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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => U.S. Coins => Topic started by: Snooba on January 31, 2008, 07:09:16 PM

Title: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on January 31, 2008, 07:09:16 PM: I thought it might be nice to start a "Buy of the Week" thread here.
And once I can figure out how on earth to post photo's, I'm going to brag about my new coins!
Does anyone else have a photo they would like to post and boast about?

:o ??? :o ??? :o
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on January 31, 2008, 07:40:26 PM: Oregon Commemorative Half-Dollar:

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/Oregon-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/Oregon-Obv.jpg)

1957 Proof Shilling - Australia:

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1957-Shilling-Proof-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1957-Shilling-Proof-Obv.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on January 31, 2008, 07:42:45 PM: 1964 Choice Uncirculated Penny - Australia:

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1964-Penny-ChU-Obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1964-Penny-ChU-Rev.jpg)

1958Y Uncirculated Penny - Australia:

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1958Y-obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1958Y-rev.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on January 31, 2008, 07:46:01 PM: 1927 Canberra Florin - ChUnc - Australia:

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1927-Florin-Unc-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1927-Florin-Unc-Obv.jpg)

1951Y Penny Choice Uncirculated - Australia:

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Pennies/1951YPenny.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Tobyle on January 31, 2008, 07:48:24 PM: Veeeeeery Nice!
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Triggersmob on January 31, 2008, 08:44:25 PM: *Drool*
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on January 31, 2008, 09:30:55 PM: Quote from: triggersmob on January 31, 2008, 08:44:25 PM
*Drool*

Thanks! My wonderful parents bought me nearly all of those coins!
Gotta love parents like that! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: CoinCrusader42 on February 01, 2008, 11:14:04 AM: Absolutely beautiful coins!!

:) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Humpybong on February 01, 2008, 09:37:18 PM: Hey Snooba....do you need a brother?

;D
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on February 02, 2008, 09:35:15 PM: Quote from: humpybong on February 01, 2008, 09:37:18 PM

Hey Snooba....do you need a brother?

;D

"Hey mum and dad, I'd like you to meet your brand new son, humpybong!"

Do you think they'd fall for it? :o ;D ;) ;D :o
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Nevol on February 02, 2008, 09:57:42 PM: ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D, You kill me Snooba!
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Humpybong on February 02, 2008, 09:59:57 PM: Ya got it wrong Snooba.....long lost son would be better.... ;D
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: TwoShadows on February 02, 2008, 11:48:47 PM: Well I have managed 3 buys of the week, thus far, and I didn't feel any pain when I did it. Being tighter than the bark on a tree I am very content and patient to play the Ebay game until I get what I want at my price! (Well sometimes!)
I have managed to win two auctions for Roman ancients in VF condition this week and both coins cost me, with shipping, a total of $11.00. I don't mind spending $5 to $6 for coins that were hammered just a couple of hundreds year after Christ was born! Can't wait to get them to see how I really did? ;D

Also the People's Choice Award for the annual COTY awards has been announced. It was the 2006 Hungarian 50 Fornit, which I did not have, but I immediately went to Ebay and located a seller who would sell me an unc. for $3.50. It is now on its way to me.

For those of you who do not know what the COTY Awards are well they are the COIN OF THE YEAR AWARDS which are given annually for various catagories, such as best design, most traded, most historical and ect. The awards are given two years behind so that all nations have the opportunity to be involved so this years awards are for 2006 and I go out of my way to make sure I have a couple of winners each year in my collection. Usually I already have one or two but this year I may have got stumped but will not know for sure until the other winners are announced in Germany. Lots of fun to watch and to see how my taste may differ from the rest of the world! ;)

I am still working on some other ancients as I have made up my mind to start around 600 B.C. and work m way forward every century. Want a nice circulated coin as cheaply as I can put this set together. I am on my way!!!
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on February 03, 2008, 06:27:09 PM: Twoshadows:

Great purchases! I'd love to see pictures if you are able to post them at any time?

