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Ever get obsessed with making a particular coin or date in a high grade?

clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
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Right now I am obsessed with making any coin from 1968, I buying all the raw material I can get my hands on. I can't stop untill I make all the coins in top grade. Anyone else get determined on a certain date/coin to the point you can't give up? I think I may have a problem.

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    My mission in life is to make the first PR69DCAM Accented Hair Kennedy.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • GooberGoober Posts: 980 ✭✭✭
    Unfortunately I am, I'd get a therapist and get help but I spend all my money on coins and can't afford one.
    Prost!

    Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
  • coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151


    << <i>My mission in life is to make the first PR69DCAM Accented Hair Kennedy.

    Russ, NCNE >>



    I didn't know that that hadn't been done before.image
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    -YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.

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  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    yep !
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1969. I've not actually submitted any yet but this is my favorite date.

    I'm looking mostly in mint sets and having a little luck. There are almost
    no rolls of any of the quarters and dimes for this date except a very occassional
    Denver quarter roll.

    '68 quarters are tough to find in rolls and unattractive when found.

    Do you have any luck with rolls?
    Tempus fugit.
  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    Yep ... I was determined to make a raw 1957 Jefferson proof in CAM -- the rarest post-1950 Jeff in CAM, yep, even including the 1950 -- and I did it! image Sent a couple in I guess I knew in my heart would fall short, but finally scored a good one.
    The Ludlow Collection (DCAM/CAM)
    The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)

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  • BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
    My choice, a BIG mistake as I have since learned, was a desire to make all of a 76 mint set.
    I eventually did complete it.
    But, in order to get it on the first page of the registry, I had to purchase a bunch of upgrades.
    MS Bicentennial (and proofs), are super scarce, in decent shape!image
  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    I've been going through original mint bags of chain cents looking for one in MS-68 Red. So many of them are spotted and quite a few are dinged up. I've found a few MS-66Reds, but I will continue looking until a find a true MS-68Red.

    Tom
    Tom

  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,636 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been going through original mint bags of chain cents looking for one in MS-68 Red. So many of them are spotted and quite a few are dinged up. I've found a few MS-66Reds, but I will continue looking until a find a true MS-68Red.

    Tom >>



    If you have any cast-offs cheap, let me know.image
    Tempus fugit.
  • WingNutWingNut Posts: 29
    I've been trying for an SGS MS68 (denomination not important). No luck yet. image


    --- WingNut
  • RyanaRyana Posts: 247
  • WingNutWingNut Posts: 29
    What happens if you succeed?


    He gets entered into the "YOU SUCK!" Hall of Fame?
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    My life will then be complete, I shall have achieved nirvana, and be elevated to a higher plane of existence.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Yep. 1997. That's why they call me dog97.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • haletjhaletj Posts: 2,192 ✭
    I just got more 1968 pennies back from pcgs, one of the P's they gave me an ms64 on image. I did get an ms66 68-s this time. PCGS is being really tough. Standards have changed so you shouldn't worry about the grades you get. If it's a nice coin it's a nice coin regardless.
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just once, and it will never happen again. It was 4 years ago and I had a nice chunk of change with me at a Long Beach Show, and was determined to buy a really nice Barber Dime in MS 65. I saw 20-25 of them, and the nicest one was an acceptable, not great, coin. I felt I had to buy something that day, so I bought the acceptable coin, and have regretted it ever since.

    Note - this is one of the few high grade type coins that has lost a significant portion of its value in the last few years.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    Oh yeah...if this isn't a MS66 I've never seen one! I will resubmit it for 20 years just as a motter of principle!!


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  • aem4162aem4162 Posts: 421 ✭
    nope
    anita...ana #r-217183...coin collecting noob
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  • GooberGoober Posts: 980 ✭✭✭
    WOW, Saints have to be the best looking coin in higher grades
    Prost!

    Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭
    probably because most of them never saw the light of day...most were either bought directly from the mint or sat in bank vaults for decades. also they were very well struck.
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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Ever get obsessed with making a particular coin or date in a high grade? >>


    No, thank God.

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