Look at these totally cool coins from Finland (if you please!)
XpipedreamR
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I got them from board member MSD61.
I'm not a super intense world collector at this point, but when I see a really neat coin, I figure "Why not?"
They are .900 and .500 silver respectively, and about the size of silver dollars. The first is very prooflike, with a lettered edge. Both have really cool designs and clean surfaces. Nice relief on both coins, too. They're awesome!
Now if I only knew just what the heck the coins said and what a markkaa is
I'm not a super intense world collector at this point, but when I see a really neat coin, I figure "Why not?"
They are .900 and .500 silver respectively, and about the size of silver dollars. The first is very prooflike, with a lettered edge. Both have really cool designs and clean surfaces. Nice relief on both coins, too. They're awesome!
Now if I only knew just what the heck the coins said and what a markkaa is
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I've never seen either one of 'em before. Thanks for sharing!!!
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Man, I can't get enough of these coins. They're so neat
Shep
The longer I collect the more assumptions I'm prepared to make; here's one: lately I've purchased some Korean and Romanian issues as well as others over time that have the cleanest surfaces I've ever seen. Krause did not indicate the existence of Prf or PL for these issues so I'm assuming they are business strike coins. These coins have much cleaner surfaces than 90% of the 30 years worth of US mint issues I own.
My assumption is that if these countries and others can do it, so can we. Why don't we?
Xpipe, very nice coins!
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My assumption is that if these countries and others can do it, so can we. Why don't we?
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Many of the European coins looked like PL's even when issued for circulation. Probably one
of the biggest reasons is that people didn't care about our coins until only recently. Back when
it seemed all of our coins were very poorly made one never heard a complaint about them. The
mint got extremely lazy and cheap about changing dies and seeing that the coins were attractive.
As evidence that this is a factor look at the coins from the last few years. Many are grading MS-69
and MS-68 where these are almost unheard of for the earlier moderns. The average grade is up
only a little but the low end of the spectrum is very much improved.
One of the biggest impediments to attractive US coins now AND in the recent past is that the mint's
productive capacity is being used up in the production of the cent. More than half of all coins ever
minted in the last 25 centuries are Lincoln cents made since 1959. Even now the mint is making
arount 8 billion of these coins with negative value each year.