Archive for the ‘Coins’ Category
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
I was up in NY for a long weekend with my parents and other relatives, and came back to VA today. On the way back I stopped at a coin shop we had passed several times, and got a chance to look inside.
The owner was buying a collection of coins ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Bob over at ChristianPF questions whether it was wise for the powers that be to allow the US Mint to proceed with its minting of four commemorative Lincoln cents to honor the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
I'm not totally convinced that the new designs will be in widespread circulation. ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Over Christmas I found a Hawaii quarter, which is the fiftieth quarter in the State Quarters series from the US Mint. We got home late Thursday and amongst all of the unpacking we punched out the last circle in the map and put Hawaii in.
We looked it over for about ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I'm a fairly hard person to buy for. I don't really need anything per se, and I don't buy a whole lot for myself, but if cornered in a dark alley, I'll let it slip that I don't mind cash. My father-in-law asked me one year what I wanted ...
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