What percentage of the coins in your collection, are older than you?

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• jayboxx Posts: 1,613 ✭✭

  November 9, 2005 12:39AM

  All of mine

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• busco69 Posts: 815 ✭✭

  November 9, 2005 12:41AM

  About 90%

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• 500Bay Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 12:42AM

  100%

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• Cladiator Posts: 18,193 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 12:56AM

  100%

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• CoinAddict Posts: 5,571 ✭

  November 9, 2005 12:59AM

  About 95%.

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• mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:03AM

  ALmost all.

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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:05AM

  99.9%

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,737 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:11AM

  I collect US gold so about 98%.

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• RedneckHB Posts: 19,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:13AM

  100%

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• Preussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:16AM

  100% - Preussen

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• Barndog Posts: 20,513 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:29AM

  99 44/100% ... all but the clad coins in the Dansco 7070 type set

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• Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:34AM

  All the ones I spent more than face value to obtain are older than me.
  Most of them are over 100 years old, and my favorite ones are 190+ years old.

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• MikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:57AM

  95%+

  Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.

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• michael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 1:58AM

  if i had a collection it would be 110%

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• XXX Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 2:10AM

  20%

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• 100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭

  November 9, 2005 2:50AM

  That would depend on when 1957 proof coinage was released !
  
  Smoewhere between 10 and 50 %

  

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• saintguru Posts: 7,727 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 2:54AM

  100%

  

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• BlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 3:03AM

  Virtually all. I think that I have some MC gold and one ms70 silver eagle, came with a small hoard I bought.

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• DarkStar Posts: 461 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 3:12AM

  Let's see. I have 14 coins in my current collection, 5 coins which survived from my first collection, and 64 state quarters. So that makes 23%. And when I find a WV quarter it will still be 23%...
  
  
  

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 3:13AM

  100%

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• Boom Posts: 10,165 ✭

  November 9, 2005 3:22AM

  Where's manofcoins? What do you come up with Craig? I come up with 71%. Sounds about right?
  
  

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• Barry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 3:52AM

  99.9%

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• amercoin Posts: 350 ✭✭

  November 9, 2005 3:55AM

  100%

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• tjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 3:57AM

  99.2536% and more than 85% are more than 100 years old.
  
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• F117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 4:04AM

  I would say about 80%. I born in 1984 so it's pretty easy to get coins older than me

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• Barberman55 Posts: 1,605 ✭

  November 9, 2005 4:52AM

  Only one coin in my collection is the same age as me, my 1955 DD cent, the rest of my coins are older. So I would have to say nearly 100% for my answer.

  Dan F.
  
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• dunerlaw Posts: 387 ✭✭

  November 9, 2005 5:04AM

  98-99%

  Larry Martin's Mercury Dime Variety Set

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• mozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 5:06AM

  I am retired so at first thought I was going to say 99%, remembering my BTW and WC Commems. When I checked, I found I had completely forgotten about my foreign gold. Only 91% of my collection is older than I, but then, the foreign gold is not really rare anyway so maybe it should not be counted.

  I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.

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• cladking Posts: 28,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 8:48AM

  Less than .1%, and all of them are darkside. I've got old tokens and medals, though.
  
  I've collected old US coins in the past and probably will in the future but none in the present.

  Tempus fugit.

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• p8nt Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 8:55AM

  Id guess about 30%
  
  And its even worse because I was born in 1989!

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• dwssws Posts: 2,166

  November 9, 2005 9:20AM

  all of them by at least a multiplier of 2

  steve
  
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• 09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 9:24AM

  90%

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• arlea1957 Posts: 817

  November 9, 2005 9:25AM

  Except for the fact that I am trying to corner the market on 2005 cents and I have a state quarter album, I'd say 99%
  
  

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• Boom Posts: 10,165 ✭

  November 9, 2005 11:18AM

  59/83= 71%, right?

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• bgrice Posts: 1,180

  November 9, 2005 11:33AM

  About 40%.

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2005 11:33AM

  100% of the slabbed stuff.
  
  

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