What Percentage of your collection is Rare (Scarce) vs What Percentage of your collection is Attract
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Ok, you gather up your collection and arrange it out in front of you.
Looking at your coins, what percentage would you say is genuinely scarce or rare? What percentage of all your coins are (highly) attractive?
How about both- rare and attractive?
I'm curious.
Looking at your coins, what percentage would you say is genuinely scarce or rare? What percentage of all your coins are (highly) attractive?
How about both- rare and attractive?
I'm curious.
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<< <i>0% as I'm small fry >>
I'm not sure but I might be a smaller fry?
Just about 100% of my core collection is rare/scarce...and I would say at least half of them look pretty darn good. How do I do this AND maintain my small fry status? Mercury Dime Varieties!!! Only a hand full known/graded of each variety for many of them. There are not many collectors of the material so the low demand keeps the prices wayyyyy down(unless two people are going after the same one at the same time in an aution style format).
This to me is FUN! Small Fry with a lot of Top Pops that are rare/scarce...and since many are top pops, some of them look pretty good.
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
(all my coins have eye appeal, including my few rare ones)
My Coin Blog
My Toned Lincoln Registry Set
i'll get there again though
soon enough
although...if i do land dcam on that 1965 sms kennedy...i'm keeping it
only 39 1965 sms kennedies sit in pcgs dcam...i hope my name is on #40
<< <i>Define rare and define attractive. >>
You know it when you see it.
(Or, in the case of 'rare', when you don't.)
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I'm not so far gone as to only collect nearly unique patterns, but this has at least slowed down my coin buying and dramatically improved quality overall (not to mention price-per-coin...)
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Samples and collectible holders?? 5% and 5%.
Maybe somewhere over 90% is what I consider attractive (honest wear or what I perceive as original surfaces). Other 10% or so are dipped hole fillers of older coins that I will let go of anytime I can.
I think the $10 is .......
Beck’s Public Baths Token, Virginia. Richmond, HT-441 / Low-275.
One of the most famous 19th century tokens listed in The 100 Greatest American Medals and Tokens by Q. David Bowers and Katherine Jaeger as their number 86.
While today we may think that, per the saying “cleanliness is next to godliness” it was not always so. In the period from about 1832 to 1844 when Charles Beck distributed his Beck’s Public Baths tokens in Richmond Virginia as bathing was an occasional experience at best. Houses did not have indoor plumbing and for most people in the city the closest thing to a bath was wiping with a soapy wet cloth. Across the country some academies and boarding schools made it an offense to bathe in the colder months as the practice being deemed unhealthy. For those who desired to bathe public baths were operated in most of the larger cities. Records show that in 1832 Charles Beck was a confectioner and the operator of a bathing facility. The baths were in operation until at least 1844. These tokens about the size of a quarter dollar may have circulated locally as currency or more likely they were used as admission checks.
In 1859 New York City numismatist Charles I. Bushnell published An Arrangement of Tradesmen’s Cards, Political Tokens. Soon the Beck’s token became a favorite with it’s somewhat risqué depiction of a nude woman. Naturally the popularity for this token was immediate and widespread due to the finely engraved naked woman on the obverse. Collectors with an eye for beauty eagerly latched onto these Beck’s Public Baths tokens at an early time. Demand has always exceeded supply since they were first noticed in Bushnell’s early reference.
80% attractive
10% common widgets
<< <i>Define rare and define attractive. >>
There is no way to define them, that's the rub.
Attractive - to me, 95%. If you climb the ranks of serious commem collectors the percentage probably drops to 10 to 15%. If you ask my wife, 0%.
These would be the two I would consider to be my most attractive (Boone courtesy of saen78, San Diego courtesy of Kryptonite)
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<< <i>Define rare and define attractive. >>
There is no way to define them, that's the rub. >>
YES !, rare is definded as less than 5. most people do not have anything rare. me included.
Attractive? They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but then, as I always like to say,
they only print one issue of Penthouse, and that seems to sell okay !!
R-8: This is a unique coin; only 1 exists
R-7 High: A coin that's excessively rare; 2 to 3 exist
R-7 Low: An extremely rare coin with 4 to 12 remaining known
R-6: A very rare coin with 13 to 30 known specimens
R-5: 31 to 75 coins exist, classifying it as rare
R-4: A very scarce coin with 76 to 200 examples left
R-3: With 201 to 500 estimated pieces, this is a scarce coin
R-2: A coin that is not common, with 501 to 1250 coins in existence
R-1: With at least 1251 coins remaining, this is a common coin