Found on the ground

[smed]

Today January 29th - a 1940 Canadian cent.

[coppercoins]

Wow, that's cool. Not usual I bet to find one on the ground in Canada that old, much less Florida!

I've had a bunch of CDN cents come out of rolls of late, but none of them are generally any older than 1960.

[coop]

I bought a bunch of blue whitman books for Cents that have the plastic slides on them. The coins are mostly all circulated, but several years there is one/two rolls each. Starting about 1940 to the 50's There is one book with some uncirculated/spotted ones. But they only go up to the 70's. There is a roll + of the 1967 centenial Cents also. Most are circulated, some BU. I bought the batch 1080 Cents for just the folders price new. Coins tossed in free in the books. So I can find the early Canadian Cents circulated real easy. There is one year where there was two different designs (1947) that there is 50 of each design. To bad they were Wheat Cents. I might find something in them....

[Dick]

Coop, your 1080 CDN cents, bring to mind my son, who bought 1000 wheats, in fed reserve wrappers from an estate sale. He paid $50.00 for the lot, (20 rolls). He is going to go thru thrm looking for errors, and then give them to me! looks like I get to look thru the ones, like you were wishing, the CDN's were. I'll let you know if there is any "novelties".
Dick

[Robert]

Compare the mintages of those CDN cents to US cents of the same year. I don't understand why CDN cents (and CDN coins in general) aren't more in demand than they are.

And some other foreign coin series have mintages less than 100,000 or even 50,000. These coins are valued at only a few dollars. Compare that to an 1877 IHC or an 1893S Morgan.

I'm still convinced that foreign coins will someday be "discovered" and will appreciate more than they have up to now.

But, I could be wrong.

[smed]

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/se/mexproofs82-83.jpg

All of the coins in this pic have a mintage of either 1051 or 998... there were 998 8 coin proof sets made of the 1982/3 Mexican proofs, and who knows how many are still intact... (aside from the coins in the pic, I have 6 intact proof sets, last time I figured I own over 1.5% of all the 82/83 proofs)

None of the coins have a value of more than $30-40 except for the Libertad, the coin in the upper right., which is valued at around $200-300. The reason for the relatively low values is the small size of the collector market.

Hanging on to all of them for now, hoping they'll be discovered as Robert said.

[Dick]

Robert, If the US Mint keeps putting out junk like the'82 ZINC garbage, and begins to convert other denominations, as well, we might all begin to collect "world coins", just to have something that doesn't "self-destruct"! I am ashamed of the mint for this quality of coinage.! Our coinage once was the epitome of coinage, and now, YUCK!
SMED, I trird to make the link, but was "forbidden", because I don't have permission! Can you re-activate it? I would like to see it. I am very parcial to Mexican coinage, and to Mexico, actually, because I have spent more that 50 years going to, and coming from there. It is as much "home" to me as is the USA. I used to have a pretty sizable, and fairly complete type, and date, (reform) set, many years, and four kids ago. It wrnt back into the Colonial days, and several of the State mintages. Of course, with four kids to feed, and all else considered, things go the way of all good things, to feed the kids! All that is left is memories, and a few odds, and ends. The thing that hurts most, is that when we came to CA., there was no more room for the things that were still there, and there was no room for the things we wanted to bring, Including a beautiful Palmaranian. She was given to some friends, and Left behind, inadvertantly, were several fruit jars full of crown sized coins that I had "stripped" from the boxes of coinage that we brought back when we sold the grocery store in Los Mochis, Sin. All the small coins were given to a neighbors son, and the rest into the jars. I thought I had brought them in "one of the boxes", and for months, kept looking for, and never found. I later found out that they had been seen by my brother, who knowing that tha peso had been "devalued" thought I had left them behind because "they weren't any good"! I still get sick, when I think about it! Oh well, win some, lose some! Se la Vie! Asi es la vida!
Dick

[smed]

Hmmm, interesting. I got the same "forbidden" result.

But, just click on the "GO" button next to the address bar and you should be OK.

Dick, it sounds like your Mexican collection was mostly what mine is now. I've been working on a circulating set of the 1905 reformation, and though I haven't counted in a while I'm probably about 95% complete. I have earlier and later coins as well but I don't actively seek them out. I couldn't begin to say why I started collecting Mexican, but it's definitely been fun.

[coop]

Probably between the both of you, you have the market cornered on Mexican colectable coins? The ones I have are so uncollectable that the only way they would be useful os to drill a hole in the center and make washers out of them. I found one with 7 sides on it. 1978 Diez Pesos. One with letters around the rim. $5 1980 and a second one with letters on rim. Conco Pesos 1976. Probably worth their weight in washers....

[smed]

Pretty much Coop, but there's a small date variety of the 1976 5 pesos that's got a BV of $1.50 in EF.

[Dick]

If you guys check the 1 January, 2007 issue of COIN WORLD, you will find American, Canadian, and Mexican listings Pretty complete listing.
Dick