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When should you upgrade?

PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
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When should you upgrade your Mercury dime or any other registry set? I think that when there are 1000 or more in better grades you may want to upgrade! If you complete your set is that number different?


Pat Vetter
Pat Vetter,Mercury Dime registry set,1938 Proof set registry,Pat & BJ Coins:724-325-7211


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  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pat: I think if you find a Coin that is more appealing to you that is the time to Upgrade. Eye Appeal not the number on the slab is usually what prompts myself to upgrade.image Jeez do you Guys believe that line of BS.image Truthfully that is the case. You could take My 45P for example. I could go to 67 easily but it is not going to happen because I like the 66. I would even like it if it was graded 64.image
      Some of mine in the 40's will get upgraded because even though the Technical Grade is correct I just do not like them. Earlier Dates have Priority right now.
        Take Care: Ken
      1. tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
        I agree with Fairlaneman: One should only upgrade if they find a nicer looking coin. It is NOT about numbers, but coin collecting. Just because a coin has a certain number on it, does not mean it is nice. If you find a nicer coin AND it has a better number, cool, just don't concentrate on the numbers' game.

        Tom
        Tom

      2. python1python1 Posts: 789
        I have the same outlook as Ken, that is why I am bidding on that 1920 64fb, it is a real improvement over the one I have now, which by the way will be for sale if I win the one on ebay now. I picked up a real nice 45 P the other day, that is a real killer and the bands are about 35%, that I will be exchanging shortly, it wont make my set count any more in points but I sure like the coin better. I hope this makes it easier for all to understand when I upgrade.
        Dennis

        My Dimes

        << If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right the first time! >>
      3. DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
        I think it is a little of both for me. I would like to upgrade my 3 MS66s in the 40s to 67s but I want a better coin. As far as being worthwhile, the extra point will not affect my ranking but I would like to have all 67s for my short set. Also, I have managed to acquire a number of relatively low pop coins and it would make the set more even.

        From a dollars perspective it makes no sense at all. But maybe that is why I will upgrade anyway as collecting often makes no logical sense except to the collector.
        Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
      4. boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,060 ✭✭✭✭✭
        Hey slow down guys you are making too much sense. Registry guys touting eye appeal over the numbers game. This kind of thinking could put the grading services out of business.image
      5. MarkMark Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
        I agree with the general thrust that one should up-grade when there is a better coin available that falls within the scope of your collection. For instance, similar to Deepcoin, I would like all my later date Merc's to be 67 FB, with a few obvious(!) exceptions. But I am in no hurry to up-grade all these coins. If I see an up-grade coin I like and the price is reasonable, I might well buy it. If I see an up-grade coin that is ugly, my opinion is, "Why bother?" I plan on keeping my coins all my life, so I sincerely (!) hope I'll be looking at them for many more years. If I buy an ugly coin now, this means I'll be looking at the ugly coin for many years. Why not wait a month or a year and get a coin I like to look at?

        Mark

        P.S. to Boiler78: Of course, if the coin's a pattern, who gives a rat's rump what it looks like? The only question worth asking in this case is "What's the grading number?"
        Mark


      6. FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
        Boiler: We Have Lost It Completely.image
          Mark: Who Gives a Rats Rump. My Rump is Now ROFL its Rump Off.imageimage
        1. python1python1 Posts: 789
          imageimage
          (ken : got the 20P I was after with 2 sec's left...shweeeeeeew!)
          It will make a nice upgrade.
          Dennis

          My Dimes

          << If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right the first time! >>
        2. FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
          I noticed some other Bidders had jumped in. I like those BIN auctions that don't keep you on the edge of your chair.
        3. khaysekhayse Posts: 1,336 ✭
          When I find a better coin. image

          It's a tough call deciding what to buy next. Do you upgrade
          a current coin or buy one you don't have. I'd be lying if I
          said the numbers had nothing to do with it. Sometimes I
          decide to upgrade because a coin in the collection is
          completely outclassed by most of the others (sometimes it's
          in terms of dollars, sometimes it's in terms of number of
          nicer graded).

          I'm not buying that stuff about "depends on eye appeal".
          If you have a 64 with great eye appeal but you can afford
          a 66, you can find a nice 66 with good eye appeal.

          PCGS putting the population numbers in the registry was
          great marketing. I knew I had coins that didn't match up
          with the rest of my collection but nothing made me want to
          upgrade so much as seeing that there were 6000 coins with the
          same grade.

          -Keith H
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