Hazel listening to her Nonnie.



Henry and I opening his presents during his third 3rd birthday party.



Nonnie couldn't decide which cake to make ... so she made two.



Yesterday Meg caught Hazel crawling under her exer-saucer to get an old cheerio or puff.



Henry doens't like most bugs at all. In fact he told us once about a nightmare of his that involved bugs chasing him. Ladybugs are OK however.



Hazel being silly!

Last night's coins turned up some good stuff.

4,560 quarters had seven Canadians, two US nickels, one US dime and a US penny.

3,700 dimes produced six silver Rosies (1948, 4 x 1964, 1998S-Ag), one proof (1998S-Ag), eight Canadians, two US pennies and a Polish 10 Grozy. The proof coin is a great new variety for me. It's the first modern silver proof dime I've found. Only 878,792 were minted!



(As you can see in the photo although the condition of the coin isn't bad it does have a lot of finger grime on it. I think I might try to give it an acetone bath to see if I can get that gunk off nicely.)

Modern silver proofs have been minted in low numbers since 1992, are made in 90% silver and are sold only to collectors. I've only found ten such coins (not counting any 40% silver 1976 coinage or silver commemoratives). Once I found three such halves from a partial box; sure wish I could have gotten that whole box!

Type	Date/Mint	Mintage	Notes
Dime	1998S	878,792
Quarter	2002S IN	892,229	Coin Star reject
Half	1999S	804,565
Half	2000S	965,921
Half	2002S	888,816
Half	2003S	1,040,425	found two
Half	2004S	1,175,934
Half	2005S	1,069,679	found two

2,080 nickels turned up one dateless Buffalo, one War Time (1945S), five Canadians (3 Ni), two US dimes, two US pennies, one Bahamas 5¢ and a semi-key Jefferson, the 1950.