There are a lot of variables that go into deciding if a coin is a cull. Your worst option wouldn't be a cull in a rare series or variety....also, you leave out the guys who collect holed coins with every option. Not nitpicking your poll, just saying
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My opinion of a cull coin: A common coin which is heavily worn/damaged and is obtainable in higher grades with a reasonable amount of searching/cost.
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to me, "cull" just means, "doesn't qualify for the grouping"
if we're talking BU rolls, Problem-free AUs are culls
if we're talking "ave circ" indian cents, the slick, bent, corroded, holed, or green ones are culls
if we're talking bulk 90%, the culls are the holed, slicks, bent, or otherwise "stick out" of the group and make the buyer say, "hey wait a minute..."
i don't know that any of the poll answers, per se, fit my understanding of the term... it can't be universally defined but depends on the circumstances.
All of your answers have "holed" in them. I've seen loads of culls that didn't have holes.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
Cull = A coin that is profoundly ugly, profoundly worn, profoundly damaged or WAY below average for the item in question.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
<< <i>...and I've seen lots of holed coins that definitely weren't "culls" >>
This is not coin, but it's political medalet from Martin Van Buren's 1840 presidential campaign. It's holed, but it's not cull, especially with it's 170 year old ribbon still hanging in the hole.
I beleive that you have a 1797 half dime with hole and VF sharpness, don't you Bailey? It would hard to call that a cull although it can't be graded.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
OT, but learned recently that he is our only President to have spoken English as a second language. His family was hard-core Dutch and he spoke only Dutch for the first several years of his life.
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OT, but learned recently that he is our only President to have spoken English as a second language. His family was hard-core Dutch and he spoke only Dutch for the first several years of his life. >>
Maybe that was why he was cagey in expressing his positions on the issues. Maybe he didn't understand English that well.
Seriously Van Buren was a master politician who kind of mastered himself out of the White House.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
I've never considered a worn coin, no matter how badly worn, to be a cull.....just damaged coins (holed, gouged, bent, dented, mashed, numerous cuts, etc.)
If the definition of profoundly ugly meant a cull, then all Ikes, SBA's, and Bridgeports would be culls.
<< <i>A coin with so much wear the date cannot be discerned. >>
One example where this wouldn't be true is the 1916 dateless Standing liberty quarter. Even without the date it is still possible to attribute it, making it a 1k +/- coin.
Is there any difference between "cull" and "filler"?
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Edit to add:
My opinion of a cull coin: A common coin which is heavily worn/damaged and is obtainable in higher grades with a reasonable amount of searching/cost.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
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<< <i>Cull = coin I don't like >>
AG or below grade wise
minor damage
problem coin
if we're talking BU rolls, Problem-free AUs are culls
if we're talking "ave circ" indian cents, the slick, bent, corroded, holed, or green ones are culls
if we're talking bulk 90%, the culls are the holed, slicks, bent, or otherwise "stick out" of the group and make the buyer say, "hey wait a minute..."
i don't know that any of the poll answers, per se, fit my understanding of the term... it can't be universally defined but depends on the circumstances.
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<< <i>Easy, just vote. >>
No, it's not.
All of your answers have "holed" in them. I've seen loads of culls that didn't have holes.
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Spots (water or carbon) do not a cull coin make.
<< <i>...and I've seen lots of holed coins that definitely weren't "culls" >>
This is not coin, but it's political medalet from Martin Van Buren's 1840 presidential campaign. It's holed, but it's not cull, especially with it's 170 year old ribbon still hanging in the hole.
I beleive that you have a 1797 half dime with hole and VF sharpness, don't you Bailey? It would hard to call that a cull although it can't be graded.
Having little value should be part of the definition.
We wouldn't throw a 1794 starred reverse cent in the junkpile even if it has some problems.
<< <i>Martin Van Buren >>
OT, but learned recently that he is our only President to have spoken English as a second language. His family was hard-core Dutch and he spoke only Dutch for the first several years of his life.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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<< <i>Martin Van Buren >>
OT, but learned recently that he is our only President to have spoken English as a second language. His family was hard-core Dutch and he spoke only Dutch for the first several years of his life. >>
Maybe that was why he was cagey in expressing his positions on the issues. Maybe he didn't understand English that well.
Seriously Van Buren was a master politician who kind of mastered himself out of the White House.
If the definition of profoundly ugly meant a cull, then all Ikes, SBA's, and Bridgeports would be culls.
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<< <i>A coin with so much wear the date cannot be discerned. >>
One example where this wouldn't be true is the 1916 dateless Standing liberty quarter. Even without the date it is still possible to attribute it, making it a 1k +/- coin.
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
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