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If you had an unlimited coin budget what would you collect?

BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I saw this the other day in the Heritage Archives and just thought wouldn't it be neat to work on a Large Cent set with examples like this. image

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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,931 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Proof Morgans, patterns, this list would go on for a while.....
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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would collect the same kinds of coins that I do now...just better examples.

    I would also collect all 18th century US federal coins in high grade.
  • golfer72golfer72 Posts: 3,588
    Proof Walkers come to mind
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mexican gold 1/2 Escudoes by die variety.
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  • rsdoug81rsdoug81 Posts: 682 ✭✭
    I'm with MidLifeCrisis...

    I'd have an amazing set of early American coins...and an octagonal gold PanPac. image
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm w/Cap'n Henway. I'd go for something a little bit obscure, that maybe no one has done before.
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  • pakasmompakasmom Posts: 1,920 ✭
    If I had an unlimited budget... Indian Head Quarter and Half Eagles. I think it's the most beautiful of all our coins.
  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Colonials and ....................now I'm thinking Patterns(really killer stuff)
    Can one make a type set out of patterns?
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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,353 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Colonials and ....................now I'm thinking Patterns(really killer stuff)
    Can one make a type set out of patterns? >>

    Imagine a Dansco for that?
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  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Colonials and ....................now I'm thinking Patterns(really killer stuff)
    Can one make a type set out of patterns? >>

    Imagine a Dansco for that? >>



    I like the sound of that, patterns and colonials..image
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,572 ✭✭✭✭✭
    unlimited makes it too easy...

    everything.

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  • commoncents123commoncents123 Posts: 2,648 ✭
    I think the question is...what wouldn't I collect....The answer is...modern crap
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ancients. Silver and gold. Roman and Greek.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭✭
    If you had an unlimited budget what would be the point of collecting
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  • BuffalodeBuffalode Posts: 339
    As long as I am dreaming, the best examples available of every US gold coin and Liberty Seated dollar ever minted. I don't guess you could call the result a "set" but it sure would be a nice collection!
    Bob

  • BigMooseBigMoose Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭
    The very finest Early Copper I could find and Gem Proof Gold, 10$ and 20$ Libs, and Early 10$ Gold by die variety.
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  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    US and World Pattern coins any era, most US series pre-20th century, many world coins pre 20th Century.
  • bstat1020bstat1020 Posts: 2,157 ✭✭
    Grade set of the key date from each series!
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  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    <<If you had an unlimited budget what would be the point of collecting >>


    Seriously?

    Why would having no limits to your money mean you cant collect coins? Just because you have 100million for coins soesnt mean you are going to be able to find every coin you need or want. Thats one of the most out there comments Ive ever read here on PCGS forums. image

    For me, If I had unlimited funds, Id collect the same thing, just MS pieces. I prefer circulated coins, but MS is where its at for some coins.
    Id collect New Orleans coins, Gold $1's, Toned Peace $1's, Proof 3Cent Silver Trimes, & early gold and copper proof coinage. Maybe even Proof Seated Quarters.
  • arthurlegandarthurlegand Posts: 314
    trade dollers both proof and ms
  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146 ✭
    Every $10 gold eagle ever minted but I will never have that kind of money at my age.
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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    If I had an umlimited budget, I'd collect classic cars. My coin collection would be whatever comes under the seat of the latest purchase. image

    If I STILL had money after that, I would collect a little bit of everything. That's what I do now, but there would be a much higher volume of it. I'd have to get some gold for sure because even the lowest priced gold is still out of my price range. And ancients. Lots and lots of ancients.
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  • bigtime36bigtime36 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭✭
    unlimited amounts of coins!!!

    Collect raw morgans, walkers, mercs, SLQ, barber q. Looking at getting into earlier date coins pre 1900s.

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,064 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd collect coins of great historic significance, be they US or darkside. Isn't there a "100 Greatest US Coins" registry set somewhere that would make a good start?
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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    100 Greatest Coins Set composition

    I'd rather do this one though...all finest known examples. image
  • advaloremadvalorem Posts: 227
    2009 Lincoln Varieties.
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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    A complete set of seated dollars.

