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Key Date Collection - Then and Now (5 Years)

MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,503 ✭✭✭✭✭

Just found this in an old file. I created it five years ago. It's a list of "key date" coins I had planned to collect, with the condition I wanted them in, and the approximate price I expected to pay. I wonder how realistic it was then and how those prices compare to today. I didn't complete the collection...I didn't even start it really.

1793 Half Cent
F12 $10K

1794 Half Cent
XF40 $6K

Chain Cent
Any non-problem, no price specified

1801 Large Cent Three Errors
VF30 $6K
(fraction 1/000, one stem wreath, Iinited in legend)

1877 Indian Head Cent
MS64 BN $8.5K

1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent
MS66 RB $7K

1955 Doubled Die Lincoln Cent
MS64 RB $6K

1972 Doubled Die Lincoln Cent
MS66 RD $2K
(1-O-I, Class I doubled die) FS-033.3

1872 Two Cent Piece
MS64 BN $5K

1877 Three Cent Nickel
PF65 $5K

1937-D Three Legged Buffalo Nickel
MS63 $5.5K

1916-D Mercury Dime
AU58 $12K

1875-CC Twenty Cent Piece
MS64 $7K

1916 Standing Liberty Quarter
AU58 $15K

1921-D Walking Liberty Half Dollar
AU58 $9K

1893-S Morgan Dollar
XF40 $10K

1907 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle High Relief
AU58 $17K

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You could probably find a decent HR Saint in a 63 holder for that price now.

  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,503 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A key date to one collector is just a hyped-up common coin to another collector. :smile:

  • truebloodtrueblood Posts: 609 ✭✭✭✭

    '89-s is the same or thereabouts

  • WCCWCC Posts: 2,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MidLifeCrisis said:
    A key date to one collector is just a hyped-up common coin to another collector. :smile:

    A little more nuanced than this to me. It's that a key date that isn't actually "required" to complete a set isn't part of it and cannot by definition be key. The 1955 and 1972 DD cents aren't needed for a complete date/MM set of Lincoln cents.

    Both are included by tradition from inclusion in folders or albums and the Red Book. I'd consider both necessary for a complete set of errors or die varieties (however one wants to classify it) but not otherwise.

  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ...I didn't even start it really.

    it is difficult to believe a serious numismatist would make a wonderful list like that (150k?), then not really even start it?

    any commentary/story?

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  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 23, 2021 2:42PM

    Interesting list.

    Just created a list yesterday of all the PCGS Kennedy Half Dollar varieties in Proof.

    Will create a list for business strikes and SMS.

    Figure 5 years to complete.

    Realistic financially and cherrpickable.

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,503 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LanceNewmanOCC said:

    ...I didn't even start it really.

    it is difficult to believe a serious numismatist would make a wonderful list like that (150k?), then not really even start it?

    any commentary/story?

    Thanks for your comments.

    At the time, I was building a collection of US Colonial and World Coins Which Circulated in Early America (WCWCEA). That took nearly all of my focus and money. It was a pretty high-end collection and I was proud of it.

    Thinking back, I probably put this "key date" list together because I've always loved many of the coins on the list and I probably thought at the time that I would branch back out beyond Colonial and WCWCEA and I wanted to have a specific focus when I did.

    Alas, all of that was overcome by events. I sold the collection and put the hobby on the way-back burner for a few years.

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 13,703 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You had a a terrific WCWEA collection as I recall.

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    I give away money. I collect money.
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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MidLifeCrisis said:
    At the time, I was building a collection of US Colonial and World Coins Which Circulated in Early America (WCWCEA). That took nearly all of my focus and money. It was a pretty high-end collection and I was proud of it.

    Thinking back, I probably put this "key date" list together because I've always loved many of the coins on the list and I probably thought at the time that I would branch back out beyond Colonial and WCWCEA and I wanted to have a specific focus when I did.

    Alas, all of that was overcome by events. I sold the collection and put the hobby on the way-back burner for a few years.

    ahh. ty for the memory stimulation. im pretty sure i recall you making a statement here. wasn't sure it was you as SEVERAL members have done similar things for various reasons over the past several years.

    LOL - after building a wcwcea, that noble list in the op would actually be a break. not many people with such a list could make such a boast!

    what a ride it must have been. :)

    thanks for sharing

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 33,726 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 23, 2021 6:59PM

    @CoinJunkie said:
    You could probably find a decent HR Saint in a 63 holder for that price now.

    Can an AU58 make AU63 now?

  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 24, 2021 4:05AM

    You could get a 3 Legged buffalo in 64 for the same money now, I think. Depends on the quality of the coin. Easily purchase a CAC labelled coin for your listed price in 63!

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting list.... I have owned a couple along the way... but lost due to many life events.... I should replace them. Cheers, RickO

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