a Souviner

Westward Journey Nickel Set
Missouri Quarter

The images above are from my souvenirs I got from St. Louis on my visit there last June. I also got a book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I already have a set of the nickels I got off pocket change. This one I bought more for the information it has on the packaging. Click on one of the tags to find out more about these particular coins

I got some - Panama coins!

I got some Panama coins - sort of!

These are the coins that I got from Panama. My husband couldn't easily find some in circulation (he found two from loose change) so when he got to the airport he bought me this souvenir instead. Not really the ideal one for a coin collector but I am glad that he made an effort. These coins are laminated into a plastic backing, a piece of paper with some obvious information was taped on the back of the whole thing. I don't know if I can ever rescue the coins off it. I have successfully broke the thick plastic backing and peeled off most of the laminate but the dried up laminate mixture on the coin itself is staying. At least I can put them in my coin display pockets now. It frustrates me when this happens, an ignorance to what a coin collector would prefer. This is about 10 bucks.

Australian 50 cents

25th Anniversary of the decimal currency.
The ram used to be the what on the reverse side of the round 50 cents!

This took me a while to find. I collect Australia's 50 cent commemorative. Most of them I got from loose change, some from families. This particular one is not very common and I have to buy it from ebay. I don't remember how much I paid for it but I remembered the postage was not cheap.

Panama Coins and Banknotes

The other day I asked my husband to pick up some "Balboas" for me. Today I tried to look through the internet and some books on Panama currency. I realized that they don't have any banknotes. They've stopped the circulation, I think, back in 1940s. There are some coins and it is being used along side US coins which is also a legal tender. So I am hoping I'd still get few coins when he gets back. The image above is scanned from one of my coin books.

The Dead Presidents Dollar

Presidential Dollar Coin Release Schedule


Year President Years Served
2007
1 George Washington 1789-1797
2 John Adams 1797-1801
3 Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
4 James Madison 1809-1817

2008
5 James Monroe 1817-1825
6 John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
7 Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
8 Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

2009
9 William Henry Harrison 1841
10 John Tyler 1841-1845
11 James K. Polk 1845-1849
12 Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

2010
13 Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
14 Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
15 James Buchanan 1857-1861
16 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

2011
17 Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
20 James A. Garfield 1881

2012
21 Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885
22 Grover Cleveland 1885-1889
23 Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
24 Grover Cleveland 1893-1897

2013
25 William McKinley 1897-1901
26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
27 William Howard Taft 1909-1913
28 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

2014
29 Warren Harding 1921-1923
30 Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
31 Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945

2015
33 Harry S. Truman 1945-1953
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961
35 John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969

2016
37 Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974
38 Gerald Ford 1974-1977

There you go! Hope you guys' enthusiasm of collecting these will last until year 2016. That seems to be a very long time. Almost 10 years. If you are lasting with the 50 state quarter thenthis is the same length. That is like 20 years of your life collecting, funny. I don't know if I will last that long really. Good luck collecting!

Note: Any correction of the above information is welcome. I honestly don't remember where I got the schedule.

US Quarters to spare today!

Here are three that I have. These are all from loose change, no mints. I have more from previous years. Forgive the quality of the picture. My scanner couldn't pick up a strong image because of the plastic cover. I didn't want to remove it off the plastic. Email me at yxesmai @ hotmail . com

2 Montana - Pennsylvania Mint

2 North Dakota - Pennsylvania Mint

1 Washington - Pennsylvania Mint

US - Quarters

US Quarters to spare!

Do you collect US quarters? Here are some spares that I have. Most of them were minted in Philadelphia Mint, a few are from Denver. Let me know and we can swap. These are all from circulations. I am interested in circulated coins only. They have more character. Email me for a list in yxesmai@hotmail.com or leave a comment whichever!