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1929 Lundy 1/2 Puffin found in stamp collection -

MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 784 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I found a stamp collection today in my town dump's swap shop. There were a ton of stamps, but when I was going through the third large box my wife noticed a coin tucked in there. It was a 1929 1/2 Puffin. I'd never heard of it but there it was stapled in a flip in quite good condition. As for the stamps I'm totally overwhelmed. Hundreds of unused stamps, duck stamps, even a bear stamp card! Just weird and good fun looking at all those things. I can mail anything I want for a while if I don't mind using 3 cent to 10 cent stamps. I'm gonna do it with all my bills that I still mail. Well the 1/2 Puffin is pretty cool and I'm guessing a lot of you over here in the World & Ancients forum may be aware of it.

Jim


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  • ExbritExbrit Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭✭

    Always liked the puffin. Nice find.

  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Near looking coin. Pretty good condition too.


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  • StellaStella Posts: 722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a fun find! I have one myself because I collect non-eagle birds in numismatics, including Puffins.

    Coin collector since childhood and New York Numismatist at Heritage Auctions.
  • sylsyl Posts: 993 ✭✭✭

    If you like birds or animals or whatever, you should check-out Daniel's Coin Zoo. Here's the birds:
    https://www.coinzoo.net/birds-world-coin-collection

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The story of Lundy Island, Martin C. Harman, the 1/2 and 1 Puffin coins, and Lundy stamps is very interesting.

    http://www.SmallDollars.com
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always liked 'em.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • The_Dinosaur_ManThe_Dinosaur_Man Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fun little coin. Once sold a puffin to a guy that walked into a LCS wearing a shirt with a puffin on it.

    Custom album maker and numismatic photographer.
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    https://www.donahuenumismatics.com/.

  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭✭

    Always wanted to get myself one of the 1/2- or 1-Puffin coins when I was working on a "1-per-country" collection, but never pulled the trigger....... And I also tried to include stamps from each country along with the coins in that set. So if you found BOTH the coin & Lundy stamps, kudos to you!!

    --Dave :)

  • Coinlover101Coinlover101 Posts: 183 ✭✭✭

    Go on Dave, you know you want to :)

    I'm always surprised at the high quality of these Lundy coins. I think that my 1/2 is an MS65. It's like people received them and put them away immediately.

    Peace

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