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I might be the next Frankaholic!--scored one, two!

RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
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All the discussion of Frankies on these boards has stimulated some interest for me. I have ordered the Tomaska book, bid on a few proofs on ebay (none more than $40), and I am ready to get rolling. Ironically, I have two complete mixed-grade sets of Frankies, one from my boyhood collection and the other inherited.

A question for the Frankophiles, how does one choose to collect business strikes vs. proofs? Or, obviously, both!

Finally, the best thing about Frankies may be all the great, fun words you can make with the Frank- prefix (Frankaholic, Frankophile, Frankopolooza, etc).

Robert
My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    I choose em both...... DCAM Frankies are some of the most stunning coins ever minted! I have registry sets in both MintState and Proofs, and many mnay raw coins as well..
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Frankly, the possibilites seem promising...

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Take two asprin and go to bed. You'll feel better in the morning.image
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, FatMan, I do have a cold coming on. One should never make dramatic, life-changing decisions under the influence of Nyquil (not to mention operate heavy machinery, etc).

    Frankly, it would be a nice diversion for me while I wait for an affordable 1879-O $20 to turn up.

    Robert
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have scored my first proof Frankie:

    image

    2 more auctions pending tonight.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • quarterjackquarterjack Posts: 553
    Hey Robert, Frankie always looks good when he's dressed up in his cameo suit for a night out on the town! image Nice score.

    Dave
    Love those toned Washingtons
  • TypetoneTypetone Posts: 1,621 ✭✭
    I got hooked on the proofs myself. If you stay away from the top graded low pops the set is affordable. Try to buy CAMs and DCAMs as much as possible. If you want some great coins at bargin prices look for coins with great cameo obverses but with brilliant reverses. These will be priced like brilliant pieces since they don't have the CAM designation. Yet, when you put them in an album obverse showing, they look phenomenal. I know Tomaska has a lot of these at very reasonable prices. For $80 I bought a 57 in PCGS PR67. The obverse is the deepest cameo I have seen on any coin ever. Yet the reverse is brilliant, thus the low price. Seems to me that these should carry a premium, but they don't yet. They are certainly not common.

    Mint state pieces are neat because for can get some really beautiful toned pieces. Look for the ones with pretty toning, not the ones with dark ugly toning.

    Greg
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    Hey, I dig that 61, It will look awesome when you get it........
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And my second...

    image

    Thanks for all the advice and encouragement. The thread with the treatise on Frankies by Lucy (Franklin Halves 101} is especially terrific.

    Robert
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Ryk:

    You're getting some good advice from the forum. Personally I've stayed with the business strikes as they're hard enough on their onw. When you read Tomaska's book you'll see that he covers every year and mint in great detail, so you will be able to discern which are the best buys and such.

    One note of interest for you - check the back of your '56 proof. There are two varieties - a type I and a type II. The type 1 has an eagle with very little detail on the feathers, the type II will have an eagle which will look more like your 61 and have lots of feather details. If you have a type I it'll be worth significantly more than the type II. Good luck - I know you will enjoy Frankies.

    Oh - one last thing - we're all Frankie Fiends on here image

    Frank
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Frankly (Heh Heh ), My first goal is all PCGS slabbed MS FBL. If I can find a low graded 1953 S.............Ken
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>Oh - one last thing - we're all Frankie Fiends on here >>



    Frankly I want to puketh....image
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Johnny,

    May I offer you a Frankfurter to help you?

    Robert
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭


    << <i>Frankly I want to puketh.... >>



    I fart (proudly) in your general direction, Sir... image
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    As long as it's not a Yankee Frankie....
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Whats a Yankee?.............Ken
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Frankies look best when nailed to a post for target practice...image
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>Whats a Yankee?.............Ken >>



    The hot dogs sold at Yankee Stadium are called Yankee Frankies...and of course we ALL HATE the Yankees. image
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>Frankies look best when nailed to a post for target practice... >>



    Why waste a perfectly good bullet ?? image
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭


    << <i>and of course we ALL HATE the Yankees >>



    man - you hate Frankies
    You hate Frankies
    and you hate Yankee Frankies

    You're just a lost soul!

