I was talking all that time about the probability of reciprocal assignments, and ended up with one myself. (rggoodie, you didn't do that on purpose, did you?) What I got: an 1865 two-cent piece in what looks like VF (Numismedia says it's worth $30, but it's probably worth much more to me because that's the first time I touched one that wasn't holed) and a book of buy prices from 1934 (from first glance: crazy how so many coin types only have premiums for proofs, and even that barely; not so much crazy as unexpected that most commemoratives do have significant premiums). In the original picture, the date on the coin was fully visible; it's nowhere near as visible on the resized one, so I added a crop of the coin  Anyway, here are the pics:   PS: just in case, pyrbob, did you ultimately find out what exactly I sent you?  |
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Pillar of the Community
614 Posts |
Great present!
And to the other comment, yea the same things crossed my mind. What if I wrote my neighbors address, who has been known for "adopting" some of my coins.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
9866 Posts |
received mine today.An 1899 Victoria quarter and a 1920 fishscale.
Santa knows what I like.Thank you.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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  United States
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This week I sent out letters to those who had not received their letters.
Next week I will be sending follow up letters to those who are the senders of those who have not yet received.
Keep smiling
Check is in the mail :)
'catch em doing something right"
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Pillar of the Community
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This is exactly why I choose to have my recipient located in the USA where I live. I hate customs and shipping to other countries.
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Moderator
United States
23553 Posts |
Santa's little secret for this year
for the first time - this year Santa tried to assign with just a few exceptions All US members to US members
Australian Members to Australian members, Canadian members to Canadian members and European - Asian rest of the world members to the same group even assigned Philippines to Philippines.
Even so we have some delays, some people who are "off shore" some serving in the military.
"Patience Grasshopper "
rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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United States
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Yep, haven't received mine. :( Strange considering the fact that I live in Northern New Jersey... We must have the same postman Tzarmarko. Still waiting for mine as well. But, once the snow starts flying here in upstate NY we only get our mail when the sled and dog teams can get through. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1888 Posts |
Yay! Finally received an envelope postmarked 1/2 with treasure inside: two Washington quarters, a 1957 and a 1964. One had come out of its flip and was sliding around loose. It's amazing these arrived safely, because the right side of the thin paper envelope was ripped open in two places by the auto-sort machines, leaving plenty of space for a coin to fall out..  but amazingly, neither did! Thank you very much, my S/S from NJ, for augmenting my stash of argentum! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This is exactly why I choose to have my recipient located in the USA where I live. I hate customs and shipping to other countries.
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Valued Member
United States
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Mysilveryears, if you just received yours, why wasn't your name on the last list rggoodie posted on 1/8?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1888 Posts |
@TJB17: Because I did not actually get a chance to retrieve and open the pkg until 1/12?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
DBM,
By fish scale do you mean a five cent piece?
US collectors use the same term to describe the 3 cent silver piece
which is even smaller.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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US collectors use the same term to describe the 3 cent silver piece which is even smaller. And Russian collectors use the same term to describe wire money (copecks and smaller denominations), which are even smaller than 3 cent silvers (16th-century copecks are nominally 0.68 grams, pretty much everything else is smaller and lighter). |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1411 Posts |
Canadian Fishscale is a 5 cent silver.
Same as for Newfoundland.
But US is a 3 cent silver....
The one thing that is common between them all is that they are the smallest silver coins that circulated.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1195 Posts |
Those things sound ridiculously easy to loose |
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