Unique collections
tjkillian
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Who has interesting collections, rather than normal collections? I know Braddick is collecting a complete type set in the lowest grade possible, all graded by PCGS. Lordmarcovan is collecting holey coins. Cardinal is collecting the finest known bust dollar collection, regardless of slab. Me, I want to collect a complete mint mark set of POP 1 Morgan dollars, just one example from each mint, in the lowest grade that still qualifies as a POP 1 coin. Any other "fun" collections?
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Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>What are you going to do when someone else submits a coin and your coin suddenly becomes a Pop 2 coin? >>
Not pop top coins, but slabs that cmpanies make or give out at shows. Some are really rare. let me scan one or two and show you what I collect.
Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>What are you going to do when someone else submits a coin and your coin suddenly becomes a Pop 2 coin? >>
Yes, it is possible that someone will submit another coin, but I'm trying to go for very common dates, such as 1879-S (mine is in G-06) where there is little incentive to submit. Uncirculated 1879-S are actually quite common, so a lower grade circulated has so little value that I'm betting that someone won't submit it.
Tom
It is a sample that was sent to Lucent Technologies to test the new Intercept Shield that ICG was going to use at the time. The lab did 100 plus years (compressed time frame) of testing by trying to bombard it with sulfer and gasses to see if they would penetrate the intercept shield and corrupt the coin. It passed.
Cameron Kiefer
I just wish I could afford a few of the errors in the upcoming B&M ANA sale. I will watch that session live, which should be interesting.
but the only ones which may be unique are my right side up and up side down clad quar-
ter collections. The silver colored cladding is smeared across the copper core when the
planchet is punched out of the strip. Right side up is where it is smeared toward the rev-
erse. I also have a set of the lowest grade undamaged quarters from circulation.
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For me, the number one goal is the proof type set. Mine might be a little less common since I am collecting a REAL type set, Double eagle to half cent, proof first, the MS, then AU.
Then there is the complete date sets in Fine, VF, or XF for each of the barber denominations.
Another side set is all of the seated liberty half dollars from the new orleans mint in original circ grades.
Yet another is circulated seated dollars from the 1840's.
Finally, I collect currency with subsets. Wont bore you coinage guys with that.
That may sound like a lot of sets but in this day and age it is good to be omniverous.
John
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