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Does anyone like 2 Cent pieces?

RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Besides me?
Just wondering. :#

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  • BeerockBeerock Posts: 71 ✭✭✭

    I do, this ddo is one of my favorite. I have a nice rotated planchet also.

  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2017 9:08PM

    There are some very nice examples owned by forum members. I don't own a slabbed example at this time but I did own this one for a short period of time, nothing exciting.

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  • TheDukeKTheDukeK Posts: 359 ✭✭✭

    Love em

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Beerock said:

    I do, this ddo is one of my favorite. I have a nice rotated planchet also.

    Can you rotate that 67 DDO 90 degrees Beerock?
    She looks like a keeper to me...what else you got?

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    58?

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry if I offended......63?

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TheDukeK said:
    Love em

    You love'em Duke?
    Do you also collect them?

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a nice 1867 beerock. I have one, also, but mine is an XF45. I also have a complete set, 1864-1872 in AU and better.
    The '72 is a proof 65. All are PCGS slabbed.

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @koynekwest said:
    That's a nice 1867 beerock. I have one, also, but mine is an XF45. I also have a complete set, 1864-1872 in AU and better.
    The '72 is a proof 65. All are PCGS slabbed.

    Thanks for posting koy.
    We 2 cent people need to unite....just kidding but I think maybe NOT!
    I also have a complete set and am now working on the proofs.
    I gots to dust my camera off and start to post some images again. :#

  • TheDukeKTheDukeK Posts: 359 ✭✭✭

    I went for a nice MS set in a lower grades like 62 to 63 brown to red brown.
    Still need the last two years but it's not a race :D

  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes - First coin with In God We Trust :)

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2017 10:14PM

    Not only do I like them, it is a requirement for many type sets.

    1865 2C DDO AU58 CAC


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  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like them.
    They're cool, and have many interesting varieties as well--repunched dates, double dies.
    They're lots of fun, and most of the varieties can be cherried although you may have to put in some effort.

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 6, 2017 12:07PM

    I do like them. Very much.

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OldIndianNutKase-that coin is gorgeous!

  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭

    I do but I stay away from Red ones because too many of them in slabs were "made Red". I like original surface Red Brown ones.

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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭

    LOVE them!! But mine are pretty much all "junk box" quality in a Whitman blue folder, collected as a kid. One day, I'd like to get a much higher quality one as a "show piece"..............

  • ArizonaRareCoinsArizonaRareCoins Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭

    My civil war 1863 George Washington, the first 2-cent coin ever minted:


  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm currently putting together a set, PCGS AU58 absent corrosion, heavy verdigris and carbon spots. it is harder than you might think since some of the dates are low in numbers. I have four dates so far after about eight months.

  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Larry

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I also have a complete set and am now working on the proofs.
    I gots to dust my camera off and start to post some images again.
    Yes Raybo - I've been hearing about this set for a long time - let's see them! ;)

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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Larry

  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭

    I've had a few pieces but when I narrowed down to a typeset this is the one I kept. This coin was in two or three members hands before me. I remember the original ebay thread asking if it was properly graded and a good deal. I liked it then and so did the OP so it was gone. Few years latter Rob has it up on the bst and it found a long term home. That was what, 10+ years ago. I like the cameo, just wish it could holder as such for some reason.


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like them. I have a couple from when I was a kid...that survived my Mom's cleanout of my room after I joined the Navy..... Just raw, great condition...but have more sentimental value than numismatic. Cheers, RickO

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 6, 2017 11:15AM

    This is what kills you. Recently handled an old collection/estate of a retired Army officer. Practically everything was put together before 1970 and the only three coins dated after 1970 were three 1980 dated SBAs. There was a complete set of two cent pieces, 1864 through 1872 (no 1873) in a Whitman folder.

    IMHO, after some research of the diagnostics, and some weighing, the 1864 Small Letters and the 1872 were genuine. Every single coin had been hand polished to an even pink color, I suppose so his set would "match". After 40+ years in the folder, they had only begun to retone slightly. Arrrggghhhh!

    The gentleman did the same thing with his early Indian Head bronze. Accckkk!

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,826 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's hard believe that those coins didn't retone from the sulfur in the Whitman folders. I guess those folders are better than we thought.

    The next time I build a set of Lincoln Cents in MS-70, Red, I'll have to keep that in mind. ;)

    Seriously, I've had better luck with re-toning using old coins envelopes.

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 6, 2017 8:12PM

    The Whitman folders that were used in this collection were certainly old (a few still had Woolworth's price tags of 25 cents or 35 cents) and they imparted a black residue on the edges of many of the silver coins, but not so much on the edges of the bronze. The pinky bronzes just hadn't retoned very much.

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