Fresh Coins?

Merc

I see many articles saying dealers are after "fresh coins" and they are having a hard time buying them. What is meant by fresh coins? What are they looking for? Are they looking for old time collections of nice raw coins?

Do some coins just circulate from dealer to dealer and they are hard to sell to collectors? I guess they would be stale coins!

ARCO

"fresh coins" are usually coins coming out from a long hibernation in a nicer collection, as opposed the the same dog turds getting traded round and round.

They were exceptional enough to be part of someones lifelong collection and when they enter the market they sell well. They can be raw or Holdered coins, but are of a caliber and quality to fetch premium prices becuase of their rarity and/or originality.

Tyler

relayer

Fresh coins come from dead people.

mnmcoin

Basically like what others have said, and also, original uncleaned coins, not over dipped in other words as well.

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NoGvmnt

Basically like what others have said, and also, original uncleaned coins, not over dipped in other words as well.


You mean like my 5 uncirculated rolls of '42d and'43d Mercs?
Jim

michael

fresh coins to me means coins that have not been shopped around on the market

coins raw or slabbed

any kind


that are priced right and the offeree is like the first one to see and make an offer and hopefully buy the said coins!

sincerely michael

michael

fresh coins? kind of like last christmas' cheese

1 first ........................... young fresh and tasty
2 now.......................... old tough leathery and rejected

sincerely michael

Gilbert

NoGvmnt

I've been dying to ask. Is your icon a "bong?" And your handle, a political statement? Just curious.

NoGvmnt

I've been dying to ask. Is your icon a "bong?" And your handle, a political statement?


No, my icon is a political statement and my handle is a bong!

actually, throughout my teenage and early twenties I did collect "Bongs", used to get them as gifts from girlfriends, friends, as christmas presents, birthday presents, valentines day presents, I used to get more "Bongs" as presents than bottles of cologne, now its the other way around, GAWD I LONG FOR THE OLD DAYS!!!
Jim

P.S., you don't want to get me started on the political thing, trust me.

wingedliberty

Truthfully, If I have not seen the coin, its "fresh" to me.

Brian.

Jamericon

Truthfully so. But to dealers who do this day in day out, they see the same old crap. Fresh coins are definitely those coins that find the right person, become part of the right collection and dissappear from the market for 10, 20 or 40 years.

Baley

by fresh coins they mean nice coins they can make some money on: raw coins that will slab well, undergraded old slabs, estate collections they can buy low and sell higher, anything "special" that's been off the market for 20 or 30 years.

they don't mean coins that are maxed out in their holders, overgraded coins, junk silver and other raw crap that is very common, or modern coins minted since 1964 including bullion "coins", since by definition ALL of those new coins are "fresh"

Merc

Hi Baley,

I read your definition of fresh coins. That was my guess in my question. Now I'm wondering, are there still nice raw coins out there? I'll bet every dealer dreams of someone selling them great old coins so they can buy them up cheap. Are those days over?

nwcs

Bwa ha ha ha ha!!! I have plenty of fresh coins. Coins that went straight from other collectors into my hands that I've had certified that will never see the light of day in another collector's hands till I'm old and gray... Coins that have never been handled by dealers. Some that are quite nice.