What "unpopular" numismatic collections do you have but treasure?

291fifth

For me, it is my numismatic publisher medal collection. I've been working on it for 22 plus years. It contains 240 different medals/tokens issued by or relating to Coin World or Krause Publications. Of the 240 medals, there are probably about 40 with mintages of 20 or less. The highest price I ever paid for one of the medals was $65 (the 1965 Numismatic news European Tour medal featuring a high relief bust of Ben Franklin and struck by the Paris mint. Probably 20 struck.)

The rarest medal in the collection may well be the Coin World Philadelphia Mint bronze medal (originally issued in 1962) with the 1962 dated reverse that was supposed to have been used only on the Charlotte Mint medal. This medal turned up in an eBay lot of eight Coin World medals I bought for $8. No photo of the reverse had been shown and I discovered it only when I compared it with my existing specimen for grade. I'm not aware of any other specimen of this medal with the 1962 dated reverse. Any others may have been melted in 1975 when Coin World destroyed its remaining supplies of the medals in this series.

NHSBaseball

I have a nice collection of bodybags going...

Actually, I have always really liked 3-cent silvers and have sometimes wondered why they seemed so unpopular to collectors.

Shamika

<< <i>The highest price I ever paid for one of the medals was $65 >>


As a collector of coin boards, I find it refreshing to know I can obtain extreme rarities (few than 10 known) and pay less than $100. Although these are terribly difficult to find and I'll never recoup my money, it's great fun and extremely satisfying.

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Cladiator

<< <i>...and never saw it again, somewhere in my dinning room. >>

cladking

<< <i>For me, it is my numismatic publisher medal collection. I've been working on it for 22 plus years. It contains 240 different medals/tokens issued by or relating to Coin World or Krause Publications. Of the 240 medals, there are probably about 40 with mintages of 20 or less. The highest price I ever paid for one of the medals was $65 (the 1965 Numismatic news European Tour medal featuring a high relief bust of Ben Franklin and struck by the Paris mint. Probably 20 struck.)

The rarest medal in the collection may well be the Coin World Philadelphia Mint bronze medal (originally issued in 1962) with the 1962 dated reverse that was supposed to have been used only on the Charlotte Mint medal. This medal turned up in an eBay lot of eight Coin World medals I bought for $8. No photo of the reverse had been shown and I discovered it only when I compared it with my existing specimen for grade. I'm not aware of any other specimen of this medal with the 1962 dated reverse. Any others may have been melted in 1975 when Coin World destroyed its remaining supplies of the medals in this series. >>




Wow!!!

I don't think I have 60 different yet and I've put more than a little effort into these.

I treasure all my collections but I guess I tend to treasure the one I've put the most
work into the most. That would be things like modern US, Indian, and African coins,
but also amusement and telephone tokens. Washington DC transportation tokens
have always been a special interest as well.

jamakin

I fancy those Liberty Mint NORFED silver rounds. Hard to find them close to spot tho..
I also like 5 ounce rounds with reproductions of classic design.

lcoopie

RYK

2 sets of circulated Frankies. I have been waiting for these to get hot for 30 years (really).

lcoopie

<< <i>2 sets of circulated Frankies. I have been waiting for these to get hot for 30 years (really). >>



If I wait 30 more, I may forget I have this

BillyKingsley

I treasure my coins that look like-and in many cases HAVE BEEN-run over by cars. I think I may be the only one who collects them, too. Some of them are so mangled that the only way to know what they are is by the general size of them. Forget getting a year out of them! I keep them in a little zip-lock all togther. Oh, and, best of all, I've either gotten them all in change or found them on the ground-I've never bought one yet! (I think most people would probably spend them or just throw them out!)

Eagleguy

Say what you want about them but I like my collection of PR-69 SBA dollars. It was the first set I completed and it was cheap enough to do so.

JH

DoUPlayOnePocket

<< <i>As a collector of coin boards, I find it refreshing to know I can obtain extreme rarities (few than 10 known) and pay less than $100. Although these are terribly difficult to find and I'll never recoup my money, it's great fun and extremely satisfying. >>



Have you read David Lange's book about coinboards of the 30's & 40's? I understand that he has quite a collection.

Chris

DoUPlayOnePocket

I like the 3-medal sets of the ANA Conventions, 1969-1982. These were the only years they produced the 3-medal sets. Each set contains two 38mm medals, one in silver and one in bronze, and an 18mm bronze. Mintages range from 350-500 for any given year, and all of the 38mm medals are numbered on the edge. Some, but not all, of the 18mm medals are numbered on the edge. The most I have paid for any set has been $60.

The only year that I don't have is 1981, and I have been searching for it since 2004.

Chris

Preussen

Darkside and probably unpopular to most, but extremely difficult to assemble, is/was my set of German 3rd Reich 2 & 5 Reichmarks in BU. Silver 2 & 5 Reichsmarks were issued from 1933-1939 and include commemoratives of Friedrich Schiller & Martin Luther as well as the more often encountered ones depicting the Potsdam Garrison Church, Hindenburg and the swastika. All types in all dates and mints make 99 pieces total. I lack only one piece to have a complete set, and need only a couple upgrades to have a nice BU set. Most pieces are fairly common in circulated condition, but some are extremely scarce, and more so in Mint State. -Preussen

Shamika

<< <i>Have you read David Lange's book about coinboards of the 30's & 40's? I understand that he has quite a collection.

Chris >>


Yes he does and yes I have. Dave and I correspond frequently and I've purchased some of his duplicates from his collection.

coinnuttius

All I need to do is take my "collection" to a dealer to find out that it is unpopular, therefore: worthless. Should make sense too, since the cool stuff gets snapped up by people with money and tends to stay with them. Modern anything (state 25c, commems) are 'popular', but so is the Big Mac(TM,R,C). If you think the latter is a good burger or the former.. well.. nevermind.. de gustibus non est disputandem, I guess.