Should the 1848 CAL quarter eagle be included in a commemorative listing?

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• Julian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭

  February 23, 2006 4:36AM

  Only the most sophisticated commemorative collector would consider adding this coin to a commemorative coin collection.
  
  Such a collector would already collect all of the other peripheral material such as original holders, patterns, etc.
  
  I encourage all collectors to expand their collections and this would be a great expansion. I have only had one client that considered it for his commemorative collection, and then the price got away.
  
  Another problem with this is that for the most part only a very few collectors could ever get one that matched the other coins in condition.

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• 291fifth Posts: 24,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2006 4:40AM

  It is a commemorative. Bowers is right to include it.

  All glory is fleeting.

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• kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  February 23, 2006 4:58AM

  I guess my feeling is that it's a commem, but not part of the "classic commem" set as everyone understands it.

  New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2006 5:11AM

  i don't really think it's a commemorative, just acknowledgement of the fact that Gold from California was being used for coinage. it would seem that to be a true commemorative some major design elements would have to be dedicated to the commemoration.

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• PerryHall Posts: 47,089 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2006 5:56AM

  The cost of the coin is so prohibitive that most commem collectors couldn't include it even if they wanted to so this whole discussion is of academic interest only. Should commen collectors include the 1909 cent (commemorating Lincoln's 100th birthday) and the 1932 quarter (commemorating Washington's 200th birthday)?
  
  
  
  
  

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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2006 5:58AM

  good point, Perry. it would follow that every coin which has the portrait of an actual person on it is entitled to a greater claim to commemorating something than the cal. quarter.

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