What's the coin you will NEVER sell?

Iwog · October 4, 2003 2:06PM

Here's mine, finding good luster on a 1921 Peace is damned near impossible. Finding one with a full strike and good luster is just crazy talk. I bought this one raw in Long Beach one year and will never part with it. As a bonus, guess the grade!

LucyBop · October 4, 2003 2:08PM

That is a dang good strike... I'm thinking ms62-63 range with the hits it has....
Its a lovely coin.......

I guess I would eventually sell any/every coin I have ever owned....
I've sold some and really missed them though.....

Placid · October 4, 2003 2:12PM

64

fountainheadgold · October 4, 2003 2:13PM

Mine is not to valuable but I would never sell. It is a 1819 half dollar in Xf45, I got it for free and sent it in to have graded by pcgs of course. it was my first submission

stman · October 4, 2003 2:13PM

I told myself I would never sell this one. But hey... I'm just a HOE and anything is for sale if the price is right.

Mine is a bit dirty though.

Deadhorse · October 4, 2003 2:33PM

64 just because of the great strike and eye appeal, though in another year it would be 62-63.

There is almost nothing I own that I wouldn't sell, including a car that I drooled over for almost 10 years that is now in the garage, so all the coins are certainly for sale.

It's just a matter of price. Yes I know that's a punch line to an old joke.

Skipper53 · October 4, 2003 2:35PM

An 1889-S Morgan that I paid big bucks for as a"BU" but got bodybagged by PCGS
for cleaning. Think I'll keep it as a reminder of how difficult the learning curve
can be.

Draco · October 4, 2003 2:35PM

I've never sold a single coin and unless there is some financial crisis, I never will. It's my hope that my daughter will feel the same way when my collection passes to her.

Skipper53 · October 4, 2003 2:40PM

Draco, a true collector, a purist. I admire that !

barberlover · October 4, 2003 3:13PM

Circumstances always dictate [never].

But if I can hold out till I'm able to find a good job I'd say my 2 favorite barber coins. My icon coin is one of them an 1899 barber quarter in pcgs 65 and of course my favorite coin that I believe is the second finest 1892 S barber half in the world in pcgs 66.

Les

puff · October 4, 2003 3:29PM

<< <i>I told myself I would never sell this one. But hey... I'm just a HOE and anything is for sale if the price is right.

Mine is a bit dirty though.

>>

stman..... PM me if you a "hoe" and interested in selling the 1942-D Walker over on the other thread.

lordmarcovan · October 4, 2003 3:52PM

My VG 1936 Mercury dime.

No, really!

That's the coin that started it all. Thanksgiving Day of 1976. Found it in Grandmomma's sideboard when I was setting the table. She let me look in the other drawers and cupboards, and I found a few more treasures, like a nice unrusted '43 steel cent and a '48 Franklin half that had a large-caliber bullet hole right through it! (No, the Frankie was not my beginning in "Holey" coins- that's the one that Grandmomma kept, since one of the uncles had apparently shot it in midair target practice, when he was a boy.)

islemangu · October 4, 2003 5:27PM

This one needs conserving oh so bad....I have always been against fooling around with coins but Im thinking hard of NCS since I will never sell this anyway as the strike and surfaces makes this one a keeper. Members here in past said it looks like it was dipped at one time and not properly rinsed thus the residue hindering the luster.

nwcs · October 4, 2003 9:21PM

There is no coin I would never sell. And, at least for now, I plan on selling all of them several decades from now.

MacCoin · October 4, 2003 9:31PM

old green slab with that coin I'll say 62. I've seen a lot of 62s in the older slabs, I would guess wasn't a true grade.

TayTay · October 4, 2003 10:19PM

I will never sell the coins inherited from my Grandparents.
The last one I will sell will be a raw '76 Bicentennial proof half -
nothing special, other than the first coin I bought with my
hard-earned allowance, back in '77 or '78 (also the only show
I've ever been to). Nothing else is off limits.

