My Coin Box

2011 has been an awesome year of finds for me. I finally found a silver coin which was a dime . I only got a handful of foreign coins, but I...

This is one of the most well known coins with collectors. It is the famed buffalo nickel that many coins have been modeled after. From gold...

This is a 1986-S Half Dollar issued for the 100th birthday of the Statue of Liberty. The obverse shows the Statue of Liberty, a rising su...

As mentioned in earlier posts from 1942-1945 nickels were made of silver, copper, and manganese instead of the usual nickel and copper and ...

Visit this link for a video of subway tokens and slugs that I took in NYC at the Transit Museum.  The video is a little loud so turn down th...

This is a 1964 nickel and a very common nickel in my collection. I have many of these as I mentioned in my Clarification  post a while back...

This is a 1963-(P) nickel and one I was previously missing. I got it a couple weeks ago and now that I think about it it was the day before...

This is a 1932-(P) Washington Quarter. It was originally intended to be a circulating commemorative for Washington's 200th birthday, bu...

 These are two 1942-P nickels with many differences and very few similarities. First, I will start with the similarities. They were struck a...

During WWII copper and nickel were being salvaged for the war effort so some metal compositions had to change. The penny or cent was changed...

I was going through some new arrivals on Govmint.com which is a site I used to buy from but now refuse to because of the extremely high pric...

This is a 1943 zinc coated steel cent. They were made because copper was being used for the war. There are some that are made of copper lik...

This is a 1999 Anthony Dollar and currently the only 1999 I have. I have 3 of the 1979 Anthony Dollars  which are the first year. Usually ...

It is amazing what one can learn in 1.5 years. I taught myself how to collect by reading coin books and going online. I had a basic idea of...

 This is an 1852 silver three cent piece or trime as they were called back in the day. Back in the mid 1800's a stamp only cost  three ...

These are two 1941 nickels one with an S mint mark and one with a D mint mark. The one with the S is in vf and is worth about $0.30. There a...

I have finally found a silver coin from circulation! It is a 1952 silver dime worth about $2.50 for silver content. I almost could not...

I now have a new blog called My Travels of the World . I wanted to share my travels without putting it all on this blog which is about coins...

Recently a classmate of mine discovered a 1976 quarter dollar in his change. Because of the dual dates he thought it was a 1776 quarter and ...

This is a 2009 Northern Mariana Islands Territory Quarter like the D.C. quarter I posted about yesterday. They were a 1 year only issue and ...

Following the popular State Quarters the Territory Quarters are some of the least common quarters seen in circulation. They were a 1 year on...

This is a 1996-P quarter dollar. I have posted about a coin like this before which was the dime version. I suspect that this one was ground ...

 These are some 1999 State Quarter and is surprisingly in mint state. Most State Quarters are in such low grade that most collectors don...

I can't believe that it's finally here! It has been a month since I first posted on this blog about my Gold Dollar . Since then I h...

This is one of the most well known coins in numismatic history. It is the 1909 Lincoln Cent also known as a Wheat Penny or Wheat Cent. This...

These are some 1979-P Anthony Dollars and not the valuable kind. These are the narrow rim version. The wide rim versions have the date almos...

This is a 10 pfennig issued after WWII nothing special so this will be a short post. Dated 1950 with an "F" mint mark on it. Very...

Whenever I'm in New York I always go to Uncle Louie G's ice cream shop. There is one near the Brooklyn apartment I stay in so when I...

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We are all aware of the tragic events that happened on that fateful Tuesday 9/11/2001. Many lives were lost, many bodies were never found, a...

Spumoni Gardens History First, I would like to start by saying Happy Thanksgiving. Second, this sign is the one in front of the famous Spumo...

I have now decided to do about a weeks worth of posts about New York City. I'm not quite sure why but it seems kind of appropriate with ...

After doing some posts on German coins I took a break and talked about various different things. I decided I would use this coin since I don...

The general story of this coin is pretty basic. First, someone drilled or hammered a hole right above Lincoln's head. Second, that perso...

In 1951 America had just survived a huge depression in the 30s, the biggest war in history in the 40s and things were finally starting to se...

After Man at Coined For Money featured me in a post about nickels I thought I should clarify why I call anything pre-1965 old. It is mainly...

As you can probably tell, I have "redone" my blog to give it a look more suitable for my passion. Yes I love currency too even if...