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ALL HAVE PM-ed ME WITH YOUR FORUM NAME and MAILING ADDRESS Winners are: 1. mad258
2. COINAHOLIC
3. Scooby Due
4. SHAFTA9a
5. The_Duke
6. dustin43160
7. wolf-n-wa
8. AndrewC
9. arthrene
10.Moe145
11.Agosos (wrote to me for an OkeeDoke)
12.Adam_E
13.wheatguy
14.paul15. thru 20. Local Coin Club members. Thank you all for playing. Crossed off names wheezydog indicates I have addressed your envelope and they have shipped. You are getting completely random luck of the draw uncirculated coins from the middle grades of the rolls. Some are naturally better than others but this is the most fair way to do it I guess. Crossed off names in blue indicates winners wrote or posted and have received the nickels. If you do not get your coins after a reasonable amount of time write to me and I would trust that is the case and send out another pair. (while they last) 7/26/10 Everyone reports that they received the prizes. Great! Thanks!OKAY LETS START:Sort of a re-run on a previous theme. Lets go with stating a coin fact that is of use to the both beginner and seasoned collectors as well if possible. This time we will come up with a factoid about a type coin that you find interesting and might be useful information for everyone that reads this. Make it good. Everyone should pick a coin series that nobody else has chosen. Rules: 1. I will determine the winners in a way that I think is fair and completely by luck. 2. One entry per member. 3.US members only. I have traded with a few people from Canada, so if I have traded with you in the past, I'll let you play again. Anyone else from outside of the US, write to me and maybe I will be flexible on this. 4. You need to have at least 50 quality posts to participate and I might be the judge of that!  I have a plan but it is emailed to myself and deleted from this post. ( deleted the formula for winning before posting - but everyone wins! unless your factoid is really lame. ) The first 20 "first place" winners will receive one of each 2009 D and 2010 P Jefferson nickel. I will end this when I run out of prizes. When we get near the end, I will say for example, "Room for three more posts" which means I have only three sets left before contest ends. Here is a good example of what I hope to get from you people. Remember, this is not just about prizes, but it is also for educational purposes so we all might learn or find something new and interesting about coins. The topic should be about US and Canadian Type coins. On Jefferson NickelsSince the year 1969 up until 2009, the mintage figures generally exceeded 100,000,000 for each mints production of Jefferson nickels. Many exceeding 200,000,000 and 300,000,000 year after year. In 2009 those figures dropped to about 15% of the normal production for both Philadelphia and Denver making the 2009 business strikes rather difficult to find in circulation. This has caused many to buy uncirculated single coins, rolls and boxes of rolls at many times the face value.
The last time there was such a craze was with the 1950 D nickel. Many rolls were saved in uncirculated condition and a lot of speculation and investing in the short mintage nickels made the 1950 D a classic key coin. Some people lost a lot of money while others laughed all the way back to the bank.
Prices dropped eventually and leveled off for many years but the 1050 D seems to have a healthy renewed interest.
With lower mintages of in 2009 for Philadelphia at just under 40 million and Denver at just under 47 million, the 2010 Philadelphia just over 76,000,000 at and Denver at about 34,000,000 are at a pace to be just as scarce and difficult to find as the 2009 issues.
It is unlikely that prices will rise above the initial online single roll prices that these coins can boast about but for the average collector looking in pocket change for an example to fill out his set may have a challenge for some time to come.
The reasons for these lower mintages recently are most likely because of two factors. The Federal Reserve has many 2008 nickels still in storage and the cost of producing US nickels has exceeded the face value of the coins.
There is the possibility that a new metallic composition will replace our present 25% nickel 75% copper coin.Edited by TNG
07/26/2010 7:58 pm
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Can't Wait!
