Do you remember what a "rare" coin was in Whitman Folders?

jmski52

When I started with coins, a "rare" coin was one of those in the Whitman folder that came with it's own little round blue tab, already in place with the notion that you'd never own one so you might as well just keep the tab. (And, in the off-chance that you did find one you could just remove the tab and voila', your collection now includes the rarity.)

I believe that the 16-D Mercury Dime came as a tab and maybe the 94-S Barber Dime, but I can't remember any others. What other coins did the Whitman Series classify as "rare", by virtue of having a tab already stuck in as a filler?

TheRegulator

I'm pretty sure the 1856 Flying Eagle and 1916 SLQ could be added to the list.

crypto79

1856 small cent

golden

I go back to the early 1960's . The only ones that I remember that had a plug in the hole was the 1913 Liberty Nickel and the 1894 S dime.

Elcontador

I started collecting in the early 60s. A rare coin was one I couldn't find in change. It included pretty much anything except for a penny with a 1921 date on it, the 16 D Dime, 32 D Quarter (I did find the 32 S), the various overdates, the 13 S Type II Buff, and most SLQs (didn't see many of them in circulation, for some reason).

Barberian

When I was a kid, I was tempted to pop the "rare" tab out of the 1856 hole for Flying Eagle cents and put them in my empty 1909-S VDB hole. That damn hole is till empty.

OldEastside

I do remember those, can't remember which ones though.

Steve

kranky

1895 Morgan, IIRC.

halfhunter

The 70-D half had a knockout in the hole . . . But not the 87-P&D . . .

HH

stealer

1901S quarter? Dunno, I wasn't around back then

GoldClause

Ha, I remember those in the 70's. It was a 1916-d dime for me.

Yukoncornelius1

I remember having a type book and the 1796 quarter had a knockout.

yosclimber

Two Cent: 1864 Small Motto and 1873.

Nickel Three Cent: 1877 and 1887 7/6.

I cut the tab out for the 1864 Small Motto and put my coin in! (They aren't very rare).
The tab is still in for the 1873 (and for the 3c).

Dentuck

The 1879 Coiled Hair Stella.

Seriously, though: I think David W. Lange is working on a new book about
coin folders. He wrote and self-published the standard reference on
coin boards a few years ago --- an excellent book.

(Coin Collecting Boards of the 1930s and 1940s: A Complete History,
Catalog, and Value Guide)

TennesseeDave

Seems like I can remember the 1922 "plain" in the Lincoln book 09-41.

johnny9434

i remember the 1913 v nickel, 1916 d mercury dime and a few others. that goes back into the 1960s as well. i forgot about them till now