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Along with buying and getting coins I also regularly get coins books for my own nusmimatic library. Earlier this year I picked up The Official Red Book: A Guide Book Of United States Coins 2007 60th Edition by R.S. Yeoman and also bought Standard Guide To Small-Size U.S. Paper Money 1928 To Date 6th Edition by Oakes & Schwartz.

There is a 7th edition of the Paper Money book coming out in October.

When quoting prices from these books you always have to keep in mind that they are 10-50% more then most dealers will pay for coins or notes. Sometimes they pay less so at that point it would be better to sell them through eBay or other means.

Here are my two newest books.
The 2007 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 34th Edition.Overall it is fine not as thick as last years some updated prices but some big errors. The last page for South African coins is missing replaced with a repeated page. For $55.00 you'd expect better. I paid $34.65 at Amazon.com.

Also the 2001-Present World Coins is being sold separately at $30.00 only $18.90 on Amazon.com.

The second book I recently got was this older one Coins of England And The United Kingdom Spink Standard Catalogue of British Coins 38th Edition Spink 2003.
It is an older book I bought for the price of shipping and handling from a cool coin dealer. It is worn but still in good condition. The values are all in pounds but that is okay because it goes as far back as 150B.C.. Yeah two thousan years of coins. It does not list minatges which is somewhat disappointing but it still is great reference for older British coins.

I'm still waiting for the Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001 to Date (Standard Catalog of World Coins: 2001 - Present) to be delivered along with the Charleton Guide and A Charlton Standard Catalogue Canadian Coins 2006 (Charlton's Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins) by W. K. Cross they will be here in September.

This where most of my coin budget is going because I need to stop the coins for a while as I organize my collection. I'll buy some 2x2 and flips and really try to get rid of coins I don't want by either selling them or giving them away. After that I'll focus on the types, I want to finish a good collection of high grade coins.


Cool coin dealer: Northeast Numismatics Inc.

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Crazy Foreigners

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Back in April I met a lady from the Netherlands I said never been there but I do collect coins from that place. She then graciously offered me some coins and a bill that she couldn't use in New York.

Apparently she is traveling the world. Here are the ones she gave me plus a Canadian and American coin I found in my change.

This is why it's always good to talk to strangers.

Here are that stats for the money above...
Type/Country: 10 Rubles Bill/Russia
Year: 1997(2004)
Mintages: Unknown (by me at least)
Paper: Dk. brown & dk gray on m/c unpt.
Value: $1.25 in UNC

Type/Country: 5 Cents/United States
Year: 2006D
Mintages: 809,280,000 (Estimated)
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in MS-63

Type/Country: 5 Cents/Canada
Year: 1983
Mintages: 72,596,000
Metal: Copper-nickel
Value: $0.20 in MS-60

Type/Country: 2 Euros/Netherlands
Year: 2001
Mintages: 140,500,000
Metal: Bi-Metallic Brass center in Copper-Nickel ring
Value: $4.00 in UNC

Type/Country: 10 Baht/Thailand
Year: 1995
Mintages: 53,700,000
Metal: Bi-Metallic Aluminum-bronze center in Stainless steel ring.
Value: $3.00 in UNC

Throughout that month I also received a few more from Canada, one from Ireland and some US coins. Nothing too special.

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Buffalos Are Shiny

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Check it out Eric Ewanco got his Gold Buffalo and has shared some pictures.
Here is the reverse of the coin in it's velvet lined box.
I believe for those who can afford it they are still available from the mint.
Plus a direct quote from the mint.

"American Buffalo Gold Proof One Ounce Single Coin Product Limit: 300,000"

The price is still $800.00 plus shipping and handling. This is one of the highest quality gold coins the U.S. Mint ever made.

Early reports of quality has been good. I haven't heard of any valuable errors but some people don't like the background field looking so dimpling.

Some people have reported that boxes are showing up empty. Not usually from the mint but the Uncirculated Version from secondary companies and eBay have been ripped open during shipping. This is probably because the package is clearly known to be gold by the delivery service. I don't like blaming any company but listening to the complaints it does seem to come from one famous company.

The USPS(United States Postal Serivce) is the best way to ship them at least they can insure the coin even though that can be a hassle.

5% of these coins are grading MS-70 or PRDC-70(Proof-Deep-Cameo)
94% of these coins are grading MS-69 or PRDC-69(Proof-Deep-Cameo)
only 1% are grading lower then 68

Graded coins are selling for $1250.00 on average despite the fact that they are common. Once the mint post the final amounts sold the price will drop fast.

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Coin Scale

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Along with books and websites I still need more things to accurately find out what kind of coins I have. So I bought a scale after months searching and asking many dealers and collectors.

The scale I finally settled on is the DigiWeigh DW-100AS. It is a pocket precsion digital scale with a 100g x 0.01g accuracy.


It came with a 100 gram weight for calibrations.



Here it is weighing a copper-dime.



The sale is very accurate. It does need an occasional re-calibration when the scale gets moved a alot but it's not annoying.
The feel is solid and better then I expected from a mostly plastic scale. It isn't exactly pocket friendly.

The price was $29.99 + $8.37 for shipping and handling but since I used my Amazon credit card it came out to be free, yes FREE with the first time discount.

Although I saw if you buy it and sign up for a Stamps.com account you get a $30.00 rebate. Here is their official website plus the link to the rebate at the top of their page.

Here is where I bought it from Amazon Scale or Amazon Scale 2

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The Lower The Better

On of the visitors to my humble blog asked this. I believe this should be helpful to most
currency collectors.

And one more question, sorry, when a serial number is "low" how low does it have to be to give bill more than face vaule?

The list below shows how they estimate the worth of low numbers. The first price listed would be for bill of the serial number 00000001 as they move to EVEN HUNDREDS they mean 00000100, 00000200, etc.

Click on the picture for a larger image.

Remember every one there are so many varieties in bills and notes that are collectible. Repeating serial numbers, "radar" serial numbers and many others.

I'll do my best to help I'm mostly a coin collector and the currency collection I have is small but the community is big finding someone to buy a any type is possible.


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1886 Morgan Dollar

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My last eBay purchase was this nice Morgan dollar. I bought for $23.50 plus shipping and handling. The coin is raw but marked MS-65.

MS-65 in a Morgan Dollar is described by having only light, scattered contact marks that are not distracting and strong luster with good eye appeal.

MS-64, which is what I believe this one is can be described by having a few scattered contact marks, good eye appeal and attractive luster.

This may fall into the MS-65 category but Morgan dollars are one of the most graded coin and submitting it professional would probably bring it in at MS-64.

Maybe one day I'll submit it to PCGS but not now.

Here's the stat for this coin...
Type: 1 Dollar-Morgan Dollar
Year: 1886
Mintage: 19,963,000
Metal: 90% silver, 10% copper
Value: $80.00 in MS-64 or $175.00 in MS-65

Price updated for 2012 and value went down $30.00 and $25.00 respectively since 2006.

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