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  • CoinJunkie
    CoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Zoins said:
    I wonder how many people have a collection with only one coin?

    Technically none, as Webster defines collection as a group of things or people. In actuality, I would guess very few unless the coin was inherited or purchased for investment.

    My Roosevelt Dime Registry Set
  • Crypto
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    I suspect

    @Zoins said:
    I wonder how many people have a collection with only one coin?

    I know one guy who mostly does bullion but has 1 rare coin and it is a 25k double eagle. Its pretty nice actually

    11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set

  • coinkat
    coinkat Posts: 24,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    give me $85K with the limitation of spending $1K per coin and let the hunt begin...

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

  • Electricity
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    I’ll take 1 XF/AU Chain Cent please!

  • AuldFartte
    AuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
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    @Electricity said:
    I’ll take 1 XF/AU Chain Cent please!

    I'd even take a clean VF-30 :)

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    Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
  • scotty4449
    scotty4449 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Baley said:
    Seventeen $5000 coins

    I like this idea. Oh the coins I would buy! :D

  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Five $17,000 coins would be pretty cool too.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • Rarity
    Rarity Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭✭
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    1 coin. Easy to bring with me to anywhere I go.

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 7, 2020 2:38AM
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    @Crypto said:
    I suspect

    @Zoins said:
    I wonder how many people have a collection with only one coin?

    I know one guy who mostly does bullion but has 1 rare coin and it is a 25k double eagle. Its pretty nice actually

    I can see that. As much as we like to think about it, I think very few people could actually own just 1 coin.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • Crypto
    Crypto Posts: 4,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 7, 2020 7:29AM
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    @Zoins said:

    @Crypto said:
    I suspect

    @Zoins said:
    I wonder how many people have a collection with only one coin?

    I know one guy who mostly does bullion but has 1 rare coin and it is a 25k double eagle. Its pretty nice actually

    I can see that. As much as we like to think about it, I think very few people could actually own just 1 coin.

    He isn’t a collector he just fell in love with the coin when picking up some bullion. There dealer showed him when wrapping up the transaction, caught his attention and he bought it a couple of weeks later. That said he has plenty of Cert 50$ AGE so maybe not his only coin. For the rest of us we are hoarders.

    11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set

  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1 $25K coin
    7 $5K coins
    20 $1K coins
    10 $500 coins

    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 7, 2020 7:43AM
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    R> @Crypto said:

    @Zoins said:

    @Crypto said:
    I suspect

    @Zoins said:
    I wonder how many people have a collection with only one coin?

    I know one guy who mostly does bullion but has 1 rare coin and it is a 25k double eagle. Its pretty nice actually

    I can see that. As much as we like to think about it, I think very few people could actually own just 1 coin.

    He isn’t a collector he just fell in love with the coin when picking up some bullion. There dealer showed him when wrapping up the transaction, caught his attention and he bought it a couple of weeks later. That said he has plenty of Cert 50$ AGE so maybe not his only coin. For the rest of us we are hoarders.

    I consider bullion coins to be coins so to me he would have a lot of coins.

    If he had the 1 coin and non-denominated gold bars, I would consider that 1 coin.

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • 500Bay
    500Bay Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭
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    I'd go for the $85K coin. I'd like to have something really special, with a great story.

    Finem Respice
  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    An $85K coin is like having all your eggs in one basket. I'd rather have several nice coins of lesser value in the $1k to $5K range.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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