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Top Three on your "Watchlist"...

lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭✭✭
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When I was in the throes of completing my Type Set (7070)... Large Cents by Date... and Buffalo Nickels, I had multiple pages on my watch lists with a wide diversity of coinage represented. Now that I've completed a number of these sets, it follows that my watch lists are down to just multiple representations of the same coins: (in no particular order) $3 Gold to finish US Gold Denominations; 1795 Half Dollar to complete major Type (without the Draped Bust SE... :-/); 1787 Fugio Cent (first contract coinage)... and a 1652 Pine Tree of Oak Tree Shilling (first coins struck in the "New World" and I've always wanted one!)... These will fill out the remainder of my Box of 20.

So... if you're up to sharing... what are the top three coins on your watchlists? I'm sure there will be a bunch of key date searchers. Anyone else looking for esoteric type? ...lol!

Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.

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  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1878 Morgan VAM in the scarce 14 dot whatever. Pick one or pick ten of them.

    BST: KindaNewish (3/21/21), WQuarterFreddie (3/30/21), Meltdown (4/6/21), DBSTrader2 (5/5/21) AKA- unclemonkey on Blow Out

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1913 v nickel 🥴

  • seatedlib3991seatedlib3991 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I will have to get back to you after the first week of October. This is one of several important choices I will be making. James

  • lcutlerlcutler Posts: 658 ✭✭✭✭

    1786 New Jersey copper 19-M, 1783 Nova Constellatio 1-A, and 1785 Nova Constellatio 4-D.

  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Beyond "clips", for which I have automated searches on eBay and several auction houses, I have a couple dozen additional eBay searches reporting results to me every morning, The ones I am most invested in now are specific dates for contemporary counterfeit silver trimes and Buffalo nickels. I also search for certain rare Whitman bookshelf albums, but those hits are fewer and further between.

    Sean Reynolds

    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,979 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1970-D Kennedy half in PCGS PO1 up to VG08.

    peacockcoins

  • marmacmarmac Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭

    I'll refrain from going into specifics on my current watchlists, but many years ago 1903-S Morgans and 1856-S quarters were among a few i kept a watchful eye out for.

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have not one single watchlist or list of wants.

    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coinbuf said:
    I have not one single watchlist or list of wants.

    Have you achieved numismatic Nirvana? Coin contentment? :wink:

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:

    @coinbuf said:
    I have not one single watchlist or list of wants.

    Have you achieved numismatic Nirvana? Coin contentment? :wink:

    That would be nice but no. I'm a squirrel collector now, I see something shiny that I like and off I go, zero direction or focus thus no list.

    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Haha! Got it... I like that approach.

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • GuzziSportGuzziSport Posts: 270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looking for a nice original chocolate, unflawed and decently struck Vermont Ryder 2 (Vermonts Landscape) in VFIsh. If you have one to offer, feel free to PM me.
    Also looking for a similarly described but lower grade (G4 -VG8?) 1793 half cent, PCGS/CAC.

  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,275 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1855-S, 1856-S & 1859-S 50¢ in honest, pleasing F-XF

  • MEJ7070MEJ7070 Posts: 152 ✭✭✭✭

    7070 collector here as well…..

    -PQ VF-AU reeded edge bust half (original skin)

    -Wholesome, original skinned draped bust cent….VF grade at min.

    -PQ SL half dime (arrows) w great eye appeal (original skin)

    (I know this ain’t the BST but anyone looking to part with any of these can feel free to PM).

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 24, 2025 7:17AM

    Not telling you any of my current wants… that would be foolish. :p:#

    Previously, I looked a long time for a nice, original, well struck 1921S Walker.

    Finally found one at the very end of 2021, so that I was able to complete my set with an acceptable example.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • Old_CollectorOld_Collector Posts: 423 ✭✭✭✭

    A number of fairly obscure early Lincoln DDO, but on the type coin list a bust dime, bust quarter, and also a seated liberty quarter.

    For the types I'm mostly looking at MS58, preferred PCGS with CAC green, so they don't come around that often, although I can go with an MS63 if well toned and not too expensive.

  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For my type set:
    ‘93 cap cent in choice F-VF
    ‘93 lettered edge wreath cent
    AMERI. Chain in choice whatever. Just choice color and surfaces.

    For my Classic Cent set:
    1810/09
    1811/0
    1812 Large Date

    For my “heads of 1839” set:
    1839 head of 1838 in gem
    1839 head of 1840 in gem
    (I have the rest)

    For my CuNi cent proof set:
    1860, 1862, 1863, 1864 in 66 CAM (yes, that’s 4)

    For the rest, I still need:
    Satin Proof 1936 in 66/CAC
    Brilliant Proof 1936-1942 (just one) in 67 CAM/CAC
    And any of the 1950-1958 brilliant proofs in 68 DCAM

    Empty Nest Collection

  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1806 or 1807 Draped Bust Quarter and Half, in MS 63. Not sure if I want to get a 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar.

    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • WCCWCC Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Missing dates and upgrades for my pillar collection. I've created a spreadsheet with identified targets (yes, specific coins) I am looking to buy, on the open market for now but possibly through a dealer later. One example is a Bolivia 1767-1770 1/2R (any of the four dates) in AU-MS. A few plate coins included in one of my references but never seen one better than VF even once.

  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkenefic said:
    ... and a 1652 Pine Tree of Oak Tree Shilling (first coins struck in the "New World" and I've always wanted one!)...

    I’ve always wanted one too, but they weren’t the first coins struck in the New World. That would be the coins of Carlos & Juana struck in Mexico City in 1536.

