Is There a Coin Priced Inexpensively, But You Can't Find It?
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It's a coin that appears unobtainable... It's not the money that is the difficultly, it's finding the coin!
-What is the coin you are seeking and the minute you spot it, you're going to own it? Possibly it's a sleeper date in a certain grade. Not expensive but just not "out there".
-What is the coin you are seeking and the minute you spot it, you're going to own it? Possibly it's a sleeper date in a certain grade. Not expensive but just not "out there".
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Chris
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Michael
1933-S MS64 (that's the $$$ one)
1935-P MS66 (that's the one that should be easy to find and not really so expensive... except I haven't found one yet that has the 'look' I want.)
Hmmmm, not sure- what does one look like when fully struck??
Something like this.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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It is possible.... I got one in change once. When I was younger I used to go through my dads change when I was a kid and write down the dates on a piece of paper and look them up (if they were worth looking up)... About 2 months into doing this I come accross an 1909-s VDB in around XF condition. The next day I looked it up and it gave me an astronomical price.... The coin was still in my dads car and he spent it at Dunkin Doughnuts the morning that I looked the coin up.... So poof there goes the best circulation find of my life.
Since then I have looked and looked hoping it would come home someday....
Up to date I have searched $10,000 worth of Lincoln Cents from the bank. Yet to find him....
My good friend Lincoln is out there and if I have to scower the globe I shall find my long lost coin....
My .02
-Greg
E-mail GRU Coins
All it is a die crack coming down off the 5 that
looks like a J next to the S mintmark.
I don't know how much one would cost. A wild
guess would be $5--$10 but I've never
come across one for sale.
"It's an experimental division at Ft. Benning, and
your lucky to be assigned there rather than anywhere
else, because nobody knows anything about it, which
means that you should know quickly as much about it
as anybody."
1st Cav in Vietnam
Shelby Stanton
I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.
Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
a 1977 quarter with a type "d" reverse in unc. This is one of those which
is "common" in circulation since 100,000 or so were made and more than
half are still in circulation, but apparently none were saved in unc. A spot
check of all the sellers for rolls of this date have turned up no specimens.
They do not appear in regular mint sets or special mint sets. It appears
that fewer than ten bags of this date were saved.
I was lucky to find a fairly nice looking AU in 1980 in circulation but have not
been able to upgrade it. If one were located it would likely sell for under
a dollar. Even if the seller knew it were a variety it would probably sell for
around twenty dollars.
The 1894 Barber Half in VG10 through VF20 costs $120 or less and I promise finding it will not come easy. In Five years I have seen ONE, just one original VG10 coin. The scarcest VG coin in the Barber half set in my opinion and for the price it is a real bargain if found. I have never seen an original Fine and had to pay three times trends to buy my VF30 example.
Tyler
David
<< <i>I have a whole bunch of darkside pieces I need from the 70's 80's and early 1990's that catalog for a dollar or less. The problem is at that rate they are too cheap for a dealer to list on a price list and also too cheap for them to lug them to a show. I started out collecting darkside by going through poundage over thirty years ago, and it is now getting to the point that if I want to get a lot of the coins I still need I'm going to have to return to searching through poundage again. >>
Same here. In the last twenty years there have been hundreds of recent darkside
coins which have had their prices increased fifty or a hundred fold and still they can't
be located. In many cases the coins are available in poundage but are badly worn,
but in other cases the entire issue was melted by the issuing authority and simply
can't be found at all. Some of these are still widely available in circulation like the '67
and '68 cu/ni Japanese 100Y, but are impossible in unc. With great effort these can
be found in nice AU in poundage. They list for a couple dollars in unc!!
Thirty years ago is just about the time I started looking at poundage also. Initially my
primary interest was to buy silver at cu/ni prices but as time went on the base metal
coins started looking just as interesting, and sometimes much more so.