Anyone else collecting an "odd" series?
TommyType
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I started collecting these about 5 years ago when I picked up the 1865 for my type set. For reasons I still don't understand, I just really like the design. Hard to find in uncirc condition too...although you seem to see proofs all over the place.
I'm just waiting for the U.S. Govt to replace the 1 cent with a 3 cent coin, and I'll be rolling in a suddenly popular series!! (Don't burst my bubble and tell me they're more likely to go with a 2-cent, or even no replacement. Humor me.
)Anyone else care to share a series they collect that is just out of the ordinary?
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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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These are the oddballs I collect.
-YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.
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I do hate it when they leave a mess.
Nice looking token! What's the rest of the story? I would have expected some business name or address with something like this....or is it a mystery lost to time?
<< <i>"Neatly Repaired"?
I do hate it when they leave a mess.
Nice looking token! What's the rest of the story? I would have expected some business name or address with something like this....or is it a mystery lost to time? >>
Most of the time a mystery lost to time, for people like me to try to figure out. This one is actually known as a patriotic, a token which can't be traced back to the original die sinker and usually carries a patriotic theme, this one has the eagle. Store cards will give the name of the merchent and usually contact information.
-YN Currently Collecting & Researching Colonial World Coins, Especially Spanish Coins, With a Great Interest in WWII Militaria.
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those are all fantastic coins the ms three cent nicks all with great eye appeal and totally collectible
historical scarce sleeper undervalued opportunity coins
michael
ps i love the flyer civil war tokem
<< <i> historical scarce sleeper undervalued opportunity coins
michael >>
That's part of the allure for me too. Nice MS-62 or 63 for under $200. Most of mine bought awhile back for MUCH less.
Problem is, I'm not sure how they will ever recover from sleeper status.....except for my plainly absurd scenario.
BTW...I like your posted coin. Nice strike, and none of the die-clashing that is common with the series.
Tom
and they have a fundemential reason to rise in value they are sleeping giants that will awaken from their slumber but it will take some time for all the new collectors to advance and realise this but they will
rome was not built in a day and great surgeons need to go to high school first and work their way up to college medical school residence and so on................
same with all the new collectors they need to take it one step at a time but they always end up like most all of the collectors before them with the classics tried and true
tom
what makes this coin i posted on here quite unusual
is the fact that it is totally frosty with monster cartwheel lustre and NOT A TRACE OF PROOFLIKE SURFACES i would guesstimate that less than 15% of ms 1880 three cent nicks have NO trace of prooflike surfaces whatsoever............ in person sight seen the blast cartwheel lustre knocks you out like the lustre on an early gem s mint morgan
also this coin has never been dipped and you can see the dusky musky misty thick golden grey skin to the coin when this coin again is viewed sight seen
THESE TWO THINGS IS WHAT MAKES THIS COIN a killer coin
you can still find such coins if you look hard enough as this is still a sleeper series
michael
michael