Coin Loyalty

braddick

Do you have coins that (almost) no matter what- you'de never sell?

Or, if the price is right, the flight's tonight?

Are you loyal to some of your coins and the only ones getting them are your children (or, you are even considering having them burried with you.)?

LucyBop

Some of my Franklins will never ever part with me. EVER!

baccaruda

the coins my dad gave to me are never going anywhere. there's no way i could sell anything he collected and gave to me. it helps that they're not worth anything...

clw54

Yeah, the ones my parents had.

airplanenut

Some coins are my pride and joy and got me started in the hobby- they will never leave me, unless I pass them down to a child... they include my 1859 IHC, 1827 half dollar, and 1835 half cent

Jeremy

cacheman

My parents will go to my kids...all others are for sale.

Tootawl

The partial set of walking liberty halves that my uncle and great uncle gave me. There are very circulated but they are also "family" coins.

baccaruda

cache-

i simply cannot get enough of that crown you're always showing. GOD i want it.

rwhite

Cache- lol.. at first I thought you were going to give your Mom and Dad to your kids! I couldnt figure it out...

gmarguli

A few are coins I have no intention of selling.

Many are coins I REALLY like, but if someone made me a stupid money offer I'd sell them without a second thought.

g097103

The coins from my parents and grandparents will never be sold, those go to the kids someday. The ones I bought will be
sold one day very likely.

ARCO

I call them "heirloom" coins. Coins that are so nice, choice or difficult to find that they simply can't be sold. The only solution is to keep them to hand them down to someone in the family who has an interest in coins years down the road.

Tyler

MacCoin

I'm a collector not a seller, but I do have a few I like to dump I mean trade or sell.

nwcs

You know, I almost posted a thread on exactly this topic last week.

The answer is that right now I have no coins I would never let go of. However, if I sold them all, I'd buy new ones.

That said, I have one sick idea. Selling all my morgans (where most of my $$ coins are) and going into a set of St. Gaudens. But probably won't happen.

AbesNeighbor

I'm getting a tear in my eye thinking about the ones I listed on E-bay last night!

RotatedRainbows

I cannot imagine ever getting rid of this piece, I have always liked busties and the strong overdate along with the beautiful blue & gold with a hint of magenta toning (which does not show up in the picture) make for a particularly eye appealing piece.

UncleJoe

Everything is negotiable.

Joe.

cosmicdebris

Do you have to ask?

NoviceKris

There are some I would never sell.. there are many more that I could never sell.. simply because no one else would buy them. Does that count?

Gilbert

RotatedRainbows,

Now THAT is an outstanding half; why does that writing (attribution) at the bottom look soooooo familiar?

EVillageProwler

RR,

Your 1817/3 half is quite nice, especially since it is attributed by its Haseltine #. That hasn't been done in perhaps a few decades!

EVP

maddox

My very first Highend Toned Morgan, don't have it yet, but I'm looking

mdwoods

I have a few, but very few coins that are special to me. I wouldn't sell them and they really aren't worth that much anyways. mdwoods

RotatedRainbows

Your 1817/3 half is quite nice, especially since it is attributed by its Haseltine #. That hasn't been done in perhaps a few decades!

I have liked that part about it as well, when I bought this back in the 80's I contacted a few old timers to see if I could out about the holder it is in and was told it was the type used in the late 1930's and 40's. Also the fact that the original writing (not the AU junk put on by some dealer) is done with a fountain pen instead of ball point shows it is from an old time variety collector, I just wish someone did not put more writing on it as it would look nicer to have only the original writing on the holder.

golddustin

A very timely thread...Valentine's Day, and we're talking about coins close to our heart! I have a few that I would only give up if I got one of those outrageous offers...a type I 1917 quarter MS63 fh with gorgeous toning around rims...I keep it near the top so that I can look at it each time I go thru my collection. Also, a RB MS63 Fugio, which I nearly sold on eBay(whew!!). But as I told an intern who asked me what was the one piece of sage advice I could offer him for the future - EVERYTHING is negotiable!

Baley

heh, well, I agree that everything is for sale if the price were right, even the heirloom pieces (which in my case are really just junk silver and copper, after all; if someone offered me "crazy" money for grampa's VF common date morgans for some strange reason, well, see ya!)

that said, given the "normal" non-crazy market, there's definitely an order the stuff would go...
common stuff first (20th century coins in circ and lower BU grades) then scarcer type coin duplicates, then half finished sets of modern coins, then inherited pieces, and last to go would be the AU and up Type set 1800-present in the dansco album (worked, still working, very hard on that set) and very very last would be a couple of standouts, like my PCGS bust dollar and proof morgan and walker and merc, the partial sets of draped quarters and halves, and last of all would be the centerpiece, a mint state 1812 half eagle, which comes with one of a handful of surviving 1813 mint reports of 1812 coinage!

basically I'm most loyal to the stuff that was most difficult to find and would be hard to replace.

mrfred

my 1849-O gold dollar, PCI XF45 Cleaned. This coin was given to me when I was a baby by my great aunt. We can trace it (in our family) back at least sixty years, maybe seventy-five.

To you anti-PCI folk ( ), it's in their slab because NGC body-bagged it for being cleaned, and at that time NCS did not exist.