Smudge: I LOVE your Whitman blue folder collections pictured! You're my kindred spirit! I have always collected via those folders, and still try to keep them & others all updated each year.
Except for the 16D/21/21D Merc's and the 32D & 32S Washies, my collections are complete like yours. Kudos on getting all those (except the "plugged" 16D Merc spot) - - I've resigned myself to never getting those...........
@BillJones : I used to walk a couple miles downtown in Philly to "Smelters Row" with my grandparents, where I'd sift thru coffee cans full of dimes & quarters at melt, looking for dates to fill holes in my blue Whitman folders. I passed on Barbers (if they were in the cans, I didn't realize it or search them out) & halves/dollars, which I really regret to this day. But with little to no spending money in the mid-to-late-60's and prices being around 4 x face at the time, those were just a bit too steep for me........
I also remember going to Gimbels, Woolworths, and a dealer or two on Chestnut St (Apfelbaum?) back in the day to visit their coin departments or search thru their "junk bins".
My uncle gave this Whitman Lincoln Cent folder to me along with the 1909-1939 folder and the 13th edition of the Red Book to me for Christmas 1959. This was my first complete set, although, of course, the tough ones were in the first folder. The only coin I had to buy was the 1955-S because I never found one of those in circulation. I bought that one at Woolworth's for 80 cents, which was, of course, too much money.
The first Lincoln cent folder got last along the way because I "stepped up" to this Library of Coins book circa 1965. I was much more of an Indian Cent collector than a Lincoln Cent collector. I finished this set in 1983 when I bought a 1909-S-VDB which had ANACS papers. I have since had the coin slabbed. The rest of the set is still raw.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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Smudge: I LOVE your Whitman blue folder collections pictured! You're my kindred spirit! I have always collected via those folders, and still try to keep them & others all updated each year.
Except for the 16D/21/21D Merc's and the 32D & 32S Washies, my collections are complete like yours. Kudos on getting all those (except the "plugged" 16D Merc spot) - - I've resigned myself to never getting those...........
-- Dave
@BillJones : I used to walk a couple miles downtown in Philly to "Smelters Row" with my grandparents, where I'd sift thru coffee cans full of dimes & quarters at melt, looking for dates to fill holes in my blue Whitman folders. I passed on Barbers (if they were in the cans, I didn't realize it or search them out) & halves/dollars, which I really regret to this day. But with little to no spending money in the mid-to-late-60's and prices being around 4 x face at the time, those were just a bit too steep for me........
I also remember going to Gimbels, Woolworths, and a dealer or two on Chestnut St (Apfelbaum?) back in the day to visit their coin departments or search thru their "junk bins".
THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!
My uncle gave this Whitman Lincoln Cent folder to me along with the 1909-1939 folder and the 13th edition of the Red Book to me for Christmas 1959. This was my first complete set, although, of course, the tough ones were in the first folder. The only coin I had to buy was the 1955-S because I never found one of those in circulation. I bought that one at Woolworth's for 80 cents, which was, of course, too much money.
The first Lincoln cent folder got last along the way because I "stepped up" to this Library of Coins book circa 1965. I was much more of an Indian Cent collector than a Lincoln Cent collector. I finished this set in 1983 when I bought a 1909-S-VDB which had ANACS papers. I have since had the coin slabbed. The rest of the set is still raw.
Penny candy
Nickel baseball card packs.
Silver in circulation.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.