Can you describe your PCGS coins from memory?

DHeath

Just as a matter of curiousity, can you describe the coins you own from memory? I don't mean the grade given by PCGS, but rather the physical coin. Do you remember where the marks are, and how many? How about luster and strike? Would that make a fair litmus test to decide if one collected coins or plastic?

LucyBop

Some of em, but I own way too many for this.......

merz2

DHeath
I'm with Lucy.Way to many.

Fairlaneman

Would do real well with the coins from 1916 thru 1931. Would be hard pressed with the 1934 thru 1945 coins though. Might miss a mark here and there but a accurate description would be given.

BTW, I see them everytime the computer is on. All have been Imaged and are in a Slide Show that is my Screen Saver. Darn things pop up all the time.

Ken

benloe

What kind of question is that?

gmarguli

Well, I own several hundred PCGS coins, so it'd be a little hard. Out of my personal collection, I could probably remember most attributes of the coins.

MadMarty

They are round and shiny!

DHeath

Just a random thought Benloe. I guess you could narrow it down to the coins that are part of your core collection. It strikes me as far too easy to forget the coins as you build a certified collection. On the way home from work, I was revisiting my collection mentally, and I thought about a few coins I wanted to upgrade. As I thought about them, I realized I remembered the key dates extremely well, and a few other standout coins pretty well, but there were coins of lesser value in my collection that I had almost no recollection of. Shame on me. I'm sure they're very nice, but if I don't know then they are only significant to me as fillers because of the grade they represent in my overall collection. I just wondered if volume collectors, or new collectors took joy from the physical coins, or from the certainty they own one that is a nice example.

coinkat

Though question and an interesting one at that... I could describe my favorite coins but not all. There are certain coins that are the "centerpiece" of most collections and I am always thrilled to hear collectors talk (or in this case read) about their coins.

Dog97

I can't remember the "vitals" like mintage, rarity, value, pop etc but I know what what most of my coins look like.

RGL

Agreed, I could describe most all, it not all, of the 38-64 Jeff proofs, my 1940 proof set -- and many in other series -- but not the moderns... I guess I should add, the proofs post-1975, to me, do not have the same distinguishing characteristics (strike, toning, marks, mirrors, etc.) as the early coins. I know this may be insulting, and it is not meant to be, to the modern guys, but one PR-69 DCAM is pretty indistinguishable from another to me. The earlier coins have, what is the word I am looking for ... personality? They are "individuals"... Gads, get a life!

coppercoins

Hmm....describe my PCGS coins? Okay....ready?

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There. That wasn't hard!

Gerry

At my age, I have enough trouble remembering what was in the last issue of Playboy.

agfox

The common date morgans, naw, but the keys I can tell you volumes about. When you stick your neck out deep to get a coin, you learn it, memorize it, love it, then hope you can afford it. Then the wife looks over your shoulder and asks that you NOT sell her car in your pursuit of happiness

segoja

You bet!

Even coins sold years ago!

It's amazing when you see a spectacular coin you sold, tell the owner some history and find the link back to when you owned it.

Certainly not every coin I've sold, but most of the nice stuff.

DHeath

Segoja,


Especially the coins I sold. I have come to regret selling lots of the coins I used to own. You would think with such a short attention span, I'd have a short memory too.

segoja

DHeath,

Unfortunately some of the coins one sells, one regrets selling. I don't have the wealth to be able to keep every coin I handle. Wish I did, but then where would we be if we kept it all.

I try never to forget the good ones and the bad ones. That way you learn both sides, the mistakes and the home runs.

Always remember, no one ever went broke making a profit.

You can't take them with you, and whoever is left most likely won't know how special they are to you and that one potential buyer you walked away from.

This is how "the fresh deals" come along.