1945 - 2005

[mbarrick]

Neat. I got one of the new WWII commemorative nickels in my change today. The nickel on the left is the new one. It is patterned after the 1945 "nickel" (in quotes because the 1945 coin is not made of nickel due to war time shortages, it actually made of a cheap steel alloy - note the rust). The 1945 coin shown here is from my Gypsy chest

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[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

coolness!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Heh. I knew you would like this post ;-)

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

when the Louisana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition nickles came out i was completely surprised- there had been almost no announcement that they were coming. granted, i am more in the stamp trade than coins, but there's a lot of overlap and i'm still surprised.

/geek

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

did you find the new buffalo nickels yet? i still wish i had some of my old old ones.... *sigh*

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I used to have a few of those. They got sold off with the bulk of my coin collection when I was a starving student. The gypsy chest has a few old laurel wreath design U.S. pennies on it, and I think one or two of those might be old enough to be indian-head pennies. I'll have to look.

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

do you mean the wheat cents? (approx the 30s if i remember right....been a while since i've run across one)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yup, your right. The indian head pennies has laurel leaves and the Lincoln pennies between 1909 and 1958 had wheat in a really similar arrangement (I looked it up). All the older U.S. pennies I have on the chest are Lincoln wheat pennies - no indian head / laurel leaves. I used to have a 1943 steel penny that got sold off in my college days as well. There might be something interesting on my "penny table" - another odd peice of furniture I made that is covered in about $75 worth of pennies.

In looking though, I discovered that I still have a 1944 Canadian brass nickel (same V for victory design) on the chest as well as the 1945 steel one. I didn't realize I still had one of those.

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

I've got one of the US 3 cents coins from the 1880s. Sounds like a bizarre denomination but made sense back then because it matched one of the lettermail rates.

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

That copper coin on the left looks like a Turkish 1 kuruş (one-hundredth of an old lira) from the 1960s.

It's practically worthless as until recently the smallest denomination of lira was 25,000 lira coin (also pretty worthless). Since January, a bunch of zeroes have been chopped off to create the new lira.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Good eye, that's exactly what it is.

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

The one on the right is 50 cents from Hong Kong and dates from sometime between the 1950s to 1970s - am I right?

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Right again. 1958.

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm such a coin geek - or at least when I was younger