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Eat your Wheaties!
Spinynorman
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Oldshep and I hit a small local show in Spokane, WA today. As usual, we had a good time chatting about and looking at coins. The hours just flew by.
The highlight of the show was a dealer that was liquidating someone's old accumulation of world coins. There must have been six feet of table covered in boxes with most of the coins in envelopes so you had to open every one to see what was in it. I don't think the dealer had the time to mess with them, as he was pricing them to make them go away quickly. I swear that of the 40-50 coins I bought he only looked up maybe three in the Krause. And from the final tally, I think he went by the 40-50 year old pricing on the envelopes for most of them.
Anyway, one of the interesting things I found in the envelopes were various world coins packaged as Wheaties promotionals. I'm guessing this was during the 50s. I didn't have a clue at first when I pulled out a St. Pierre & Miq. 1F sealed in cellophane with info on the country printed on it. I thought (hoped) it might be some kind of mint packaging. When I found a second one with a different coin, I noticed it said Wheaties on it. While they're not Cheerios Sac dollars,
, they're still kind of cool. If you're interested in one with a nice looking 1952 Swiss centime in it, just say so and I'll pick a winner next week.
I'll have to leave the pictures of the bounty up to Shep, since I didn't bring a camera with me...
The highlight of the show was a dealer that was liquidating someone's old accumulation of world coins. There must have been six feet of table covered in boxes with most of the coins in envelopes so you had to open every one to see what was in it. I don't think the dealer had the time to mess with them, as he was pricing them to make them go away quickly. I swear that of the 40-50 coins I bought he only looked up maybe three in the Krause. And from the final tally, I think he went by the 40-50 year old pricing on the envelopes for most of them.
Anyway, one of the interesting things I found in the envelopes were various world coins packaged as Wheaties promotionals. I'm guessing this was during the 50s. I didn't have a clue at first when I pulled out a St. Pierre & Miq. 1F sealed in cellophane with info on the country printed on it. I thought (hoped) it might be some kind of mint packaging. When I found a second one with a different coin, I noticed it said Wheaties on it. While they're not Cheerios Sac dollars,
, they're still kind of cool. If you're interested in one with a nice looking 1952 Swiss centime in it, just say so and I'll pick a winner next week. I'll have to leave the pictures of the bounty up to Shep, since I didn't bring a camera with me...
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thanx for the chance.
Herb
Thanks for a fun day Steve.
Shep
Shep
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Great find!
I went to ITT in Spokane about 15 years ago but since I was in school my interest (and wallet) in coins was at an all time low.
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Complete Dime Set
It was a fun day.
Shep
<< <i>The dealer just said "Merry Christmas" when I asked how much this set was. He also gave me a green Gulden.
That 50 cent looks great if you can get the green off. Those coins are scarcer than most people think in BU.
It's about 90% removed now. Should be a real nice coin by tomorrow.
<< <i>Here's another I thought was kinda interesting.
I don't understand why this coin has somewhere between 35 and 40 chopmarks on it, but it's super cool.
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<< <i>I don't understand why this coin has somewhere between 35 and 40 chopmarks on it, but it's super cool.
I don't either. I was hoping someone here could shed some light on that, or maybe recognize some of the marks.
<< <i>"Wheaties International Coin Collection"
Great find!
newsman, your name was picked. PM me an address and I'll get your coin mailed. Enjoy.
Merchants and trading companies usually chopmarked coins with their own chops if they felt it was of proper weight and fineness. Even if it had other chops on it, they wanted to check the coins themselves.
Obscurum per obscurius