< or = $250 Coin Uno variant
SkyMan
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One of the really nice things about coin collecting is that there are so many nice coins out there for not too much money.
Here are the rules for this variant of Coin Uno. ALL COINS must have cost you $250 or less. If you bought it raw and have had it graded you must INCLUDE the grading fee in that $250 IF you mention the grade, otherwise you can just post it without mentioning the grade. Coins that you bought years ago that have appreciated in value are STILL valid at the price you bought it at. If you inherited the coin the cost is considered $0 (plus see later playing rules).
Other than that, standard Coin Uno rules with a few tweaks. You must EITHER play a coin of the same type, or a coin of the same date, but of a different type. With regards to Types, I do not mean denomination, e.g. you may NOT play a Washington quarter on a Standing Liberty quarter.
For Type purposes ALL large cents will be considered one Type (e.g. you can bounce around among the different designs). In the same manner, ALL 1/2 cents will be considered one Type. Also, ALL commemoratives are considered one Type, this includes gold commemoratives (as long as they are $250 or less).
There are two "sets" of wildcards: gold coins and inherited coins. If you play either of these coins YOU can say what Type you want to be played NEXT (you can keep it on the Type you just played), however, given the price limitations on this game, you can NOT ask for any gold types. If your coin is an inherited coin, when you post it, please mention that it is inherited, so that you can get the wildcard.
If the thread goes dormant for one week or longer, I can post any Type coin to reboot the thread if I so wish.
To start it off I'm going to post a very basic Type that I bet most of us have at least one of...
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My biggest treasure. Only $60 between purchase and grading. My contemplation is whether to submit it for conservation.
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Thank you all four for posting. @alefzero should have started off with a Morgan dollar or coin dated 1883, and @privatecoin should have followed up on that. Given that we started on the wrong foot, @Bigtree followed the Kennedy correctly and @coinsarefun posted a medallion with a correct date of 1970. Even though normally I'd play off of one of the other dates on the medallion, just to keep things rolling on a straightforward path, I'll post a 1970 dated coin of a Type most people should have.
Images by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.
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I want to play
….. but I have to wait for the right post to counter right?
I think I’m doing this correctly…
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I'll play.
I think I m doing this correctly (let me know if I am not, but explain the rules slowwwwwly).
I think this is right:
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Yup, at this point everyone is playing correctly... and just as an example of how to change things up, at this point I'm going to switch the series to Mercurys. Anyone can now play a Mercury or a coin dated 1937...
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D'oh! I spaced on the Uno game thing. Thought is was just an <$250 coin thread.
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