kellancoin - Honouree

kellancoin

silver, gold, history, coins, collection, numismatics, American coins, money, new, review, investing

about 8 years ago

I am leaving Steemit until changes are made I had a great time on Steemit for the first 5 months, but the platform has rapidly declined in the last 2 months. Everybody that enjoys my c

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over 8 years ago

Half dollars that sold for a dollar but are priceless to me The Columbian Exposition half dollar was sold in 1892 and 1893 for $1 each to raise money for the World's Fair in Chicago IL. 2.5 million we

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over 8 years ago

Silver Canadian dimes I found these two dimes in a bag of random foreign coins. They are 80% silver worth $0.96 each. They are beautiful coins that represent two

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over 8 years ago

Fractional Notes The first type of paper money to become popular was actually not “dollar bills”. It was fractional notes hence worth only a fraction of a do

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over 8 years ago

Rare variety penny found I found my first error/variety penny worth 500x face value. It is the 1998 wide AM variety penny that I found in change; others can still be

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over 8 years ago

Three Cent Nickel !image( The three cent nickel is similar to the Trime in many ways but they are completely different co

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over 8 years ago

Classic Head ½ cent The Classic Head half cent is also called the Capped Bust half cent. Coins in this time period had extrem

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over 8 years ago

Standing Liberty Quarter The Standing Liberty design was only minted on the quarter. The design was changed multiple time which ev

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over 8 years ago

1722 British Farthing The recent marriage in the royal family got me thinking of my oldest British coin. It features King Georg

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over 8 years ago

Barber quarter From the 1830s to the 1890s the seated liberty design was practically the only design used for silver coin

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over 8 years ago

The rare three cent coin Starting in 1851, the price of postage actually dropped from five cents to three cents, thus the trime (the first 3 cent coin) was born. Inf

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over 8 years ago

Two Cent Piece The two cent piece was very popular for a short time. From its

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Flying Eagle Cent The Flying Eagle cent was the first cent to be made the same size as our modern cent. It is a predecessor to the Indian Head cent. Oddly, th

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over 8 years ago

Big Silver Dollars (part 1) Morgan dollars were minted from 1878 to 1904 and in 1921. They are about the size of a potato chip and they are largest coins excluding comm

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over 8 years ago

The first wheat pennies with a unique feature In 1909 the last indian head pennies and the first wheat pennies were minted. For about 3 months the wheat pennies had the initials V.D.B. f

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