Category: Odd/Error
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Batch of Old U.S. Coins from 1800s
Oh man, I had a KILLER time last night meeting up with a fellow coin collector for a few hours. There’s nothing like chatting about coins over some warm coffee towards the end of the week, I’ll tell you what… Except for maybe then COMING HOME with some afterwards – what what! Turns out my…
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Error, Error, Error
I picked up my first 3 error coins! Mistakes from the mint that accidentally went into circulation (until an intrigued person/collector came across it and happily scooped it right out). I’ve never owned any error coins to this degree before, only some barely off-centered coins/ dollar bills, so it’s neat to add a few hardcore…
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Are You Down With MPC?
AKA Military Payment Certificates? ;) I picked up these bad boys in a recent trade with my friend (the same one who got my $5.00 star notes and also gave me that sexy 2 cent piece), and I really had no idea of its history until I sat down to write this post. They’re kinda…
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Reader Mail: Info on a “Jumbo Penny” and Other Specimens
I got a note this week from a friend of mine who started reading my new site here. He’s a fellow collector himself, but mainly of “graffiti dollars” only – like those bills you find in circulation with all kinds of writing/pictures/designs on them. He has a pretty cool collection of them here if you…
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My 2 Cents
Remember that $50 credit I got for offloading those $5.00 star notes? Well, this is coin #1 I picked up from my newest coin friend’s stash :) Helping me get closer to owning one of each “odd” denomination the U.S. has produced too – I’m thrilled! Most people don’t even know we used to have…
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The $250,000 Aluminum Penny Found in a Desk Drawer
This latest gold hoard finding reminded me of that 1974-D Aluminum Penny found just last month – the ONLY one in the world verified to exist! Remember that? Apparently a guy (Randy Lawrence) inherited it, along with his dad’s coin collection, and after 30+ years of it just chillin’ in a desk drawer thinking it…
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Lot of Twenty $5.00 Bill Star Notes!
So an interesting thing happened to me the other week: I got my hands on 20 – CONSECUTIVE – five dollar bill star notes :) All crisp as can be, and all for only $100 in trade! A friend of mine works at a restaurant, and apparently he came across these bills while breaking open…
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