Snooba. :) :) :)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: TwoShadows on February 03, 2008, 11:06:51 PM: Well the coin Gods or Merlin must be smiling on me this week as I added two more ancient Romans last night for less than a $1.50 each!!! I guess I am going to have to learn how to post pictures in the very near future? ::)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on February 19, 2008, 02:48:52 PM: (http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Somerville-Obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Somerville-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/DeCarle.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/McCaul-Obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/McCaul-Rev.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: AdamL on February 19, 2008, 03:22:15 PM: oops. I forgot about this thread. I went to the show in St. Louis on the 9th, and had a great day. I got this 1916-s walker for my set. Not my nicest one but, being a key date, I couldn't afford a mint-state coin.
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: AdamL on February 19, 2008, 03:23:48 PM: The reverse:
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: AdamL on February 19, 2008, 03:25:36 PM: I had a little money in the budget left to play with, and ended up getting my first bust half:
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: AdamL on February 19, 2008, 03:26:44 PM: ......
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on February 19, 2008, 03:52:11 PM: Quote from: AdamL on February 19, 2008, 03:25:36 PM

I had a little money in the budget left to play with, and ended up getting my first bust half:

AdamL,

I am sooooo jealous! My ambition is to buy a bust half one day. Well done!

Snooba.

:) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: ElleKitty on February 19, 2008, 10:06:06 PM: My purchase of the week were these two coins:

Spanish Philippines, 1 Piso. Coin has initials scratched on the front behind the King's head, but I so rarely see Spanish Philippines coinage that I got it anyway.
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/941252.jpg)

Japanese 1 Yen coin, Meiji 35 (1902) This coin has a banker's ink chop on the front of it, making it a necessary addition to my chopmarked coin collection :D
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/941227.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on February 21, 2008, 08:00:46 PM: Nice purchases, Kitty. You must be very pleased with them!

:) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on March 13, 2008, 10:27:58 PM: (http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/1959-Half-Reverse.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Nevol on March 14, 2008, 01:13:37 AM: Nice one snooba. What's the line from under the tail, across the legs & out towards the Y?
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: AdamL on March 14, 2008, 08:52:51 AM: Thats a pretty coin Snooba!
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: TwoShadows on March 18, 2008, 02:35:08 PM: Guess my buy of the week has to be the 1943 six sided Belgium Congo 2 Franc that just arrived. When I decided I needed this "Elephant" coin in my collection I did a little searching around for average prices being paid. Then I went on Ebay and played the waiting game as I am tight as bark on a tree. After watching this coin go in the $20 to $30 range, from all over the world, I managed to grab a nice speciment for $10.50. It finally arrived today and has the added bonus of a very pronounced die crack through a star on what I assume is the reverse of the coin which I did not notice on the Ebay auction. Now I must focus on my next "odd" coin as I continue my search for oddities of the world!

And, no I don't kow how to post photos yet but must learn as I have some real beauties I hope to share with all of you some day! ;D
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Triggersmob on March 18, 2008, 09:16:55 PM: Is this the one?

(http://www.coinworld.com/news/102405/bw1_big.jpg)

Quote from: Twoshadows on March 18, 2008, 02:35:08 PM
as I am tight as bark on a tree.

That's not an expression I have heard in Australia, Maybe because the bark falls off our trees instead of the leaves.

(http://www.lackwit.net/blog/images/AUS/large/paper_bark_tree.jpg)

Quote
And, no I don't kow how to post photos yet but must learn as I have some real beauties I hope to share with all of you some day!

I offer a photo posting service, just forward the coins to me. LOL
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: TwoShadows on March 18, 2008, 10:22:11 PM: Yes, thats the one Triggersmob! Now all you have to do is add the die crack running verticalliy across the star on the left side. Don't know why that coin made such an impression on me but I had to have one. Been searching the Standard Catalog of World Coins for oddities (well odd to me) in the last few days and the best thing I could really do is stay OUT of there!!! ;D

I appreciate your offer to post photos for me. How kind of my fellow Australians! And, in return never forget my FREE coin storage here in Indiana which I have continueously offered for years now!

