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Valued Member
United States
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11 steel pennies, 10 circulated, damaged and 1 mint condition 1949 5 pfennig 1944 2 francs my first Peace dollar (1923), nice condition, still has some luster to it All for 20 dollars         |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks ok to me. Won't pay the rent or for a tank of gas but you did ok.
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Valued Member
 United States
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I'm still not all that comfortable with numismatics yet, there were tons of Peace dollars and other dollars for 85 dollars and over and I wouldn't have a clue as to why they would be that expensive, I pretty much just wanted to add something new to my silver collection and I always pick up some steel pennies whenever I'm up there. They didn't have any scrap silver (or so he said) so I went with the next thing up, something in a bit more better condition than scrap, I still want a Ben Franklin half though, which he didn't have either |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I say you did fine  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You did OK. However, in the future keep away from those 1943 Cents that all messed or worn or damaged. There were many millions made and they are abondant on the market in much better shape. The other coins were what you really got so OK with those.
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Bedrock of the Community
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You did good, you basically bought a Peace dollar and got everything else as a throw in. Carls right about the damaged steels not being ideal, but since they were basically a throw in nothing wrong with that |
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
The guy at the shop was nice enough to just use my $20 so I didn't have to use my debit card too, the Peace dollar was marked for $25 and he said something about 10% off coins for the week or something. The steel pennies were in a huge bucket full of wheat pennies and none of the steel pennies were in any better shape than what I got except for the ones he put in the mylar holders, that one he had marked as 50 cents |
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Canada
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Nice dollar - the German and French coins are both pretty common and cheap, but they represent a very interesting era in Europe...
1944 - Vichy France is still churning out tons of aluminum coins to replace old francs with symbols of a free France... this was done in most German-dominated states during WWII, if the old currency wasn't demonetized entirely. Dutch gulden coins were actually outlawed because of their depiction of Queen Wilhelmina, who had fled to London.
1949 - One of the very first coins of West Germany, the "BANK DEUTSCHER LÄNDER" legend was only used in 1948 and 1949. In better condition, this would be worth a bit, as one of the downsides of a stable currency is that coins circulate for a very long time without being demonetized. I'm willing to bet most of these Deutscher Länder coins remained in use until the introduction of the Euro.
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Valued Member
United States
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I always look in the world coins bucket and pick out the 1940's ones but I didn't have time to go through the entire bucket because I just wanted to go to bed. I do like these Peace dollars, he also had the Philharmonic orchestra silver coins too, I was tempted at buying one of those but I wanted the Peace dollar instead |
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Valued Member
United States
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whenever I think of the steel penny I wonder what happened to all them.. maybe they ended up like the E.T. game for the Atari, bulldozed in the new mexico desert and cement poured over them.. or maybe they are in big vats at the bottom of the ocean or in vaults somewhere.
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Valued Member
United States
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They gotta be out there somewhere, I do like your Atari E.T. theory, how many were made? about 30 million of them?
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Posted 12/18/2013 12:06 pm
