I am collecting a lot of coins from any willing to give them for a project. All before the year 2000. I’ve got so many coins now in pikes by year and mint add ah in order with no years missing since 1960 to 1999 save buf one. For my whole life, I’ve always looked for coins from my year of birth and I’ve never found a single one. After a year of not finding one, i began to get obsessed with it. But I’ve found every year of all my family members from my dad61 mom62 sister82 and brother84, and all multiple times, but I’ve never found any coins or paper bills from 83. Why can’t i?

Thanks Major D, needed to watch that. So agree with you.

We could be like Canada, five cents, 10 cents, 25 cents and polymer notes. Ah but Canada if more liberal and progressive than the U.S. is.

Spiro Agnew? Anti-Agnew rally? Where I met my now ex-wife? Truly a dark day.

I remember that was the year the anti war demonstrations started to take place. Things really began to change in ’68. I still remember the assassinations of MLK and Bobbie Kennedy. It was a sad time. What was the country headed to? We survived and even survived The Donald and the January 6th fiasco. We’ll survive the rise and fall of precious metal prices as well.

I didn’t realize how many varieties of these coins there are for the different nations, even in the area where I live. Maybe I should commission a coin for the Nation of Me?

The Cavern

And don’t forget, Richard Nixon was elected that year. “I am not a crook.”

I just recently noticed that, too. I had no idea they were minting their own coinage until just a few weeks ago. I assume someone else (maybe even the US Mint) is actually minting the coins for them. It would be cool if they had their own Mint. Imagine if you had to exchange your dollars for Native American coinage when you spend money at their casinos or shops. It would really make it feel like they are a sovereign nation. We say they are a sovereign nation but we sure do still exert a lot of control over their territories for that to be actually true. Minting their own coinage checks one of the sovereign nation boxes though, so I think this development is a plus. I do not really like how we currently mint so many base metal coins that are never really for use in circulation anymore (Presidential dollars, Innovation dollars, Kennedy halves and probably others) so it would be cool if most of their coins were actually meant to be spent. I am guessing that is not the case now nor are they planning such a thing, but I personally like that idea.