For the most part you can't get the bark off of our trees but every fall we look forward to the millions of leaves piling up in our yard! I can't get my wife to buy into the fact those leaves are great fertilizer or could be piled for mulch! She thinks they need to be bagged up and removed for some odd reason? :'(
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on March 19, 2008, 12:27:36 AM: Looks like silver and gold will go down for 3 to 4 weeks from here
So again I am going to rush the finish of two series I was not thinking about since I normally am no respector of series
I must be coming down with the collector bug
I will ask my doctor an innoculation against the desease ;D

Will post pictures if I am successfull
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Goose on March 19, 2008, 03:56:18 AM: 11am central time in the U S......Gold down $57/oz to $947/oz....silver down $1.48/oz to $18.48/oz. That means I lost 28 cents on the value of the silver content in the silver quarter I have. I'm thinking that I should list it on ebay so I don't lose anymore money.
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: TwoShadows on March 19, 2008, 10:41:49 AM: Hang tight Goose! The Feds lowered the interest rates which brought on something similar to a fart in a whirlwind. Won't take long to clear that out!!! ;D

Paint Your Wagon there is NO known cure so the best thing to do is FEED your addiction!!! And always keep in mind WITHDRAWAL is a terrible thing!!! At least a coin a week will keep you healthy and happy. Not sure what it will do to your wife but you will feel better!!! ;D
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on March 19, 2008, 10:11:49 PM: Quote from: Twoshadows on March 19, 2008, 10:41:49 AM
Hang tight Goose! The Feds lowered the interest rates which brought on something similar to a fart in a whirlwind. Won't take long to clear that out!!! ;D

Paint Your Wagon there is NO known cure so the best thing to do is FEED your addiction!!! And always keep in mind WITHDRAWAL is a terrible thing!!! At least a coin a week will keep you healthy and happy. Not sure what it will do to your wife but you will feel better!!! ;D

So you think I am lost hÃ©
I will try overindulgence that may cure me ;D
My wife is busy redecorating so she will not mind :D
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on March 24, 2008, 12:06:58 AM: Quote from: Nevol on March 14, 2008, 01:13:37 AM

Nice one snooba. What's the line from under the tail, across the legs & out towards the Y?

It's a slight crinkle in the mylar section of the 2x2 holder. :) :) :)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on April 22, 2008, 11:24:32 AM: (http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Milner-Penny-Obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Milner-Penny-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Canberra-Bronze1.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Canberra-Bronze2.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Illinois-Obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Illinois-Rev.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Humpybong on April 22, 2008, 11:47:36 AM: Very nice Snooba.

I like the New Zealand Medallion. Do you know what it was issued for?
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on April 22, 2008, 10:02:49 PM: Quote from: humpybong on April 22, 2008, 11:47:36 AM
Very nice Snooba.

I like the New Zealand Medallion. Do you know what it was issued for?

Thank you! It's a Milner & Thompson Penny. :) :) :)
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: ElleKitty on April 23, 2008, 06:36:36 AM: I love that decimalisation medallion from the RAM. That's beautiful. I love how they included all the animals from the circulating coins on it! I wonder how I would get my hands on one of those for my collection. *ponders*
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on April 24, 2008, 01:46:30 PM: Quote from: ElleKitty on April 23, 2008, 06:36:36 AM
I love that decimalisation medallion from the RAM. That's beautiful. I love how they included all the animals from the circulating coins on it! I wonder how I would get my hands on one of those for my collection. *ponders*

Kitty,

If you are seriously interested in getting one of those medallions, I know where another one of them is for sale. Contact me if I can help you regarding this.

Snooba.
Title: Re: Buy Of The Week!
Post by: Snooba on May 05, 2008, 06:57:58 PM: (http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/ASep-Stockholm-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/ASep-Stockholm-Obv.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Canada-Quebec-Rev.jpg)

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x141/Snooba123/Medals%20-%20Tokens/Canada-Quebec-Obv.jpg)