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I'm getting ready to hold a table and sell at our local small coin show. I am also cataloging this mess for my wife and heirs. Heck, I am even having a tough time figuring it out, so I am sure they would be lost without a big file. Has links to images, description, values and location and is sortable. Just finished my ancients and other older types this morning. That was tough. Only a couple thousand to go! I'll be grading my complete set of Jefferson nickels last, which only a very small portion of it is certified. It is very complete as far as I care to go. I will assign step counts and grades. It is probably worthy of being one of those top pop sets but I ain't paying for that nonsense. Then I have quite a few duplicates but no junky stuff is left. I still have 700 medals to enter. A lot of those images are done and they are ready to be typed up. This whole project will help me pick out my showcase items that I don't care to keep for selling at the show. I did see an amazing gold byzantine coin at the coin shop last week. Maybe I will be able to buy it after the July show. It was almost 5 grams and cost about 1000.00 but it was in a PCGS slab and in mint state. I think it was one of those "cupped" type. I forget the specifics. I can't get it out of my mind since. LOL Thanks for the "likes" in return. Now to go cut the grass! AGAIN!

Thought I'd pop in and say hello. I have been busy cataloging all my coin collection on a spreadsheet and organizing them to location. Only a small portion is ancient stuff but it was the most difficult to word correctly in different columns. Today I am up to my 2100th entry and I have a long way to go. I log on every now and then, maybe a few times a week, other times without logging in I look around. I haven't bought a new coin to post in quite awhile, That's just one of my "To do" projects I have going on. I did want to say that I still love this site and all the cool people. So polite and helpful! Thanks Happy Springtime to all!

Dazzling Qcumbor !!! Just amazing. I love art glass of all kinds. I might get some of my marbles out if that would have no objection. I have NOT lost my marbles yet.

Well, you did an excellent job and they are all beautiful.

That is awesome robinjojo Maybe mission or arts and crafts searches might help. I think it is "old". Like 1900-1920 ish but not sure. Could it be Fred Brosi? Or some old art studio. I don't know. But absolutely awesome. I like that Lizard a lot too Al Kowsky Way neater than those that BULBHEAD is selling! LOL Paperweights are so neat.!

Not the most exciting but I got these Pontos, Amisos ca. 100BC (Coast of Southern Black Sea Turkey) AE20 Obverse Aegis (skin of a slain gorgon) with facing head of Gorgon at center Reverse Nike walking right, holding palm over shoulder with both hands. Mysia Pergamon Athena Owl circa 133-27 BC (Owl on palm branch) JUDAEA Procurator Antonius Felix 52-59 AD era

Last one 2017 Reverse UNC Kookaburra 1 Oz Silver

Wasn't it fun when you could find all the coins you needed for any given year to keep your ongoing set "complete"? I have put together a complete set of Canadian 5 cent coins starting in 1922 but intended to end with 2022. In the last couple decades, to keep up, there were sometimes up to 7 different 5 cent coins produced to keep up to snuff. When my set became 100 years old and Queen Elizabeth died, I figured I was done and would close the book. I was quite happy when the one cent coin ceased in 2012. But now I see the Queen lives on remaining on the dual dated 2023 issue. Long live the Queen! I might get the Elizabeth 2023 coins, hope there are only 4 but I expect late in the year, we'll see several more to include 2023 Charles issues. I am not getting any of those. I'm done. Here's some of the crazy special coins since 2000. There are a good number more but I'll just post a handful. I do have them all. 2005 Mint report reverse Only released and found on the cover of the mint report booklet 2011 Baby Nickel Sterling Silver Proof Reverse 2017 1967-2017 Canada .999 Silver Rabbit 5 Cent Commemorative 2019 Canada Colorized Silver Proof 5 Cents Have the 2018 one as well 2020 Canada VE set Colorized Ended up buying the whole proof set to get this one! 2010 Silver Proof Canada 5 Cents from the 75th Anniversary Voyageur Dollar PROOF SET

Canada 2015 North American Sportfish Set of Four $20.00 coins Come in colorful boxes and clamshell cases. Each coin has a total mintage of 6500. Common obverse

2016 W US American Liberty Silver Medal I have the 2016 S and 2016 W in PF69 NGS a graded holder as well as this single boxed example. 2013 Canada Allegory Pure Silver 25 Dollars Proof with case - mintage 5503The 8,500 mintage figure listed on the RCM web site for the silver Allegory coin represents the maximum number of coins it would strike if supported by sales. It does not necessarily represent the total number of coins the Mint actually struck.

