Worth It

Just quickly showing my small U.S. coin & paper money collection that i have acquired over the years.
My first hobby as a kid i have grown to love and cherish, im only 20 so god only knows how big
my collection will grow.
I attempted to show 80% of my collection since youtube only gives me 10 minutes, i have much more than what the video shows. All i know is that my son is going to be filthy rich when i die… lol

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A machine at the train just gave me change in gold US dollar coins. I went to the store on the way home and the clerk looked at me like I was crazy and said I couldn’t use them. I live in the middle of Chicago so it’s not like its a remote area.

yep..

the clerk was an idiot, and obviously not familiar with the coin…

Why is the writing on the edge of the new US Washington dollars sometimes heads-oriented and sometimes tails-oriented?

On some of my Washington dollar coins, the edge writing is "up" when the reverse of the coin is up, and on others, the edge writing is "up" when the obverse is "up". Is this intentional? This inconsistency makes the coins seem junky.

I read this a few days ago: "The edge lettering is being applied randomly with regard to whether it faces up or down on the business strike coins, after the coins are struck. The business strike coins are fed through a vaccuum-like device that sucks them up into the edge lettering prep machine, which lines them up in whichever way the coins happen to enter the process (heads up or down.) Then the coins roll through a device that inscribes the edge lettering. It is expected that in the end, heads-up edge lettering should be about equal in number to coins which receive "tails-up" edge lettering."

The source below, from which the above paragraph is extracted, also describes the modified process that is being used for edge lettering on proof coins. It’s a bit different, in an attempt to have most, if not all, of the proof coins with lettering that faces upward.

After viewing G4T’s video on silver exchange for food. I thought that I would go into more detail showing an example with small weight silver coinage. I have in my past SouthernLibertyAmer videos tried to explain why you might find it to your benefit in acquiring small weights of precious metals. I say this because in the event there is a economic crisis, silver (and gold) will most certainly skyrocket in prices. The Lydian Mint website is a place where some may would like to purchase 1/4 oz weights of .999 silver coins. Some sites have smaller weights of 1/10 oz of silver .999 silver coins. Although these are very nice in weight, I find that the premiums are to extravagant in premiums. Some premiums for the 1/10 oz weight silver .999 silver coins are averaging 150% in premiums. So rather than go that route if you prefer the .999, I’d recommend avoiding the high premiums and buy your less in premium 90% U.S. Silver Coinage. In fact even the small weight 35% Jefferson WWII Nickels would be excellent………………………..Mike

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redoing my coin videos with my new camera.

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How much do US coins weigh? How much does a penny weigh? How much does a dime weigh and so on… I’m interested in all coins currently being circulated. What I really want to know is if I have a huge stockpile of money in coinage, what coin would make that same about of money have the least weight?

if you are counting the dollars it would be the sacajawea dollar weighing 8.1 g each that weighed the least

WEIGHT FOR A DOLLAR

penny 311 grams
nickel 100 grams
dime 25 grams
quarter 22.8 grams
50 cent piece 25 grams

A friend returned from Greece today and gave me some Euro coins that I tested to be magnetic.

Canadian ‘looneys’ (one dollar coin) are magnetic although appear gold as do our recently minted dollar coins. But US dollar coins are not attracted by a magnet.

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_specifications

Note: The metallic composition of a Sacagawea Golden Dollar coin is identical to that of the Presidential Dollar coin.

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All us money starting with smallest demononation
penny
nickel
dime
quarter
all 50 states
6 2009 quarters
dc and district of columbia
50 cent piece
1 dollar coin
$1
$2
$5
$10
$20
$50
$100
$500
$1000
$10000
$100000

e continental currency suffered from printing press inflation and was replaced by the silver dollar at the rate of 1 silver dollar = 1000 continental dollars.

[edit] Silver and gold standards

From 1792, when the Mint Act was passed, the dollar was pegged to silver at 371.25 grains, 24.75 grains (1.604 g). Many historians[who?] erroneously assume gold was standardized at a fixed rate in parity with silver, however there is no evidence of Congress making this law. This has to do with Alexander Hamilton’s suggestion to Congress of a fixed 15:1 ratio of silver to gold, respectively. The gold coins that were minted however, were not given any denomination whatsoever and traded for a market value relative to the Congressional standard of the silver dollar. 1834 saw a shift in the gold standard to 23.2 grains (1.50 g), followed by a slight adjustment to 23.22 grains (1.505 g) in 1837 (16:1 ratio).[citation needed]

In 1862, paper money was issued without the backing of precious metals, due to the Civil War. Silver and gold coins continued to be issued and in 1878 the link between paper money and coins was reinstated. This disconnect from gold and silver backing also occurred during the War of 1812. The use of paper money not backed by precious metals had occurred under the Articles of Confederation from 1777 to 1788 when paper money became referred to as “not worth a continental”. This was a primary reason for the “No state shall… make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts” clause in article 1, section 10 of the United States Constitution.

In 1900, the bimetallic standard was abandoned and the dollar was defined as 23.22 grains (1.505 g) of gold, equivalent to setting the price of 1 troy ounce of gold at $20.67. Silver coins continued to be issued for circulation

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I don’t live in the US, but have a pocketful of US change. I am traveling to Vietnam next week and would like to know if I could use the US coins. My apologizes if this strikes anyone as an inane question.

No, I don’t think you can use it here. I am a Vietnamese living in Saigon (HCM city) and so far I haven’t ever seen any exchange place nor bank accept coins of any foreign currency.