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What CAN'T you resist when it comes to collecting?

OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
For me, it's a 1st generation PCGS holdered coin. I snap those babies up like nothing! I don't know why, I guess...I...er...guess I'm just weakimage

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  • i can never turn down a half-dime... well if its F or below i pass but a VF+ ill buy like theres no tommarow. ( but if its flowing hair i dont mind F and below... but no worse than AG) image
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  • BladeBlade Posts: 1,744
    A nice grade, nicely toned type coin. I have a weakness for unexpected upgrading!
    Tom

    NOTE: No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

    Type collector since 1981
    Current focus 1855 date type set
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I want them all! The lustrous whites, the dazzling tones, the creamy middles! image Gold! Silver! Copper! Nickel!
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    Proof Conder tokens. I have about half a dozen of them now and I'm chasing four more in an auction next week. They are just amazingly beautiful and the idea that I can pick up these 210 year old proof coins at such affordable prices compells me to buy them whenever possible.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    What do they look like?
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    key coins that im currently collecting...I-E I JUST PURCHASED A 1971 pr68cam-NO S Jefferson.

    love those little purchases
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    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Chopmarked minors are hard for me to pass up since they are at least somewhat scarce. Nice, original early 20th century Canadian silver 5 and 10 cent pieces are also hard for me not to buy since they're usually cheap relative to their scarcity.
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • I tend to be a sucker for Today's Best Deal. At local shows I ask dealers I have known for some time what their best deal is today. They usually have something recently purchased that they are trying to turn quickly or something that has been stinking up their inventory that they just want to get out of. Either way, one man's garbage may often be my treasure.
    Buy the coin...but be sure to pay for it.
  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    What CAN'T you resist when it comes to collecting?

    Going to Hooters for lunch at the Baltimore Coin show! image

    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
  • I can't resist pre-WWI proof coinage with heavy, frosted devices, deeeeeeeeeeeep mirrors and pristine hairline free surfaces. I'm doing the Homer Simpson drool right now just thinking about them!
  • A well struck buffalo nickel
  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    pq for the grade, prooflike cameo Morgan dollars

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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Well struck, full red common date Indian Cents. Great coins.

    Tom
    Tom

  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well-struck uncirculated, red brown early copper with clean surfaces and minimal spotting.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."

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