Any numismatists out there?

[kherrmann3]

Does anyone out there collect coins? I know I started a "show us your collections" thread, but I figured that this could be fun, too!

Anyone?

They are going to be introducing the "new" penny designs in 2009. I have been calling that for 10 years.

1909 - Changed to the "Wheat Back" Lincoln pennies from the Indian Head ones.
1959 - Changed the reverse of the Lincoln penny from the wheat ears to the Lincoln Memorial.
2009 - 50 years later, let's change the back of the penny FOUR times in ONE year! We just can't leave our coinage alone!

The "second" penny reverse design reminds me of Virgil from the PS2 game "Devil May Cry: 3".

Penny Reverse (2nd)


Virgil, from DMC3


Anyone?

 

[JadeIcing]

No but I hope I learn alot in this thread.

 

[kherrmann3]

What were you looking to learn?

Not only am I a nerd in general, but I am a nerd specializing in coins, fish, animals, and a few other random topics :biggrin2:

They are also continuing the Presidential Dollar Coins and are adding a Native American Dollar Coin in there too. It will have the same back as the Sacagawea Dollar Coin (the eagle). They are also starting the U.S. Territories quarter series. It is similar to the U.S. State quarters, but these are just for the six territories.

1. District of Colombia
2. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
3. Guam
4. American Samoa
5. US Virgin Islands
6. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

I don't know if those are their "order of release" or not. Those are just how they are listed on the US Mint site (www.usmint.gov)

You can learn a lot there!

 

[NorthernAutumn]

I be into philately (stamps), myself . Some cool stamps of Hitler are my faves, but I have a huge selection of international stamps with animals on them
Do have a bit of a coin collection going.
I really liked the 1967 Canadian coin series of animals
I got the silver dollar issued for Cobalt Ontario, birthplace of silver in the early 2000s for the 100 year anniversary of the region (10 km away from my home).
The new millenium Canadian series of coins was interesting too... Have you seen our poppy quarters?

Now have Olympic coins for the Vancouver 2010 games... boy, the Canadian mint makes everything!

Tim Hortons serves as the distribution centre for interesting new coins here. Apparently, it is the best way to get new currency into the system, considering that just about all Canadians are heavily addicted to Timmy's coffee. God knows how many Nate drinks per day....

 

[JadeIcing]

kherrmann3 wrote:

What were you looking to learn?

They are also continuing the Presidential Dollar Coins and are adding a Native American Dollar Coin in there too. It will have the same back as the Sacagawea Dollar Coin (the eagle). They are also starting the U.S. Territories quarter series. It is similar to the U.S. State quarters, but these are just for the six territories.

1. District of Colombia
2. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
3. Guam
4. American Samoa
5. US Virgin Islands
6. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

I don't know if those are their "order of release" or not. Those are just how they are listed on the US Mint site (http://www.usmint.gov)

You can learn a lot there!

OHHH PR!

 

[JadeIcing]

I had to run from the site. I have always been intrested. That could be a dangerous hobby.

 

[kherrmann3]

I love Canadian coins! The backs are a lot more interesting than the ones here. Ours are starting to look more and more like fake money. I have yet to come across a Canadian half-dollar, though :grumpy: I could have got one when I was in Canada May '07, but I forgot. NOW, you need a passport to go there. I don't have a passport, and I don't plan on getting one anytime soon lol

I worked at a bank for a year. Foreign coins would get stuck to a magnet inside the coin-sorter. We were supposed to just throw them out when we emptied the magnet every week. My manager let me take them home, though. I got a lot of coins added to my foreign-coin collection (MUCH bigger than my US coin collection!)

 

[Becknutt]

Its an expensive hobby. My dad is a coin dealer. I don't know too much about any of it but he has an extensive collection of Morgan dollers which is what started him in coin collecting years ago.

I do have all of the state quarters though...

 

[kherrmann3]

I only have five Morgan dollars, and I lucked out to get them! My mom bought me one (the coin is 100 years before my birth year). That was all I had for a LONG TIME! When I lived with my roommate's parents for a few months, his mom, Mary, and I became close friends. She gave me a quart-sized bag of coins that she had gotten from an old lady she knew about ten years back. She knew I loved coins, and she had to use for them, so she gave them to me. While going through the bag, there were ROLLS of silver dimes, quarters, steel pennies, buffalo nickels, Indianhead pennies, and five Morgan dollars in almost brand new condition! I almost had a heart attack! Feeling guilty, I told her what was in the bag and how much it could be worth, and she just shrugged and gave them to me anyway. She's such a sweetie!

