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I just started getting interested in coins and decided collection, and i am only 14 so as you can tell i dont have much of an income. i was wondering what i should collect that is cheap enuogh.
New coin collector just started. I'm only 14 years old. But dont let that fool you! I really like Mercury Dimes and Franklin Halves, and the occasional Kennedy.I am still building sets and need coins any help is appreciated
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Also get some books too!
You also can't get any cheaper than putting sets togehter from circulation and searching rolls from circulation. of course, that is not for everyone's tatses.
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There are newbies falling from the skies today!!
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They are the most popular collector coin for which collectors pay large sums of money. Many dates are quite common and fairly cheap in Mint State because these coins were not popular when they were minted. Many coins spent long years stored in government vaults.
Some Morgan dollars are very expensive. Prices can reach the hundreds of thousands of dollars for rare dates like 1893-S and 1889-CC.
You could work on a date set of Morgan dollars. Circulated pieces can be purchased for less than $10. Mint State can be purchased for $30 to $40 for many years.
Still if you want them all you will need to get a good job and a have large coin budget.
<< <i>what is a morgan dollar? i havent heard of those. >>
Scratch what I said above and go out and buy (or lokk at the library for) a Redbook and maybe a beginners guide to coin collecting of some kind (Coin Collecting for Dummies or the Whitman one or something similar).
You can also go looking around the Virtual Museum on my site for info and pictures, etc of most (I still have a few to add) US series:
http://www.coinpeople.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=60
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Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
<< <i>From your sig, you seem to like Mercs and Frankies and Kenndys >>
That sig is 33% excellent.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>That sig is 33% excellent. >>
I agree, totally...Mercs are awesome!
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<< <i>what are some of the key dates? >>
Interesting question from someone who doesn't know what a Morgan is.
I didn't see the expression "key date" in any post before you mentioned it. Rather specific term.
1. 1909-1922 Lincoln cents in AU
2. 1934-47 Walkers in MS63.
3. 1934-45 Mercs in MS64
Those are the best coins for the money on a small budget that in my mind are undervalued right now.
<< <i>the dark side >>
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<< <i>I didn't see the expression "key date" in any post before you mentioned it. Rather specific term. >>
Hehe. Nice catch.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>Here's an 1880-CC Morgan Dollar. This one would cost you several hundred dollars because (1) It is Mint State (2) it is a Carson City mint dollar and they are popular and (3) it's a better date among the Carson City dollars. >>
Nice try, though.
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Any 14 year old would know what it is.
Tom
<< <i>the only reason i asked it was cuase billjones sed sumthin about it in his post >>
<< <i>here read this i substuited a word that made sence to me but here is where i got it >>
Compare those last couple of posts to his first few.
Russ, NCNE
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I'm 48 and know what it is.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>Tom, I'm 48 and know what it is. Russ, NCNE >>
That could very well be true, but the older you are the LESS likely you are to know what it is.
Tom
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<< <i>And you know that he didn't pick up the term key date from another source on the internet? There's certainly enough reading material out there... >>
Yep, and in all that studying he never found out what a Morgan dollar is.
Russ, NCNE
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I think ya'll ran him off!
I smelt a rat too.
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Do you know anything about this guy other than his AIM screen name and whatever he told you via that medium?
Russ, NCNE
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<< <i>Well, I guess we'll find out then when/if he comes back... >>
Don't you need to log off first?
Russ, NCNE
Whatever a newbie collects should be something which interests him. Just about anything
can be collected on a shoestring so it's just a matter of finding some interesting coins. One
learns more about the market when selling than when buying so newbies are well advised
to sell some coins along the way
Bust Half & FSB Merc Collector
Mercury dimes are a great choice!
President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay
though I'm older, I'm relatively new to coins myself.
This forum is a great place to learn and get advice,
in spite of the few who take no prisoners !
Collect the best example of whatever you like and ,and can afford,
and you will end up with a collection everyone will admire.
Skipper
Collect everything but morgans are topps