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How patient are you? Updated n first thread...and wouldn't you know???

DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
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After collecting a certain area of exonumia for the past ten years, I've finally found a piece I've never even seen before, much less owned....


...and it's been HOLED !

I'm gonna have to go for it. Would you wait?

Without the hole, it'd be one he11 of a nuclear bid for me.


Edited to add:

OK so I won the auction for a price I'm real happy with of $30.00 (pics below)..... and now there's another on ebay.
The one up for auction now has corrosion and is already past $100, I have to say I'd rather have the old hole.
I'm really amazed at how strong the prices for WV CWT's have recently been. It makes me enjoy the 20 or so I have a lot more, knowing future ones are getting harder and harder to come by.

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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    go for it, you can always upgrade later if another one turns up.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

    hell yeah, you can always upgrade...........jmo.
    coins on ebay
  • TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭
    Now that you have brought it to my attention, you may have a little more competition. Sometimes you need a little patience... image

    If it is what I think it is, the hole could be much worse and it looks to be an otherwise very pleasing, circulated piece. If you have been following this area for ten years, you probably have a pretty good feel for the availability of such pieces.

    Ask yourself if you would be happy with it. Ask yourself if you would be okay without it. I've taken up some pretty obscure areas of exonumia, and for the tokens I've decided to avoid a gotta-have-it-all approach. I am content with knowing that there are many pieces which I will never own and just save up and place stronger bids on higher grade pieces if they ever come along. When it's the right piece, and you know it- go for it.

    Let us know how it turns out! image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    This holed Ducat sat many months before it went into a genuine holder.
    I'm not patient. I pulled the plug on eBay.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd also go for it too !!!
    Timbuk3
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    If you think you'll really pull the trigger on the nuclear bid when the perfect specimen comes along, I'd save my money and wait. If not, grab it!

    As they say, a nicer one will come along. image
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,823 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Impossible to call since some pieces are found holed many times. If thats the case, go for it. IF the coin is never found holed, this is an exception...then maybe not.
  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Fill the hole, upgrade later.

    There are some extremely rare die marriages in the series I collect, and I am perfectly willing to add a POS example until I can upgrade...at the very least there will be high demand for rare pieces and you can use this one as a bargaining chip later!
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It depends upon what it is. If it is a 19th century presidential campaign token, holed is better to some collectors because it shows that the item was probably struck and used prior to the election and not made mostly for collectors.

    If it is something that it no supposed to holed, that’s another matter. Years ago I set up an Eagle Holders book for my New England Civil War token collection. I put a 2x2 piece of paper in the slots that I wanted to fill, and placed the tokens that I had in the book. One of the holes I never filled was for a Connecticut sutler token. I did sell one though my business for around $350, but I didn’t keep it because it had a neat little hole it. Oddly enough I’ve never seen another one, not even in an auction.

    Sometimes you have to buy something that falls below your standards, if you really want it, because no better piece is available. If the piece in question is not that expensive, relative your budget, I’d buy it.
    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 ... ?
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    man, it hurts to see a rare coin with a damn hole in it! but, i agree with others here. add it and upgrade later.
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Fill the hole, upgrade later. >>



    why fill it? just curious why you think that should be done.
  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭

    After 10 years, I would go for it and keep searching for a non-holed one.

    Let us know what it is when you make your decision.
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Fill the hole, upgrade later. >>



    why fill it? just curious why you think that should be done. >>



    He means fill the hole in his collection, not the coin....image

    I'd take it in a heartbeat.
    Becky
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I grow Bonsai
    I have to have patience.
    I would grab the piece and hold her till I find a better one.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Get it. You can seek assistance from Elaine's boyfriend, Puddy. image

    Exit bunker, enter Matrix. LOL

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ttt
  • pakasmompakasmom Posts: 1,920 ✭
    Even with the hole it's very image and for only $30? image
  • FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In that area of collecting, and for that price, I would have bought it too.
    I like it!

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