2011 Red Book

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So I am a bit late in getting this book. Since this book came out in April of this year I just been waiting for either a price drop or an extra $20 to justify the purchase. I did not expect a major improvement from any other red book but as a collector I could not skip a year, it's a bad habit I am breaking with the 2011 World Coins Book.

A Guide Book of United States Coins 2011: The Official Redbook the 64th edition is spiral bound is what I bought. While hunting online I saw they have leather bound editions that are $70, journal editions with tabs I assume for recording your own notes, and a professional edition with expanded prices and varieties. Unfortunately I want to see these in person but no local stores have these. Once I saw the Professional edition but I saw no real difference with the regular edition.

What's new?

• 434 pages of less-pastel goodness each section is color coded but they changed it from the last year to a darker motif
• Changed the term "whizzed" to "buffed", this one made me laugh
• Many early coins lost values
• Draped bust images was moved or resized
• Most post-1800 coins have gained value
• Better 2009 Lincoln cents images were added
• Added  the 2010 to date Cent
• Added 1824 & 1827 Flat and Pointed Top 1 images for dimes
• Changed 2009 quarters images
• Added a list for the Parks quarters and changed the end date from 2020 to 2021
• Added 1887/6 image for silver dollars
• Sacagawea dollars end in 2008 and a new Native American dollars section was added
• Updated the latest presidential dollars
• More realistic and updated commemorative images
• Better Misstruck and Error chart with the change of number to word references
• Complete elimination of the Significant U.S. Mint Error section
• Free gift final page is back

Disappointments

• Still no explanation of the edge lettering position for dollars although the pictures has them head-side up.

Overall
Rare coins went up, most pre-1800 coins went down, and most newer coins gained in value.  Format has not changed and they use there limited space wisely.


If you have any of the Red Books from the last few years no need to upgrade just adjust for metal prices.
If you do not own one wait until the 2012 because rumor is it will be out by February.


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2010 U.S. Nickel

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So this is a common coin barely worth the time to write this post. That said at least I got a 2010 nickel seeing how I yet to find a 2009 U.S. nickel.

I know last year was a slow production year but come on hoarders these 2009 nickels are not that rare. Let them flow into circulation. 2010 coins are flowing fast although I have not found any National Park quarters which seems odd.

 

Type/Country: 5 Cents / United States of America
Year: 2010 P
Mintage: 147,840,000 as of this August
Metal: 75% copper 25% nickel
Value: $0.05

I had an interesting conversation with one commenter who said in Russia his buckets of Rubles gets nothing over face value like my nickels in the U.S. This is true but even in average grade I think most coin collector would pay a little extra for coins from other countries. It would be great to search through common Russian coins as I think someone in Russia would love to get dozens of state quarters that we find common.

In short trading coins sounds better everyday.

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Before, During, After

Before people barely talked about the twin towers, unofficially they were an eyesore. No talked about a field in Pennsylvania. A few people talked about the Pentagon but with little sadness.

Before

During that day 19 Muslim extremists with hate in their hearts decide to kill and hurt and tried to forever change the American way of life.

During

After the people, mostly non-New Yorkers or non-Pentagon employees, decided that anger was good but being petty was better. First you had the greedy wives, then the deniers who swarmed the internet with foolish conspiracies. After a while you got the phony sick who spent 30 years smoking and then spent 2 weeks many blocks away from the site and whined their way to millions. Now you have the exploiters who seek to use the day to win elections or plug their church/mosque.

After

Still they tested the tribute in lights on Sept 10 while having no building to walk into on the 11th.

Rebuild and never forget.

1989 Australian 10 Cents

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It is the size of a quarter.
It is the weight of a quarter.
But this is not a U.S. quarter that I recently found in my change.

At this point with all the state, territory, bicentennial, and eagle quarters circulating it is not  to clear how a quarter should look like. Although I'm thinking the Queen and a giant 10 would give most people a clue.

Still this Australian dime passed quite easily as quarter.

Here are the stats for this coin...
Type / Country: 10 Cents / Australia
Year: 1989 
Mintage: 45,000,000
Metal: Copper-nickel
Value: $0.25 in XF (this one is less than XF)
 
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Summer of George

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Last time I found a Where's George note I kind of went on a rant. To recap it is a site where people stamp notes in order to track them, which I found slightly offensive.

At this point I will not say much but this note I found it typical of Where's George note. Meaning it is fairly
new yet in horrible shape. I do not know if the stampers only doing this to old notes or people tend to manhandle the note more when they try to identify the stamp.

This stamp is says:

LOG ON 

IT IS 

FUN 

& 

FREE 

www.WHERESGEORGE.COM 

With boxes around the series year and serial number. Again I partially blocked the number to keep the game going, yes even though I am not a fan I do not feel like ruining someone's fun.
             

Original page.

The bill was first entered in Illinois back in March of 2008 later that same year it ended up in Vermont then almost two years of travel it ended up here with me, which I will pass on. The bill has traveled about 1,000 miles so far but I doubt it will last another three years.

From the initial user profile here is Blimey's stats:

Bills Entered:	4,222	Hit Rate:	13.48%
Bills with Hits:	569	Total Hits:	684
Days of Inactivity:	0	George Score:	941.87
Wilds Found:	13	Overall Rank:	2,973
State Rank (Illinois)	115	State Percentile :	97.98

This guy is not as obsessed with stamping notes as others on the site.l

Here's the original stats...
Type/Country: 1 Dollar / United States
Year: 2006
Date Printed: June 2007
Printings: 96,000,000
Run: 4th from F19200000C - F25599999C
Value: $1.00 in this shape



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2003, 2004, 2000-More

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Few people live long enough to see themselves on a coin, even fewer live so long that they need to update their official image.

Queen Elizabeth II is now on her fourth effigy. In 2003 the official effigy used by the royal family was changed to show a more mature Queen. That meant anyone using the third effigy must update it to version 4.0.

Since this happened mid-year some 2003 coins already started using the third image then had to switch to fourth. In most cases value is not affected. For the 2003 Canadian dime no official mintage has ever been given to either effigy so it is assumed they are about 50/50.

Now this post would be great if I had both versions of 2003 side by side but sorry that is not what I found. Instead I got a 2003 and 2004 with the same "new" effigy. I just wanted to let everyone know that another version of the 2003-P Canadian dime does exist.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2003-P Older Queen effigy, new portrait
Mintage: 163,684,000 (both types included)
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.10

Type/Country: 10 Cents / Canada
Year: 2004-P
Mintage: 214,143,000
Metal: 92% Steel, 5.5% Copper, 2.5% Nickel
Value: $0.10

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