Since you posted that nice gold coin . . . I might as well post one for us older folks. I show this to my wife every now and then and tell her we are on the coin. She falls for it every time. LOL 1999 Canada Proof Silver Dollar "International Year Of Older Persons"

1968 US Military Payment Certificate Set Series 641 For use during the Viet Nam War

1997 Two Pound Piedfort Silver Proof Coin The obverse has the Queen Elizabeth II "Old Effigy" portrait. 1997 Piedfort mintage 10,000. Piedfort meaning double thickness. The reverse design fills the whole field. (It's wiggin' me out man!) It traces the development of technology from Iron Age to the Internet, beginning with the beautiful Celtic whirls at the heart of the inner disc and ending with the cyberspace network on the outer circle. On the edge is inscribed STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS, a quotation from a letter by Isaac Newton, who was both a top scientist and later Master of the Royal Mint. I have a normal 1997, mintage 40,000 and an 1998 Two Pound Silver Proof Coin with the "New Effigy" and same reverse. 1998 mintage 25,000.

1990-1999 Canada Aviation Series The first two coins came in small aluminum wing shaped cases that resemble these two longer ones in similar boxes. There is quite informative literature for each coin of the aircraft and pilots. The first set or series of 10 coins ran from 1990 to 1994 and two were issued each year. The second series ran from 1995 to 1999. For some reason, the first two command a significant premium when sold as singles. Actual images are shown of my coins and I reworked some stock images into a collage to show better detail of the coins. .925 silver with 24-karat gold-covered cameo of pilots31.1 grams 38 mm Series 1 1990 Canadian $20 Avro Ansan and the Harvard Sterling Silver Coin 1990 Canadian $20 Avro Lancaster Sterling Silver Coin 1991 Canadian $20 AEA Silver Dart Sterling Silver Coin 1991 Canadian $20 de Havilland Beaver Sterling Silver Coin 1992 Canadian $20 Curtiss JN-4 (Canuck) Sterling Silver Coin 1992 Canadian $20 de Havilland Gipsy Moth Sterling Silver Coin 1993 Canadian $20 Fairchild 71c Sterling Silver Coin 1993 Canadian $20 Lockheed 14 Super Electra Sterling Silver Coin 1994 Canadian $20 Curtiss HS-2L Sterling Silver Coin 1994 Canadian $20 Vickers Vedette Sterling Silver Coin Series 2 1995 Canadian $20 Fleet 80 Canuck Sterling Silver Coin 1995 Canadian $20 DHC-1 Chipmunk Sterling Silver Coin 1996 Canadian $20 Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Sterling Silver Coin 1996 Canadian $20 Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Sterling Silver Coin 1997 Canadian $20 Canadair F-86 Sabre Sterling Silver Coin 1997 Canadian $20 Canadair CT-114 Tutor Jet Sterling Silver Coin 1998 Canadian $20 Canadair CP-107 Argus Sterling Silver Coin 1998 Canadian $20 Canadair CL-215 Waterbomber Sterling Silver Coin 1999 Canadian $20 de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter Sterling Silver Coin 1999 Canadian $20 de Havilland DHC-8 Dash 8 Sterling Silver Coin

Grace Kelly . . . wow! That is amazing. She too was amazing.

If it were not for this thread, I wouldn't have much to post. I quit eBay and closed all my electronic banking so my buying of ancients has been close to nil. Here's a set of high relief 1960's Medallic Art Company .999 silver medals The Presidents of Mount Rushmore I have many of these, showing other historical persons. I also made a set or two in bronze too. They came in little boxes with a certificate, are about 3/16th inch thick and weigh about 3/4 troy oz.

The First two Canadian Silver Dollars 1935 and 1936 are both 1 year type coins.

