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ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: AUGUST, 2007 "QUANTITY" AWARDS (Most Face Value US Coins, Most Si

If you wish to compete for the three monthly "quantity" awards (Most Silver Coins, Most Face Value US Coins, Foreign Exchange Value), post your silver coin and face value totals for the month here.

Just edit your posts to update your total counts (instead of reposting the count each time you make new finds). Please try to limit your replies here to one post, if possible. You'll need to have your final edits in before the last day of the month, as that is when the awards will be tallied.

"Silver count" in this instance refers only to COINS, be they US or foreign. "Silver count" does not refer to silver jewelry. However, if you find a piece of coin jewelry, you may count it on your silver count, your face value count (if it's a US coin), AND enter it in the jewelry competition.

Silver coins also count toward your face value totals, so if for example you found nothing but a silver dime and two modern (nonsilver) quarters all month, your silver coin count would be 1, and your face value count 60 cents.

Non-US coins will not count toward your US face value total, but if they are silver, you may claim them on your silver count. For example, if you found nothing but a silver English shilling and two modern (nonsilver) US quarters, your silver count would be one and your face value count 50 cents.

The 1942-45 USA "wartime" Jefferson nickels DO count as silver, though they are only .350 fine instead of .900 fine.
(For those less numismatically inclined among us, these are the coins with the large mintmarks over the building's dome on the reverse.)

For the non-US coin exchange value category, enter the type of coin, its foreign value, and US exchange value.

Example:
1 Eurocent: 4
2 Eurocent: 8
5 Eurocent: 4
10 Eurocent: 25
20 Eurocent: 23
50 Eurocent: 7
1 Euro: 10
2 Euro: 2

Total Euro Face: EU25.00 (EU25 / .83 = $30.12)

Please copy and use this format when posting your counts (just enter your totals where the zeroes are).



Cents: 0
Nickels: 0
Dimes: 0
Quarters: 0
Halves: 0
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0

Face value count: $0.00
Silver coin count: 0
Gold coin count: 0

(enter type of coin here): 0
(enter type of coin here): 0
Non-US coin exchange value (in US$) : $0.00

Comments

  • Cents: 116
    Nickels: 33
    Dimes: 71
    Quarters: 90
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 1 GW
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $33.41
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0

    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭
    Cents: 114 ( 6 wheats- 1910, 1917, 1942, 1950, 1951-D & 1957)
    Nickels: 2
    Dimes: 37
    Quarters: 23
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $10.69
    Silver coin count: 2 ( 1952 Rosie & 1943-P Jefferson)
    Gold coin count: 0

    Foreign coins
    (Canadian): 15 pennies (oldest a 1945)
    (enter type of coin here): 0
    Non-US coin exchange value (in US$) : $0.15

  • Silver coin count: 4 ('29, '44 Mercury dimes, '48 Roosevelt, and a '43 silver war-nickel)
    Gold coin count: 0
  • Cents: 171
    Nickels: 26
    Dimes: 62
    Quarters: 43
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $19.96
    Silver coin count: 1 (62 Roosie)
    Gold coin count: 0
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  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭
    Cents: 147
    Nickels: 48
    Dimes: 81
    Quarters: 31
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $19.72
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0

    Canadian cent 9
    Non-US coin exchange value (in US$) : $0.08

    It was a down month. image
  • TTT


  • << <i>TTT >>



    OK...Time to add it up!!!

    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cents-----------465
    Nickels------------54
    Dimes-----------125
    Quarters--------180
    Halves--------------4
    Dollars--------------4 (1 SBA, 2 SAC, 1 Adams)

    Total Face Value-------$70.85

    2 Sterling Silver Rings and 1 Chain


    Foreign---1 1997 Enlish 50 Pence
  • I'd like to nominate Phut for most silver... I think he already shows more than 6 in his August post! image

    (I tried to catch him this month but it didn't happen imageimage )
  • phutphut Posts: 1,087
    Thanks Rick.
    I ended up with a silver count of 9.
    Good luck in Sept.image
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