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Valued Member
United States
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Harmonica, thanks for the note. I appreciate your spending time with my writings. I'm Canadian, just happen to live in the U.S. I grew up in Peterborough, lived in Brockville and still have a cottage north of Kingston. :) I am a big believer in building a quality reference library of numismatic materials. Buy the books, read the articles, join the RCNA, ANA, EAC (if you like copper) and whatever local clubs are in your area. Learn and share. You will be deeply rewarded. |
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Valued Member
 Canada
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When I lived in BC I would have quite a few dealers ask why I collected NFLD coins. Was I from NFLD? Even though I wasn't I was always attracted to them simply because it's a closed set of coins and I can actually see myself getting one of every coin in my life time! Maybe not with all these new varieties anymore though!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I can say with pride I have completed the newfie 25 cent collection...
Now I'm working on my Cdn and Newfie Large cents
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Is there anything in the book regarding the identification of counterfeit coins? I am a new collector and this would be of great help to me. Thanks
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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@ AgCoinAu.. Quote:
I can say with pride I have completed the newfie 25 cent collection...  Me to! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3049 Posts |
Hoarder: you want to chat with nicklesguy (mike marshall) he's kinda the go to in these here parts for counterfeits... he may even be able to hook you up with a DVD.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Yep, I agree. The book doesn't go over counterfeit coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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If I ever get some spare cash I will gladly pick up a copy off this book. My Newfoundland collection is slowly growing.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I found my copy in the mail today.... popped in the DVD and starting skimming through the 475 pages... loved what I saw... and I'm excited to go through my collection to really look for the varieties.
My first impression is as follows:
The reading level is very simple (well simple enough that a knucklehead like me can fully understand the descriptions) I found the descriptions easy to understand with each topic that was being discussed.
The only confusing part for me was exactly how they derrived the population reports for each of the varieties... however as I said earlier I only scanned it.. so the information may have been condensed and mathematical details like that ... well for me at least require a bit of time to go over and digest.
The pictures are VERY good and the coins are quite attractive. There are some really nicely toned coins there so it's very pleasant to look at the pictures and determine the variety.
I personally would say that I'm still very green as a coin collector and I thought this DVD was a great addition to my reading resources and will create a higher level of enthusiasm when coming across newfie coins.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Glad to hear you liked it! As for the population reports.... Well... when you see something like the 1945 5 cent coin, that has 2400 Type I coins and 21 Type II that means Barry has personally examined 2421 1945 5 cent coins!
So all the totals for population reports are how many he has examined.
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03/23/2015 10:15 pm
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 Canada
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I recently received my copy. I applaud the author for taking this initiative. After thumbing through it, the layout and style the varieties are presented reminded me of Jack Griffin's style...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Was able to login to ebay and order the CD; am really looking forward to receiving it. I'm most grateful to SPP-Ottawa for the reference. I have a few varieties which I did not know about, specifically: https://goccf.com/t/243925And a few others which I had submitted to the old CONE group. I'm sure they are in your book. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Look forward to you posting some pics later on techwriter...
I myself just picked up a large lot of newfie 5 cent pieces and will be working on the varieties soon... pics to follow...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AgCoinAu, here's the 1885 Newfoundland 1 Cent: ==  ==  == the E/E in ONE on reverse
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I like it.. and from this thread it seems there's a lot of people that like the newfie material... I think this weekend if I have a bit of time I might go through some of my stuff and if I find anything interesting I'll post it up here too!
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