Hi! Hope everyone is well. Thanks to Pete for getting the gremlins out of the system!. Now the title is lucky day. I have had some good luck and bad. This was good.         A few years ago I guess it was four I was looking at the gov mint magazine. The had rolls of Ten Centavos. Now I wasn't big on foreign coins but these were not foreign. They were made at the Denver mint. They were very small. Smaller than our dime and made of silver.          I said why were these coins made in Denver. Well before General MacArthur before he left the Philippines he dumped all the silver in to the Manila Bay. This was done so the Japanese could not buy ammunition to use against the armed forces.           They were dated 1945. So how did I get lucky? They were not expensive so I liked them and pulled the trigger. I'm looking at the reverse and the then I looked at every letter including the mint mark even the three stars on the seal on the reverse were DD. So I looked them up. They were called the Allen-905b  DD reverse.          I checked with N.G.C. and there were only 27 of these in the high grade of MS 67. Do I send them in. I checked them under 30 power. Not a mark. I decided to send six in. Good luck was with me. The six I sent in came back all MS 67. The others I knew were less of MS 67 they were MS 66!!!          This story gets better. I checked Heritage house on a guess these would be there. One was. It was a MS 66 and was auctioned of for a large sum of money I had no idea!!For one a MS 66. I waited about two years and sent one in. That's were the luck stopped. I didn't want someone getting a coin for free. So my mistake was I set a reserve!.It was to high.          That's the story of my good luck. Somethings you buy  on EBay and they don't know what there selling. I have seen that. This was a once in a lifetime find.Sam said that if they write a cherry pickers book on foreign coins one of these coins  would be the cover. So now you get to know the importance of this find. Its a major rarity in this hobby

Some would call her a great woman Some would not.I'm sorry she passed away. That's coming from someone born in Ireland. Centuries of troubles.  I must say she was a giving person. To charities and the poor. She was the one besides Tony Blair to apologize for some of the atrocities committed on the Irish.         But she ran here country even after the death of her husband. My heart went out to her when I saw her sitting alone in the church pew. She has done many great things. We can't forget that. Till the age of 96. I was lucky to get the coin of the five portraits of her from when she became Queen in 1953        She went to the comenwelths of her country. You can of say everything in a blog about a woman who ran a country in good times and bad. So I will leave it at that. God bless her and keep her in his arms. The two coins the obverse were the same when she became Queen . She was a rock!!

Hi everyone I hope all is well. We talk about coins in the movies and used for other props. But this blog is about a single nickel that changed History!!Lets start !!!     .....This nickel stoped the cold war for a while. You see A young man his name was Jimmy Bozart. Jimmy was a paper boy. On his rounds to collect  his pay for delivery of his news papers. This 14 year old stopped at 3403 Foster Ave in Brooklyn. The gentleman paid him and on his way down the steps he noticed something was wrong. I remember getting under our desk in case of an atomic bomb like it would of helped but that's what we did!      . He was right. He noticed the 1947 nickel was very very lite. While looking at it he dropped it and it split open!!He found a black film very small. Brought it to his dad. They went to the police who brought everyone to the F.B.I. for questioning. It turned out to be micro film!        Further study showed names and important documents. Now to the Russian Spy his name was  Abel Ivanovich. The nickel he gave Jimmy was a 1947 nickel.  Now I saw this nickel at the F.B.I. museum in the F.B.I. building it looked like a normal nickel.    ....The Russians wanted their spy back. So they made a deal. A few years before our U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia. The deal our pilot for there spy. B thoth sides agreed. They met on a bridge and the exchange was made. That's were the two movies come in. The F.B.I. Story and on October 16,2015 the second movie A Bridge of Spys. Starting Tom Hanks.       ...Now think what would have happened if little Jimmy did not drop that nickel? We wouldn't know about the ring and they would of gone on spying on us. But that nickel changed the cold war. An exchange for one of our pilots for a spy. This seems like fiction but it did happen! Imange if it did not drop. People important people could of been killed.Some of our dearest secrets would of been found out!!  I check my 1947 nickels when I get them. Who knows. I hope you enjoyed this short blog and true story. A single nickel played such an important part in our history!