You're Paid A Visit By The Coin Fairy

I would get a confederate half dollar, and do a complete set of 1860-O coins hopefully all MS quality. If by chance I had any money left over I would do another set of circulated 1860-O coins. All the coins could be graded of course and I would probably sleep with them at night I would be so happy

Similar to TJB17, I would complete my 7070 in nice quality grades, as well as buy the additional gold page and fill er up!




You and I both!

I like your line of thinking here, Tim!

At least a portion would go to making the folowing aquasitions:
1) A common St. Gaudans Double eagle for around spot
2) A 1876 S Trade dollar
3) some more 1800's coins from my want list, and few that arent.
4) A few proof 'Roo's and a '94 or '96 CSM
5) a proof ASE or two

The rest, I do like Tim: "buy" $1 coins and spend them on things I need.

1) Lots of cheap stuff... ridiculous lots of cheap stuff, some might go for resale later (and by "cheap", I mean the several-coins-per-buck sort of cheap - anything above $1 isn't cheap enough unless silver)
2) Buying some small change at shops (ideally: numismatic shops - I know a few of these), as in asking them to change a $100 bill into coins... that counts as spending on coins right? and if it's actually denominated in dollars I could just exchange it for 2500 rubles when it's actually 3100 or whatever, so both I and the shop get a profit
3) A few cool old coins I always wanted but couldn't afford because they were worth $50 or $100 or $200 or somesuch (such as some rarer 18th century Russian pieces, and a little bit of gold)
4) If I have anything left, give it away to whichever adult relative I meet first (likely mother) to exchange for normal money, then if the relative happens to be very nice they can give some of the normal money back to me and I could probably spend it just fine (and even if they don't, well I already bought what I wanted, so what's the problem now?)

The coin fairy has already visited me.
I have something more numismatically valuable to me than any coin:
I have a lifelong love for numismatics generally, but I would still like to know more.
I can share what I have, but nobody can steal it from me.

While undoubtedly much of it would go on coins for my main collection (I still have many gaps and lots of coins I'd like to improve upon) I think I might also splash out of a few numismatially interesting (to me anyway!) items that fall out of my normal interests.

For example, I quite like this:



The history of it is that during the English Civil War, several towns, including in this case Newark, were obliged to produce coinage from materials to hand. So silver plates and bowls were cut up and the pieces stamped with the value of the 'coin' based on weight.

Newark is particularly well known for such pieces, many of which were subsequently pierced so that they could be worn as mementos or Royalist badges. Or possibly since Newark was besieged three times by Parliamentary forces, and during the final siege there was plague in the citadel, the mementos were considered lucky by survivors.

Quite why this one is engraved thus is unclear. But it's a nice piece both of numismatic and historical interest to me.

Another item I'd probably buy is a 'touchpiece'. But I'll save that story for another day!

So, remind me again Tbone. Exactly when is the fairy arriving with my cash?

This would make my MS65 or higher classic commemorative hunting a lot easier. Current total in my collection=0.