Most illiquid series
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Probably a lot of these, which series do you collect where you see the price guide prices and say “I wish...”. I collect English maundy sets, there are no reliable price guides, few collectors, and I know I’ll never get what I paid for them back, but who doesn’t like an entire four coin set that can easily fit within a silver dollar diameter?
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The less popular patterns are pretty illiquid.
I'll throw out classic/braided hair half cents and shield nickels. Both very hard to find in a decent grade and also very slow to sell. You may have to pay a steep premium for a coin you really want or can get a substantial discount from a dealer who has carried one around for awhile.
The early half cents seem to move much better. I guess a lot of people are like me, any 1700's or bust type coin attracts my interest, but cornet type - meh. As a side thought, I run across a lot of half and large cents with damage from being used as some type of tool. I have two that someone made into a cog for some purpose.
It may be a pie crimper. Usually a wooden handle is attached.
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I rarely see much action in two cent pieces. I have a couple... well one, and one I cannot find
.... Just seems to be an ignored coin type...Cheers, RickO
... and that is most of the pattern coins.
The great majority of medals.
With silver prices now spiking the holders of such medals in silver should seriously think about selling them for melt. I did this the last time silver prices spiked around 2001 and had done it once before in the mid-1980's. In both cases the decision to sell for melt value proved to be a very wise decision.
Bronze or aluminum medals issued after 1960, with some exceptions such as Moonlight Mint products, are very hard to sell. When I sold mine about six or seven years ago I nearly had to beg to get anyone to even look at them. Most dealers to whom they were offered wouldn't even make an offer and attempts to sell on eBay had been unsuccessful
In my previous comment I said the silver price spike was in 2001. This was a typo. The correct date was 2011 if I recall correctly.
1970s aluminum cents.
Nice Maundy sets will do well if submitted to the right auction house.
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Anything without easter egg colors.
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Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Little to no premium for AU SBAs.
Little to no premium for > 99% of MS SBAs either.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone post a Trime as a NEWP
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Cal fractionals maybe?
Anything I collect
The other 1%.
Include this into the 1%
Two strikes against my series so far.......
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Stamps! Sometimes you can't even get face value for them.
I just happen to love all three of these series, now if you throw in 20 centers you would be my new hero 1peter1223 !
I forgot to mention that I also like patterns.............
Boiler is one of my hero's.
Well, it matters little or perhaps not at all, but I think 2c pcs are cool.
Especially a nice chocolate brown coin, or a subdued red& brown (mostly brown) with the remnants of the red peeking through the shield...
I also really like Shield Nickels and 3 centers too.....
Never got into 20 centers.
Hey-I like the 2c too. Here's one of mine-PR65 RB.
Barber coinage and Liberty Head Nickels
Nickel three cent pieces. Very difficult to find MS65 pieces. The proofs are much more available.
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How about PDS sets of classic commems. Moving down for the past 30 years. And when it comes time to sell them? I shudder just thinking about that. Matched toner or monster sets are just fine....it's the other 95-99% of them.
The Braided Hair Half Cents seem to be slow sellers for a lot of dealers. I think that they are attractvie little coins, and much nicer looking than their large cent big sisters, but collector interest is very limited.
Part of the problem might be cause forming a date set is almost impossible unless you are Daddy Warbucks. The Proof only issues from 1840 to the 1849 Small Date, plus the 1852, are out reach for most collectors, and then you get the confusion over original coins and restrikes. Add to that the chance that you might end up with an electro, and the series looks more unattractive by the minute.
Among the modern coins, the presidential dollars seem to cursed. When I was dealer, I bought some of the four piece Proof sets. I had to sell them for only a little over face value to get rid of them.
One time my local club came into a big hoard of them that had been packaged by the Littleton Coin Company in plastic holders. They are very selct pieces and very, very nice for what these things were. I had a hard time getting collectors to pay face value for them.
Why do you think they are nicer looking than the large cents?
My natural inclination for these is to gravitate towards the large cents because, well, they are larger!
Is larger always better?
1857 Half Cent
1857 Large Cent
Generally, but if it doesn't fit into a slab, it may be too large.
I have a 12oz silver medal that won't fit into a large size PCGS slab. Have to check with ATS.
For those two, I'm immediately draw to the fact the large cent seems to be in a better state of preservation. The hair, LIBERTY, face, fields, rims, all seem better on the large cent.
Okay, two more.
1853 Half Cent
1853 Large Cent, which is not as nice.
The only two I have in similar grades are dated 1855
To be honest, the designs look close enough to me that I don't really distinguish.
It's kind of the same with Seated and Barber coins. I tend to prefer Seated Dollars and Barber Half Dollars to smaller denominations with the same obverse design. I do have a Seated half, but I have 2 Seated dollars
Far less than face value is standard for virtually anything US that was issued after 1933
Copper always seems like a pain to me, it’s color is open to wide interpretation which if you don’t know the ins and outs can hurt you upon buying or selling.
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