Post a coin from your birthyear.

SkyMan · October 9, 2013 9:59AM

BryceM · October 9, 2013 10:31AM

keyman64 · October 9, 2013 10:57AM

I have a mint proof set but that's it. I've never photographed any of them, probably nothing special as I have not even looked at them in 20-30 years. Maybe one day I will do a nice mint set?

AUandAG · October 9, 2013 11:07AM

Sorry, don't collect from that era! It's too new!

bob

OldEastside · October 9, 2013 11:37AM

Sy, is that differant from your avatar ?

And Bryce that has to be the sweetest 71d I have ever seen

Steve

GeorgeKellogg · October 9, 2013 11:43AM

Images are courtesy of CoinFacts.

Broadstruck · October 9, 2013 11:48AM

Never owned one as my birth-year is in the modern junk era

magikbilly · October 9, 2013 11:49AM

Hi Sy,

I have nothing from my birth year. As I was born on 7.16.69, received at home on 7.20 and awoke at a rather special time and was placed in from of a TV, something tells me you could post something...

Eric

coinsarefun · October 9, 2013 11:55AM

sparky64 · October 9, 2013 11:56AM

ctf_error_coins · October 9, 2013 12:00PM

<< Never owned one as my birth-year is in the modern junk era

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Dude, Collect Major, Major Mint Errors from your birth year

PCGSPhoto · October 9, 2013 12:01PM

SkyMan · October 9, 2013 2:33PM

Some Great looking coins!

Steve, yes that IS a different coin than my avatar.

<< Hi Sy,

I have nothing from my birth year. As I was born on 7.16.69, received at home on 7.20 and awoke at a rather special time and was placed in from of a TV, something tells me you could post something...

Eric >>

I never realized the exact timing you had there Eric. Congratulations! Here's something for you, the scratches are on the slab...

Unknown · October 9, 2013 3:04PM

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mozin · October 9, 2013 3:10PM

illini420 · October 9, 2013 3:16PM

Not mine, but about the only cool thing I think they made that year...

MFH · October 9, 2013 3:20PM

mdwoods · October 9, 2013 3:35PM

What if coins hadn't been invented yet?

magikbilly · October 9, 2013 4:07PM

<< Some Great looking coins!

Steve, yes that IS a different coin than my avatar.

<< Hi Sy,

I have nothing from my birth year. As I was born on 7.16.69, received at home on 7.20 and awoke at a rather special time and was placed in from of a TV, something tells me you could post something...

Eric >>

I never realized the exact timing you had there Eric. Congratulations! Here's something for you, the scratches are on the slab...

>>

Thanks Sy!

That is a very fresh looking coin! 50 years coming for JFK - amazing.
Yes, very fortunate timing

This is, I believe, why I have been painting images of the moon and a tree planted about that time since the mid 80's! The older I get, the more meaningful it becomes. I remember when I was little, we had a hardcover book about the Apollo mission. I think it was some sort of premium or some such from a gas station (Hess I think). It always fascinated me. Years later, sometime around 1978, I would attend a big Grumman party in the summer here on LI in Bethpage. They had everything there - all manner of food. It was the first, and last, time I entered a boxing ring. I am sure I told you about that day, and I am sure I left out embarrassing boxing part. I wish I were older so I could remember who I met. A few years after that, I was in what was the Westinghouse Science Fair, and I had design a liquid fueled engine ala Goddard/Braun. A man named Jack Jackson from Grumman was called in to judge my display. I did very well, won for my school and some regional. Jackson told me to get in touch when I graduated. I really wish I had, but ultimately, math and I did not see eye to eye. These days, I dream of succeeding Laurie Anderson as artist in residence at NASA.

Speaking of Birthdays - John Lennon would have been 73 years old Oct 9. Hard to believe! I can't believe Sean is 38. I remember seeing his first public performance with the Ono Nuclear Band and his - called Ima I think, I had met Yoko but never expected to see and sing "Give Peace a Chance" with a bunch of folks and any formation of that band. Like Lennon in Toronto - I could not remember any of the bits in between the refrain LOL

Thanks again!
Eric

Unknown · October 9, 2013 5:08PM

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WillieBoyd2 · October 9, 2013 11:03PM

My grandmother saved early Roosevelt dimes in a coin album.

United States 10 Cents 1948-S

Guess which side faced the album page.

RYK · October 9, 2013 11:10PM

As a YN, I purchased a mint set from my birth year (1965). When I got a little bit older, I broke the coins out of the plastic wrapper and spent them. That compromises my entire foray into birth year coins. Essentially, I spend them and have never since considered saving them, let alone photographing one.

TwoSides2aCoin · October 10, 2013 12:25AM

I haven't acquired it yet. But, it did lead me further into numismatics. 1955<curses>

crazyhounddog · October 10, 2013 12:43AM

drwstr123 · October 10, 2013 1:11AM

MarkInDavis · October 10, 2013 2:22AM

ricko · October 10, 2013 2:38AM

I will have to wait....no one posted my birth year yet......

Cheers, RickO

lcoopie · October 10, 2013 2:40AM

ok kid

BillJones · October 10, 2013 3:02AM

Believe it or not this 1949-S half dollar once sold for over $400 in the early 1980s. Today it is worth a lot less. I bought this for my birth year set. If there had been a Proof set, I never would have bothered with this. I'd lose a bundle on it if I sold it today even though I paid less than half of the peak price. You might not believe this, but during my collecting years I have seen the 1949 P, D and S half dollars each trade places as the most expensive half dollar for that year.

Have you ever wondered why I have no faith in the high values placed on modern coins? Here is one of the reasons.

crazyhounddog · October 10, 2013 3:05AM

<< Believe it or not this 1949-S half dollar once sold for over $400 in the early 1980s. Today it is worth a lot less. I bought this for my birth year set. If there had been a Proof set, I never would have bothered with this. I'd lose a bundle on it if I sold it today even though I paid less than half of the peak price. You might not believe this, but during my collecting years I have seen the 1949 P, D and S half dollars each trade places as the most expensive half dollar for that year.

Have you ever wondered why I have no faith in the high values placed on modern coins? Here is one of the reasons.

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Well, it certainly is beautiful!!

BillJones · October 10, 2013 3:20AM

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<< Believe it or not this 1949-S half dollar once sold for over $400 in the early 1980s. Today it is worth a lot less. I bought this for my birth year set. If there had been a Proof set, I never would have bothered with this. I'd lose a bundle on it if I sold it today even though I paid less than half of the peak price. You might not believe this, but during my collecting years I have seen the 1949 P, D and S half dollars each trade places as the most expensive half dollar for that year.

Have you ever wondered why I have no faith in the high values placed on modern coins? Here is one of the reasons.

>>

Well, it certainly is beautiful!! >>

Well, thank you, but it's not very beautiful at $220 late 1980s dollars.

I paid $68 for this 1949-D half dollar, which was viewed as the #3 1949 half dollar when I bought it during the same era.

Walkerfan · October 10, 2013 3:28AM

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