End of the Year Stats

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The year 2007 is over and my change finds have gotten slim. Although I did find a few star notes the older money has all but stopped. While last year I found a 1907 U.S. cent this year I found a 1927 U.S. cent and nickel.
Half of my change finds where from friends and family, the other half was from local stores most just a few blocks from my place.

Here are two graphs that shows the decline in my foreign coin finds. In 2006 I had found 43 coins from 14 countries which was the lowest until this year. In 2007 the amounts reduced to 27 coins from 8 countries.
As usual Canada dominated all with Bermuda, Great Britain, Greece, and Trinidad & Tobago being the only countries that repeat.

Oldest United States Find
1927 Cent
1927 Nickel

Oldest Foreign Find
1958 Canadian Dime

Most Valuable Find(above face value)
2003A $1 dollar star note in UNC about $5.00

All in all I found 48 coins compared to 56 last year, my high was about 250 in 1998. I did make it up by buying 92 coins most from the mint or eBay, compared to 42 last year.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and change for all.

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1973 Canadian Quarter

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Featured Question from Kristie...

I Have 36 RCMP Centennial coins.
I know the large bust is worth considerably more, but I am not sure If I have large, small or some of each. They Vary in grades.
I would like to know how to tell the difference between a small bust and a large bust. 2 pictures to compare would be nice. TY!

Good question and I assumed it was a 1973 quarter from Canada as this is the only RCMP I know that had this variety. This happened because a new obverse design was introduced in 1973 but some of that year's coins were already made in late 1972 using the old design. Less than 10,000 are thought to exist.


Click on the image for a close-up comparison of my small bust in between the two varieties.
Middle-Click to open in a new window/new tab.

Here was my response..
A picture comparison would may not be completely helpful, but I will post one on the front page of my blog. From a book because I don't own a large bust.

The Small Bust has a more detailed bust and only 120 beads around the bust. These beads are slightly far from the rim.
The Large Bust is less detailed and has 132 beads around the bust. The beads are almost touching the rim.

Here's the stats for each variety...
Type / Country: 25 Cents / Canada
Variety: LB=Large Bust=132 Beads
Year: 1973
Mintage: Less than 10,000
Metal: 100% Nickel
Value: $100.00 in VF-20


Type / Country: 25 Cents / Canada
Variety: SB=Small Bust=120 Beads
Year: 1973
Mintage: 135,958,589 including above
Metal: 100% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in VF-20

Of course the higher the grade the more it will be worth.

If you have the patience you can count the beads which is the best way to do it.

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Ending 2007 with a Buffalo

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This last month I've found some more interesting coins in my change. I expect very little shopping this last week after Christmas and the one numismatic gift I got was from me. I bought some foreign coins from Eastern Numismatics Inc. they're a decent company and when I receive the coins I'll post some of the more interesting ones. I may troll eBay for some other coins but I need a good printer so I'll focus on that before my money is gone.

As usual Canada dominates the change finds but I did get some older American and one Austrian coin. I can only explain this as the exchange rate from Canada to the U.S. has been great for the Canadians. All the foreign coins were from cashier friends while the American coins were given back as change from the local supermarket.

The best find all year was this 1927 Buffalo nickel it was from my change with a few modern nickels. It was a surprise seeing how few older American coins I get recently. Then last week I got a 2007 dime from Canada that looks great at UNC(uncirculated).

Here's the stats...
Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 1995
Mintage: 624,983,000
Metal: 98% Copper, 1.5% Zinc, 0.5% Tin
Value: $0.03 in G-4 (Good)

Type/Country: 20 Euro Cents/Austria
Year: 2002
Mintage: 203,500,000
Metal: Brass
Value: $1.00 in UNC

Type / Country: 5 Cents / United States
Year: 1927
Mintages: 37,981,000
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $2.50 in F-12

Type/Country: 1 Cent/United States
Year: 1945
Mintage: 1,040,515,000
Metal: 95% Copper, 5% Zinc
Value: $0.10 in VF-20

Type / Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 1985
Mintage: 142,800,000
Metal: 100% Nickel
Value: $0.12 in G-4(Mostly for the nickel value.)

Update: There are know two recognized varieties for the 2007 Canada Ten Cents, straight and curved 7. The curved 7 variety were only found in sets and not issued for circulation.

• St7 has the 7 in 2007 straight and not curved. MS-65 not-circulated = $10.00
  
• Cr7 has the 7 in 2007 curved. MS-65 not-circulated = $20.00

Type / Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2007 Maple Leaf Logo (ST7)
Mintage: 304,110,000
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.30 in MS-60
The Krause World Coin Book has the Maple Leaf Logo listed as (ml).

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Money in Art

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Last year at this time I went to the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian located at
The George Gustav Heye Center
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004
it is free admissions.

There were some great pieces but one that relates to the numismatic hobby was this basket.

The work is titled Penny For Your Thoughts made circa 2000.
It is modern art by Terrol Dew Johnson (Tohono O'odham, born 1975) Arizona.
Medium is beargrass, waxed nylon, and pennies.
Anonymous donation, 2005 (26/4364).

His quote on this work in 2005...

My work reflects who I am and as a person, my culture, my family, the desert. I have learned much from my elders and I combine this respect for tradition with my own visions of the world I see around me. Many times I dream a design, and it haunts me until I actually weave it.

While I may not know the value of this art piece I know it's significance.

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Last Months Finds

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I found these in my change a while ago and only now have I had enough time to post about them.

Obverse and reverse.

Nothing particularly grand but still something nice to find. Most are Canadian but I did find some older American coins. I also found two star notes, a one dollar note and a twenty dollar note but neither were rare. The Susan B. Anthony dollar was from my change but I believe I used, I can't find it.

The difference with a 2003P and a 2003 is core used to apply the plating. A 2003 was a copper plated zinc coin while the 2003P was a copper plated steel coin. As a result all Canadian coins with a P should be magnetic

I'll go from top left down then the next column.

Here's the stats...

Type/Country: 1 Cent/Canada
Year: 1964
Mintage: 484,655,322
Metal: 98% Copper, 1.5% Zinc, 0.5% Tin
Value: $0.05 in G-4 (Good)

Type/Country: 1 Cent/Canada
Year: 1980
Mintage: 911,800,000
Metal: 98% Copper, 1.5% Zinc, .5% Tin
Value: $0.03 in G-4

Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 2003P
Mintage: 591,257,000
Metal: 94% Steel, 4.5% Copper, 1.5% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in AU(although this one look less.)

Type / Country: 1 Cent / Canada
Year: 2004
Mintage: 653,317,000
Metal: Copper-Plated Zinc
Value: $0.10 in MS-60

Type/Country: 1 Dollar/United States
Year: 1979S
Mintage: 109,576,000
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $1.00 in UNC(although this one look less.)

Type/Country: 1 Cent/United States
Year: 1954D
Mintages: 251,552,500
Metal: 95% Copper, 5% Tin and Zinc
Value: $0.10 in VF-20

Type/Country: 1 Cent/United States
Year: 1955D
Mintage: 563,257,500
Metal: 95% Copper, 5% Tin and Zinc
Value: $0.10 in VF-20

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