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I think I'd be happy with a two coin collection

MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
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My silver Myddelton and a nice "Value Me As You Please" Higley Copper.

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    JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    That would be a box of two. That'd make me happy, too. image
    Let's try not to get upset.
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    liar image
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd need a lot more than just 2 coins to keep interested in coins as a hobby.

    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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    LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Box of 2........ image
    Gone but not forgotten: IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal, CoinsAreFun.
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    AngryTurtleAngryTurtle Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭
    I think I could get it down to one - a Brasher doubloon. But wait, which one...image
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well.....if I had to do it...heres my two

    1861 CSA Half Dollar Original, the Jefferson Davis Pocket piece

    1861 CSA Cent, Original, the XF Specimen that is assumed to have been the pocket piece that Lovett spent in a bar.
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    kazkaz Posts: 9,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>liar image >>



    +1image
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    shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those 2 + a 1793 type set would do it for me.
    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,721 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am too much of a collector to settle for just two.... I like variety, so dabble in many different coins...Cheers, RickO
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    LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am too much of a collector to settle for just two.... I like variety, so dabble in many different coins...Cheers, RickO >>



    Yeah, I kinda feel the same way. Now, I wouldn't mind owning those two coins, along with a whole bunch of other stuff! That Brasher Doubloon too!
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    Yukoncornelius1Yukoncornelius1 Posts: 654 ✭
    It would be almost impossible for me to only have a 2 coin collection but if that were the only choice I would choose an 1873-s seated dollar and an 1873-s no arrows seated half dollar both in PCGS MS-70+ holders with a gold bean sticker on each coin.image
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    lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    then you would just need a rubber band
    LCoopie = Les
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    bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is my 2 colonials I would keep:image

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    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




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    khaysekhayse Posts: 1,336 ✭
    Sure it would be a 1933 double eagle and a 1804 silver dollar. image

    -Keith
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I could regularly (say, quarterly) exchange the two coins with minimal frictional cost for doing so, I think that I could be very happy with a two coin collection.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it would be possible for me to get down to just two... I'd go with none.

    At that point I'm no longer collecting and would just opt to enjoy the hobby via my library.
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,851 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>then you would just need a rubber band >>



    Mixing copper or silver coins with rubber bands is not a good idea.

    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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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 34,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    2 boxes full of commems. for me would suit me fine ( ok somewhat )
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    IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    No two coin collection for me -- I have too much fun digging through my various SDB for unusual items.

    For example, in the past 3 months I pulled out a few Roman ancient coins for a classroom presentation,
    a 4 piece set of shipwreck Spanish silver coins to show a friend, a gold $10 to offer as trade bait (didn't work
    out, so it went back the next day), and a partial set of wheat cents in a blue folder as a gift to a nephew.

    As a collector, I love to be able to locate these types of coins -- being able to hand someone a 2000 year
    old coin and watch them handle it is priceless!
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    GoldClauseGoldClause Posts: 838 ✭
    1795 and 1798 eagles might do it for me.

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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My response.

    If you can't get the song out of your head all afternoon, blame MLC for the question.
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1854-S quarter eagle and 1854-S half eagle for me
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    dogwooddogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭
    1904-s Half and 1901-s Quarter, both in host plastic MS66.
    We're all born MS70. I'm about a Fine 15 right now.
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope, no can do........no way. I would rather give it all up than just have 2 coinsimage






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    mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    i now have only 2


    both examples of "30 pieces of silver"

    that is all.
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    lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,875 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>then you would just need a rubber band >>



    Mixing copper or silver coins with rubber bands is not a good idea. >>



    You are of course correct
    It just sounded better than a piece of string
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    LCoopie = Les

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