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ENTRY THREAD: MAY 2009 "QUANTITY" AWARDS (Most Face Value US Coins, Most Non-U.S. Exchange
BentFork
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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
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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Nickels: 0
Dimes: 3
Quarters: 8
Halves: 0
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0
Face value count: $2.39
Silver coin count: 0
Gold coin count: 0
Nickels: 73
Dimes: 112
Quarters: 88
Halves: 1
Dollars: 2 1Prez, 1 SBA
Gold Coins: 0
Face value count: $41.56
Silver coin count: 0
Gold coin count: 0
Canadian cent 5
Canadian nickel 1
Non-US coin exchange value (in US$) : $0.09
I got my first Half dollar in over 3 years, a 1977 and my first 2 dollar coins of the year.
Kevin
Nickels: 0
Dimes: 1
Quarters: 0
Halves: 1 1935 wallker
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0
Face value count: $0.00
Silver coin count: 1
Gold coin count: 0
Nickels: 5 (one a very slightly circulated 1943 S)
Dimes: 22 (17 clad,1943 D,1953 D (2),1950,1947)
Quarters: 5
Halves: 0
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0
Face value count: $4.53
Silver coin count: 6
Gold coin count: 0
(enter type of coin here): 0
(enter type of coin here): 0
Non-US coin exchange value (in US$) : $0.00
also found a sterling silver ring (.11 oz. ASW)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Nickels------------------28
Dimes-------------------76
Quarters----------------68
Total Face Value-----$29.06
Silver Count------------1962 Rosie (Found on the top of the ground by a Baseball backstop) my 4th of the year
Wheat cents------------3 2 were 1925 found at a One Room School site also a dateless nickel of some type at the same school site
1---Sterling silver ring
1---Canadian pennie
Lafayette Grading Set
Nickels: 15 (1 shield nickel, either 1866 or 1867)
Dimes: 53 (3 silver 1944, 1946, 1947)
Quarters: 26 (1 silver - 1939)
Halves: 0
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0
Face value count: $14.11
Silver coin count: 4
Gold coin count: 0
That 1943 S is a WAR Nickel = Counts as a SILVER coin in your silver total !
http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1942-1945-Silver-War-Nickel-Value.html
Jerry
Thanks for the reminder,Jerry. In May, i found 5 silver dimes,1 silver nickel,and a sterling silver ring (stunningly modeled,you all can see the pic of the ring in the Quality thread).
I'm going to hunt the old high school grounds one of these next weekends.It's going to be torn down this summer to make room for parking at the new high school so the areas that are currently grassy around the old building will be pavement one day.
It very likely was hunted years ago but if I can find just one silver coin in the areas i intend to hunt,i will consider myself successful.
I am obsessed with finding silver.It must be the "white fever" that afflicts me.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Nickels: 0
Dimes: 6
Quarters: 0
Halves: 0
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0
Face value count: $0.60
Silver coin count: 6
Gold coin count: 0