Why Is A 1960's Comic Book Or Car Considered A "Classic", but Not a 1960's Dated Coin?

wondercoin

Pretty much ALL comics or cars are considered classics from the 1960's. Yet, maybe just one or two coins are considered "classics", like the 69DDO cent for example. Why is that? What do you guys think? Not a fight, just a thought.

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sonofagunk

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dbldie55

Certainly looks like it belongs on this forum.

sonofagunk

So what do you want to talk about? The fact that he knows about word spamming, this auction was removed for that just last week (according to his own posting) and he is doing it again?

Or the price of a "modern"? Or that this sold at Heritage for $92K last year The sell comics too!!! and it is at $90K already with 7 1/2 days left?

wondercoin

This item came up in a PCGS search for coins on ebay. Repeat - PCGS coin search.

Look at the bidding action and price on this 1963 comic book. Amazing isn't it? I used to own most of those comic books

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DAM

Wow!

I could retire a wealthy man if only knew then what I know now.

Russ

<< <i>Certainly looks like it belongs on this forum. >>



Well, the auction does have "PCGS" in the title.

Russ, NCNE

quattrocoins

"This item came up in a PCGS search for coins on ebay. Repeat - PCGS coin search."

Mitch, you're not giving this guy enough credit. Doesn't "1963 PCGS" stir-up some memories of some high-priced Lincoln?!?
Besides, he's not being biased, as this item would also come up in a seach for NGC coins!

wondercoin

Don: It certainly does. The comic is worth around 3x what a perfect cent was worth from that year

And, no doubt that auction is going higher. Don - why do you think a "modern" comic book -say a 1965 comic book for example is truly considered a "classic", while a 1965 modern coin is not?

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dbldie55

Why is a muscle car from the 60's a classic and not a modern? We should force everyone to use coin terms to describe their hobbies.

Which coin registry does this comic fit in again?

wondercoin

Heading of Thread Relabeled - extrapolation no longer needed.

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quattrocoins

"The comic is worth around 3x what a perfect cent was worth from that year"

Don't go switchin' to comics, now!

"Don - why do you think a "modern" comic book -say a 1965 comic book for example is truly considered a "classic", while a 1965 modern coin is not?"

Mitch, I think this is fairly simple when you think relativity and lifespans(?).
When did comic books start? If they started around 1900, say, they would have been aroud roughly 100 years, and we would be talking about the last third or so.
Coins, on the other hand, have been around much longer. Consequently, these last 40 years would equal a Much tinier fraction. Hope I made sense! LOL

Hey, I've heard that the April Playboy could be a "classic"!

cladking

I've had a little dialog with the comic guys here and across the street about this subject. They find it
fascinating that coins from the '60's would be considered modern and incredible that many find them
uncollectible.

While the relative lenght of time various collectibles have been in production certainly has some bearing
on determining "classic" from "modern", it is far more complicated than a simple age/population division.
In the 1960's most of the twenty million collectors were interested in circulating coinage in as good of
preservation as possible or better yet- in unc. BU rolls and bags were about the hottest segment of the
market and the lion's share of these were often no more than a few years old. Rolls from the late '50's
were virtually classics and those from the '30's and '40's were practically ancients. Now, two generations
later, many consider these same coins to be moderns. Indeed, in many cases, it's the same people who
once considered them classics now call them moderns!

So the real answer to the question is "perception". It doesn't really matter what the coins are called ex-
cept as an aid to communication. The coins are just as collectible or uncollectible whether they are called
modern, classic, or widgets. But the fact of the matter is that by any name they remain "coins". They were
issued as money and have been used extensively for this purpose for decades. Some were also issued
solely for collectors with the same or similar designs or of wholly other types.

What will be interesting to see is what collectors twenty years from now call them, but whatever it is, it's
pretty unlikely that it will be "uncollectible".

LucyBop

as a person that is a major comic collector, whom gets them certified with CGC, we never use the term classic to describe our books,
rather its Ages, such as Atomic Age (pre 1938), Golden Age (1939-1955) Siver Age (1956-1969) Bronze Age and finally moderns which are the very brand new books.

LALASD4

One question I always had is that how does one read a comic book after it is sealed in the bag?

LucyBop

you don't after its slab'd...........


that is why. if you want to read that particular issue, you do it very carefully prior to slabb'ing or you get what we can a 'restroom reader' which is a very beat and poor and cheap copy simply for reading...

LALASD4

I think I have a great idea. Take large digital photos of each page before slabing and put them on a VCD or DVD and kept it with the comic book. There is no reason why one would have the book and not be able to read it.

LucyBop

several of the cool ComicCats across the street do this, one in Particular, member name of Shield, does this with Golden Age Pep Comics and Early Archies.....

He even archives the stories onto CD....

the thing about it is, if you have a very fine to near mint Comic, sometimes you don't want to handle it or flip pages because you want to avoid adding defects to the cover which would lower the grade/value.......

pontiacinf

I have sitting in a storage facility here in Simsbury CT an ALL
original 1967 Pontiac GTO HT hi output (400) auto w/his/hers shift gate, original thru out, 42k on the odometer(tach in dash, ext rare) and the car was re gone thru by Pontiac in 1981. The car was driven by my fiances mother from new thru 1979, when it was retired and redone via Ponitac and put into storage. The Pontiac historical society has begged me to put this bad boy up for sale which will probably never happen hopefully. My pint here Mitchell is I have ALOT OF LOVE for coins, but there isnt any coin let alone one from the 60's that could pry that car from my cold dead hands.

this is the only item belonging to me that could help produce a top pop set, but id rather the car