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The Darkside Rescue needs YOU!
JoesMaName
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In today’s uncertain economy it’s more important than ever to protect those who can not protect themselves.
Millions thoughtlessly brought to slaughter for money and profit with no regard for age, denomination, nationality or beauty.
The Darkside Rescue urges you to do what you can to save the helpless.
Go to your local B&M
beg to be allowed to look through their melt box and save as many of our little silver friends as you can afford
you won’t be sorry…
Joking aside, I couldn’t believe what was going to melt last time I went to my favorite B&M.
Wish my budget would have allowed me to save more from their fiery fate. I’d pick up a nice coin do the math and drop it back pretty often…
Mexican and Canadian like you wouldn’t believe, mostly modern but quite a bit of older stuff too, way more than I could afford to rescue. Especially cleaned and lower grade examples, three or four 8 reals with VF details but harshly cleaned, about a dozen original looking (PR to Good) 1, 2 & 4 reals, all going to melt…
Lots of other countries too, but I like Mexican so they stood out.
Paul - saved by
The Fireman...
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I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I did see quite a few Panama pieces mostly 1/2 Balboas from the 60s, they looked high mint state too but I had to let them go, at $13.00 a pop I just couldn't pull the trigger.
I have a feeling US & world silver coinage of the mid to late 1900s is taking one heck of a shellacking this past year or so.
The Fireman...
Turned out to be a 1933 in choice AU condition. When I asked if she had more 'errors' I could help her with she said no, but that she had just given out one the size of a quarter about 5 minutes earlier.
<< <i>Speaking of balboas, a cashier at a 7-11 once tried to slip me a 1/4 balboa in change instead of a dime. I don't normally check change that close, but she looked kinda sheepish. She was all apologetic and offered a real dime, but I declined .
Turned out to be a 1933 in choice AU condition. When I asked if she had more 'errors' I could help her with she said no, but that she had just given out one the size of a quarter about 5 minutes earlier. >>
wow....
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
That mintage is 125 not 125,000. This is for the copper nickle coins. The silver ones for 1976 and 77 is 12,000 and 9,548. The 2007 value is $15 and $20.
Olmanjon
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<< <i>a cashier at a 7-11 once tried to slip me a 1/4 balboa in change instead of a dime. >>
Are you sure it was a 1/4 balboa? Those things are the size of a quarter- I'd be surprised if a cashier thought one was a dime.
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<< <i>a cashier at a 7-11 once tried to slip me a 1/4 balboa in change instead of a dime. >>
Are you sure it was a 1/4 balboa? Those things are the size of a quarter- I'd be surprised if a cashier thought one was a dime. >>
Probably was a 1/10 Balboa.
The same silver that is in your modern coins may very well have been in a denarius of Augustus, an electrum stater of Lydia, a hammered groat of Elizabeth I, or a beautiful Georgian tea set. Or all of them.
The answer? There is none. Someday you too shall return to the dust that comprises us all. In the meantime, COLLECT! Don't wait for another 'big melt' to give your collection the active attention it deserves. Avoid the temptation to merely accumulate. You cannot save every coin, nor should you, but you can assemble a collection which pleases you.