War and Peace (Plus a Coin Metamorphosis Bonus)

[cwilk]

Monday, Monday, Monday. Had a day full of chores planned. First and worst was truck inspection. Turns out it needed front end brakes which was no surprise. $166 later off to the Laundromat. What else to do while watching my dirty MD duds spin around but some scratch offs. Down 16 bucks, with half a tank of gas, and a stop at the post office I was down 250 bucks and it wasn't even Noon. I needed a detecting fix stat. 2.5 hours at my new spot. 90 clad coins in 2.5 hours which is well above average. Favs of the day pictured. The APC is heavy as heck and marked KPT89. Micro Machine? The religious medal has an odd mark. S Sil. The bale is marked 925. It is very smooth and well worn. I think it must be fairly old. I love finding religious medals especially silver ones. Thanks God! The cell battery was an odd signal.

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Now for the last stop of my day at the coin shop. As some of you may recall I am copying one of my MD heroes John and doing coin metamorphosis with my own twist. Just pennies for just silver. I wanted to force myself to dig more pennies. I am still 850 coins shy of my 2007 total but today I passed my penny mark for 2007. I would say I'm digging more pennies. My jar was full of pennies so I traded in 1500 of them for the pictured coins. Not a bad trade in my eyes even though I had to pay tax.

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I guess that's everything.

Chris

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

You made a good investment.

 

[Da Yooper]

Nice finds, the medal is sweet.

 

[awhitster]

Those are some nice coins you got. You should look into a AMERICAN SILVER EAGLE PROOF DOLLAR. Beautiful coin at a fair price.
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[cwilk]

I get one every year but they are a lot more than 15 bucks. I ordered 2008 a long time ago and if my memory is good it is shipping sometime soon. This is just a penny project.

Chris

Check out the Bald Eagle Commemoratives too. They are really great, especially the half. Too bad it's clad.

 

[Uncle Willy]

S Sil could be an abbreviation for Sterling Silver.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah that's what I spend some of my pennies and clad on. Love those coins and have several.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

I'm getting the 46 coin set of uncirculated State Quarters for $15.95.

Bill

 

[Goes4ever]

sweet trade!

 

[cwilk]

I thought that too but I was wondering what country or maker might have used it. I have never seen it before. I have found silver items marked 925, 900, 875, 800, sterling, sterling silver, ster, strl, but never s sil. I was looking at examples of other Our Lady of Knock medals and I think this one is older. Just from the way it has worn and the way it was made. I didn't post a photo of the other side but Our Lady is abbreviated O.L.

Chris