Actually
right - hence ... :)
Richard (my sweetheart to died in 1993) had a batch of wheaties... I
look at the pennies I get and I keep finding them
though not many, of course, and not in such good shape but I have a
hundred or so
ann
Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
One almost never sees "wheaties" or steel cents in circulation any more.
Dan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Now JOhn and I have lots of info :-)
I only mentioned looking for "s' cause John did -- prior to his email I
didn't know a thing about it...
aside from thinking it would be cute to have all the states.. or that
someone MIGHT wnat oe in the distant future,
all I know about coins are what "wheaties" are and if I got a 1943 copper
coin I could get a prety nice price for one.
I have one steel coin from 1943 that I wrote a story about in grade
school... thinking it was the unusual one.... think I
I dentified with being out of step? you betcha
ann
Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Ann:
I'm afraid you won't find many "S" mintmarks. The San Francisco Mint
no longer makes coins for general circulation. They specialize in
proof coins, which are specially struck to have greater luster, and
special issues.
http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=15253&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=10211
Any "S" or "W" (West Point) mint marks you find are special issues,
not meant for general circulation. If you find one in regular change,
there is is a good chance it was stolen from someone's collection, by
someone too stupid to realize its value, who then spent it at face
value instead of selling it as a collectible.
I usually limit myself these days to buying the annual uncirculated
mint sets and proof sets directly from the US Mint.
Dan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
John -- this is odd ..
I jsut started doing this too.. I have 43 different ones so far - in
less
than a month... but I hadn't thought about looking at whether they were
P
or D and didnt know about "S" at all
Im only keeping one of each state to make a set and just though tit would
be
nice to have or to save and possibly sell for $1.00 profit or so.
I have to just a magnifier to see which state I have in text but I'm
getting to know the pictures.
Now I'm gonna want to look at each to see if they have an "S" lol
glad you are recouping I didn't get to wish you well _before_ the
procedure
as I didnt see your post until yesterday...
ann
John Sessoms wrote:
Does anyone know more about the state quarters than I do?
Let me rephrase that ... Does anyone know LESS about the state quarters
than I do?
I just found something odd. At least it's odd to me.
Ever since the program began, I have tried to keep every one of the
state
quarters I've received in change. Just tuck 'em into the watch pocket on
my
jeans and they tend to pile up around the house. I think I've spent less
than $10.00 of the state quarters since 1999.
Mostly because of my east coast location I get 'P' quarters. Every once
in
a while I sort through the piles and separate them by state & put 'em
into
plastic tubes.
Any 'D' quarters I get are segregated to a separate pile. I don't get
enough to justify separate tubes for each state, but I can sort them by
year.
Anyway, I'm rambling ...
I needed some change just now and grabbed a dollar's worth out of the
pile
I hadn't sorted through yet and decided to make sure I wasn't grabbing a
'D'
quarter.
Instead, there was a South Carolina 'S' quarter.
I understood the 'S' were all silver proof sets, but this is a regular
clad quarter.
Try to keep the explanation simple like me. ;-D
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