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Old School: An Indian Cent Collection
World67
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No slabs, no stickers, no registry, no insignificant varieties.
You can actually hold each coin in hand and learn about them with QDB's warm and engaging style.
Here's the beginning of a VF/XF Indian Cent collection.
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The first coin was liberated from a PCGS VF35 slab.
No insignificant varieties! What kind of collection is that? I can't believe that you don't buy into the current hype for microscopic varieties.
Don't buy into the micro variety collecting, but should I run across a 5* Snow variety, then I suddenly become a seller of such.
Jim
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I do consider the 1873 op/cl 3 to be significant since it was a deliberate decision. Also, the 1886 T1/T2. So my "perfect" set would have 60 coins. I can do without those two though. No albums have the 73 varieties and the ones that have the 86 varieties will also have 69/69 etc. which I'm not interested in.
I'm old school also. Congrats on a great collection to start!
My current registry sets:
20th Century Type Set
Virtual DANSCO 7070
Slabbed IHC set - Missing the Anacs Slabbed coins
Sell for a big profit ... yes! Buy for a big premium ... NO!
For many, many years the 69/69 was promoted as 69/68. I never bought into it as I was suspect of the variety from the start.
Got this 59 today, PCGS XF40. It will get cracked and put in the album soon.
I "had" a complete set in AU-BU (nix the '56) that I put together in a Dansco album.
I put the set together from the early 1980's till about 1989, then in 1992 I decided to get married.
END OF STORY!!!
Nice start @Morgan White. I began my IHC collection with a couple of the early dates too. You’ll find it challenging as I have.These were among the more difficult ones to find early on. Best of luck in your pursuit. Zack.
PCGS VF35 going into the book soon.
NGC AU53 cracked and in the book.
Raw XF
PCGS 35 cracked and in the book.
Half the fun of albums is picking though old school B&M 2x2 row boxes. I suspect you’ll not only save money but enjoy the quest more if you sort though raw coins opposed to cracking. GL either way cool set
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
I just complete half of an old time set. More than half of the set is in raw EF or AU. The rest, which is many of the key dates and Civil War period, is slabbed because I had them before I decided to complete the set. I bought a lot of them from “The Penny Lady” at the September Tampa show. She had a large section of raw pieces which had once been slabbed and cracked out. It was fun to buy a nice stack of decent coins for around $2,000. It took me back 60 years when $150 did about the same thing.
I can predict for you a lot of fun and wish for you that you never consider it finished.
Mr_Spud
Very cool, definitely one of my favorite series!
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