1999 B Sweden Krona

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The one krona used to be equivalent of the one dollar in terms of usage. To make 1 krona you needed 100 öre until 2010. While stuff is still priced in öre they now round up to the nearest krona when paying cash. The krona is due for a big change in 2016 as the will be made out of copper plated steel.

CARL XVI GUSTAF·SVERIGE 19 99

FÖR SVERIGE I TIDEN (FOR SWEDEN IN TIME)  B 1KR B

So now the öre is no longer legal tender and 1, 2, and 5 kronor are not printed notes but only coins. That is the trend that most countries have embraced except of course for America. The Swedish money still has strong buying power and is one of the most heavily traded currencies. Exchange rate is $1.00 = 0.16 (kr).

That exchange rate system or more formally European Exchange Rate Mechanism must be part of the Sweden for two years before they officially join the Eurozone and adopt the Euro. The Swedes decided not to join and therefore found a loophole to avoid switching currencies. Seeing how they are planning their 2016 coins I think Euro membership is not a priority although it was supposed to be mandatory.

Type/Country: 1 Krona / Sweden
Year: 1999 B
Mintage: 55,018,508
Metal: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Value: $0.20 in Very-Fine (VF-20)

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2003 $5 Bill, DH-A

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My collection of bills are to the extreme in terms of grading. This heavily folded an dirty bill is just a little older than the $5 bill I featured last week which was near perfect. Since currency collecting is not my first choice I tend to but them aside only if I notice, unfortunately that is not often.

When I first started coin collecting as a child I never thought of collecting bills because they were too much money to just put aside. Then I inherited a bunch of $2 bills and tried to keep them. Unfortunately I needed to buy some stuff with cash and spent them all. For years I just did not bother. After collecting state quarters and seeing how quickly they added to real money I figured maybe try saving $1 bills. Soon after saving a few I got several silver certificates and thought I should try to collect them all.

Granted having a job and earning a paycheck was a big factor. Not being dependent on an allowance was great. Collecting coins or currency is better the more money you make. Also at the time I cashed out my paychecks so I got a lot of money to sort through at once. Slowly I started plucking out one note from each denomination and series. This went well until about 2009 when I went electronic. Having all my financial transactions done electronically actually saves me time and money but nearly shutdown my finds.

Change finds depends on the amount of cash you come across, the more cash = the more opportunities to find something. Unless I get a bigger paycheck or the bank changes its fees I am stuck with e-banking and see few opportunities to get cash.

Here's the stats for this bill...
Type/Federal Bank: $5 Note - Fort Worth / St. Louis
Year: 2003
Printings: 51,200,000
Printed: February 2004
Run: 3rd of 8 runs from DH12800001A - DH19200000A 
Value:  $5.00 in Very-Good (VG)

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Coined For Money: Round-Up Mar. 11-17, 2013

The St. Patrick Day's week long celebration is just about over and I did not find any pots of gold. Instead we can look elsewhere for some coin related news.

Atrium in the Marriner S. Eccles Building

The Federal Reserve has a Flickr account with all photos free for fair use. There is no cash posted just a bunch of people at their jobs.

NYC dog ate $1.11 worth of pennies. The dog was licking bagel crumbs over a box of pennies and ate the pennies. The zinc and the huge amount of coins could have killed the doggie but after emergency procedures he is doing fine. (Note to purist pennies and cents are the same thing.)

A Chinese coin from the 1400s was found in Kenya, Africa. If real and buried at the time this will add to the history of African-Chinese trade. 

I found an Acadia park quarter that reminded me I have not been in the great outdoors.

2012-P Acadia Quarter

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Released on June 11, 2012 it is the 13th quarter from the America The Beautiful series. In all 16 of the 56 quarters have been released for circulation so a complete circulating set would have 32 by now. So far I found 12 with this latest change find, that does ignore all the San Francisco minted coins.

The design is the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse at the Acadia National Park coast. My favorite part is the waves hitting the rocks. From what I read this Maine park is a great place for hiking and biking, things I do not regularly take part in. Still just to recreate this picture in real life it may be worth a bike or canoe trip for the weekend.

As I slowly get more of these park quarters I feel more like I should visit these places at least once. This was not the same with the state quarter since the majority of the images on those coins were mostly symbols and not real places.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 25 Cents-Acadia / United States
Year: 2012-P
Mintage: 24,800,000
Metal: 91.67% Copper 8.33% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in F-12

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2007 Canadian Quarter

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Finding Canadian quarters in my American change is not all that rare but also not common. I found this one yesterday after getting change from a food cart. It is normal issue 2007 Canadian quarter just like I found when they first came out in 2007.

Back when I first found one in 2007 they were new and shiny, I was confused since it was the first time I ever saw the Royal Canadian Mint logo (RCM Logo). It was a cool find and everything about it was just exciting.

Fast forward six years and I got this one which has what I am hoping is green gum stuck to it. Most of the excitement is low yet I am doing another post because it was still an unexpected change find. Who knew a Halal cart in the middle of NYC would be a new place to find coins.

Type/Country: 25 Cents/Canada
Year: 2007
Mintage: 274,763,000
Metal: 94% Steel, 3.8% Copper, 2.2% Nickel
Value: $0.25 in Very-Fine (VF-20)

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2003-A $5 Bill, FH-A

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So clean and near perfect. I got this ordinary $5 bill back in 2007 when they first came out. It was also the time I used the most cash and was really into collecting every kind of currency or coin. The bill itself may not actually be perfect but it might be worth grading, despite the fact it will cost more to grade than it is worth.

Lately work and life keeps me from obsessing with ever bill coin I come across. That is not the main problem with modern collecting. The real issue is that I use less cash. I mean I just got a bunch of cash back reward points for paying my taxes via cards and I paid them immediately so no interest was charged.

Not to get too off topic but February was great for paying and buying stuff using no cash and then at the end I made a profit. Granted find new bills is has become a bit more of a bother. Less change finds unless you include staring over the shoulder of people paying online and hoping they are willing to trade.

Here's the stats for this bill...
Type/Federal Bank: $5 Note - Fort Worth / St. Louis
Year: 2003-A
Printings: 83,200,000
Printed: April 2007
Run: 13th of 13 runs from FH76800001A - FH83200000A 
Value:  $15.00 in Choice Crisp-Uncirculated (CH-CU)

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