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Anybody who doesn't collect colonials is a numismatic wimp!

MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Does Jessup count?
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    lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    Hey I resemble that remark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That would be me. I lead a very wimpy life. image
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it's a matter interest. Plus not that many people want to spend big money on coins that look they have been in the ground for 100-200 years.
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    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Didn't you stopimage >>


    No. I just took a year off.
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    CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,656 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think it's a matter interest. Plus not that many people want to spend big money on coins that look they have been in the ground for 100-200 years. >>



    That's the problem. If you collect 19th or 20th century American coins you are used to getting nice looking coins for not very much money.
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    bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Colonials aren't real coins.
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    NapNap Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anyone who doesn't collect <blank> is a numismatic wimp!

    <blank> could be:
    Colonials
    Patterns
    Gold coins
    Early dollars
    Stellas
    State quarters

    Pick your poison!
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    3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...collect what ever makes you happy image

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    >>>That's the problem. If you collect 19th or 20th century American coins you are used to getting nice looking coins for not very much money.<<<

    This is true. Plus the market is much thinner on colonials and it's hard for the common collector to spend big money on something you might have a hard time selling if the need arises in the future.

    Once you have bought and sold some of these coins the fear factor would lessen.

    JMHO
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    lostincoinslostincoins Posts: 4,278 ✭
    imageimageimage we need pics OH wait let me do it right This thread is useless without pics!!!!!~X~imageimage
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    LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    I went through our brief pm's and did a search for that coin you had that I still think it was one of the best most fantasticus coins ever posted here, you sold it, wimp image
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    TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't afford to collect everything. If that makes me a wimp, then so be it image
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    FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    Dont want to be a wimp no more. I'm trying to see if my Beijing Dealer can ship me a box of Colonials.

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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Dont want to be a wimp no more. I'm trying to see if my Beijing Dealer can ship me a box of Colonials. >>




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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    His mudder wears Army boots, too.

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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have been hunting for the right Massachusetts 1652 shilling for awhile now. Hopefully one is on the horizon.
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    astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I think it's a matter interest. Plus not that many people want to spend big money on coins that look they have been in the ground for 100-200 years. >>

    image Yep ... that's not long enough. Give it a couple thousand years and all is good.
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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Feelin' a little frisky there MLC?
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    LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    and possibly a traitor. < 1793-current only. image

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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank goodness I still have a small group of colonials! image
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    40 years a collector and I have not one colonial. Just bought my first conder a few weeks back.

    But unlike seated liberty and capped bust, barbers, franklins, ikes, and every other unbearably dull series out there, I actually love colonials and have always wanted to delve.

    Maybe I will. Soon image
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    JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That was pretty much what I was thinking about myself while reading the CRO auction recap. I always thought I knew quite a bit about coins but it became very clear how little I do know. So yes, I resemble that remark.image

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    OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I prefer moderns, but I'll be sure to acquire a colonial as soon as the next one is released by the Mint! image

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    AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Been there, now I am over it, and the only coin I have left is for sale.
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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ok, I am a numismatic wimp in your eyes. I have been called worse.
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    thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sad to say, I guess that describes me.

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    IcollecteverythingIcollecteverything Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭
    Colonials are kinda scary............but definitely worth it. They take some people out of their comfort zone because there aren't many MS-70 Colonials. There is no real easy standardized pricing for all the different varieties.

    Then there's planchet flaws, uneven strikes, teeth marks, bumps and crud and gangrene and all sorts of other scary stuff.

    But you can't beat Colonials for their history, real rarity, and there are so many different ones to choose from! I think they are cheap for what you get. If I didn't collect everyting I think I could collect just Colonials.

    All you have to do is find a reputable dealer.

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    TrimeTrime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
    I ain't a wimp.
    I collect Colonials and bout everything else except post 2000 p70 MS varieties
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    ArizonaJackArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭
    Not a wimp. I also collect vintage Fender guitars image
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1788 Vermont Ryder 27 struck under contract at Machins Mill. A common (1250+ survivors) it is easily attainable about 300$ gets a nice example. A prime example here how "shopping around" and looking at a large number of specimens can pay off. The RR27 comes from YUK to AU. Some, well, most....have some type of corrosion or porosity. Probably a credit to the evolvement of metal detectors on the colonials population. The things to look for with any colonial are Surface, Condition, Centering, Color, Crispness. Rarity is assumed, relative to Federal issues, but the ebb and flow of generational collecting passions influences the market availability of Colonials. eBay has made collecting (and selling) esoteric coins much easier. And YEAH I second MLCs thought in the Thread Title
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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry - no interest whatsoever
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    MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,571 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Colonials...absolutely....oops, fell asleep..... OK, concentrate, must keep eyes open.....damn, fell asleep again. Sorry.

    I will try again next year.
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    Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 9,930 ✭✭✭✭✭
    never owned any don't care too

    Mods are way to go for me
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    shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought REAL MEN collect Proof Gold.

    Lucky for me I still own a few colonials, but no Proof Gold.

    A Washington Funeral Urn medal still counts doesn't it?
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,865 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have been hunting for the right Massachusetts 1652 shilling for awhile now. Hopefully one is on the horizon. >>



    What is "right?" Large planchet? Small Planchet? Mint State? image Original surfaces? (very very hard to do)
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    IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    I own one that I dug up. Surfaces are not bad, considering the amount of time it spent in the ground. It
    means more to me than a choice example ever would.
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    ebariebari Posts: 40 ✭
    All I collect are state colonials. I have some from G-4 to AU-55. The thought of highly polished coins with no flaws makes me bored.
    My passion is copper state colonials.
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    SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Don't want to be a wimp no more. I'm trying to see if my Beijing Dealer can ship me a box of Colonials. >>



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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Don't want to be a wimp no more. I'm trying to see if my Beijing Dealer can ship me a box of Colonials. >>



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    I guess that's what happens when you call people wimps? That's still much better than some results.
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,485 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Really...

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

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    PipestonePetePipestonePete Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Every colonial collection needs at least one of these....

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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Every colonial collection needs at least one of these....

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    That's very cool. I read a book on John Adams a while back and it wasn't mentioned that he printed money.

    The counterfeit message is also noteworthy.
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    novacaesareanovacaesarea Posts: 145 ✭
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    novacaesareanovacaesarea Posts: 145 ✭
    John Adams didn't print money, Franklin did........at least that I am aware of.

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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doh! That says James Adams, not John Adams.
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