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New Member
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G'day, I have a minor collection that I started around 50 years ago. Canadian halves mostly with various coins I found at auctions or in my pocket change added. My father-in-law passed 12 years ago and none of his children or grandkids showed any interest in his collection. It recently was officially passed on to me. (My wife inherited the house and yes, I had to stare at that box for over a decade wondering what was in it) I combined the two collections and started looking it over. I had been fascinated by half dollars ever since I started receiving one for my weekly allowance when I was 12 or so. I immediately sorted through them and......here comes the bad part: Grabbed baking soda and a toothbrush and started making them "shiny" Fortunately, I sat down for a coffee after cleaning around thirty of them and googled coin collecting. Imagine my shame and embarrassment.  After that, I went on ebay and found out what they were going for. "15 bucks for a 50 cent piece? Huh?" Which led me to the concept of melt values and junk silver. I bought 23 halves off of ebay before I reined myself in. After reading this forum and others for most of the day yesterday, I've calmed down and realized that I'd personally rather have a collection than a silver hoard. More to follow Edited by Saskman
09/18/2011 12:32 pm
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New Member
 Canada
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These are the coins I have:
Pennies:
1859
1919
1913 X 3
1920 X 2
1932
And half of a Culligan water jug full that I'll go through once the snow flies.
5 cents:
1906
1910
1918
1920
1931
1942 X 2
1944 X 4
1945 X 2
1947
1953 X 2
1955
1956 X 2
1957
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963 X 4
1964 X 5
1965 X 9
1966 X 45
1968 X 6
1969 X 2
Edited by Saskman
09/18/2011 12:37 pm
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New Member
Canada
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10 cents:
1904
1919
192?
1929 X 3
1930
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947 X 2
1948
1949
1950
1951 X 2
1952
1955 X 2
1957
1960
1961
1963
1964 X 3
1965 x 2
1967 X 235
1968
Edited by Saskman
09/18/2011 12:08 pm
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New Member
Canada
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Quarters:
1912
1913 X 2
1918
1919
1920
1929
1930
1932
1933
1935
1937
1938 X 2
1939
1941
1942
1943
1944
1947
1948
1949
1959
1964
1965
1967 X 89
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New Member
Canada
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Halves: That I cleaned: 1940 1941 X 2 1942 1943 X 5 1942 X 2 1945 X 2 1946 1947 1949 1950 1952 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 I don't remember cleaning any from the 60's. But these look pretty clean, I'll have to investigate further. 1960 1961 1962 1963 X 3 1964 1965 1966 Coming from ebay: 1941 1944 1950 1962 X 2 1963 1964 1965 1967 X 15 |
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New Member
Canada
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Halves in hand, uncleaned:
1903
1907
1917
1919
1940 X 3
1941
1942
1943 X 5
1944 X 2
1945 X 6
1946
1949
1951 X 6
1952 X 1
1953 X 3
1955 X 2
1956 X 3
1957 X 3
1958 X 2
1959 X 6
1960
1961
1962
1963 X 6
1964 X 9
1965 X 5
1966 X 5
1967 X 2
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09/18/2011 12:01 pm
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New Member
Canada
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Dollars:
1958
1959 X 2
1963
1964 X 2
1965 X 2
1966 X 2
1967
1968 X 10
1969 X 5
1970 X 13
1972
1973
1975
1979
1980
1982
1983 X 2
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Grabbed baking soda and a toothbrush and started making them "shiny" AAARGG... don't ever do that.  your early halves a worth a bit leave them be..  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Oh, BTW.. Welcome to the Forums.  |
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New Member
Canada
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My plan: Amazon doesn't have the Charlton book I see talked about here yet. I will check the book store here and see if they have it. I googled for a coin club in my area. Nothing. There was a coin/stamp/magazine/brew-your-own store (small town, small market, gotta make a living somehow) around 10 years ago which has since closed. I remember another old guy with coins for sale at the local craft/flea market type events. I know there are collectors out there, I'll find some. I want to keep at least one of everything I have. I am really interested in the large cents and would like to finance expansion by selling off the dollars and cleaned/excess halves along with the excess 1967 silver I have. There is a coin store around 100 miles away. Do coin dealers swap? Is this a good plan? I will go through the coins I have once I get the Charltons and get some clarifications from you before I sell anything off. After the cleaning fiasco, I'd like to approach this hobby with a little more knowlege. Thanks for your time. |
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Valued Member
Canada
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First of all Please dont feel too ashamed at cleaning your coins, this has happened to most of us when we were novices. With regards to your collection, if it was me I would hang on to the coins you have and, fill in on the ones you are missing, this can be done through auctions, mail order or later on when you have accumulated 250 posts exchange with members of this forum. I would also obtain a good library (knowledge is power) and get a subscription to Canadian Coin News and then finaly get asking questions on this forum (dont be shy, even we had to start somewhere) most collectors on this forum are in my opinion brilliant, and have a fantastic amount of coin knowledge. Post some pics of your coins and let us grade them for you, and for goodness sake quit cleaning your coins.. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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What neweden said, get a subscription to Canadian Coin News to get an idea what trends are. Don't go by prices in Charltons.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It sounds like you have a nice collection going -- and that you're organized.
My "cleaning" story: I was digging around in the garden and I found nails and broken glass and OH! a penny. It was muddy. I brought it indoors to wipe it off. I wanted to know what year it was. It was barely recognizable as a penny, being covered in mud. So I held it under running water and it literally disintegrated in my hand.
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Moderator
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Welcome hopefully you got the message about not cleaning any coins You have received a welcome letter from the forum please review it Just for fun i will be the only one to answer your original post Quote:
New collector needs direction forgive me I just can'r resist on most maps it goes like this   rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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New Member
Canada
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Thanks for the welcome folks, rggoodie - are you sure your directions are right? Far be it for me, as a newcomer, to question a long time member such as yourself but I'm sure that I'm facing south and that west is to my right.....Do I need to rearrange my computer? har-de-har-har I've asked for a free copy of Canadian Coin News in pdf and it should be in my inbox now. I'll subscribe. I went to the bookstore but they had only the 2nd volume of Charltons. I bought a copy of "Canadian Coin Digest" and am reading it now. neweden - When you say keep them all. So even the coins I cleaned still have numistin .. nuministwic ... nimun...collector value? I thought I had cleaned away everything other than bullion value. I don't feel quite as foolish now. Here is the coin I find the most beautiful out of all I have. The age of it and history it has seen....I find it fascinating.   |
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New Member
Canada
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Edited by Saskman
09/18/2011 6:46 pm
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