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There's just no stopping you, Dearborn. Good for you.  |
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Lots of nice ASE additions, Dearborn! Great additions to your Franklin half set, GLB49! I find those first day covers quite interesting, bd251. |
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Quote:Great additions to your Franklin half set, GLB49! Thank you. It's coming along.
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There's just no stopping you, Dearborn. Good for you. Thanks GLB Quote:Lots of nice ASE additions, Dearborn! and thank you too Hokie!
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Just back from my trip to Europe which included a visit to Vienna, Bavaria, and The Netherlands (to see family). After a long trip by air, I arrived at the airport in Vienna a bit delayed and also had to wait a looong time for my bag to show up. I was basically the last one to leave the airport. That also meant I missed a train to the city center. At that point I decided to just take a cab. Little bit more expensive than the train but not by much. This choice turned out to be serendipitous as by miracle I passed a coin shop of all places one my way to the hotel. In fact, after checking in the hotel and wandering the old city, I passed several coin shops! And not just a small hole in the wall either, but really nice ones with exquisite window displays, housed in classical buildings. In the end, I believe I counted about half a dozen. At one of them, I bought the two coin folders ("münz blisters") show below for my collection of Coins of Composers.  Moral of the Story: if you want to go coin shopping, go to Vienna. This seems to be the Coin Capital of the World, with an endless selection of coins. |
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From Germany I got the folder with a 20 Euro commemorative coin of Beethoven and a 10 Mark 1983 DDR coin commemorating Richard Wagner and his Tannhäuser opera.   |
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Very nice additions, NumisEd!
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@NumisEd, I find your theme of "Coins of Composers" quite interesting.
Always nice visiting coin shops in places you travel. Sounds like you hit the jackpot in Vienna, however!
I've got to take a long vacation in The Netherlands at some point. We lived there for almost 5 years, leaving in August of 2002, and that was some of the best years of my life. We lived in the village of Wassenaar, between Den Haag and Leiden, and I worked in Rijswijk.
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NumisEd - Very nice coins and glad you returned safely from what sounds like a wonderful trip. I too just picked up a composer coin. George Frederick Handel on the reverse of a Warwickshire Coventry halfpenny. Handel is by far and away the rarest reverse of the series, and this was the first one outside of UK auctions I've seen offered since I started collecting this series. I was able to get this one as it's slightly stained, clipped and has a hit on Handel's nose, so it was in the budget, though it took most of it.  On another note I went to the TNA show over the weekend and didn't buy a single Two Cent Piece, and not from a lack of trying either. First time that I've actually went to a coin show and had that happen in probably over a decade or more. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1982, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC) #6202, Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4), Conder Token Collector Club (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS), & Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440Edited by westcoin
06/05/2023 07:54 am
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Glad to see you back safe, sound, and full of nice new coins to show off here Those are great additions to your collection. Thanks for posting.. |
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Great looking medal, westcoin!
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Lovely additions! |
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  A bunch of Brilliant Uncirculated Franklins showed up today from three different sources. 1948-P BU (3 coins) 1949-P BU (3 coins) 1951-P BU (3 coins) 1952-P BU (3 coins) 1962-P BU (3 coins) 1959-D BU (2 coins) 1962-D BU (2 coins)
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