Can you feel the excitement Part 3...The 60th anniv. of our Roosevelt dime!
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Today is President F. Roosevelt's birthday, and the 60th anniversary of everyone's favorite dime, the Roosevelt dime. 
I've been collecting coins since I was a child, 30+ years, and this has turned out to be my favorite coin by far. I am constantly thinking about them, looking for them, checking out the ones I get in my change (Hoping I can find that 82-No/P) and of course thinking of ways to add to my collection.
I would like to personally thank Onlyroosies, Wondercoin, Date-n-type, Glen Gardner, and others for obtaining the few gems that I have in my collections. They mean soooooo much to me. I would also like to say to Justhavingfun that you should NEVER feel bad for having a set that is ranked so high that it is unobtainable, because if you fall asleep at the wheel, you may just get passed!
Does anyone here that collects have any wonderful Roosie stories that they could share?
Happy birthday Roosie
Later, Paul.
I've been collecting coins since I was a child, 30+ years, and this has turned out to be my favorite coin by far. I am constantly thinking about them, looking for them, checking out the ones I get in my change (Hoping I can find that 82-No/P) and of course thinking of ways to add to my collection.
I would like to personally thank Onlyroosies, Wondercoin, Date-n-type, Glen Gardner, and others for obtaining the few gems that I have in my collections. They mean soooooo much to me. I would also like to say to Justhavingfun that you should NEVER feel bad for having a set that is ranked so high that it is unobtainable, because if you fall asleep at the wheel, you may just get passed!
Does anyone here that collects have any wonderful Roosie stories that they could share?
Happy birthday Roosie Later, Paul.
Later, Paul.
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out of dimes and nickels so I needed to make a run to the bank for more. Among these
rolls were 5 rolls of very nice bankwrapped 69-D's. I had only been collecting clad for three
years at that time which was ever since the FED had announced they were switching over
to FIFO accounting. This meant the first coins in would be the first out as one of the re-
quirements of this type of accounting. No more would pallets of brand new coin get lost
in a corner of a warehouse to appear many years later. In those days it took years for
the inventory of the FED to completely roll over so here were 5 rolls of pristine '69-D dimes
even three years later.
The '69-D is relatively available in original rolls. This means that with great effort you can
locate one or two rolls but it's most unusual to find clean and well struck examples like
these. It would be surprising if there are even a thousand rolls of this date and this is
one of the more common ones.
It got too busy for me to get back to the bank but by using nickels and asking for correct
change I was able to build up the change drawers enough to buy the dimes. When I went
back to the bank the next day there were no more.
Wondercoin
get crazy until '63 or so and was all over by the end of '65 but I guess I got the bug a
little early. In about 1960, I set aside much of my entire fortune in brand new silver coins
of as great a vintage as easily obtainable. Unfortunately I wanted some quantity as well
so this meant I stashed aside 7 or 8 beautiful new 1958 dimes. These were wrapped in
aluminum foil and hidden. Unfortunately by the time I was ready to recover them their
exact location eluded me. I still poke around a little for them but it looks like I'll never
find them and my early fortune is lost.
Jim
BUT I do have some stories about roosie collectors.... Once upon a time there was a young California boy named "Nick" who ......Craig can fill in the rest!!!!
Roosie guys are the BEST!!!!!!
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
Over a 10 year period I was battling for NGC MS68 Roosies. Over that time period I had aquired over
40, only to find out 12 years later it was rainbowroosie I was battling with. 10 or so of those original
NGC Roosies now reside in PCGS holders.....
Thanks for honoring President Roosevelt and his Dime. Gosh, I feel like the unofficial Roosie ambassador.
Later, Paul.
Later, Paul.
<< <i>Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. >>
A tough time to be President.
Thanks president Roosevelt.
I'll share a bit of "gossip" - the proposed reweighting of the entire 1946-date Roosie "FB's" are well underway. Nick came out here earlier this week for a meeting with me with every new proposed draft weight outlined for 1946-date. I shared my thoughts on the coins (and, in particular, a concept Nick really liked) and Nick is reworking the weights on a number of the dates. I expect by Long Beach or shortly thereafter, there will be a fabulous weight chart available for the entire Roosie Dime series. It will be "night and day" with the present FB weights. Nick should be commended on "taking the bull by the horns" and putting in a great deal of time to create such a wonderful chart for Roosie collectors.
Wondercoin
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<< <i>I really thought the mint should have done a special reverse for 1982 which was the FDR Centennial... that was a big, big mistake >>
Hey, they left the "P" for Polio off some of them.
So, in honor of the 60th birthday, and their contributions to the coin:
<< <i>I'll share a bit of "gossip" - the proposed reweighting of the entire 1946-date Roosie "FB's" are well underway. Nick came out here earlier this week for a meeting with me with every new proposed draft weight outlined for 1946-date. I shared my thoughts on the coins (and, in particular, a concept Nick really liked) and Nick is reworking the weights on a number of the dates. I expect by Long Beach or shortly thereafter, there will be a fabulous weight chart available for the entire Roosie Dime series. It will be "night and day" with the present FB weights. Nick should be commended on "taking the bull by the horns" and putting in a great deal of time to create such a wonderful chart for Roosie collectors. >>
Thanks for pointing this out to us Mitch.
I have thanked Nick many times, not only for super coins bought from him, but for the helpful advice he gives so freely.
And now hearing of his latest endeavor towards the Roosie registry sets, I wish to again express my gratitude to him. Thanks Nick.
I hope the 1969 gets the respect it deserves and gets a 3 point weight. And the 1983-D, the only coin from the non-mintset years with a weight of 1, needs to be a 2 point weight.
The above is only my opinion, and so only has a weight of 1.
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Some cool & great stories here. This site is pretty nice. One could get lost in a story or 2 if they are fans of coins or trading cards...
Abandon All Hope-Ye Who Enters Here...Dante Alighieri
Cladking....did you ever find those aluminum wrapped Roosie's?