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So what do you think is the biggest sleeper series?

direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
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The post about the Barbers being considered sleepers in the past got me thinking.

What do you think is the biggest sleepers are that the series started before 1933?
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There can be no sleeper series before 1933. There are some more appreciated than
    they might be or less appreciated but these are all a pretty well known quantity.

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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    Foreign gold.
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    THE biggest?

    Don't know but quarter eagles in condition census sure seem to be a good buy. Three's are too. image Civil War dated coins in general especially considering that the kick off to the muti year year sesquicentennial is only 3 years away. Maybe sleeper isn't the right word for those. Hmm

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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,191 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Early commems 1892-1954.

  • cone10cone10 Posts: 1,021
    Half cents
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
    None. This far into a coin market boom there are no sleepers. There are plenty of overpriced series, though.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,008 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are no sleeper series---just series that are unpopular for various reasons.

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  • JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    Commems.

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  • GritsManGritsMan Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭

    I don't know, but I suspect that high-grade modern clad coinage is going to prove really tough in the future. If I were a young collector with a lot of time, I'd be poring through Mint sets looking for the best examples I could find.
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  • saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭
    These yaps...

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>These yaps...

    image >>




    can you imagine the look on the face of a tpg getting one of THOSE to grade/slab?image
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  • rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>These yaps...

    image >>




    can you imagine the look on the face of a tpg getting one of THOSE to grade/slab?image >>



    I was just wondering where they found that tiny little person. image
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  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>These yaps...

    image >>



    Actually, I think that is a wheel for a stone age SUV.
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  • coolestcoolest Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
    most of the gold commems are selling for near melt.
  • Wolf359Wolf359 Posts: 7,665 ✭✭✭
    rare 8TF vams. When you consider the top pop 1969-S Lincoln DDO went for 126.5K (known population all grades is about 25) and
    compare that to say Van Allen's VAM-14.7 that sold for 13,000+ (known population all grades - seven).

    I'd say either the 1969-S DDO is way underpriced or rarer 8TF VAMs have serious room to grow when the demand hits.
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  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>These yaps...

    image >>



    Actually, I think that is a wheel for a stone age SUV. >>


    Those SUV's diidn't run on Fossil fuel in those days because it wasn't invented yet....You follow the dinos around for Dung fuel....!!!....or were chased by them......image
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Those SUV's diidn't run on Fossil fuel in those days because it wasn't invented yet....You follow the dinos around for Dung fuel....!!!....or were chased by them......image >>

    Right. These were powered by Fred Flintstone's feet.
  • GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Those SUV's diidn't run on Fossil fuel in those days because it wasn't invented yet....You follow the dinos around for Dung fuel....!!!....or were chased by them......image >>

    Right. These were powered by Fred Flintstone's feet. >>


    Geez...Zig ....you are quick....!!!
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,008 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>These yaps...

    image >>



    I read somewhere that during WW2, the Japs destroyed hundreds of these by breaking them up into small pieces to be used as paving material.

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  • coolestcoolest Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
    It has got to be Rosies. I think they sell for about face value now, any movement at all and it would be dramatic.
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  • mirabelamirabela Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pre-1933, huh? How about large sized capped bust quarters? They're plenty expensive in better grades, but they are crazily cheap up to Fine, given how few and far between decent ones, even in these grades, really are. I don't think it would take much influx of interest to send the prices up.
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  • rooksmithrooksmith Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭✭
    Jefferson nickels of the 80's and 90's
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  • 500Bay500Bay Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭
    3 cent nickels
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  • GritsManGritsMan Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Jefferson nickels of the 80's and 90's
    >>



    Why 80s and 90s in particular?
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