OK: Name a series you DON'T collect and why!
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I'll start. Well....I kind of collect everything since I am a type guy but...um.... If I DID collect series I wouldn't collect....um....well...hmmm...
Ok. Fine I'll admit it. I want a type of EVERY coin I've ever seen!
BUT, I know you series guys have things you are completely uninterested in. Name some of them and why you don't like em'!
Ok. Fine I'll admit it. I want a type of EVERY coin I've ever seen!
BUT, I know you series guys have things you are completely uninterested in. Name some of them and why you don't like em'!
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I think the Walker halves are kinda neat tho and that would be my next venture, if/when I get that far.
In U.S. coins I like just about everything but I can't afford many key dates or gold coins.
Also, I only have Dansco albums that DON'T include proofs. I don't collect loose modern proofs, except for a few that were given to me and a few commemoratives. I like commemorative proofs better than the non-proofs.
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Neat looking coins. The series is just too vast and complex.
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Doesn't mean I don't like the things.
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1. Cost
2. Cost
3. Cost
4. Availability
5. Ugly design
6. Too many
7. I don't like collecting series for the most part.
Also, I have never collected gold coins, mainly becuase the ones I would want to own, I cant afford I have bought a few for re-sale in the past, but that may change as I see my self picking up a Nice early $5 and/or a $10 down the road.
I dont collect proof sets or mint sets at all! No intrest at all. In fact, I dont buy proof coins for any sereis, as I prefer the ones intended for commerce.
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Fire up the flame-throwers, but I see them as a waste of money.
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Don't like Morgan Dollars. There are way too many varieties and VAM's for me to try to figure out at this latter stage of my life.
Don't like gold, colonial or other such high-priced types of coins. They are way too expensive for me to collect.
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No ugly coins. No Ikes, SBA dollars, 5 cent shield nickels, and many of the commem halves (classic and modern).
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<< <i>Morgans as a series is very boring. I only need one as a type coin. >>
Amen to that. Also, NCLT coins designed to separate collectors from their money and useless, politically correct metal discs, such as SBA dollars.
1) No gold. Because of the metal's value, you pay far more for pretty much everything than you would for silver,
copper, or nickel coins.
2) Commems - Each one is different, and there's too much to learn re grading them. I like to look at lots of coins in a particular grade to get an idea of what to expect and look for re a specific Commem in a specified grade. Seems like too much work to me.
3) Small Eagle Bust Coinage - The nice coins are beyond my budget
4) Anything smaller than a dime. Half Dimes and 3 cent coinage. It's too hard for me to get a good look at them without a glass.
5) 2 Cent pieces. Don't like the design.
6) Though I have an Unc. set of silver Roosevelt Dimes (got it decades ago), I don't collect any moderns. The coin designs don't do anything for me.
7) Jefferson Nickels. See #6
8) Lincoln Cents. Think the keys are overhyped and IMO too pricey for what you get. The design doesn't do anything for me, either.
9) Morgan $s. I have my type coin, which I got in the GSA sale in 1980. The design doesn't do anything for me.
10) Peace $s. Don't like the design at all. Think they were the "trial balloon" for Ike $s.
The above is stating my opinion; the intent is not to insult or demean coins which anyone else may collect. What I may find attractive may gross out the next collector.
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<< <i>What's NCLT? I figure it's something I should already know.
Non-Circulating Legal Tender coins (IMO most commemoratives fall into this category). Not many from the US, but tons from foreign countries.
I only collect type coins. Never could get into any series.
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1. I do not care for the denomination, though I do like $3's.
2. I do not like the design.
3. I do not like the metal.
So really, nothing about it appeals to me.
There are too many other series.
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<< <i>Don't collect many types of coins.
1) No gold. Because of the metal's value, you pay far more for pretty much everything than you would for silver,
copper, or nickel coins.
2) Commems - Each one is different, and there's too much to learn re grading them. I like to look at lots of coins in a particular grade to get an idea of what to expect and look for re a specific Commem in a specified grade. Seems like too much work to me.
3) Small Eagle Bust Coinage - The nice coins are beyond my budget
4) Anything smaller than a dime. Half Dimes and 3 cent coinage. It's too hard for me to get a good look at them without a glass.
5) 2 Cent pieces. Don't like the design.
6) Though I have an Unc. set of silver Roosevelt Dimes (got it decades ago), I don't collect any moderns. The coin designs don't do anything for me.
7) Jefferson Nickels. See #6
8) Lincoln Cents. Think the keys are overhyped and IMO too pricey for what you get. The design doesn't do anything for me, either.
9) Morgan $s. I have my type coin, which I got in the GSA sale in 1980. The design doesn't do anything for me.
10) Peace $s. Don't like the design at all. Think they were the "trial balloon" for Ike $s.
The above is stating my opinion; the intent is not to insult or demean coins which anyone else may collect. What I may find attractive may gross out the next collector. >>
You should've posted what you DO collect just to save space!
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Oh sure maybe I'd get a couple for type but that's it.
Designs are not that important to me, or I wouldn't have five albums of Barber dimes. I maintain that there's no such thing as a boring design, but collectors who don't take the time to delve into a series might impatiently call all coins of that series boring.
I avoid coins which are heavily promoted, like high grade slabbed Silver American Eagles. After taking "imvestment advice" of those who sold me mint state Morgans and Franklins in the 1980s I retreated from collecting for a good dozen years.
Still, there are some affordable, non-hyped series I don't collect for one reason or another.
Buffalo Nickels -- too difficult to get a consensus on grading
Jefferson Nickels, Roosevelt Dimes, Washington Quarters, Franklin and Kennedy Halves -- too many other folks competing (Although I have completed mediocre sets)
I really don't have any interest in collecting most modern coins. The exceptions are Proof sets and the modern commemorative sets that have a gold coin in them. Currently I'm forming a collection of the commeortive sets that were housed in cherryword boxes. That series runs from the 1984 Olympics to the 1996 Smithsonian set, which happers to be a very scarce item.
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<< <i>modern stuff - quarters - similar opinion as ms70 .... would not pay those prices >>
Thats why we try to make them...
i would say I don't collect Peace Dollars. They are so boring looking to me. All other US coins have exquisite design and craftsmanship, but this coin just rubs me the wrong way.
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I collect LOTS of stuff.
From 1/2 Cents through Dollars (except 2 cent, 3 cent & Half Dime coinage), if the coin is Draped Bust, Capped Bust, Reeded Edge, Seated, Barber, or has Miss Liberty on it, is minted pre 1930, I collect it.
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I do not collect Philadelphia or San Francisco quarter eagles. Ironically, the first gold coin I ever owned was an 1890-P QE.
Small size.
Very long and largely uninteresting series with a few expensive rarities (ie. "Little Princess").
The "S" mintmark (and others) tends to get buried in the design on the reverse, and for some reason, that bothers me.