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Centennial Flight of Silver Dart with 2009 Silver Dollar

Centennial Flight of Silver Dart with 2009 Silver Dollar

Face Value: 1 dollar
Composition: 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper, gold-plated on reverse and edge
Weight (g): 25.18
Diameter (mm): 36.07
Edge: Serrated
Finish: Proof and selective gold plating
Artist: Jason Bouwman (reverse), Suzanna Blunt (obverse)

On February 23, 1909, on a frozen lake in Nova Scotia, a silver-winged "aerodrome" amazed onlookers as it flew 0.8 km (0.5 mi) to complete the first airplane flight in Canada. Designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Association under Alexander Graham Bell, the Silver Dart flew 50 times before being destroyed during military trials; around the world the potential value of flight in war was fast being discovered.

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The Key To Protecting Your Valuable Coin Collection

Mohammed Shomam

Finding the proper place for storing coins is the world's most important task for all coin collector's or numismatists, because, for ensuring that the value and quality of their precious coins is well maintained, it is necessary to store them in a secure and good place.

Various kinds of spaces for storage are there, that may be helpful to you for storing the coins and displaying them. The best way to display the coins is by using the albums for coin collection, though folders, plastic tubes or holders, are also dependable storage spaces.

Therefore, if you wish to know the reason, you can access the concept from the following advantages of albums:

1. Viewing two-way images

Since albums allow you to see both the sides of the coins, you get more satisfaction, while viewing the collections. Each time you wish to see the other side of the coin you do not need to remove them.

Hence, you get best of both the worlds through albums.

2. Improved protection against instant damage

The albums also offer another advantage over other coin storages like folders. The coin collection albums ensure better protection of the coins against destructive elements that can accelerate coin deterioration.

Usually, the plastic materials that ensure protection against natural forces and scratches characterize the use of the albums.

3. A good holder of coins

Pockets for storing coins are provided by albums. Better protection of even the extremely worn out coins, or the "dilapidated" coins, is its best feature.

When worn out coins are kept in folders, they tend to infuriate us by falling repeatedly. However, the coins stay intact in coin collecting albums.

4. Prices variation

The price of the coin collecting albums ranges from $20 to $40, in most cases. Though they may be expensive, they provide a much better storage for your most-precious possessions. It is a wonderful choice to pay for the price for the album, instead of going for the other typical kinds of storage.

5. Center of information

As far as the coin collection is for the purpose your hobby, coin collecting albums also prove to be wonderful "information centers", as most of the times they have an interior front cover, allowing one to place important, collection related information. The back cover of coin collecting albums provides space for "mintage figures".

These albums make coin collecting more pleasant and easy. Your treasures tend to last longer, making them more valuable.

Hence, the best coin "keepers" are definitely the coin collecting albums.