Poll: Do you collect clad?

cladking · January 15, 2006 11:32AM

There seem to be a few more people with an interest lately.

tjkillian · January 15, 2006 11:39AM

I collect Seated Liberty Half Dimes, Seated Liberty Half Dollars, and Indian Cents by date and mint. I prefer coins in the 19th century.

They are made of pure coin silver (90% AG, 10% CU), or bronze/CU NI.

Tom

TheRaven · January 15, 2006 11:40AM

Outside of the proof and mint sets I only am putting together like everybody else a BU set of State Quarters.....

Clad coins don't do anything for me.....

fc · January 15, 2006 11:40AM

i prefer coins that were minted before 1933.

ModernDollarNut · January 15, 2006 11:49AM

Cladking, I follow your entries and threads with great interest, for obvious reasons! Have to put a plug in for Ikes and even SBAs, especially the interesting varieties and toned specimens. May have yet to really catch on but I agree that interest is building thanks to you and DRGolan and James Sego and Gary Hoop and Charlie Pucket and all the other guys and gals who have found these clad coins interesting, attractive, and a challenge to obtain or make in high grade. Rob

anoldgoat · January 15, 2006 11:54AM

I have sets of Ikes, dimes and quarters. It's a fairly inexpensive way to enjoy the hobby.

mgoodm3 · January 15, 2006 11:55AM

No. I prefer copper

Barberman55 · January 15, 2006 11:55AM

Replied none..........not my bag, but I certainly don't put down folks who do collect clad.

TomB · January 15, 2006 11:58AM

I voted "None" but I posted to show support for those who do collect moderns. My stance has less to do with what I perceive as investment and more to do with my interests. Truly, there are more US coin series that I have no interest in than there are series that I do have an active interest in.

coinnut86 · January 15, 2006 11:58AM

All of the above

My goal is to complete a set of all denominations in circulation, so that would be all of those minus IKES, but occasionally the banks get some they are willing to part with.

Then I have all of the State Q clad proof sets, and my birth year.

LindeDad · January 15, 2006 11:59AM

Yes more than you listed. 50c, 25c, $'s plus proof sets and mint set for each year.

66Tbird · January 15, 2006 12:03PM

I have a lot of clad but don't really collect it. Just kind of happens I guess.

oldcameoproofsguy · January 15, 2006 12:03PM

I search new rolls regularly and will pull nicer coins and keep them.

I then put them into envelopes and after several years many have developed a nice tone to them. I keep them in my glove box in my car. The change in heat cold and humidity seems to tone the coins a bit faster then otherwise. I don't think the toning looks any different than any of the older buffalo nickels I've seen in holders. The metal composition is pretty close too.

It's a fun experiment in AT I have going.

dbldie55 · January 15, 2006 12:13PM

The come for face value, so they are easy to collect. Sort of like keeping the change jar in an album. Certainly not an important part of my collection, but a part.

Ronyahski · January 15, 2006 12:22PM

I voted None, but I used to in earlier years of collecting, as undoubtedly have others.

Gemineye · January 15, 2006 12:39PM

I voted two or more............
I'm a modern type of guy...........................

The oldest proofs I have are 1955.......
Trying to get to my birth year of 1950...............

mozin · January 15, 2006 12:48PM

You left out the option to vote "Absolutely not!".

F117ASR · January 15, 2006 1:03PM

Definately! Clad coinage rules! It takes a fine-tuned collector to appreciate the scarcity of high MS early clad

Nah, it's really great. I love clad

Mercury · January 15, 2006 1:07PM

Yes, clad is what brought me back to the hobby and I collect several series of them, mostly from rolls and pocket change. However, the new clad is what rekindled my intrest in coins and has caused me to presue a MS set of Peace dollars. This whould not have happened without the clad coin changes of late.

JoshL · January 15, 2006 1:10PM

I have the Shadow Angel registry set for Kennedy Halves

I am also putting together a set of DCAM and MS67 State Quarters. It is a fun set. Don't really know if it will ever be worth anything but I just love the coins and the history!

Other than that...nopers

I am starting on my Walker Set.

JoshL · January 15, 2006 1:13PM

Kennedy Set

Kennedy Registry Set

and

Short Set Kennedy Registry Set

TwoSides2aCoin · January 15, 2006 1:26PM

Honestly, if it was produced by the U.S. Mint, I've been known to collect it.
Surprisingly, I just figured yesterday that I currently have at least one $25 mint sewn bag of statehood quarters since the inception, along with US Mint rolls of each state, to include both minting facilities. It is quite a sickness. To date, not counting ikes, kennedy or any other "clad" coinage............... I have over $3,000.00 (face value, not mint costs) just in these stupid state quarters, with fifteen states yet to go !

Helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp !

originalisbest · January 15, 2006 1:47PM

Yep, I do - I like them raw, and as "gemmy" as I can get them, for a typical raw price (i.e., priced as common stuff by dealers who make no differentiation in price between, say, a truly gemmy '85-P quarter, and the same date, but with a milkspot on it.)

zkcoins · January 15, 2006 4:23PM

Count me in the all of the above category....Although I think I might sell of my proofs, they just don't do anything for me!

