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Odd & Unusual Coins You have Purchased with No Rhyme or Reason
braddick
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I think most of us would have to plead guilty to purchasing the occasional odd or unusual coin that doesn't fit within the perimeters you usually seek in adding to your growing collection.
For example, you might be a Bust half collector yet you stumble upon a neat looking- in your eyes- Indian cent and end up buying it regardless of your inclination not to.
Here are a couple of coins I purchased within the last week that fit that bill.
Fortunately this side quest is inexpensive. Probably inexcusable, yet really, much of this hobby can fit under that umbrella of judgement.
I'd like to see yours. It'll make me feel better for having purchased these:
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I definitely do this sometimes. I don’t know what to say about this one
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Been there, done that
An expensive impulse purchase. I like coins that depict mountains but this is outside any particular collection or theme. Had to have it.
Mine
"Odd & Unusual" probably describes half of my collection!
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
My collection consists of "Coins I Like", so everything I buy fits.
Such a pretty Ike!
What is comical is what one collector deems odd/unusual I consider the core of my collecting hunt.
Whenever I come upon one of these proof Eisenhowers- with (in my mind's eye) incredible toning, I just got to have it! Here is one that arrived a few days ago:
I haven’t been able to make this someone else’s odd or unusual purchase so it remains mine.
There's just so many! Ha ha!
Official PCGS account of:
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It would make sense that the other half is even
A flea market type fellow that used to set up at the local monthly show came into some coins. I cherry-picked a few decent raw seated coins and large cents for very reasonable prices. This coin for some reason he decided to submit. His asking price was pretty high. After a few months he decided to blow out what was left, including this coin. I had absolutely no use for it, nor any real idea of its value, but I offered half his asking price, which he accepted.
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At least 90% of mine.
A few examples:
The first one of these I purchased had no rhyme or reason, but I guess the rest I bought afterwards rhymed with the first 🤔
Mr_Spud
Very cool.
Do any grading services slab the Boyd's Battery?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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I checked eBay and there is one slabbed by NGC.
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
I don’t think the slabbed ones go for much more than raw though. It’s not just coin collectors that buy these. They sell good cleaned too, the galvanic nature of the medallion makes them prone to bad corrosion. The quack medicine collectors don’t mind the cleaned ones.
Also, not sure why, but the selling prices jumped up starting about a year or so ago. I used to be able to get them for $50 or less, now they go for about $150 and the rarer variations or higher quality ones are going for about $250. I stopped buying them once the price crept up to about $100
Mr_Spud
Gorgeous CAR, has the impeccable look of a CRO coin. Love these, and I’m not a foreign coin guy.
Other passions include golf, Moto Guzzi motorcycles, and Euro motorcycles in general.
Chris
I promise not to open the flood gates, yet here are just a few more:
A grouping of contemporary half dollar counterfeits:
Truly the epiphany of "odds & ends"
The Kennedy half has been worked to be about the size of a silver dollar (without losing detail or distortion).
I think these used to be called "Texas halves"
It would be fun if anyone can identify the others- or at least some of them:
I picked this on up off of a board member awhile back. (Not minted from gold!)
I no longer own this piece, but I thought it was interesting when I bought it... sold to another Forumite:
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Here’s a few more odd ones
I have one of these, but never bothered to take pictures of it
I liked this one enough to take pictures of
I actually have almost enough of these Bakelite ones that I could play checkers with, I bought a stack of them for a lowball price on eBay. I didn’t expect to win, but no one else bid.
Mr_Spud
I purchase silver with no rhyme or reason
Not that unusual of a coin but I bought this Trime for no reason
"Another day, another Collectors Universe forum scrolling session."
- Someone, probably
For no good reason at all. Now I suppose I need a Castro to make a set
Doesn’t fit in my collection, as I’m not a token collector at all. A spur of the moment purchase.
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I love square quarters.
I collect world proof sets, coins featuring composers, mid-20th century U.S. proof coins, U.S. type coins, and whatever else I want.
I'm a type collector so a lot of what I buy is somewhat on a whim--I see it, I like it, I buy it. So to that end, this might not be that odd or unusual. I already had (still do) a nicely toned MS64, so this wasn't my first chance to get a 1921 Peace, but when it came across my desk in a consignment, I just fell in love with its originality. It's by no means a coin I was looking for, nor a type that I needed, but I just couldn't pass it up. So I made it mine.
Witte Brick CACG coins.
I don’t yet have possession.
Not a world coin guy, but I like the history of these counter stamped issues and their general connection to early America. I’ve passed on a few really nice examples, so I locked this one in.
I really like the sun/mountain CAR issues as well.
Other passions include golf, Moto Guzzi motorcycles, and Euro motorcycles in general.
Chris
There was a popular saying when these were issued:
"To make the dollar of Spain for five shillings pass,
stamp the head of a fool on the neck of an ass."
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
Awaiting my latest eBay purchase….. 😉
Holed contemporary counterfeit
Lafayette Grading Set
Purchased this here. I think it was a charity fundraiser hosted by airplanenut. Fascinating coin and I liked the boat on the reverse, but otherwise completely out of my wheelhouse as far as my collection interests:
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Spur of the moment purchase as I never had a first gen. ANA holder.
I've got a general dansco full of weird stuff I thought was cool.
An AG3 half cent overstruck on a Talbot, Allum & Lee cent.
Definitely no rhyme or reason (but I like it):
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Seemed like a good choice at the time and still one of my finest early Lincolns.
I see what you have there is a "(w)hole dollar".
I saw this and the auction price wasn’t excessive…..so it said “buy me!” I always think about the time in our nation’s history of what it was like for the people who lived back then, the people who made and touched these coins, whose pockets it traveled around in, and what people thought when they saw their very first coin…..not knowing this small piece of history would become someone’s prized possession several hundred years later