    A set of liberty gold, either half eagles or double eagles. Not sure which one.
  • TWODOGSTWODOGS Posts: 1,419


    << <i>If you had an unlimited coin budget what would you collect?
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    Young blond golddiggers.
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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    I'd take the Eliasberg route.
  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    Ummm one of the responses in this thread.


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  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭
    Early large cents.

    The "ultimate" 7070 set. All keys in highest grades
  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>If you had an unlimited coin budget what would you collect?
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    Young blond golddiggers. >>



    The Jerry Buss (Laker's NBA basketball team owner) collection?

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    * Buss doesn't date the Laker cheerleaders, but he is often see on the town with one, two or three hot young twenty-somethings out on dates. Buss is 75 years old.

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  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    HTT's, CWT's Washies, IHC's and Frankies. Gold for the better halfimage
  • GFourDriverGFourDriver Posts: 2,366 ✭
    Thats an easy one........ Southern Gold! As it stands now, one per year is max.
  • RikeyRikey Posts: 101
    Stellas. And I would buy everyone one.

    I would also buy Mormon gold.

    Fat chance at both.
    Krav Maga is my main interest.
  • thatoneguythatoneguy Posts: 285
    Early copper.
  • tmoneyeaglestmoneyeagles Posts: 442
    If I had an unlimited budget, then coin collecting wouldn't be fun, because I would have nothing to shoot for! I would meet all my goals in about one hour!
    I'd have a complete set of everything, and lets be honest, that wouldn't be that fun.
    I think it is so much fun to save and save and save, and know all my hard work is paid off, once I get the coin I want
  • RikeyRikey Posts: 101


    << <i>If I had an unlimited budget, then coin collecting wouldn't be fun, because I would have nothing to shoot for! I would meet all my goals in about one hour!
    I'd have a complete set of everything, and lets be honest, that wouldn't be that fun.
    I think it is so much fun to save and save and save, and know all my hard work is paid off, once I get the coin I want >>



    If I had every 4$ Stella I would have more than "Fun". ++++++++++++
    Krav Maga is my main interest.
  • MillertimeMillertime Posts: 2,048 ✭✭
    Extremely high grade PCGS type set using keys or semi-keys.

    Millertime
    Mercury Dime Set (rattlers)
    Complete Dime Set

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  • BBQnBLUESBBQnBLUES Posts: 1,803 ✭
    Pan-Pac $50 rounds.. then play shuffleboard with them on the deck of my Yacht !
  • sebrownsebrown Posts: 424 ✭✭
    On an unlimited budget, I'd be known as MrEarlyGold! image

    Oh, and I'd also collect the great errors (including those IHCs on Quarter Eagle planchets), but I would need to pry them from the tightly grasped fists of their current owners! image
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bugattis.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember a story I read in Readers Digest 30+ years ago, back when a million dollars was still worth something.


    One morning at the start of a creative writing class, the teacher gave the students the following assignment:

    "In the next fifty minutes, write an essay on what you would buy if somebody gave you a million dollars."

    The students set to work, but about twenty minutes later one of them raises his hand and says:

    "Miss Smith? It won't work. I gotta have another two hundred thousand!"
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,369 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of the forum members lack imagination. With an "unlimited coin budget", why would you limit yourself? Collect everything.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,499 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The same things I already do. I would simply have a better chance of filling certain holes.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The hunt/chase would be over.No fun.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,836 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably the most difficult, time consuming and esoteric series I can think of...You could spend a lifetime hunting down those few and rare coins that make up the original and restrikes.

    Confederate.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,369 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The hunt/chase would be over.No fun. >>



    Just because you have the money doesn't mean the coins are readily available. Many rarities are in very strong hands.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    Gold coins again, since I have sold off all but one of mine image
  • tmoneyeaglestmoneyeagles Posts: 442


    << <i>The hunt/chase would be over.No fun. >>



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