Are you a hoard-a-holic? Take coins from change you don't really need?
Weiss
Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
So I do a quick check of my change like all of us do. Recently I found a 1976 quarter that looks like it is fresh from the machine: deep, deep strike with zero flaws. I just couldn't bring myself to spend it, even though there are a trillion of them out there and tons of them being well preserved in folders, tissue paper, and sets around the country.
Yesterday I noticed a nickel in change. It's just a 1996-d Jefferson, but the strike is so crisp, the fields are deep mirrors (for a circulation nickel). And the luster is just booming. I'm guessing it's a full step. It's so pretty I don't want to spend it. But it would have to be a 67 or 68 to be worth anything, which it isn't. You can see a few dings in this really quick shot I took. But you can also get a hint of the luster that covers the entire coin if you look at the "f" in "five cents":
Tell the truth: how many of these orphaned never-to-be-completed set pieces do you have sitting on your dresser that you just can't bring yourself to spend?
Yesterday I noticed a nickel in change. It's just a 1996-d Jefferson, but the strike is so crisp, the fields are deep mirrors (for a circulation nickel). And the luster is just booming. I'm guessing it's a full step. It's so pretty I don't want to spend it. But it would have to be a 67 or 68 to be worth anything, which it isn't. You can see a few dings in this really quick shot I took. But you can also get a hint of the luster that covers the entire coin if you look at the "f" in "five cents":
Tell the truth: how many of these orphaned never-to-be-completed set pieces do you have sitting on your dresser that you just can't bring yourself to spend?
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
0
Comments
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
I am not a hoard a holic, except with mint sewn bags of the state quarters since 1999. I think it is a serious illness as I added the US mint rolls to it starting in 2002. Now that's not good enough. I started buying two of each roll so I can cherry pick one, sending in 5 of the best to PCGS and put 15 into Whitman folders for sale on ebay then stashing away the other rolls. To make matters worse, it is even hard for me to list them because I look at them and think " dang, this could be MS68.
I usually peek through my change though and cannot pass up anything that will fill a slot . Collecting is collecting, no matter what year it is. And eventually, I will find a better coin to replace the one in my books that are all "CIRCULATED to AU.
To answer your question I would say YES I hoard change I don't need.... but don't let the cat outta the bag, okay ?
P.S. My floors are sagging
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5