 

[Luvr of Wabbits and Polar Bears]

kherrmann3 wrote:

I love Canadian coins! The backs are a lot more interesting than the ones here. Ours are starting to look more and more like fake money. I have yet to come across a Canadian half-dollar, though :grumpy: I could have got one when I was in Canada May '07, but I forgot. NOW, you need a passport to go there. I don't have a passport, and I don't plan on getting one anytime soon lol

I worked at a bank for a year. Foreign coins would get stuck to a magnet inside the coin-sorter. We were supposed to just throw them out when we emptied the magnet every week. My manager let me take them home, though. I got a lot of coins added to my foreign-coin collection (MUCH bigger than my US coin collection!)

I'm a canadian coin collector. If u sweet talk me i just might send u 1 of many 50cent pieces. I have the U of S world state book think that u can put the state quarters into thats 1 of 2 collections i'm working on. The other one is the candaian 25 quarter olympic series. I think in canada we put a new quarter every year with differen't design's on them. We quarters for Remeberance day, Brest Cancer, Our own Provinces and much more. I love collecting coin. I work for McD's so when i'm dealing with cash i always go thru the quarters to see if there's a new one i'm missing.

 

[kherrmann3]

For the last ten years, it's been five different quarter designs per year. Next year, it will be six :grumpy:

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Do you want more designs or fewer?

 

[kherrmann3]

Fewer. I think our money is starting to look like Monopoly money. I liked the eagle on the back of the quarter. I like the statehood quarters, too, but some are just silly. We have scary-lookin' dead guys on our money, too. Other countries at least put interesting things on their coins. Examples, Canada has wildlife on theirs, so much cooler than the American monuments.

 

[Luvr of Wabbits and Polar Bears]

kherrmann3 wrote:

Fewer. I think our money is starting to look like Monopoly money. I liked the eagle on the back of the quarter. I like the statehood quarters, too, but some are just silly. We have scary-lookin' dead guys on our money, too. Other countries at least put interesting things on their coins. Examples, Canada has wildlife on theirs, so much cooler than the American monuments.

LOL.

I think u american's are trying to be like us. LOL. Your Bills are turning color, and your coins are changing.

 

[kherrmann3]

I like our funny-money (paper) now! BUT, last time I checked, yours has holographs on it. At least your five does (did), and people sledding

 

[NZminilops]

The backs of coins here always have the queens face (or whoever is the head of the British monarchy at the time), it's the fronts of the coins that are normally interesting. So if the backs of the American coins are the intersting parts, what is on the fronts? Are they blank?

 

[NZminilops]

I just took some pictures of the current New Zealand coins, from our lowest (10 cents) to the dollar, I don't have a $2 coin on me right now.

This year (I think? Or last year?) they got rid of the 5 cent coin, and shrank the 20c and 50c coin dramatically, they used to be huge.

 

[kherrmann3]

Our coinage is as follows (obverse=front/reverse=back) All of our coins right now have presidents on the front (past presidents)

Dollar
Obverse = Right now, we are going in the order of presidents as they served.
Reverse = Statue of Liberty

Fifty Cents
Obverse = John F. Kennedy
Reverse = Heraldic Eagle

Twenty-Five Cents
Obverse = George Washington
Reverse = Fifty State Quarter program. A different design for each state. Before, it was an eagle.

Ten Cents
Obverse = Franklin Roosevelt
Reverse = A torch-thingy. There is an oak branch and an olive branch, too, I think.

Five Cents
Obverse = Thomas Jefferson
Reverse = Westward Journey series (Lewis & Clark's ship, Shoreline, Peace Pipe/handshake, American bison, return to Monticello (Jefferson's home)).

One Cent
Obverse = Abraham Lincoln
Reverse = Currently, it is the Lincoln Memorial. See first post for what 2009 pennies will have...

Here is a link that shows the US circulating coins.
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/circulatingCoins/

 

[kherrmann3]

NZminilops wrote:

I have to ask, what are those designs of? I have a few NZ coins in my collection, but I have no idea what to call those...

 

[NZminilops]

Ah interesting! Funny we have our "face" on the back, you have your "face" on the front.

Those are tikis I think? Maori designs. Maori are the native people of NZ.

I am pretty sure a tiki is a human figure but in art, like a carving generally, not sure if it's more of a slang term or what. Tiki in maori mythology is like the equivalent to Adam in Christianity.