Baby needs a new pair of shoes 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition While there are a number of other medals out there advertising children's shoes, I have found three advertised on and sharing this 1936 Texas Centennial medal reverse. They are Red Goose Shoes, Poll-Parrot Shoes and Weather-Bird Shoes. I think that would be considered a complete 1936 Texas Centennial set, having all three. All these shoe companies must have had exhibits at the 1936 Texas Centennial for kids shoes. Weather-bird brand shoes for children, using pictures of the Weatherbird in advertising, were offered starting in 1901 by the St. Louis-based Peters Shoe Company, later part of International Shoe which continued to base the brand's image of the Weather-bird until 1932.The brand itself continued at least through the 1950's. There are different accounts of the origins of the “Poll Parrot” shoe brand. In one version, the brand was named after a certain “Paul Parrott”, who had been manufacturing shoes under the Pol Parrot name in St. Louis since 1922, and had been bought out by International Shoe Company in 1928.Ted Hake, author of Hake’s Guide to Advertising Collectibles, © 1992, Wallace Homestead Book Company, tells the story of how the Poll-Parrot Shoe Brand name was conceived. It seems the owner of the original Parrot Shoe Company, Paul Parrot, kept a pet parrot in his store. The bird inspired a salesman to suggest the name Poll-Parrot Shoes as a brand name. Obviously Paul Parrot agreed and the name was copyrighted in 1925.According to Old Time Radio Researchers, Paul Parrot sold his shoe business to the International Shoe Company that already had the Red Goose and Weatherbird Shoes. The company sold men’s women’s and children’s shoes and sponsored the “Cruise of the Poll-Parrot” a syndicated children’s serial in 1937.Howdy Doody teamed up with Poll-Parrot Shoes advertising.The colorful red, green and gold parrot with the words “Poll-Parrot Shoes for Boys and Girls”, became a popular logo throughout the 1930s 40s, and 50s. The shoe stores that sold the Poll-Parrot Shoes often had painted plaster or chalk- ware displays of the parrot figures in the stores. Red Goose Shoes also made tokens with denominations in the era. A "clicker" penny toy. I had a teacher who would use one of these to get our attention in early grade school. These tokens below were also made in fiber, in different colors, probably during the World War II when metals were being used in the war effort.Here is a nice set, which I think is complete that either preceded the war or minted shortly afterwards or both but no later than 1950.I have my doubts as to the trade in value being equal in cents for the denominations of these tokens. When these were made, the amount these state would be a lot of money if equal in trade for cash.Perhaps one would get so much off the price of shoes for so many "points" instead.They may have been redeemable in discount or used as play money. I am unsure? Today certain brand sneakers are viewed as a status symbol for both kids and some adults. They cost hundreds of dollars and wearing them in certain places could put you at risk. I do remember a simpler time when I went to school. Penny loafers, wing tips, and hush puppies were just footwear. You weren't allowed sneakers in school because they left white skid marks on the hallway and classroom floors. Sneakers were for gym class or if you were on the basketball team and your beat up gym sneakers became your play shoes for at home. I wore them til they had holes in the bottom and then maybe just a while longer. Long ago, before sneakers were everyday footwear there were Buster Browns and numerous other brands. All cleverly advertised in magazines for Mom to see and there were small promotional toys like "clickers", "top spinners" whistles and banks. One slogan for a pair of Red Goose Shoes was "Half The Fun of Having Feet". I'm still trying to figure out what half the other fun was.

1944 Un Peso MexicoStruck in .720 silver, the 1944 silver is listed as KM #455 in the "Krause/Mishler Standard Catalog of World Coins".

It wasn't me. I like it ... a lot

Did you have a GREEN draft beer for St Patty's Day? 1924 Womens Christian Temperance Jubilee Penny It's bronze and big at 64mm At its founding in 1874, the stated purpose of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was to create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity. Annie Wittenmyer was its first president. The constitution of the WCTU called for "the entire prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage." The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is still an active international temperance organization but has been declining in membership since the 1940's. Frances Willard, a noted feminist, was elected the WCTU's second president in 1879 and Willard grew the organization to be the largest organization of women in the world by 1890. She remained president until her death in 1898. Its members were inspired by the Greek writer Xenophon, who defined temperance as "moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful." In other words, should something be good, it should not be indulged in to excess; should something be bad for you, it should be avoided altogether — thus their attempts to rid society of what they saw (and still see) as the dangers of alcohol. The WCTU perceived alcohol as a cause and consequence of larger social problems rather than as a personal weakness or failing. The WCTU also advocated against tobacco. The American WCTU formed a "Department for the Overthrow of the Tobacco Habit" as early as 1885 and frequently published anti-tobacco articles in the 1880s. Agitation against tobacco continued through to the 1950s. As a consequence of its stated purposes, the WCTU was also very interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace. As the movement grew in numbers and strength, members of the WCTU also focused on suffrage. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union conducts a White Ribbon Recruit (WRR) ceremony, in which babies are dedicated to the cause of temperance through a white ribbon being tied to their wrists, with their adult sponsors pledging to help the child live a life free from alcohol and other drugs. "Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours" By the looks of these sweethearts of the time, not much to worry about huh?

Of the small collection of my US Large Currency, this is one of my favorites. Series of 1922 Twenty Dollar Gold Certificate

Colorful and interesting

1926 US Ten Dollar Gold Indian

1907 S Philippine Peso A lot of these Pesos were deliberately submerged in the shallow ocean waters by the Philippines during WWII to prevent the Japanese from taking the silver coinage when they invaded and took control. It seems more often than not, this Peso type is found corroded from the salt water after they were recovered. This one appears to have evaded a long salty bath. The Hero of the Philippine people, who kept his promise " I Shall Return " is commemorated on the 50 Centavo and One Peso coinage for 1947. The US Mint in San Francisco struck these three coins. 1947 S MacArthur Peso 1947 S MacArthur 50 Centavos