PerryHall · January 15, 2006 5:48PM

No

rmoss · January 15, 2006 6:57PM

Working on putting together a 3 year set of the SMS coins in PCGS MS 67 or better. Just something to do between major purchases.

OKbustchaser · January 15, 2006 10:25PM

1 Kennedy per year just to keep my date set of all halves complete.

ziggy29 · January 15, 2006 10:29PM

I accumulate one of each of the annual coin sets each year. But I don't really "collect" them like I do other series.

BOOK · January 15, 2006 10:29PM

I'm working on my proof and mint sets from 1957 to date.

I also like the Ike's.

rottnrog · January 15, 2006 10:39PM

I collect clad missing clad.

Does that count?

curly · January 15, 2006 10:52PM

I do not collect clad. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Fairlaneman · January 15, 2006 11:06PM

Sorry.

I stick to coins, basically (qualifer), that were minted before my birth date. Clad at that time was just a vision in the mints eyes at that time.

Ken

Shamika · January 15, 2006 11:10PM

I collect State Quarters, but only from pocket change.

PhillyJoe · January 15, 2006 11:15PM

I collect coins minted after 1963 but before 1965, so I voted no.

Joe

mercurynut · January 15, 2006 11:44PM

Dimes and proof.

Baley · January 16, 2006 1:02AM

sure, I collect state quarters from circulation for 25 cents each.

what I WON'T do is pay more than face value for a clad coin.

mirabela · January 16, 2006 1:38AM

Clad Kennedies, strictly from circulation. I've found some neat die varieties, as well as cool end roll toners, coins that have obviously spent most of their 30+ years coloring up in somebody's album, circulated proofs, 2003 and 1987 coins made only for collectors, as well as scads and scads of clad silver ones. It's something to do...

BillJones · January 16, 2006 1:54AM

I collect a clad Proof set every year, and I've been keeping up with a Proof example of each of the modern commemoratives. I also have a Roosevelt dime set, although I've been neglecting that lately.

SanctionII · January 16, 2006 2:51AM

Thanks to you Cladking and to the fact that as a collecting kid from age 7 to about 22 (1963 through 1978) living in Denver I pulled out UNC coins from pocket change each year and stuck them in Whitman Albums (which then went into storage for about 25 years) my response is a resounding yes.

I like the clad washington quarters (65-98) more than other clads and hope one day to show off the Dansco album of 1932-1998 quarters I am assembling. Some of the clads are PQ wildly toned stunners, both MS Circulation strikes and Proofs.

The best part of collecting clads is that for the most part they are cheap, cheap, cheap (especially the raw coins) and most people do not care about them (so that those who do can pick out the cherries and leave everyone else the dogs).

Bobk · January 16, 2006 2:59AM

One proof and business set every year. Bob

coincollector1989 · January 16, 2006 3:51AM

Kennedys

flaminio · January 16, 2006 3:57AM

Depends. I collect clad by type, and a lot of modern commem halves are clad, and I collect those.

I don't particularly consider metal content a factor when deciding what or what not to collect.

EJB · January 16, 2006 4:04AM

..........I have some clad, The way I see it, If it's interesting I will try to get it.........

shirohniichan · January 16, 2006 7:18AM

<< <i>I voted "None" but I posted to show support for those who do collect moderns. My stance has less to do with what I perceive as investment and more to do with my interests. Truly, there are more US coin series that I have no interest in than there are series that I do have an active interest in. >>

Yea, verily.

I have all kinds of coins in type sets, but my main collections are of coins struck before clad was even considered (mid 1870's until 1936).

The only nickel-bronze coins I collect as a series are Canadian dollars as part of a larger set of all Canadian dollar coins (including commems).

calgolddiver · January 16, 2006 7:24AM

none ... gold

2ndCharter · January 16, 2006 8:37AM

Nothing against the metallic content of clad coinage - hey, I collect nickels - I just think the portraits on our modern coins are just boring. So, my vote is no.

PTVETTER · January 16, 2006 9:08AM

very interesting results

cladking · January 16, 2006 10:18AM

<< <i>very interesting results >>

Indeed!!! It's not at all what I expected. There are a lot of very experienced collectors here
with very valuable collections and I'd have guessed that almost none of them would collect
any clad by date. In fact it's a little surprising that clad are included in their type sets.

I'm surprised there aren't more Ike and Kennedy collectors as well, and that there are so
many quarter or dime collectors. Perhaps results may be skewed a little bit by a greater
likelyhood of collectors participating in the poll but even so it wouldn't explain the distribu-
tion of the other answers.

Perhaps there isn't as much room for growth here as I had assumed.

coinkat · January 16, 2006 10:42AM

I am not too serious about clad coinage... it is interesting to see. Just picked up some 20-30% off center Washingtons... one is a 83-P.

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