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CLOSED: AUGUST coin swap, $20 minimum FMV - be generous, be creative, be surprised!

moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited August 12, 2021 9:47AM in Coin Swaps, Tags and Giveaways

HI all,
I'm calling for an Olde Tyme Coin Swap, like we used to do 20 years ago on this forum.

If you are interested, reply to this post.

I hope to see a dozen or more "Deal me in" responses...

The Rules:

  1. To join the swap, your account must have been active for at least 1 month.
  2. U.S. shipping addresses only, please.
  3. Minimum value $20, valuation by Numismedia.com FMVs.
  4. I'll post the list of who sends to who, A sends to B, who sends to C, who sends to ... X, who sends to A. So it's a circle.
  5. PM your victim/target to get their shipping address (and optionally find out if they have particular interests)
  6. The "main things" you send are to be desirable/collectable U.S. coin(s). Bonus items can be included as well, but please do not unload your junk.
  7. Once I post the list, let's try to get the packages shipped within a week.
  8. When you receive your package, you can post a description on this thread... especially if it is particularly generous/interesting/funny...

Thanks!
am

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan , @Modwriter , @bigtime36 , you all expressed interest in a $20 swap. Please post a "Deal me in" to this thread. @Dscoin also expressed some interest, after the ANA show. Let's see the buzzzzz...

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OK, deal me in.


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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    OK, deal me in.

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So far:
    moursund -> @lordmarcovan -> @Modwriter

    I hope to see at least a few more before we close the circle.
    But even now, moursund can contact lordmarcovan for shipping address and interests, and similarly lordmarcovan can contact Modwriter. Modwriter has to wait to know the next target...

    Thanks!

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 8, 2021 1:01AM

    I guess I’ll be needing @Modwriter ’s address and preferences, then, and a nudge on when it’s time to proceed.

    (Edit- PM sent)


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am hoping to get at least a few more and the chain, but I suppose there is no reason not to start the shipments ASAPractical.

    As for all of the people who are reading this thread and not yet jumping in, give it a try!

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  • DontTellTheWifeDontTellTheWife Posts: 603 ✭✭✭

    Deal me in!

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DontTellTheWife said:
    Deal me in!

    Nice! Ok, @Modwriter sends to @DontTellTheWife ...

    Modwriter, go ahead and make contact, get shipping address and etc.

    Who's will be next in the chain? :smile:

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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    @moursund said:

    @DontTellTheWife said:
    Deal me in!

    Nice! Ok, @Modwriter sends to @DontTellTheWife ...

    Modwriter, go ahead and make contact, get shipping address and etc.

    Who's will be next in the chain? :smile:

    PM sent!

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 9, 2021 8:19AM

    I am shipping my outgoing package to @Modwriter today. Because I offered him some choices, the primary coin in his package is not a mystery. I figured I'd rather send him something he wanted, so the cat's out of the bag on this one. The OTHER coins in the package, however, remain a secret, and I'll let him post the rest when they arrive.

    But this is the main piece. It currently trends $13 on Numismedia in VG8. I think the rest should easily be worth more than seven bucks. (One set in the other mystery coins is an item I usually sell for $10, and there's more besides that.)


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice looking coin, and slabbed no less. :smile:

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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    I am very thankful to have drawn @lordmarcovan for the August coin swap! I am also shipping my outgoing package today to @DontTellTheWife. I have the same anxious feeling I get when submitting. lol Also, thanks to @moursund for putting the coin swap together.

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Let's get a few more in the chain before we close the loop... sounds like the links are mailing out promptly. I'll try to get mine off to @lordmarcovan today or tomorrow.

    And in the new tradition of showing the primary coin in the package, here is what will head toward @lordmarcovan

    OMG it's an OGH! :smile:

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 9, 2021 10:33AM

    Groovycool! More than just an OGH, it's a rattler holder!

    Very Old School!

    (I see what you did there with that "OMG, it's an OGH!", though. LOL)


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ok, the rattler and friends is on the way to @lordmarcovan

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks! :)


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan said:
    Thanks! :)

    Hey, tell a few CU friends to join this swap. I'm too new to know anybody.

    Except @bigtime36 said he/she would join. Where are you?
    And how about my new pal @Dscoin ?

    If we get 2 or 3 more, let's close the loop.

    am

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @moursund said:

    @lordmarcovan said:
    Thanks! :)

    Hey, tell a few CU friends to join this swap. I'm too new to know anybody.

    ... and by new, I mean in a relative sense...

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ajaan
    @asheland

    Want in on a $20 US coin swap?


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan said:
    @ajaan
    @asheland

    Want in on a $20 US coin swap?

    Yeah, be one of the cool kids!

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  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ll join the $20 swap

    It's all about what the people want...

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 22,612 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe next time. :|

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LukeMarshall said:
    I’ll join the $20 swap

    Cool, don't tell the wife will send to you. We don't know yet who you will send to...

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  • LukeMarshallLukeMarshall Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @moursund said:

    @LukeMarshall said:
    I’ll join the $20 swap

    Cool, don't tell the wife will send to you. We don't know yet who you will send to...

    Great! We’ve actually done business in the past…

    @DontTellTheWife Sent you a PM

    B)

    It's all about what the people want...

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ok, if nobody else joins the swap by this afternoon, we'll close the loop.
    I'm surprised there aren't more who care to join...

    For we few who are in it, be sure to post when you receive your goodies... :smile:

    am

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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    Maybe leave the loop open until the end of August?

