Old School: An Indian Cent Collection

World67 · July 31, 2025 6:43AM

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.

World67 · July 31, 2025 6:44AM

The first coin was liberated from a PCGS VF35 slab.

291fifth · July 31, 2025 6:46AM

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.

jesbroken · July 31, 2025 7:21AM

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

World67 · July 31, 2025 7:48AM

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.

hfjacinto · July 31, 2025 8:17AM

I'm old school also. Congrats on a great collection to start!

291fifth · July 31, 2025 9:18AM

@jesbroken said:
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

Sell for a big profit ... yes! Buy for a big premium ... NO!

291fifth · July 31, 2025 9:21AM

@Morgan White said:
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.

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.

World67 · August 4, 2025 9:42PM

Got this 59 today, PCGS XF40. It will get cracked and put in the album soon.

Raybo · August 4, 2025 10:05PM

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!!!

jfriedm56 · August 5, 2025 3:34AM

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.

World67 · August 13, 2025 2:44PM

PCGS VF35 going into the book soon.

World67 · August 13, 2025 2:49PM

NGC AU53 cracked and in the book.

World67 · August 13, 2025 2:50PM

Raw XF

World67 · August 13, 2025 2:51PM

PCGS 35 cracked and in the book.

Crypto · August 13, 2025 5:41PM

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

BillJones · August 13, 2025 7:25PM

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.