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07 Nov 2019, 2:25 pm

An octagon that could be yours for only $45,000.

https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view ... 0mm-8359-g

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07 Nov 2019, 4:11 pm

Yours for only 60p

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07 Nov 2019, 8:39 pm

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Yours for only 60p

I sometimes pick up a dozen bags of those at the local bank and go though them looking for rare mintmarks. No luck so far, but I have gained several pounds as a result.

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08 Nov 2019, 7:53 am

^ :lol: :lol: :lol:

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08 Nov 2019, 9:02 am

Darmok wrote:

fluffysaurus wrote:

Yours for only 60p

I sometimes pick up a dozen bags of those at the local bank and go though them looking for rare mintmarks. No luck so far, but I have gained several pounds as a result.

If only I had known the value if this one before I ate it

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08 Nov 2019, 9:13 am

EzraS wrote:

Darmok wrote:

fluffysaurus wrote:

Yours for only 60p

I sometimes pick up a dozen bags of those at the local bank and go though them looking for rare mintmarks. No luck so far, but I have gained several pounds as a result.

If only I had known the value if this one before I ate it

OMG, the unbelievably rare Lincoln D3 issue?? Only four specimens are known! It's worth $thousands!

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09 Nov 2019, 4:47 am

Darmok wrote:

An octagon that could be yours for only $45,000.

https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view ... 0mm-8359-g

I'll take eight... :wink:

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26 Nov 2019, 4:17 pm

Gobble gobble.

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04 Dec 2019, 9:48 am

The famous 1943 steel pennies, struck to save copper for WWII use.

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04 Dec 2019, 11:01 am

Some hoodoo practioners in the south believe they can cure warts by buying off the warts with copper pennies. The afflicted hands you a penny and you rub the penny on their warts to make them go away. My mom wiuld tell me how my great grandmother used to do that as a home remedy.

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12 Dec 2019, 2:46 pm

Ferrets, ferrets everywhere.

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17 Dec 2019, 7:45 pm

Speaking of money rendered worthless, as we were in another thread...

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18 Dec 2019, 5:30 am

^I take it they are collectibles now?

This is a White Fiver, they didn't go out of circ till 1957 but are very collectible now.

I think they're pretty (minimal changed from 1793) but maybe not so practical, here's a comparison pic with a modern fiver.

Although, £5 today is less than min wage per hour (£8.21) where as when the White Fivers came out in 1793 it was enough to employ a head house maid for a full year although you still had to house and feed her on top of that.

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18 Dec 2019, 5:34 am

When you change presidents do you issue new notes with them on or do only previous (long dead) presidents go on your money?

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18 Dec 2019, 6:11 am

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When you change presidents do you issue new notes with them on or do only previous (long dead) presidents go on your money?

No. We Americans don't change the faces on our money every four or eight years just because there is a new president.

No living person is allowed to have their face on US currency. And in my half century plus lifetime the faces on the paper money have not changed at all. Same damned faces: Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, etc.

They don't put faces of living folks on coins either. But there is one coin in the US currency that keeps on dying out, and being reborn, and on that coin they do experiment with new faces. That coin is the whole dollar coin. We used to have silver dollars (with miss liberty), then we had Susan B. Anthony (the suffergette), and for a while we had Sackajewa (the First Nations woman who helped Lewis and Clark).

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18 Dec 2019, 7:53 am

^Thanks. Other than the monarch everyone has to be dead on ours. Same with stamps.

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