My Coin Box

It's nice to see that this little old blog of mine still gets thousand of views even after my three year absence. It has been a t...

Gotta love that eagle! Of course, it is better looking and not so skinny on the coins made after 1890, but it's still the German Eag...

Now that I look at this coin in a picture it seems to have some strike doubling. It most likely doesn't have any extra value, just...

Bought this at the flea market and it is a beauty! In all honesty this is probably the best condition Barber coin I have ever had. May...

Thought I'd shown this but I haven't so here it is. It's in UNC although the back does seem to have had a weak die impress...

Do you know which one is the Panamanian dime shown below? The answer to the question above is the fifth one from the left, in ot...

Can you guess which one is the Panamanian dime? That's right I started this post off like the last Panamanian dime I posted. ...

All of these were found laying around outside or on the ground or both last Wednesday. The first one I found was the 1995 which I wasn...

Can you guess which one of these is the Panamanian one? Got this at the flea market when I picked up all of those aluminum coins....

                                                   I've been wanting to do this post for a while now so here it is. The coin you s...

2012 may have come late for me (back in May), but it came in numbers. I have almost $0.50 of 2012 cents, $0.70 in dimes, and $0.50 in ...

There is really no reason for this post other than I like the way the date looks. Same with 1940 coins. I don't know what it is ab...

I think I got this as a gift sometime last year. I don't really know much about it other than it is magnetic (It is made of pure n...

This is the thrid part of this series. It feaures the dime of the set. This was the first year copper-nickel dimes were made in replac...

The story behind this coin goes a little like this. I'm at the flea market looking to buy some silver. I see these worn, cheap sil...

Here is yet another silver dime from... you know where. It's a 1954-S Roosevelt Dime and it's made of 90% silver and 10% coppe...

Here's my first coin with a nice new background (its a cigar box). Now let's see if I can make up some great story of how I fo...

I recently bought a lot a silver Roosevelt Dimes for my Roosevelt Dime folder that I got around a month ago. This is one of the dimes ...

I found this dime on the ground earlier and since I have never shown one here it is on my blog. It's a regular 1976-D Franklin D. ...

It's been 6 months since my  first post and I have shown coins old , rare , new , common , silver , steel , copper , nickel , and ev...