Define "CULL" (Take the Poll)

Peaceman

Easy, just vote.

USMoneylover

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

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.

PinkFloyd

Definition: Something I can afford.

DUIGUY

Untill GSA got hands on it , "CULL"

Steve27

You need a choice for just "Damaged;" culls are not necessarily holed and I interpret the "/" symbol as the term "and" not "or."

ricko

I would define a cull as 'a common coin which is heavily worn', although damage could also enter into the definition. Cheers, RickO

GritsMan

Anything I throw out from the refrigerator.

thebeav

While a holed coin is certainly a cull, a hole is not a requirement.

JedPlanchet

Cull = coin I don't like

smokincoin

<< <i>Cull = coin I don't like >>

ambro51

I agree a hole is not a requirement of a CULL.

PTVETTER

cleaned
AG or below grade wise
minor damage
problem coin

Baley

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.

BillJones

<< <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.

Baley

...and I've seen lots of holed coins that definitely weren't "culls"

droopyd

I interpret the virgule (the "slash") as meaning "or," not "and"

johnny9434

something that id put in the bottem drawer in the desk in the celler that no one uses and forget about it

BillJones

Cull = A coin that is profoundly ugly, profoundly worn, profoundly damaged or WAY below average for the item in question.

Shamika

Spots (water or carbon) do not a cull coin make.

golfer72

A coin with so much wear the date cannot be discerned.

BillJones

<< <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.

GrumpyEd

I think of a cull as something that belongs in a junk pile.
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.

droopyd

<< <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.

BillJones

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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.

RedHerring

Holed or damaged or slick is my vote.

roadrunner

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.

roadrunner

USMoneylover

<< <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.

PerryHall

Is there any difference between "cull" and "filler"?

Edscoin

A cull is a coin you would throw away. If you keep it, it has not been culled!