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Collecting interests: Mexico & Peru early milled 1 reales + 1796-1891 US dimes
Sports: NHL & NFL
Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!
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Collecting interests: Mexico & Peru early milled 1 reales + 1796-1891 US dimes
Sports: NHL & NFL
Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!
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Collecting interests: Mexico & Peru early milled 1 reales + 1796-1891 US dimes
Sports: NHL & NFL
Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!
I like really worn out bust halves... I have about half a dozen.
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In most cases I prefer raw ancient coins to certified ones. The pieces I have been buying are usually not worth enough to rate the grading and shipping expenses.
I prefer raw medals because the slabs for medals are so large that they take up massive amounts of safe deposit box space.
In general, the only items I prefer in slabs are U.S. coins, with a few exceptions.
I get both. I’ve got a number of albums, a lot of ancients in a jar (dug bronze Byzantine mainly), and some rolls. I’ve got probably 10x raw vs slabbed in quantity but not in value... I just got an 1804 half cent that I’ll be cracking out for the album soon.
TurtleCat Gold Dollars
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Collecting interests: Mexico & Peru early milled 1 reales + 1796-1891 US dimes
Sports: NHL & NFL
Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!
My first and only purchased raw coin.
I prefer raw modern post 1965 coins, but pre 1965 stuff I prefer to be slabbed.
I prefer slabbed, but don’t mind raw (if I can examine the coin in person).
Here is a chunk of my raw stuff.
Purchased raw (and still raw) from Tom Reynolds: N-4, net MS64 choice, CC #2
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
Yes, because I know how to look at a coin.
I can't say i prefer graded coins but I see it as a necessity for US coins of value. Would dearly love to free them but preservation and $$ dictates. Medals all raw, display them in a cabinet, a throwback. $$ not as critical an issue as very few of what I collect are graded (yet).
I like both raw and slabbed, although nothing beats the feel of holding a raw coin in one's hand.
Here's a woody...
U.S. Type Set
Most of my coins are raw. I think I collect mostly raw is because raw is cheaper than graded and just as nice. Also another part is because of not wanting to pay for grading but I will pay for grading if it's a key date or if the coin will benefit from grading.
Young Numismatist/collector
75 Positive BST transactions buying and selling with 45 members and counting!
instagram.com/klnumismatics
I have many raw coins. Here is one of them-a 1914 die clash named the "Lone Ranger" clash by Bill Fivaz.
I'm not that particular.
For quite some time I’ve been appreciating raw coins again. Nothing like making a pile with bust halves, quarters , seated quarters.
Here's another Lone Ranger clash, this one is a little clearer than the 1914. I have a set in a Dansco with an example for each year.
I have a Mercury dime collection both in holders and raw!
Collect coins not holders!
I like raw coins and I like slabbed coins.... I love the feel of big gold, raw, in my hand....and Morgan dollars as well. Special coins or those frequently counterfeited, are preferred in slabs. Cheers, RickO
I prefer buying them raw and having them graded, though I do have a LOT of raw stuff floating around too.
E & T Kointainers make wonderful holders for raw coins. The ANA Museum used to use them to display coins, and may still do so, and I have heard that the Smithsonian did so too.
Haven’t purchased a raw coin (outside of some 90% silver rolls) in over 15 years.
Dave
If you collect vintage counterfeits and/or certain exonumia, there isn't much choice.
Please elaborate. Dcarr in the house. Big fan.
100% Positive BST transactions
For example, this 1893-O Morgan Dollar, VAM-6:
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1044438/
Also, most dcarr items of course
I enjoy raw coins far more than slabs, but slabs have practical advantages that I can’t ignore.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
I like my album coins, enjoy also my 2 X 2 books and my slabbed material too!
Louis Armstrong
I like raw coins and have quite a few. I also have a display case where I put some lower value older ones that I can pick up and handle without worrying about hitting their value.
If I purchase a coin in a slab I usually leave it in the slab, but the vast majority of my coins are raw.
I used to crack everything out years ago but I have matured.
The value is not a factor for me since the coins I own I will 99% never sell I rather enjoy them. I may get it coin albums as mentioned above by Rollerman.
Collecting interests: Mexico & Peru early milled 1 reales + 1796-1891 US dimes
Sports: NHL & NFL
Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!
I can't afford coins above $5000 anyways so I am fine with them being raw.
Collecting interests: Mexico & Peru early milled 1 reales + 1796-1891 US dimes
Sports: NHL & NFL
Thank you Lord for another beautiful day!!!
Here are some.
I love to shoot pictures in the raw, I mean of raw coins, Sometimes cooked coins remain raw.
I collected raw coins, all the time, back in the late 80s and early 90s. I only collect slabbed coins, now, and sold all of my raw coins and re-infused the proceeds back into my certified collection. From an investment and protection from damage standpoint, certified coins are by far better. I still have a few, sentimental, raw pieces but they aren't worth that much.
“I may not believe in myself but I believe in what I’m doing” ~Jimmy Page~
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947)
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Nice.
You have two 1956, so I assume one is Type-1 and the other Type-2 ?
Also two 1961. Is one the doubled die ?
And two 1964, so I assume one is the "Accented Hair" ?
Each has its advantages and disadvantages and I enjoy both. Recent buy form the BST here for my 7070 album.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Raw for me, I am on a 20 year plan to complete 4 or 5 albums, I think I am on year 11 or 10 or 12 of the plan? Don't know cuz I don't know when I started...hehe
DCARR.
Yes on all counts. All coins except the 1956 Type 1 have two sided frost. It has reverse frost and a brilliant obverse.
Either or Im happy with it
Here are some:
1958-D Lincoln Cent Lamination Error "Open Book"
1886 Springfield 250th Anniversary So-Called Dollar - HK-608
I like them both but i have 20 times more raw than slabbed,but that's just a money issue, don't have the coin to shell out for the slabbed ones I'd love to have. Pardon the pun .
I have more raw coins than slabbed coins. A lot of my raw coin inventory came from buying trinkets from the mint. I found this coin while I was hunting $5 Buffalo nickels. I wanted to see how many holes I could fill for $5 or less. I paid $30 for this nickel.
I like both, but I’m in love with Library of Coin and Dansco albums so I have a lot of raw in those.
Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.
It all depends on what I am purchasing. I have no preference, I like and purchase both raw and slabbed.
Here is the 90% "junk silver" tubes I am currently filling. However, at the current prices, I have not bought any for awhile. Obviously, these would be raw.
Raw for me, usually $100 or less coins, but anything above that, I prefer certified...
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They are fun. It all adds up.
I have a binder of collector (raw) coins for shows in cowans pages: Good- Gem BU.
This would be a fun coin raw, but in this grade there’s no way I’d crack it:
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