Wednesday, March 16, 2011



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.

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