I have what's probably a dumb question, but I'm curious what you would do.
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I have an 1823/2 Dime. All 1823 Dimes were struck from the same obverse die, i.e. they are all 1823/2.
Would you store this coin in your type set box, or in your box where you keep varieties?
Myself, I'm going to keep it in my box of varieties. I think anyone looking thru the box would find it interesting to see a coin with a 3 over 2 along with my other overdates, RPM's, OMM's, Doubled Dies, etc.
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If all of them were 3 over 2. Then would it be a variety?
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Technically, everything is a variety energy if it is the only variety of that year. But, to your point, there's not a lot of point in calling it out as one.
Arguably not, but "for me", it's more interesting in a Variety box. I'm just asking out of curiosity what others would do.
There's no right or wrong way. Everyone has their preference and opinion. There!! I said it. Now no one else has to and I can hopefully get an answer to what each of you would do.
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It would fit in either, but probably more at home in a box of varieties
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So does your 1825 dime belong in your variety box? It also is the only "variety" for the year. How about the 1827?
These are date coins, not varieties. IMO.
By the by, I feel the same way about my 1815 half. Although all 1815's are overdates (1815/2) they, to me, are simply year dates.
what OKbustchaser said.
I sort my slabbed coins (slab store boxes) by TPG / country / denom / date / mint mark so I can quickly find them when they sell from online store or for boxes taken to show quickly put in order in display case.
For your question I see that as a type coin.
It someone was putting together a collection of overdates, would they include this coin?
I do not have a variety box. I just store my coins in cabinets or a safe (and some in a large cardboard storage box, for mint sets and albums). Depending on the coin and the variety, it might get a special drawer in one of the cabinets, though none have yet acquired that lofty privilege
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Depends on if you already have an example of the type. And you could always move it.
If it's genuine and hits a rock, yes.
And same answer as the tree question-of course.
If it is in a variety box, and you take it to a variety show, will there be singing and dancing and skits?
I vote Variety Box.
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On the other hand, when I show my coins it's probably more 75% of the time to a non-collector. Would they be more excited seeing a 3/2 along with other varieties or a worn, G4 with my type?
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More times than not it's usually family members and I think they're getting tired of seeing them. LOL
Even worse, it's a wife who may be actively opposed to their very existence...
I get it 1000%.
Buy another one and keep one in both
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There's the best idea I've heard yet. Problem solved.
If they are all that way, why would the TPGS label them as anything but a 23?
That would look good in the variety box!
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It sounds like your type box has higher grades?
In that case, I would include this coin in the variety box. If the type box was all well circulated examples, then I would put the coin in the type box (as long as you didn’t already have another bust Dime in the type box).
If you can't make up your mind, I suggest that you put it in one box and then after 6 months move it to the other box and then after 6 months move it back to the first box and then after another 6 months.......
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I would be inclined to keep two of them with the better in my date set.
It's odd that the '23 is much higher mintage than the '22 and it's the overdate!
I do own multiples of several coins or tokens so they can be displayed in multiple collections. For instance I collect both telephone tokens and world's fair tokens so the nicer 1933 world's fair telephone token goes in my telephone token collection and a filler goes in the world's fair collection. The specific token in question is more directly related to making a phone call than it is to the fair hence the choice of collections for the nicer token.
I don’t have an over date, so it would serve as an example of that for me.
If I got an over date that was a variety for that year/coin, it would replace it in the box.
Put it where it belongs in the way you think about it. If it goes w/varieties because it’s an over date example, you nailed it. If it’s just a type coin because it looks like all others of that date, you got it either there, too.
Or buy another one and put one in each box.
Tom
I would place it in the variety box as well.
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A good suggestion maybe for others (I know you're half joking), but as I stated in the OP I put it in the varieties box. I'm just wondering what others would do with it in THEIR collection. I like that there is about an even mix of opinions being posted.
Put all the coins into one big damn donut, I mean box?
But not the same reverse die. So being there are varieties, I would put it in the variety box. But in all reality I would break it out of the slab and put it in my bust dime album. The two varieties that I know of off hand are; the small "E" and large "E" reverses.
It depends on what it hits. It could make a thud or other sound.
Yes
I would throw it in the normal date run box personally.
Highly presumptuous to assume we are that organized
If I were adding it to my scans, the only part of my collection that is organized, it would go in the regular listing in chronological order. Of course, so would the variety if I ever got any of them, just with it labeled as such.
The only thing I separate, mostly for easy access without having to scroll past other stuff, is my small collection of errors. That's under 10 coins total.
Every woman I've ever asked that question to give the same answer. Most men ponder on it for a while. LOL