CarlWohlforth · October 4, 2003 10:56PM

I'm trying to whittle down my collection. I took a quick pass and came up with a couple coins I won't miss at all. It will get harder after I keep doing this.

I'm thinking I'll hang on to the holed $1 gold coin I inherited from my Grandma. She always made me think she had a huge and valuable hoard of coins. However she only had a few circulated coins. She made things exciting and was really fun to be around.

keets · October 4, 2003 11:05PM

al h.

rkfish · October 4, 2003 11:47PM

Very nice strike and the luster appears nice also.......

MS63

ARCO · October 4, 2003 11:50PM

The first and second Barber halves when I started collecting. The first for sentimental reasons and the second because it represents the quintessential look I love.

It is all original, dark, yet beautifully toned. Never cleaned and in fact there is so much original gunk and dirt on the coin that I am sure it could support a small little garden. LOL

Tyler

mgoodm3 · October 5, 2003 1:14AM

I will never sell the coins that I got from my grandmother as a kid. Mainly: 1865 2c, 1865 3c, 1854 25c, 1854 half, 1860 1c. None are in great condition (mostly G/VG) but that don't matter.

Shamika · October 5, 2003 1:26AM

I have a 1909-S VDB (PCGS MS65RB) that I thought I'd never even consider selling, but lately...

As for the Peace Dollar, although it's a little scuffy, I think it's an MS65.

MacCrimmon · October 5, 2003 1:57AM

My '93 Wreath cent, S-9 (sorry, no pix). But you might guess it's only a net AG3 corroded beast, but it was better than VF20 when it was lost.

My Grandfather unearthed this dark brown beauty in 1925 while plowing a field with the old family mule. He had stopped to wipe his brow and noticed something funny as he was looking down.....picked it up and put it in his pocket, and kept going. It was the family mystery coin until I ID'd it in 1965 with a Redbook.

The other is this (a proof medal actually)....Victorian Coronation piece from 1838. The image does it no justice, but the reds and blues are 'electric' and the center is a liquid silver reflecting pool....ahhhhhh!

Morganluver · October 5, 2003 2:10AM

The coin I will never sell is an 1898-O Morgan with beautiful obv. toning. It was the first silver dollar I ever bought in 1965 and I paid $4.50 for it. I had it slabbed by PCGS a couple of years ago and it graded MS64. Sorry I don't have a pic, but it's pretty.

cosmicdebris · October 5, 2003 2:12AM

drainbamage · October 5, 2003 2:14AM

I would not sell the coins in my registry set.....it is complete and unless I one day break down and get nothing but PF 70's I do not see it happening.

mdwoods · October 5, 2003 2:59AM

I have a 1881 Bulgarian 2 Stotinka Specimen. It's copper, proof like and red brown. My moms dad, a grandfather who passed away before I was born, was born around that time and immigrated from Bulgaria in the late 1890s.

I just found this ditty on the web while trying to figure out what the 2 St on the slab label stood for:

"The first modern Bulgarian coins – 2,5 and 10 stotinki – were minted in Birmingham in 1881 and in 1882 coins of 1 and 2 leva in Russia."

Iwog · October 5, 2003 3:07AM

Answer:

Colorfulcoins · October 5, 2003 4:55AM

Would never sell this one and I've been offered CRAZY money more than once........

Ogden · October 7, 2003 8:11AM

My 1861 double eagle. Only graded XF-45 but it's still a beauty. The date has significance as it was the start of the Civil War.

Ogden

coinlieutenant · October 7, 2003 8:17AM

Well,

I have learned better than to say never. I said when I bought it that I would never sell this one....
But it is now for sale.
Chill Cameron, its just a coincidence, I didnt start the thread

John

BigD5 · October 7, 2003 8:37AM

I wouldn't sell my 1849/6 half dime that pcgs graded ms/63. I've been offered quite a bit for the coin, but it isn't going anywhere. I will say that other than some pieces that I obtained when I was younger, starting out with coins, I don't have too much deep loyalty for most of the coins in my collection. Something better comes along (not a grading point better, but eye appeal better, within my budget) out the door with the old, and in with the new. I've regretted selling a few pieces, but I've gotten over it.

