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ENTRY/NOMINATION THREAD: JANUARY, 2008 "QUANTITY" AWARDS (Most Face Value US Coins, Most S

lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
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

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Silver coin count: 3 (1944-P war nickel, 1917 Mercury dime, 1944 Mercury dime)

    I lost count of the face value stuff- it wasn't that much anyway. I am never going to be a player for quantity, it would appear. Don't care much about that, anyway.

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  • ZotZot Posts: 825 ✭✭✭
    Silver coin count: 4

    -Finland 50p 1872
    -Finland 1mk 1890
    -Finland 25p 1913
    -Netherlands 10cents 1939

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    non-US coin exchange value category

    1 Eurocent: 1
    2 Eurocent: 0
    5 Eurocent: 3
    10 Eurocent: 2
    20 Eurocent: 1
    50 Eurocent: 1
    1 Euro: 5
    2 Euro: 2

    Total Euro Face: EUR 10.06 = $14.88
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  • ASUtoddASUtodd Posts: 1,312 ✭✭
    Cents: 210
    Nickels: 34
    Dimes: 84 1964 D
    Quarters: 63
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $27.95
    Silver coin count: 1
    Gold coin count: 0

    Todd
  • Cents: 469
    Nickels: 47 (1945P War nickel)
    Dimes: 144 (1946, 51D, 54, 54D,56D,58 Rosies and 1942D Merc)
    Quarters: 105 (1935)
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $47.69
    Silver coin count: 9
    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
    Speer34

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  • Only had a few dollars in clad this month :-(

    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • Cents: 127
    Nickels: 36
    Dimes: 103
    Quarters: 81
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $33.62

    Silver coin count: 2 (Roosies)

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  • Cents: 152
    Nickels: 27
    Dimes: 49 1944, 1963, 1964 X 2
    Quarters: 40 1963
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 1 (SBA)
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $18.77
    Silver coin count: 5
    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
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting that vote. Benjamin Franklin - 1779

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    1836 Capped Liberty
    dime. My oldest US
    detecting find so far.
    I dig almost every
    signal I get for the most
    part. Go figure...
  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    I did get out once during Junuary and my take was exactly the same as the one time I got out in December, $2.48, except this time I didn't get a Canadian cent.

    Can't wait for spring.
  • Living on the frozen tundra of Maine, I obviously haven't done any detecting this month. But what I have been doing is tracking those dropped pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that provide me with the opportunity to bend and stretch. This month totaled $6.73. That's probably $4.00 more than my best detecting month in 2007! No coins of note, but every free penny I pick up is one less that I'll need to take out my own funds for batteries later in 2008!
    Be Still and Know
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cents-----------------271
    Nickels------------------37
    Dimes-------------------88
    Quarters----------------87
    Halves--------------------0
    Dollars--------------------1--Sac

    Total Face Value-----$36.11


    Sterling Silver rings-----3

    Foreign-------------------1 1978 Canadian Quarter
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