Widget, classy, or dreck? (post a coin, get an answer)
RYK
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After being perennially peppered to define "dreck" in the context of collectible coins, I have realized that sometimes a picture is worth 1000 words. I am proposing that people post photos of their own coins (if they have a thick skin), their neighbors' coins, their rival's coins, or any coin they want, and I will classify the coin as a widget (Agree), classy (Like), or Dreck (LOL). In fact, any forum member will have the ability to vote on this critical numismatic categorization.
Let's have some fun with this!
In the spirit of the thread, I will post first. (I was going to post a photo of the quarter that has been face down on the floor of my daughter's car for several months, the one that looks too toxic to touch and spend, but alas she left for school before I could find the appropriate gloves to wear to pick it up).
From my boyhood collection:
Remember, vote...
Agree for widget
Like for classy
LOL for dreck
Go!
Comments
Well, you see, it's technically dreck because it's not in Laura's inventory. However, that looks like a nice EAC G6, and although I'm no HC expert, I'll hazard a guess at C-2.
In any case, you really don;t want that coin. You should send it to me for proper disposal.
Hmm, your vote says "dreck" but your comment speaks "classy".
A marketable widget. Even though it is damaged it still has the aura associated with being from 1803. It would make a good album coin for a low budget collector.
Well, I think we firmly established that Laura's dreck can easily be someone else's classy. Just not hers... until she buys it.
Dont you have to also mention the grade and tpg to be categorized as dreck in many cases?
Classy on the half cent!
I’d be proud to own that one.
How about this:
Nope! It might influence the opinion, but the coin should stand on its own (IMO).
And, possibly, even the price paid(?)!
If you were in the market, for budget reasons, for an AG-3, and found that you were happy with a F-12 with problems at the same price you would have paid, that "drecky" coin suddenly doesn't look so bad.
In other words, I agree that the broader context of a coin purchase is relevant....Isn't it?
I disagree. If I paid 10 cents for the quarter on the floor of my daughter's car, it is still dreck. If I paid $100,000 for a lovely, original XF-45 Dahlonega half eagle it is still classy. I am just a fool for overpaying for it. The coin is the coin.
Oy gevalt already with the dreck!
Key date dreck is the best.
Picked this up a week ago.
Great thread btw, Rick.
For the record, true view is a dreck disqualifier.
That one has too much character to be dreck in my book.
Widget, classy and dreck are independent of price.
A widget means simply that there are a lot of them available in the market. There are both cheap and expensive widgets.
A classy coin can be enjoyed and appreciated no matter the cost. Many errors are cheap but very interesting to look at.
And dreck is just bad, no matter the price. Of course, there's some judgement on dreck, for example, are holed coins dreck? For many yes, but some people still collect them!
let take the meaning of dreck. translated it means
physically dirty items or matter. However it can be used as a word describing unworthy things.
Is a widget in a doily still a widget?
I'll bite:
NGC AU58 (no sticker) never been sent
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The widget in a doily is a widget but the combination of doily and coin is not a widget. Haven’t you heard the saying, “buy the holder, not the coin”?
Only 3,247,813.28547 times. Smoetimes ya gotta do both. I'd call it a dwidget!
Not mine
One of mine.
Yeah, sure...
Let me remove the post before someone blows a gasket.
This is from the Russ collection. I told my girl friend I like big coins you can see that's why I buy these 12 inch coins the size of platters.
She claims its still to small. Just goes to show you, you can't please everyone😏
How about a harder coin?
That's a tough one!
What about "FLAG" for "troublemaker" ?
Melt bucket material. Barber coins like this used to be very common prior to the big silver price run-up of 1979-80.
What are you talking about? I am providing a free service. Think of it as CAC without the sticker (just the opinion).
I think I know what everyone thinks this is, what it absolutely is right now and what it might be in the years to come.
Twas easy enough to spend 20 seconds on eBay to find dreck.
It's easy enough to find classy on ebay, too, Tom. Start with "Highest Price" first.
It's a classy and I'll take people's drecks anytime of the day
There are proper ways to dispose of dreck, young man. Passing it off to another collector is considered unsavory.
True Joe, but since I don't have any muhself I was looking for obvious examples. Course if one is stacking 90% then looks don't much matter except for amount of wear. Even then a $100 bag of xf coins might garner more $$ that a $100 bag of what I posted.
Nice, for sure. May we call it a "Dreckula" coin because of the bite?
Pete
I don't collect anything but widgets, so its an easy answer. I prefer my widgets pretty, even if it is a drecky widget. (there's a new one?)
The favorite widget in my collection.
(looks like I was wrong?)
First ..... I am a girl; secondly ....... I'll eat unsavory for breakfast
Here's 3...maybe I get a widget, classy and dreck??
Not enough buttons for 3 coins.
This 1913-S Type 1 has counting wheel damage at the top of the Indians head. Clearly well struck for an S Mint coin of that date.
A beautiful AU-53 example of Dreck, I guess.
Pete
I agree, and we all know which one is classy
, but how to assign the other two is up for grabs. 
I was playing the coin gender odds, sorry about that. In that case, young lady, it would be even more inappropriate. A gentleman never gives dreck to a lady. (You can quote me on that.
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I'll post some dreckly Matthew.
Yer friend Festus!
my collection has been shaped over the years by trying to find "Classy" while sometimes having to also purchase "Widgets" along the way. the result is an accumulation of "Dreck" that I have been combing through for the past month or two.
Can something that is once a widget/classy become dreck? Perhaps with improper handling or storage (or maybe in the MoC smoking chamber), but otherwise? I do not believe that a collectible coin can morph into dreck.