My Coin Box

These are two coins I recently got in my change. The top is a 1959 Lincoln Cent. It was a major change in the history of coins because back ...

Here is my second true find of 2012. It is a 2007-D John Adams Presidential Dollar and the second in the series of Presidential Dollars. Th...

This is a 1986 Canadian Quarter and my first true find of 2012. At first I thought it was a silver quarter because the first part of it I s...

Here is my very thin 1980 Blue Book. The reason it is so thin is because there were very few coin design changes back in the day. Today we h...

Although my normal post is about coins I like to take a break from the normal and venture into the unknown. In this case the unknown is a ma...

These pictures are of my actual coin box. It is the reason for the name if my blog and the thing that holds all of my numismatic items. This...

As mentioned in my End Of 2011 post I have a collection of pre-1982 95% copper cents. This is that collection. It was valued at around $5.00...

As you may or may not have noticed my last post was the last day of last year. This was due to technical difficulties (meaning my little bro...

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...