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89 years on the march
And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good.
Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a 1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man. I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the 2005 honorary bison. ;-) Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards. Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance. And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English. To each their own. g Alan 'just what I hear' |
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89 years on the march
"Alan Williams" wrote in message
... And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good. Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a 1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man... Now, that is a find! I've never found anything older than the 40's. Anita |
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89 years on the march
Alan Williams wrote:
And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good. Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a 1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man. I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the 2005 honorary bison. ;-) Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards. Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance. And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English. To each their own. g Alan 'just what I hear' I grab a few rolls when I need parking meter coins :-) |
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Richard Adams wrote:
wrote: "Alan Williams" wrote in message ... And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good. Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a 1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man... Now, that is a find! I've never found anything older than the 40's. Anita Often they re-apear because children loot their parent's collection and spend them, or they have been burgled and/or stolen. My brother used to work at a public swimming pool and bring home silver coins almost on a weekly basis. I picked a 59-D dime out of my change a couple weeks ago. This is about the 3rd or 4th Buffalo I've found in the past 24 months in roll searches...one dateless, but the others all had dates including, IIRC, a rather nifty mid-1920's in VG condition. ;-) This 1917 is almost certainly a 'circulation survivor' both due to its condition which is only G-4 and it's relatively high initial mintage of 54 million or so. If people truly are stealing three-legged buffalo or 1921-S coins and dumping them back into circulation at face value, it is not happening near me. Alan 'was suspected in the theft of a tractor trailer of nickels' |
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89 years on the march
Richard Adams wrote:
Alan Williams wrote: And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good. Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a 1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man. I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the 2005 honorary bison. ;-) Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards. Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance. And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English. To each their own. g Alan 'just what I hear' I grab a few rolls when I need parking meter coins :-) you gleep abba zeppo grab a few gulp gummo rolls of Buffalo bono mazola nickel rolls for fortuna fanta parking meter change? Alan 'gibbering reaction' |
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89 years on the march
In my wife's change today was a 1907 IHC in good condition. A nice
surprice... Tom |
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89 years on the march
Alan Williams wrote:
Richard Adams wrote: Alan Williams wrote: And Lord only knows where it's been! But it's home now, home for good. Just popped out of a roll of nickles I got at the bank this morning, a 1917 Buffalo Nickel, full date, G-4. Welcome home, old man. I had a feeling I was due for another Buffalo. The real one, not the 2005 honorary bison. ;-) Some people may not like roll searches or collecting this way. Some may prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards. Cleaned ancient coins. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance. And demanding that all reference works on said material be in English. To each their own. g Alan 'just what I hear' I grab a few rolls when I need parking meter coins :-) you gleep abba zeppo grab a few gulp gummo rolls of Buffalo bono mazola nickel rolls for fortuna fanta parking meter change? Alan 'gibbering reaction' I go through the flaming hoops at the BoA to get a few rolls of nickels for parking meter change. I search them and the remainders end up in a sack I pull from to feed meters, rather than feed them my precious quarters when all I need is 12 minutes. :-) Got a 43-S last time. |
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89 years on the march
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:32:01 -0500, Alan Williams
wrote: Some may prefer browsing the web to buy ancient coins using their credit cards. PayPal is more popular than straight credit cards. But you can't beat buying in person, looking at the coin from various angles. But you knew that. Cleaned ancient coins. Virtually all ancient coins are cleaned. A tiny percentage never wound up in a hoard underground for two millennia or so, dirty and encrusted. But you knew that. Cleaned ancient coins of uncertain provenance. Virtually all ancient coins have uncertain provenance. You can't get information beyond who you're buying from for more than a tiny percentage because of the realities of the industry. But you knew that. To each their own. g Bad grammar. But you knew that. g -- Email: (delete "remove this") Consumer: http://rg.ancients.info/guide Connoisseur: http://rg.ancients.info/glom Counterfeit: http://rg.ancients.info/bogos |
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