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Dec 25, 2010, 07:52 AM
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I have a Millard Fillmore dollar coin that I got from the Metro farecard machine. You can read about these dollar coins at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States) They are made of copper with a manganese-brass cladding, so the metals in them are worth practically nothing! They are a golden color, rather strange looking to me. On the narrow coin edge it has the minting date (2010) and "E Pluribus Unum" -- very hard to read. More useless facts that you always wanted to know. (Dollar coins are not used a lot now, though when I was just a wee thing the big silver dollars were quite common in Spokane.)
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Dec 25, 2010, 10:57 AM
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Interesting! Maybe that's the only coin President Obama was looking at when he mistakenly said our country's motto was that (instead of In God We Trust)??
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Dec 25, 2010, 10:59 AM
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i remember the fifty cent pieces being used all the time....hmmm
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Dec 25, 2010, 11:36 AM
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FYI - I read that a lot of those dollar coins are having errors in regards to the side lettering. Some don't even have any! Regardless, make sure you check on the numismatic value and not just the base metal worth.
In regards to the JFK Silver Halves and even the old Silver dollars. If you are looking to make money, you live near a casino that use the 50c halves for the 50c slots, just sit there, looking for not only 1964 and below, but anything in the 60's and prior. From 1965 to 1969 there was Silver content, but only 40% as opposed to the 90% of 1964 and prior coins. Many people will simply overlook the 1965-1969's. Silver spot price I just looked up has silver at $29.22 per ounce.
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Dec 25, 2010, 09:15 PM
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i used to had sacks of 50 cent pieces
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