Monday, January 30, 2017

1988 Canada Dollar

There are a lot of things we learned from our Canadian neighbors. How to make a golden dollar is what we will focus on here, maybe hockey another day.

Reverse of 1988 Canada Dollar, Loon
Obverse of 1988 Canada Dollar, Queen Elizabeth II
It has been 30 years of the golden Canadian dollar, previously they used a 100% nickel dollar but that was getting expensive. Switching to a Aureate-Bronze Plated Nickel saved some money but also made the coin more distinguishable in the circulating coins.

United States of America having issues with dollar coins tried again in 2000 with somewhat of a success. Making the coin golden made it better to accept among consumers and businesses. Unfortunately we still prefer dollar bills since they are lighter and traditional.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Dollar / Canada
Year: 1988
Mintage: 138,893,539
Metal: Aureate-Bronze Plated Nickel: 91.5% Nickel, 8.5% Bronze
Value: $1.00 in Very-Fine (although exchange rate as of January 30, 2017 has it $0.74)

Do you have a dollar from Canada and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

1967 Washington Quarter

50th anniversary of the 1967 quarter. Yet after this much time still no extra value, especially since it has been circulated.

Obverse of 1967 Washington Quarter, Liberty, In God We Trust
Reverse of 1967 Washington Quarter, Eagle, United States of America
This is a clad quarter meaning it has a copper core and a reverse and and obverse layer of copper-nickel mix. From a manufacturing point of view coins should last long enough to survive heavy circulation yet can be made relatively cheaply. Seeing how this 1967 coin has been around for fifty years it was designed correctly.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Cents / United States
Year: 1967
Mintage: 1,524,031,848
Metal: 91.67% Copper 8.33% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in F-12

Do you have a quarter from America and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

2002 Dominican Republic 1 Peso

Although the Dominican Republic is close by and a tourist destination I do not find the coins in my change as often as I use to. The exchange value is low and using them in meters or vending machines is not possible anymore.

Reverse of 2002 Dominican Republic 1 Peso, Republica Dominicana, arms
Overse of 2002 Dominican Republic 1 Peso, Padre de la Patria
At least in New York City people use to get Dominican quarters and use them to feed parking meters. Since the exchange value was low $10 dollars of was like $100 in Dominican quarters, after dealers fees, and would sometimes work in vending machines. Thanks to new coin reading technology, more expensive meters and vending machines, and easier credit/debit card usage this made large Dominican coin scams harder to use.


This one looks like a U.S. dollar coin so it may have passed as one somewhere. I got it as a quarter.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Centavos / Dominican Republic
Year: 2002
Mintage: 80,000,000
Metal: Copper-Nickel
Value: $0.50 in Very-Fine

Do you have coin from the Dominican Republic and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

2013-D Great Basin Quarter

Took a while to get the Denver version of this common America the Beautiful quarter but that is because I am on the far east coast.

Reverse of 2013-D Great Basin quarter, Nevada, tree
Reverse of 2013-D Great Basin quarter, mint mark, Washington
More of the Denver version of this coin was minted mainly because there was more demand for it. The western portion of America has a largely population mostly because of California. The largely population uses more coins so when bank on the west side of the country run low on any type of coin they order more from the the closest Federal Reserve which in this case it is the Denver mint.

I may have skipped some steps on how local banks get new money from mints but it basically is there.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Cents - Great Basin / United States
Year: 2013-P
Mintage: 141,400,000
Metal: 91.67% Copper 8.33% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in F-12

Do you have a quarter from America and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

Friday, January 13, 2017

2015 China 1 Jiao

This does have machine doubling but that never adds value so this is still a low value coin.

Reverse of 2015 China 1 Jiao, date, value, Yi Jaio
Obverse of 2015 China 1 Jiao, orchids

Nice coin has some permanent fingerprint which happens on nearly all coins. The oils, acids, and just normal chemistry on are hands will "rust" all types of metal even certain precious metals. In higher grades this would lower value but for circulating or rare coins it wouldn't matter much.   

Here's the stats for both coins...
Type/Country: 1 Jiao / People's Republic of China
Year: 2015
Mintage: Not yet known.
Metal: Stainless Steel
Value: $0.10 in XF

Do you have a Chinese coin and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

Monday, January 09, 2017

2011-D Gettysburg Quarter

It took six years to get this Denver version of the Gettysburg coin in my change and still it is worth just a quarter.

Reverse of 2011-D Gettysburg Quarter, Pennsylvania
Obverse of 2011-D Gettysburg Quarter, Washington D for Denver
Gettysburg is more than a great speech it is the site that saw the pro-slavery south meet their defeat at the hands of the pro-land north. General Lee, not the cool car, started strong but July 4th was running away after a huge loss of cavalry.

The statue is that of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument found on High Water Mark at Cemetery Ridge. The High Water Mark is the deepest the Confederate forces went that day of the battle.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Cents-Gettysburg / United States
Year: 2011-D
Mintage: 30,400,000
Metal: 91.67% Copper 8.33% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in F-12

Do you have a coin from America and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

Wednesday, January 04, 2017

2013 Austria 2 Euro Cent

Austrian euros follow the same trend as other European euros, which is little to no extra value.

Obverse of 2013 Austria 2 Euro Cent, Zwei, flower and dateReverse of 2013 Austria 2 Euro Cent, denomination, map
Austria has typical European issues like extremism versus radical groups causing instability. That said they are not seriously thinking of dropping the euro so this currency will be around for a while keeping collectors value low.

Here are the stats...
Type/Country: 2 Euro Cents/Austria
Year: 2013
Mintage: 121,500,000
Metal: Copper Plated Steel
Value: $0.05 in XF

Exchange rate value is about $0.02 which is good for the U.S.

Do you have any Euro coin and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.

Monday, January 02, 2017

2014 Spain 5 Euro Cent

Spanish euro cents are common and there are plenty of tourism between are countries so they are easy to find.

Reverse of 2014 Spanish Euro Cent, denomination and map
Obverse of 2014 Spanish Euro Cent, Espana, year, cathedral

Newer coin but kind of dull since it is copper plated and if used a lot it begins to lose the luster.

Here are the stats...
Type/Country: 1 Euro Cent /Spain
Year: 2014
Mintage: 119,900,000
Metal: Copper Plated Steel
Value: $0.10 in VF

Do you have any German Euro coin and want to know its value? Leave a comment/question and I will do my best to find out the price and history for you.