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Cool hope it aint that "mastermindturnyourmindtomush" game. WOLF
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Strike DoublingMost often doubled dies and RPMs will show overlapping images that are rounded and in relief with some degree of separation between images; " Strike Doubling" appears as a shelf-like extension next to the affected design(s). On uncirculated coins, the shelf often has a shiny appearance identical to what you'd see on a fresh scrape. This is because the original Mint luster was destroyed by the scraping of the die on the design when the shelf was created. " Strike Doubling" is often referred to by others as: "Machine doubling," "mechanical doubling," "chatter," "die bounce," and a host of other terms. They all refer to the same basic type of doubling. It is very common on many dates of U.S. coins and is not considered particularly collectable by most specialists. No value is given this coin as it is considered a form of damage on the coin occurring after the coin was struck
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The word "dime" is an anglicized version of the word "disme" (pronounced "deem"), meaning tenth. The word is traced back to Simon Stevin van Brugghe, aka Simon Stevinus, aka Stevin. Stevinus invented the decimal system as a convenient alternative to the fractional system that was being used in mathematics. He published a paper, called 'De Thiende' in 1585 under the name Stevin. It was immediately translated to French, and was translated to English by Robert Norton in 1608, and entitled 'Disme: the art of tenths, or, Decimall arithmeticke.' Although the decimal system won a fair amount of acceptance in the scientific community it did nothing for currency. Stevin's paper was republished in 1634. The article found favor in the American Colonies, and when the United States won its independence, the founding fathers, saw the decimal system monetarily as a way to make a dramatic change from the past. Among the first coins issued by the United States was the 1792 Half Disme, and the 1792 Disme. Within a couple of years, the word became "dime." whew hopefully I didnt spell anything wrong! hehe |
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Back in 1975, I was 13 at the time, the yearly proof set included a San Francisco proof Lincoln Cent. That might not sound like a big deal, because collectors know that there were "S" mintmarked cents in all the proof sets 1968-1974 as well. For the first time ever that proof San Francisco cent became a proof-only "S" cent. Buying the set for the $7 issue price became the only way for collectors to get an "S" cent for the year. Because I was extremely reluctant to crack one from one of my two proof sets, I bought one through the mail for $15. I still have it and it sits in my Dansco (w/proofs) worth a fraction of that. |
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1966 Aussie 1c coinOn the 14th of February 1966 Australia was introduced to decimal currency.The lowest denomination was the 1c coin,a round bronze coin (17.5 mm diameter plain edged) featuring on the obverse a crowned head of Elizabeth II facing right, around, ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 1966. The reverse features a feather-tail glider; the denomination numeral 1 is left of the head and the artist's initials SD below it's body. There were 412.1 million one cent coins made in 1966 at 3 different mints,Royal Australian Mint-146.5 million,239 million Royal Mint Melbourne and 26.6 million Royal Mint Perth.Although there is no mint mark,there are slight differences that will indicate where the coin was minted.The Melbourne coins have the first whisker (on the left,nearest the rim) blunted, Perth coins have the second whisker blunted while Canberra pieces show no blunting. The Australian one cent coin was taken out of circulation in Feb 1992.The 1968 1c has the lowest mintage of 19.9 million.In 1986 and 1991,the one cent coin was mint set issue only.There is also a 1c coin issued in the 2006 mint set.  
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Canadian Ten Cent Pieces- 1936 DOT Variety- Early in 1937, while the Royal Canadian Mint was awaiting the arrival of the master tools for the new coinage for George V1, an emergency coinage of 10 cent pieces dated 1936 and from George V dies is said to have taken place. To mark the special nature of the coinage, the dies bore a small raised DOT on the reverse under the wreath. Although, the mintage of the 1936 DOT variety is claimed to be 191,237, only 5 examples are known to exist. So... watch your change, you could be rich.  |
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Coins Don't Smell, You Do
Scientists have sniffed out the reason for the musty, "metallic" odor you smell after handling coins or touching metal objects. A new study finds that the smell of iron is, ironically, a type of human body odor, created by the breakdown of oils in skin after touching objects that contain the element. When touching objects made of iron, perspiration from skin causes the iron atoms to gain two electrons. The doubly negative iron atoms react with oil in skin, causing them to decompose, forming 1-octen-2-one
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The Fasces; The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of white birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe (or sometimes two) amongst the rods, with the blade(s) on the side, projecting from the bundle. It was used as a symbol of the Roman Republic in many circumstances, including being carried in processions, much the way a flag might be carried today. The reverse of the United States "Mercury" dime (minted from 1916 to 1945) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch. 
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Nice job on the posts so far. If possible, try not to copy and paste something from a google search. You can do better than that, original posts are nicer as long as they are accurate. On the other hand, obscure stuff like Scooby posted is pretty cool stuff too no matter where it came from.
w-dog "I say Scooby, My dog has no nose!"
Scooby "How does he smell?"
w-dog "just awful, bloomin' awful!"
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The Franklin half DollarThe " Franklin half" was minted from 1948 to 1963. The coin pictures Benjamin Franklin on the obverse and the Liberty Bell on the reverse. A small eagle to the right of the bell was necessitated by law; ironically, Franklin himself had opposed the selection of the eagle as the US national symbol, preferring the turkey as a "more noble bird". A bill rushed through Congress after the assassination of John F. Kennedy caused the Franklin half to be replaced by the current Kennedy half dollar in February 1964, nine years before the design would otherwise have been eligible for a change. The one notable error in the series of the Franklin half dollar is the "Bugs Bunny" error, so called because damage to the coin's obverse die resulted in a split in Franklin's upper lip, giving the appearance of prominent front teeth. The damage to the die resulted from the obverse and reverse dies striking each other without a coin planchet in between. The error is found in 1955 coins minted in Philadelphia. There is also a 1961-P Proof doubled die. Well-struck uncirculated pieces showing full bell lines in the Liberty Bell design on the coin's reverse command a substantial premium.
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There is a certain tweak in the prizes. I am giving away pairs only and the conditions of the coins are from the middle range of what I received in the roll. The top 10 from each roll are mine mine mine. The bottom 10 from each roll are not included and the middle 20 of each roll are the prizes. The coins are not perfect by any means. This seems to be the way things go with UNC rolls anymore. To get a MS67 or MS68 business strike would be a real prize and quite scarce due to the handling of these coins by the mint. So the first 20 players to post a decent post from the US or my Canadian partners I traded with in the past will all win. I will close the contest at 20 entries. Thanks, that's the best I can do.  ( I'll get your addresses via PM when the contest is over, please wait til then. ) Edited by TNG
07/09/2010 7:42 pm
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