For all you YNs , if you have recently submitted a blog for YN dollars, you may receive a 2022 to 2025 holder for historic women in American history,  which  the Hobbyist has mentioned in Coin roll hunting part 3.(It is how I got mine)  It is a small coin folder for 5 new quarter designs,  with one for each year. The quarters will portray Maya Angelou,  Wilma Mankiller and many more,which is in the American Women Quarters collection. Also since this will probably be my last blog for this year,  so I want to wish every numismatists in the ANA a Merry Christmas and a Happy  New Year!  

Numismatists collect anything coin related.  They collect platinum, gold and silver coins, proof sets and regular coins put in circulation. In this article, i will talk about silver coins produced and released in 1916 to 1964 by the mint, excluding commemoratives,  Peace dollars, Barber dimes and Kennedy half dollars.1st coin: Mercury Dime 1916 to 1964Designed by sculptor and designer Adolph A. Weinman, this coin depicts a young Liberty, with a Phrygian cap with wings, was confused with Mercury, hence the nickname the Mercury dime. Weinman is said to have based the Mercury dime off of lawyer and poet Wallace Steven's wife, Elsie Stevens. The obverse shows a fasces, signifying unity and strength,  and an olive branch for peace. It was put in silver from 1916 to 1945, and gold in 2016. 2nd coin: Standing Liberty Quarter 1916 to 1930The Standing Liberty Quarter depicts the Goddess Liberty.  It was designed by Herman Atkins MacNeil, and was changed shortly after being put in circulation for showing basically a bare breast of Liberty.  After being modified to not show a bare breast, they also added chain mail and in 1925 started to make a stronger strike since the age wore off too quickly after just being  put in circulation. 3rd coin: Washington QuarterTo celebrate the 200th anniversary of Washingtons birth, the Mint decided to create a new coin for our first president.  The Mint chose the design of John Flanagan. The Washington Quarter replaced the Standing Liberty Quarter. Flanagans original reverse, which stayed for 66 years until getting changed in 1999 for the new National Park set. 4th coin : Jefferson Nickel 1942 to 1945As nickel was a much needed  metal in World War II, the Mint used the not needed or not so much needed metal silver instead . This coin was designed by Felix O. Schlag, whose design lasted 67 years until getting changed in 2005. Its mintmark is located above the Monticello, which was Jefferson's  home. It was put in some silver in the three year period. 5th coin: Roosevelt dime 1946 to 1964  Since the introduction,  this coin has been circulating since 1946, but stopped being silver in 1965. The metal that is currently used to make dimes is called base metal. When first put in circulation,  the designer John Sinnock put his initials JS, but people thought it was Joseph Stalin, which created a craze. 6th coin: Franklin half dollar 1948 to 1963This 50 cent piece depicts Founding Father, inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin.  The obverse depicts the Liberty Bell, and the coin was designed by John Sinnock. The Sesquincentennial dollar coin in 1926 was the  basis of the  idea to put the Liberty Bell on the back of the half dollar. In 1941, the Mint had the idea of putting Franklin on the dime, and they even made a design, but was later forgotten and did not happen.

I do not know what these marks are? Got any ideas on what it is ? Is it just wear?, because it is 115 years old.

In my most recent article , which is the same subject as this article , it will be mostly same intro as the first part.  Many adults now regret not begging their parents to buy the Cocoa or Fruity Pebbles, that  had a what could be very expensive  coin, if in good condition. Bah! Who wants a coin? They thought. Wouldn't  they want a toy or some other  gadget instead? Now those same adults realize the mistake that could have put thousands in their pockets.This article is about coins or coin related items placed in  either  Post or General Mills cereal boxes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1970 to 1980                                                                                                                                                                                           (Sorry guys, when I was researching about these coins they had no specific date on them ) In the 1970s to 1980s, Post put in presidential coins in their Super Sugar Quisp cereal boxes as a prize. The coins state the presidents name, year in office,  and some fun facts, along with having  their portrait. Also put in Post's Super Sugar Quisp  were more coin, only now they were legal tender , which were coins from the countries Brazil, Egypt, Finland and South Korea, the list goes on.  The Brazilian  coin was a dime, the Egyptian  a Millimue, the South Korean was one Won and the one from Finland was one Penni. Again with Post, and again legal tender,  banknotes were given as cereal prizes, from countries from Brazil to Indonesia.  It makes you wonder, why would Post give out coins and currency  as cereal prizes? They were basically giving out a whole collection out there! The reason is simple, the rarer or bigger the prize, the more customers Post would get!  The prices for the presidential coins are around three dollars, the foreign coins around five dollars and the banknotes five to ten dollars.                                                                                                                                             1975 to 1980                                                                                                                                                                                                Again, Post  put a coin holder in their cereal , portraying three characters from the Flinstones, which are probably the most popular characters from Hanna-Barbera classic 60s cartoon. They used the heads of Fred Flintstone,  Barney Rubble and their pet dinosaur as the shapes of the coin holders. Since Post was using Flintstone characters,  they put these coin holder collectibles in Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles,  probaly for two reasons, so sales on Cocoa and Fruity Pebbles to go up, and because it made sense. The colors to collect are orange, red, blue and yellow. Personally, I think Post had a genius idea on this prize, which linked three of my favorite things, coins, a classic cartoon and cereal. Even though discontinued after only running for five years, these plastic coin holders have remained extremely popular and extremely cheap.  Prices go from two dollars and ninety nine cents  to to ten dollars, but prices vary from the color and if it is faded.                                                                   Sources : Mr . Breakfast   Worthpoint    Paper Money Forum Google Search  Ebay       Time Passage Nostalgia             Flashbak  Big Red Toy Box