Question for ASE Proof collectors...
evilclay
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In your opinion is it necessary to have the reverse proof from the 20th anniv. set to complete your collection?
Hey, Im new at this so cut me some slack!!
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However, if you dig your collection and don't feel the need to get either one, guess what? That's cool too.
John
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<< <i>I think missing any coin in a series will make most collectors feel incomplete... >>
Good point.
If not, then definitely it should be part of the collection.
If yes, then we have two possibilities:
1) Whoever collects proof ASE's will not "require" to have one. He may want to but, I don't think the collection will be considered to be lacking.
2) The folks that collect proof ASE's may already have purchased a RP ASE and will hate having a single RP hanging around and may either sell it or (more likely) start collecting these as well.
My $.02
<< <i>I think missing any coin in a series will make most collectors feel incomplete... >>
what about the 1894-S dime and 1913 nickel? I would think collectors of those series, at least the vast majority of them, do not feel that their sets are incomplete.
I believe that most silver eagle collectors have already purchased this coin for there collection thinking 95-W in the back of there mind.....
The 95-W is part of a complete collection and the 06 RP might make it more so, it was easy to say that all the proofs from 86-06 where a complete collection with one odd ball, but now we have 2 odd balls.....
The big difference between the 95-W & 06-P RP is the price right now, the 95-W is way out of most collectors budget, which is a shame..... (gotta hit the jackpot in vegas)
I think this is one of the reasons the Roosie series does not stand out more. While I am sure there is a key and semi key known among the collectors of that series, there is not a well known date to the rest of the population. Here, everyone knows the Reverse Proof and the 95-W, even non collectors as the 95-W gets bashed every so often in these forums, but it is all publicity which at the end of the day is what makes a series popular. Just MHO.
p.s Seeing how my collection only contains the first and last year of the ASE's, I really don't have much of a collection at all!!! But I am thinking '95 prices on the RP so I probably should buy it now.
<< <i>The Reverse Proof coin will make the ASE series more popular than ever. Every series needs a key and a semi key to keep the interest up. This will be a semi key as the population will be 2/3 of the previous least minted common coin. It is 8 times as scarce as the 95-W, so there will be a pecking order.
I think this is one of the reasons the Roosie series does not stand out more. While I am sure there is a key and semi key known among the collectors of that series, there is not a well known date to the rest of the population. Here, everyone knows the Reverse Proof and the 95-W, even non collectors as the 95-W gets bashed every so often in these forums,
Well said.
W.C. Fields
If you want a simple matching set of PROOF coins, one from each date, you
need neither the RP or the 95W. If you are looking for total completion, well,
looks like you need to add those two to the list.
Box of 20