    HEEEEEEEEEEAL!!!!! image
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    But I like pugs and other small dogs....image
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am a vegeterian. Only tofu dogs here! With Frank fries, of course.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    Welcome to this elite area of Numismaticsimage
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭


    << <i>Welcome to this elite area of Numismatics >>




    Ah - so you're saying that we're those "special" kinds of people - is that it?? image
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    "Special" That word is sometimes used to gently say someone is not in full control of all thier faculties
    -or-
    It takes a certain amount of talent, foresight, skill, not to mention good looks.

    Now I'm not sureimage
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • longtimecollectorlongtimecollector Posts: 2,368 ✭
    If you drop a "Frankie" into a mug of beer.........

    Does that make it a Frank-in-stein?
    Cam-Slam 2-6-04
    3 "DAMMIT BOYS"
    4 "YOU SUCKS"
    Numerous POTD (But NONE officially recognized)
    Seated Halves are my specialty !
    Seated Half set by date/mm COMPLETE !
    Seated Half set by WB# - 289 down / 31 to go !!!!!
    (1) "Smoebody smack him" from CornCobWipe !
    IN MEMORY OF THE CUOF image
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>Does that make it a Frank-in-stein? >>



    image


    If it's a frankie half, it makes it a ruined beer...image
  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    Way to make a Frankie look good. Follow above scenario. Drink beer. Last gulp hold Frankie in teeth. Examine. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat....
    The Ludlow Collection (DCAM/CAM)
    The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)

    image
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RYK:

    Any chance that the Frankaholic diagnosis was an error? Could it be that you really suffer from Frankaphobia and need different treatment? As part of the treatment check out the thread "Dull is Dead" and look at the 1944 WLH every 4 hours... we all wish you a speedy recovery.

    (this post was only intended to continue the use of Frank as a part of a new word...as suggested in the original post. Nothing further should be read into this and it is for mere entertainment purposes...perhaps bad entertainment, and yes, I am keeping my day job)

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kat,

    I certainly appreciate the spirit of the post; in fact, I enjoyed it very much.

    On another thread, it has been suggested that instead of collecting Frankies, I avoid Frankies. In order to get Frankies out of my system, music therapy has been suggested-- a lot of Frankadelic music including the Frankful Dead--followed by a radical Frankectomy (taking all of my Frankies, including the two new proofs, and selling them to a coin dealer in Frankfurt, KY. Frankly, I think this is very aggressive therapy frought with dangerous side effects (dermatofrankopathy--one's skin develops a red, flat, itchy rash that looks like, well, you know what and gastrofrankitis--a diarrheal condition characterized by bowel sounds that one cannot distinguish from the ringing of the Liberty Bell.

    I hope that this post clarifies my position on the matter (without offending anyone or making them ill).

    Robert
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    why collect these eyesores anyways???????

    image
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess because they are nice looking coins that are fun to buy...why else?
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    I mean why have this: image

    when you can buy this:image

    ??????????????
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well Lucybop:

    I have a few Franklins of my own but they look nothing like the ones that you posted...exceptional in every way. Great eye Lucy Bop.

    RYK:

    Good use of Frank... I like the reference to music therapy and the Frankadelic sounds that must have its origins in Philly and not San Francisco.

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kat and Lucy:

    My 18 month old daughter, for the last nine months, has had blond/light brown hair, very little on the top and more on the back, and we have been calling her "Ben Franklin". Perhaps, I should put a set together to give to her when she gets older.

    My little Ben Franklin...

    image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    You will be the Hep'est, Coolest, Daddy-o around if you build that little sweet angel a set for when she grows up......
    And if you don't, then your a big SQUARE!
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    Pm me your addy Daddy-o, I'd love to send her some raw Frankies.....
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What a cute picture...

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, Lucy, I will put together a set of proof Frankies for Lilly (my little "Ben Franklin") just to remind us (and her) of the precious short time in her life in which she was a dead ringer for our greatest Founding Father, a fitting tribute for both.

    Robert
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lucy, that is very sweet of you.

    Robert
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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