World Coins Made by the U.S. Mint 1793-2000
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I enjoyed reading the article by BJ Searls on the many coin issues produced for foreign countries by the U.S. Mint. (Kudos BJ!) I knew the Mint had made many issues for Australia, Costa Rica, Cuba, and the Philippines but didn't know that PCGS actually has a Registry Set of those coins. I see only one small set in that category. Perhaps a new collecting challenge ... hmmm ... although some of the coins from Cuba are really rare. I haven't researched many of the others.
Comments from ye World Coin folks? (Sorry, it's not Darkside to me).
Here's ye Article Linkie
and here's ye PCGS Registry Set Composition
Enjoy!
Best Regards,
George
Comments from ye World Coin folks? (Sorry, it's not Darkside to me).
Here's ye Article Linkie
and here's ye PCGS Registry Set Composition
Enjoy!
Best Regards,
George
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Canadian experts, what say ye?
Best Regards,
George
As for the 1969 Canada dime, I'd presume it is the Large Date variety. There is speculation that this coin was minted in Philadelphia, I guess maybe that has been confirmed. As far as I know, the Small Date variety was minted back in Canada.
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Some of the coins, the plastic is worth about as much as the coin ... but there are also a lot of rarities in this set. The Cuban gold, the Philippine rarities, much more.
Best Regards,
George
I do have to add that there are some very tough issues...For example one coin from the Netherlands, 10 cents 1944-D is a very difficult coin which comes up for sale very rarely. Most were melted and few made it back to the Netherlands and into the hands of collectors.
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<< <i>Now THAT is a cool set idea, and wow, quite a roster. I'd often wondered how many pieces would form such a set. >>
Better get started on that one, Lord M!
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George
<< <i>Dang, I want that Belgium Congo coin pictured in the article....That's a great design. >>
I have one, but not slabbed. Like George said sometimes the plastic is worth more. That B.C. type is probably $60-80 market value, which isn't bad, but not enough to slab at this time on my tight budget. Maybe when things get a little looser I'll submit it. Right now I can only afford to slab 3-digit coins for resale, for the most part.
To answer George's question, I started an official registry set of my own so we'll see how far along I get Not intending to fill it as many are low denominations and I tend to focus on crown-sized proofs. But one never knows!
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Good luck everybody. Maybe we can keep this thread going as we make progress.
Best Regards,
George
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George
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I know of one active dealer who has been accumulating such coins for awhile now.
He is getting the high grade good stuff , he is way ahead of the curve.
Your guide book is "Foreign Coins Struck At United States Mints" by Altz & Barton
1963 by the whitman company 63 pages, little black book. There is another hardback but can remember the title.
I agree the complete date U.S Philippines and Hawaii should be left out of the set. Maybe just do a U.S. struck Philippine type set
There have been articles in the trades and the Numismatist over the years on the area but not alot of interest it seems.
I think this is a great way to collect foreign coins. You would learn alot about foreign coins in general as you looked through many dealers World coin boxes.
Krueger/ U.S Philippine specialist
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I'm sure lots of folks would be interested to see it. But for now I'm just concentrating on trying to keep a nice mix of U.S. and Canadian, with a bit of British and Australian.
Best Regards,
George