If there were no PCGS or NGC Registries, would you still collect the same coins?

lclugza

If there were no PCGS or NGC Registries, would you still collect about the same coins? Or would you collect some things that are different from what you are collecting now?

braddick

I'd collect Mint State Trade Dollars. Or, a set in VG. I can't decide. No PCGS or NGC Trade dollar Registry?! Bogus.

Fairlaneman

Before Slabbing and Way Before Registries I have Collected the same Series of Coin. The Registries have No Effect upon what Tickles My Collecting Fancy.

Adolph's Beautiful Little Lady with Wings.

Aaron04

I started to collect merc's along time ago but didnt add them to the registry till just recently.

python1

Still collect the same thing..started this set long before the registry started.....or at least before I ever heard about it.....1997





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dpoole

I was already collecting the series I have up on the Registry. The Registry, though, did admittedly spur me on to "fill the holes" and complete the sets. At least, it speeded up the process, and focused my collecting.

tradedollarnut

Why - I'd completely give up coin collecting - I live and die for the Registry

I collect trade dollars because my grandmother caused me to fall in love with the design. It so happened that when I decided to get serious and create the finest collection, it had never been done before and I had limited competition. I created the set out of the love of the series - the Registry wasn't even a twinkle in David Hall's eye when I started!

EVillageProwler

I was collecting coins as a kid; I still have my '77 Red Book with all my notes in it. I took quite a bit of time off to grow up, etc. When I resumed after the long hiatus, I didn't even know about slabbing and all the extra grades! I was immediately interested in Silver Dollars (Morgans and Peace ones too). As a kid, I could only afford the lesser denominations: mostly IH, Lincolns and Jeffs, with an occasional trime, etc. My older brother had a paper route, so he had better coins and quite a number of circ Morgans and Franklins.

So, as an adult, I pursued the larger cartwheels that I so desperately wanted as a kid. But, I collect every coin. In Cambodia, I bought every rare coin I could find that I thought was genuine. In Tokyo, I had my colleagues save their larger, eye appealing coins from pocket change for me. My friends bring back goodies from Brazil, Chile and all over Latin America. In London, a friend had his girlfriend pick up two silver 6-pence from the '40's for me. Cost to me? A pint of bitter!

No need for any service. No need for any registry game either!

Give me a nice shiney coin, and I'm your best bud!

EVP

Typetone

If there was no registry I would give up gem Liberty Nickels in a minute, and go right to my first real love, proof clad Statehood quarters in PCGS 69DCAM.

Greg S.

shirohniichan

If there were no registry I'd buy less inexpensive moderns to plug holes in my type set. I'd buy some of them regardless, but the priority I assign to them may be different.

The funny thing about this is that there's no registry to match my transition years type set, year sets, etc., but I squeeze whatever coins I can from those sets into a registry or two. It may look like I'm not trying very hard to put a type set together (judging by the registry), but in reality I'm just adding coins that don't fit into the registry.

dbldie55

This is a loaded question; I would collect what I collect. I break all of my big PCGS purchases out of the holder to place in my albums anyways. Who wouldn't? All the plastic means is that it is real, not a counterfeit!

Now the morons that go for the high-grade modern crap, that is a different story, they have to have the plastic or they would be ruined. No normal semi-intelligent person would pay what these people pay

mrpaseo

I collected Lincolns well before PCGS was around. I would still be collecting them and will be when they go out of business.

Ray

Fairlaneman

I Must Fess Up a Little Here.

Before I Found the Registry all of the Merc's that I had were 1934 or before so to be Completely Truthfull I am Not Collecting the Same Coins.

Same Series but have Dates Now that would not have been Purchased before. Hit Me Along the Side of the Head and Send Me to a Corner for Falling into this Trap.

grip

I myself never had intentions of putting a set together till the registry came along.I always thought and still do to buy a few scarce coins in the highest grade from that series and move on.
I have a fealing i will take a big loss if i ever have to sell my merc collection.But im having fun.Al

khayse

I would still collect the same coins.

Like a few others, the registry has focused my collecting habits.
I did sell a few ANACS and NGC coins and replace them with
PCGS. But I haven't sold anything I really liked or bought
something I didn't like at all because of the registry.

I prefer to have all my slabs look the same anyway.

-Keith H

madmike

Actually, I had embarked on a PCGS Graded 20th Century Type Set before I found the registry. The Registry has changed (very slightly) the selection of coins I would have purchased, but as I initially started out on my own, I hadn't yet decided exactly what coins I would include in my set. The registry helped me with that. So I can say yes, if there was no PCGS registry, I'd still be building a PCGS graded 20th Century Type Set.

madmike

cosmicdebris

I was putting together a 20th century type set before I found the PCGS and now NGC registries so I am basically collecting the same coins now anyhow.

Mark

The registry has changed what I collect. Now I am really looking at Mercs, so that I can try to stay up with everyone. Of course, I have dreams of catching up to Ken (Fairlaneman) and, because he so kindly offered, swatting him upside the head but that's a mere dream. Before the registry I tended to look more closely at patterns and buy a random inexpensive one. Nowadays it's Mercs and once in a while, commemoratives. So, I think Dpoole really nailed it for me: The registry has lead me to focus more.

Mark

Flash

I would still be assembling my U.S. Type set with or without the Registry. However, there are a couple of coins I would not necessarily have bought if it were not included in PCGS' version of a type set because of the date requirements of their Modern Type Set. For instance, I already had an example of a coin dated 18xx, but need another example of the same type dated 19xx. I figured if I was working on a complete U.S. Type Set, I might as well go ahead and complete the Modern/20th-Century Type Set.




Matt

K6AZ

I would still be collecting Morgan Dollars, just as I have since 1977. And I would still be insisting on PCGS coins sight unseen. Regardless of what some dealers want to try to tell me about how similar in quality NGC Morgans are, I know better.