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Modwriter said:
    Maybe leave the loop open until the end of August?

    Could... or maybe we'd like to be done and dusted by end of August...

    Doesn't seem to be much interest anyway.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 12, 2021 1:50AM

    Yeah, sorry. Swaps like this, as you have discovered, seem to be something of a bygone thing.

    I received my package from @moursund yesterday, and was going to bring it to work with me to open it, but forgot and left it at home. When I get off, I’ll open it and post a proper “unboxing”, whenever I’ve suitably recovered from the rigors of another graveyard shift.


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  • bigtime36bigtime36 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭

    Sorry for no response lately, I've been sick and trying to get better. Again, sorry.

    Jim

    Collect raw morgans, walkers, mercs, SLQ, barber q. Looking at getting into earlier date coins pre 1900s.

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bigtime36 said:
    Sorry for no response lately, I've been sick and trying to get better. Again, sorry.

    Jim

    Yikes, hope you are better!
    am

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think we will go ahead and close the loop for this Moursund August coin swap.
    Anybody who feels bad because they didn't join.... Please start another in a short while, and see if you can drum up a few participants.

    For this one, closing the loop means @LukeMarshall sends to me!

    @LukeMarshall please PM me for my address, and if you want to know what kind of coins I like. :smile:

    Thanks,
    am

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2021 4:20PM

    Belated update: @moursund was more than generous with me and sent me LOTS of bang for the twenty bucks!

    There was that 1945 Merc in the old PCGS rattler holder, plus a proof Mt. Rushmore commem half, an 1896 French 5-centimes, and a handful of really cool exonumia pieces! I particularly like the neutron irradiated 1946 dime in a 1950s encasement. I haven’t had one of those in about a decade.

    So there was plenty of “icing on the cake”, so to speak. Thank you, @moursund! I only hope that @Modwriter will enjoy what he got from me as much as I enjoyed what I got from you. Hope everyone ends up enjoying what they got. :)


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glad you liked it. :smile: fun putting it together...

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2021 4:38PM
  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too many rules on the second one :smile:

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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    That was quick and those coins are really cool! @moursund and @lordmarcovan must be in the same postal zone. Am I the only west coaster? @lordmarcovan Im sure I will enjoy your coins soon. By planes, trains and automobiles!

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @moursund said:
    Too many rules on the second one :smile:

    Too many words on the second one, I’ll admit. The rules themselves should not be terribly difficult to people who take the time to read them. (Many won’t. I confess I’m much the same way myself when reading other people’s contest rules.)


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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan I needed to Google exonumia. lol I have tried many times to register with CT but errors out everytime I can still read threads but can not post. I'm fine with that.

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Modwriter said:
    That was quick and those coins are really cool! @moursund and @lordmarcovan must be in the same postal zone. Am I the only west coaster? @lordmarcovan Im sure I will enjoy your coins soon. By planes, trains and automobiles!

    I am here in (way too) sunny Corvallis, Oregon...

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2021 8:54PM

    And I am in (way too) humid SE coastal Georgia, (near Florida), so @moursund and I are on the opposite ends of the continent.

    I’d like to see the Pacific NW someday. My daughter just returned from a trip to Portland, Oregon.

    Unfortunately for her, the (nonrefundable) accommodations she booked were in Portland, Maine!

    Ouch! (Speaking of opposite ends of the continent.)

    I wonder how many others have made that same mistake. Reminds me of a coworker whose mother went to send money to her here in Georgia via Western Union, and sent it to Georgia (the country in Asia) instead.

    My daughter liked Portland (OR), however.


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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 13, 2021 9:03PM

    @Modwriter said:
    @lordmarcovan I needed to Google exonumia.

    Good, because you will also be receiving some rather rare and very special exonumia in your package. ;)

    And so there’s another cat out of the bag, but no matter- there’s still yet more stuff in there that has not been mentioned. :)


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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PS- @moursund - if you want a set of the exonumia pieces mentioned above, just say the word!

    Hmm... come to think of it, I have your address on the envelope you sent inside my package, so hypothetically, there’s nothing to stop me... ;)


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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan said:

    @Modwriter said:
    @lordmarcovan I needed to Google exonumia.

    Good, because you will also be receiving some rather rare and very special exonumia in your package. ;)

    Thank you! I always have used the term "token" in place of exonumia. I do have a few exonumia that I have put away and will have to take a look at them now.

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “Exonumia” is a more general sort of umbrella term. Tokens are the major category of Exonumia, or course, but that also includes medals, love tokens, and elongated coins, etc.


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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan in Georgia, are Denver Mint coins hard to find? I find Philadelphia Mint coins very rarely here on the west coast.

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wouldn’t say D-mint coins are hard to find, necessarily, but they’re certainly a lot scarcer on this side of the country than P-mint coins are.


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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan said:
    PS- @moursund - if you want a set of the exonumia pieces mentioned above, just say the word!

    Hmm... come to think of it, I have your address on the envelope you sent inside my package, so hypothetically, there’s nothing to stop me... ;)

    Surprise coin package is always nice...
    As long as it isn't "too valuable to throw away, to ugly to like, too bulky to store..." :smiley:

    am

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  • ModwriterModwriter Posts: 330 ✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan Got your package today! I really like the coins and exonumia a lot! Thank you so much!

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What is that brown thing in the lower left? Indian Cent?

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @moursund said:
    What is that brown thing in the lower left? Indian Cent?

    Nah, just a humble 1928-S Lincoln in Littleton plastic. It was there mixed in, so off it went.


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