  • Russell12Russell12 Posts: 494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For my PCGS AU50 or better Type Set . . .
    Indian Head Cent No Shield (1859)
    Shield Nickel with Rays (1866-67)
    Seated Liberty Dollar No Motto (1840-65)
    1900 Lafayette Dollar

  • TimNHTimNH Posts: 222 ✭✭✭✭

    Type collector here, including colonials and oddball gold. So -

    1793 half cent (already got the chain & wreath)
    1851-2 $50 gold octogon, either Assay or Humbert, I don't care which but need that big slug
    1787 Immunis Columbia, to flesh out my 'early Americana' box of 20

    Damn these are tough...

  • TimNHTimNH Posts: 222 ✭✭✭✭

    @ElmerFusterpuck said:
    Number 1 is an arc toned Morgan dollar with the arc in the 8:00 position. It's the last one for my coin clock project.

    :o holy mackerel, those are all perfectly aligned to the hour, how many coins did you have to look at to find them that perfect :o

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,343 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ElmerFusterpuck said:
    Number 1 is an arc toned Morgan dollar with the arc in the 8:00 position. It's the last one for my coin clock project.

    Next would be a decent looking 1836 reeded edge half, and a nice circulated VF-XF 1856-S half.

    Do you adjust them for daylight savings time?😀

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,343 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerfan said:
    Not telling you any of my current wants… that would be foolish. :p:#

    Previously, I looked a long time for a nice, original, well struck 1921S Walker.

    Finally found one at the very end of 2021, so that I was able to complete my set with an acceptable example.

    Nice score and coincidence on the 1921 in 2021, 100th anniversary.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • semikeycollectorsemikeycollector Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1865 $2 1/2 EF or low AU

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,746 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1914 Indian Quarter Eagle in an OGH w/CAC. :)

    Seated Half Society member #38
    "Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,448 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1867 $2.50 in PCGS/CAC

    NO END IN SIGHT LIB $2.50'S CAC ONLY
    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/liberty-head-2-1-gold-major-sets/liberty-head-2-1-gold-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1840-1907-cac/alltimeset/268163
  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TimNH said:

    @ElmerFusterpuck said:
    Number 1 is an arc toned Morgan dollar with the arc in the 8:00 position. It's the last one for my coin clock project.

    :o holy mackerel, those are all perfectly aligned to the hour, how many coins did you have to look at to find them that perfect :o

    Tim,

    This project has taken a better part of a decade. No doubt I've looked through hundreds if not thousands of coins. But it has been fun. I did see an 8 o'clock toner recently, but the price was too high, mostly because of the MS-67 grade.

    10-4,
    Erik
    My registry sets

    My Instagram pictures
  • coastaljerseyguycoastaljerseyguy Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ElmerFusterpuck

    That is the coolest use of toned coins and why it would take a decade to complete. Are they mounted in something? After you get the 8:00 you need to do the reverse. :D

  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @coastaljerseyguy said:
    @ElmerFusterpuck

    That is the coolest use of toned coins and why it would take a decade to complete. Are they mounted in something? After you get the 8:00 you need to do the reverse. :D

    When I get the last one, it will get printed either on metal or acrylic/plexiglass and will come with clock hands.

    No coins will be harmed. :)

    10-4,
    Erik
    My registry sets

    My Instagram pictures
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,676 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The 3 that are truly on my want list are out of my purchasing range. There are 3 that I used to own, that I would love to own again. Here they are. Anyone who knows of any of their whereabouts, please note. Thank you.
    Jim




    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
  • coastaljerseyguycoastaljerseyguy Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ElmerFusterpuck said:

    @coastaljerseyguy said:
    @ElmerFusterpuck

    That is the coolest use of toned coins and why it would take a decade to complete. Are they mounted in something? After you get the 8:00 you need to do the reverse. :D

    When I get the last one, it will get printed either on metal or acrylic/plexiglass and will come with clock hands.

    No coins will be harmed. :)

    That would look amazing. I can picture it, had this 'Last US Silver Coinage' clock almost 60 years, dug it out when you mentioned the clock hands. Still works, battery went dead. Thick acrylic behind & in front of coins. Good luck. Need to share when finished.

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 25, 2025 7:25PM

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:

    @Walkerfan said:
    Not telling you any of my current wants… that would be foolish. :p:#

    Previously, I looked a long time for a nice, original, well struck 1921S Walker.

    Finally found one at the very end of 2021, so that I was able to complete my set with an acceptable example.

    Nice score and coincidence on the 1921 in 2021, 100th anniversary.

    Thank you, my friend. 😊

    Very true. I never really thought about the 2021/1921 correlation, even though it was right in front of me. ;) Very fitting and symbolic. 👍

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1805 Half Dime, 1828 Large Date Dime, 1922 Cent No D. Holed only.

  • PapiNEPapiNE Posts: 382 ✭✭✭✭

    I will only say they are FB Mercury dimes. I got one today. Only two left.

    USAF veteran 1984-2005

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,911 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just finished a date set of cents from 1793 to 2025, and I found an affordable 1815 quarter to complete the U.S. Mint date run from 1793.

    So I'm considering my options.

    I'd like to get a Julius Caesar lifetime denarius, and an 1860 Lincoln - Hamlin ferrotype presidential campaign jugate. That is not a coin or even a token.

    For those who don't know what that is, here is one with Breckenridge and Lane from the the same campaign. Breckenridge was the "slaveholders" candidate in 1860. He later was a Confederate general during the Ciivl War, and was the Secretary of War in the rebel cabnet at the end of the conflict.


    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • gorebelsgorebels Posts: 118 ✭✭✭

    1) FA02/AG03 1796 1/2c
    2) PCGS CAC MS64 1934-s Peace dollar
    3) 1992 Close-AM Lincoln cent

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