Re: Three lots of coins & currency


"Jim Menning" <jmenningSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48188fec$0$30494$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Daniel :-}" <dpeart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48187a00$0$30483$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lot#1:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200219775254&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=010

Just curious, how do you define that 1958 wheat cents were bronze, and 1959 cents were copper, when both share the exact same composition? (3.11 grams, .950 copper, .050 tin and zinc)

And listing the composition is far less important value-wise than listing the condition of each coin. Anyone buying these already would understand the composition, perhaps even better than you.

Well you caught me, GOOD for you!

FYI. Several numismatic sources {Red Book for one} differentiate the two different dates of these coins composition.

Sorry for playing semantics with the listing of these items. I did not have the time to grade each of these for you as I'm listing them for a friend.

As always, there will be someone here to be critical and keep us straight.

Keep up the GOOD work!

Daniel :-}

P.S.
Again, you are correct.
There are those out there who have been collecting and dealing with numismatic items longer than my 46 years.
As I have always stated, I have never claimed to be the expert as I do keep an open mind and want to learn from the experts out there in our world.

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