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Type or Series Collectors - For those who don't own a Lincoln Cent in their PRIMARY collection
Catbert
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Why?
For me, it is the most ubiquitous coin available and is still produced in the millions. That equals boring. Since I'm a type collector, I'll have one someday, but not likely anytime soon. That's my reason. What's yours?
P.S. technically, I do own a few wheaties that have been thrown into a box whenever I find them - they're just not in my type collection.
P.P.S. - no offense intended for those who are enamored with the wood chopper. Likely, there are many who dislike Morgans too. No different really.
P.P.P.S. - of course, if I were to be given a wonderful 1955 DD, I wouldn't turn it away. So if you have one, you can test my self discipline. Go ahead, I dare ya.....
For me, it is the most ubiquitous coin available and is still produced in the millions. That equals boring. Since I'm a type collector, I'll have one someday, but not likely anytime soon. That's my reason. What's yours?
P.S. technically, I do own a few wheaties that have been thrown into a box whenever I find them - they're just not in my type collection.
P.P.S. - no offense intended for those who are enamored with the wood chopper. Likely, there are many who dislike Morgans too. No different really.
P.P.P.S. - of course, if I were to be given a wonderful 1955 DD, I wouldn't turn it away. So if you have one, you can test my self discipline. Go ahead, I dare ya.....
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In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
hmmmmmmm, must be missing something!
bob
I figured if I have a collection of Conder tokens, civil war and hard times, merchant tokens I should
bring in some copper.
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
<< <i>I've collected Lincoln errors by date and mint but my interest faded after 1929... Not sure why I didn't at least stretch it to 1931 >>
I would guess your eyes failed you broadstruck. Age will do that to you.....
<< <i>Well, I have precisely 1 Indian and 4 Lincolns in my type set. The Lincolns are only there for registry purposes, as the design isn't that inspiring. In fact, as the first to depict an actual person, it sort of turns me off. >>
Interesting reasoning; where do you think that the designs of the bust series and morgan series came from? The obv design for the Morgan dollar was developed by Mr Morgan from a sitting with a 19 yr old girl by the name of Anna Willess Willams. While I dont know this for any fact I would suspect that every coin that has a human face on it depicts or was modeled after an actual person.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Maybe the most satisfying is a lovely branch mint from the difficult late teens and 20's.
Lance.
I don't mean to bag on anyone's favorite coin, just stating why I think its design was a move in the wrong direction.
I also like MPLs and would be interested in adding one or more at some point.
<< <i>I , as a matter of principle, refuse to own one. I don't carry 5 dollar bills, either. Lincoln single-handedly destroyed the US Constitution and American presidents have ignored it ever since. >>
I tend to think of Andrew Jackson as having that honor, which is interestingly tied to southern gold.
When I first started in coins I blew off Lincoln Cents dismissing it as a beginner coin and hunted for bigger game. How wrong I was! It wasn't long before I noticed that almost all small cents have their own look! I became bored with gold and silver as gold can be nice or dirty and tricked out if you will, silver can be white or toned and back to white, ie nudge able severe times before luster is dipped out. I got out of almost all of that and transitioned into anything copper, especially Lincoln's. With copper, its color is a one way street and all of the natural shades in the progression of oxidizing hold there own charm. The whole color aspect adds another dimension that holds my attention a little stronger.
So give the little coin another look and see what you are missing! You never know, chasing high quality Lincoln's is no joke.
<< <i>To me the little coin reminds me of a small medal. Early dates have nice detail and high relief contrasted and balanced by clean open fields where nary a hairline or hit can hide, unlike say the Texas commem that is slathered in design detail that can hide anything. The lettering screams Art Nouveau which encompassed an entire world wide era of artistic design. I also like that having VDB designing the coin changed the status quo at the mint and heralded in a new era of coin design. Finding examples with full strike and clean fields can be quite a task and we aren't even talking about color yet. Certainly hunting for quality makes up for unsurvivable high mintage numbers.
When I first started in coins I blew off Lincoln Cents dismissing it as a beginner coin and hunted for bigger game. How wrong I was! It wasn't long before I noticed that almost all small cents have their own look! I became bored with gold and silver as gold can be nice or dirty and tricked out if you will, silver can be white or toned and back to white, ie nudge able severe times before luster is dipped out. I got out of almost all of that and transitioned into anything copper, especially Lincoln's. With copper, its color is a one way street and all of the natural shades in the progression of oxidizing hold there own charm. The whole color aspect adds another dimension that holds my attention a little stronger.
So give the little coin another look and see what you are missing! You never know, chasing high quality Lincoln's is no joke. >>
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<< <i>I , as a matter of principle, refuse to own one. I don't carry 5 dollar bills, either. Lincoln single-handedly destroyed the US Constitution and American presidents have ignored it ever since. >>
I tend to think of Andrew Jackson as having that honor, which is interestingly tied to southern gold. >>
Jackson didn't necessarily ignore the Constitution--merely the SC's interpretation of it. Lincoln, on the other hand, when he suspended habeas coupus, when he sent Federal troops to burn the offices of opposing newspapers, even when (although, in truth, I admit the result was morally correct) he unilaterally usurped private property without due process by proclaiming the freedom of slaves stomped on it.
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I can't help separating nicer coins from crappy looking ones. Get them in change, or in rolls and this inner voice says "separate wheat from chaff ".
Hoard the keys.
I will say that early high grade, colorful, matte proof cents can be jaw droppers. But they are just too much IMO; I would rather spend the money on an error or something else for my type sets.