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ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
Here's the premise.... All of us have a variety of coins, and have owned and sold others. Using a "common sense" Type Set what have you Not owned. Keep it general.......here's my list of never owned••••••••colonial silver, twenty cent piece, bust or seated quarter, bust or seated dollar. Quarter eagle Three dollar gold ten dollar gold.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never owned a Lord Baltimore, Maryland silver coin. I tried at the last FUN show auction, but it didn't work out.
    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 ... ?
  • I have never owned a Gold coin older than 1834....nuts
  • LogPotatoLogPotato Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭
    I've never owned Liberty Head Classic Gold. image
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bill I guess in your World that Balty is General,ehimage
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've never owned a Seated or Trade dollar.
    Both are needed to complete my 7070 and I'm growing impatient.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • A Pan-Pac $50 commem.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never owed a slabbed coin with a CAC sticker on it.

    I don't play the sticker game.

    I don't think they even sticker "error" coins, do they?

    As an artist, I collect only super eye appealing error coins that stand on their own and don't need nor want a sticker cluttering up the slab.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,793 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Bill I guess in your World that Balty is General,ehimage >>



    Since I completed my type sets, there is really nothing, in general, in the U.S. series that I have not owned. When I was going through the process of finishing, there were a number of coins that qualified as "first time I've owned one." image

    OOO wait there is a U.S. coin I should have mentioned.

    I've never owned a Stella or $4 gold piece and probably never will. I think that they are patterns and not type coins, but Bowers stuck them in his type coin book for whatever reason.
    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 ... ?
  • ...coin over 200 bucks lol
    At 47, I'm wondering why I'm one of the youngest people at stamp shows!!!!!
  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,192 ✭✭✭✭
    I've never owned a large cent... of any kind... image

    I've handled many, but never purchased one for my personal collection.
    Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    A 1792 half Disme or a $50 pan pac
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
    PCGS Registries
    Box of 20
    SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭
    Within reality, stuff I've never owned but would like to own:

    Anything Flowing Hair
    Bust Dime
    Bust Dollar
    Fugio
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  • I have never owned a 3 cent silver trime, a Gobrecht Dollar nor a $4 Stella.
    1. No desire to ever own a 3 cent silver trime
    2. Haven't found a good enough deal on a Gobrecht
    3. Can't afford Stella.......nor my wife Rachel, for that matter.
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've *NEVER* owned a...

    gold coin of any kind...and have absolutely no desire ever to do so.









    Just a personal quirk so no cards or letters, please. image
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Half disme, Stella, Brasher Doubloon, or 1804 Dollar.

    Seriously though, I've never owned a large cent, gold commem, colonial, trade dollar, or 20c piece.
  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    '56 Flier

    Which is strange, since I'm a small cent guy, and I could afford one if I really wanted to.

    They're just so... common.
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Draped Bust coinage (half or dollar), Seated Dollar, Trade dollar or Classic Commem.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Seated or Trade Dollar or Bust Quarter or Dime and a lot of others that I haven't thought of yet.
  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never owned a $3 gold or Indian $2½ or $5.

    Jim
    Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sixteen quarter.......
  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭
    A fractional gold buffalo, a First Spouse gold coin, or a love token.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,793 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A fractional gold buffalo, a First Spouse gold coin, or a love token. >>



    Yet, fractional gold buffalo.

    Those coins interested me when the mint was selling them, but I thought that the premium over melt that the mint was charging was too high. So did a lot of other people, and the sales were low.

    I really like those coins in the original mint package, but the slabbed versions do nothing for me. Today it would be almost impossible to buy a four piece set in the original box. I saw one at a FUN show three years with a $5,000 + price tag on it.

    I guess those coins are a "never will own for me."
    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 ... ?
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    By general U.S. circulation type, never have owned a Capped Bust Left half eagle or Capped Bust Right small or large eagle, nor any Flowing Hair half dime.

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Colonial
    Seated coin (any denomination)


    Half dime
    20¢
    Bust 25¢
    Bust 50¢
    California fractional gold
    $1 gold
    $2.5 gold
    $3 gold
    $4 gold
    Gold commem (classic or modern)
    When in doubt, don't.
  • MowgliMowgli Posts: 1,219


    << <i>I've *NEVER* owned a...

    gold coin of any kind...and have absolutely no desire ever to do so. >>



    Me too
    In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1864-L proof IHC......someday........
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In all my years of collecting,I've never owned any Gold coin but one. 5$ Gold Eagle 2000 PF. That's it! Could never really afford to be interested in Gold,just Silver.imageimage

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  • I have never owned a coin.

    I am merely the caretaker of them during my life, until they pass along to the next person . .

    Mark
  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never owned a 1799 large cent. I've had one of every other year, including 1793 Chain and Wreath, but no 1799.


  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've never owned an 09svdb, 14D, or 55DDO cent, or a 3 legged buffalo, or a 16D dime, or a 32D quarter, or a 1921 half dollar, or an 1893S dollar.

    I prefer a rare coin image

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $4.00 Coiled or Flowing hair Stella image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,533 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The list is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too long. image
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • sniocsusniocsu Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭
    A complete set
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭
    Morgan.
  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Myddleton token.

    RIP Mom- 1932-2012
  • EdscoinEdscoin Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭
    Never owned a Chain Cent. But I really want one some day!
    ED
    .....................................................
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭
    <---------------- One of these





    (but I hope to someday!)

  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have never owned a coin minted earlier than 1793.
    Lance.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,830 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The list is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too long. image >>



    I feel your pain.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ..a killer shipwreck certified Gold coin............i dunno know why....
    but I think I should just have one.............image
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  • a complete set of Indian Head Cent proofs...the 1864 L killed me.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd Love to read Lewis Eliasbergs reply to this threadimage
  • SLQSLQ Posts: 311 ✭✭
    I've never owned a pre 1940 proof US coin. One of these days....
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've never owned an 09svdb, 14D, or 55DDO cent, or a 3 legged buffalo, or a 16D dime, or a 32D quarter, or a 1921 half dollar, or an 1893S dollar.

    I prefer a rare coin image >>



    With the exception of the 1921 half I can add each of these to my earlier post. And for the same reason that I've never owned any of the aforementions gold.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • A Higley. My white whale.

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