Iwog, that's one heck of a '21. Amazing strike for the issue, and the luster seems incredible. Very nice indeed.

Baley · October 7, 2003 8:43AM

Never say "never", but besides my sig coin, this would be one of the last to go...

btw John, nice coin, would make an interesting companion to mine

... 62 I believe?

Windycity · October 7, 2003 8:49AM

Like many of you, never say never but it would be hard to part with this one.

dollardude · October 7, 2003 8:58AM

I will never part with my raw 1881-S $10 gold eagle, probably AU. I inherited this from my father after he died. Probably only worth around $200 or so in the marketplace, but priceless to me.

I was going to guess MS64 on the grade -- I would have been right!

That's a beautiful quarter, Colorfulcoins!

LincolnCentMan · October 7, 2003 10:07AM

Well,

Every coin that I've personally bought has a price at which I'd sell. Of coarse, some of those prices would be well over market, but they're availible. I guess the only coin I wouldnt sell is a twenty cent piece that my Grandmother bought me for me when I was a young teen ager. It's just a nice fully origional VG. I really like that coin, and it's something I keep to remember her by.

David

P.S. Here's one that's availble at one of those rediculous prices:
Looks just like a PQ 66RD... except it's Bn... go figure....

LincolnCentMan · October 7, 2003 10:10AM

Colorfulcoins,

Your quarter reminds me of my wife's:

David

khayse · October 7, 2003 10:45AM

I'll never sell the 1921-S walker that my grandfather plucked from circulation.
Same for a token my grandmother had from a Kentucky coal company.

-KHayse

lablover · October 7, 2003 11:39AM

The first CC Morgan I purchased...I am still in love, now and forever.

islemangu · October 7, 2003 2:55PM

This thread has really turned sweet. I only have one slabbed white AU50 bust half but coinlt. and Baley are pulling at my heartstrings.

joejeweler · October 8, 2003 12:15AM

If your's is "a bit dirty"........mine is positively "FILTHY" (though i like a dirty girl!

).

1921 NGC MS65 High Relief Dirty Girl

<< <i>I told myself I would never sell this one. But hey... I'm just a HOE and anything is for sale if the price is right.

Mine is a bit dirty though.

>>

jbsteven · October 8, 2003 1:25AM

I would have to be offered quite a bit for this beauty

jeffnpcb · October 8, 2003 2:49AM

My Smithsonians I recieved the Christmas of 1997 in MS and Proof from my father. He passed away in May of 1998 and everytime I look at them I always will remember his life with me!

Peaceman · October 8, 2003 8:55AM

A VG 1923 worn Peace dollar my grandfather (rest his sole) gave to me one day as a gift when I was about 5 years old. He said, "Here you go Steve, this one is for the road". I promptly ran outside, placed it in the middle of the road and came back and asked my grandpa if "I" could have one now.........

A priceless $ 8 coin that I wouldn't sell for $ 1000........

SarasotaFrank · October 8, 2003 9:04AM

three coins I would never sell:

a 1904 $20 gold piece I got from my Dad. I have since passed it on to his Grandson.

two standing Liberty Quarters my mother had in her shoe when she married my Dad.

robertpr · October 8, 2003 10:39AM

There are a lot of people who will never sell their '21 Peace dollars!

The coin I'd never sell happens to be a 1922 Peace Dollar. My grandfather gave it to me when I was a kid - he now lives in New Mexico (?). It was the first collector coin I have owned. Dipped it to clean it up a bit and restore the luster and then I sent it in to PCGS, for protection inside the slab mainly. They graded it AU55. I had actually forgotten about it for a long time and it was stored away inside a soft flip

for over a decade. I'm just glad it's not all pukey green!