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you have approx $6000 to spend which do you choose and why??

michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
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you can either buy a pcgs proof 69 deep cameo 1995 w proof silver american eAGLE

or

a pcgs vf35 small planchet perfectly centered and struck mass pine tree shilling

which do you choose and whyimage

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    airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 21,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Take the coin with a true story and exceptional history.
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    ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭✭✭
    seems so unfair to choose....a true collectible coin or a created modern $$$ myth .... of course ask me in hundred years and my answer might be different.....
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    LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    I think I would go with the pine tree shilling! image

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    yevrahyevrah Posts: 143 ✭✭
    It's a Slam Dunk---- The Pine Tree Shilling is my choice.
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would take the first coin, the ASE, and flip it and buy something I really wanted. It is probably more liquid than the Pine Tree Shilling.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    I would pick true rarity over subjective conditional rarity every time -- the ASE. image
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    ldhairldhair Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The pine tree shilling, for sure. What a great coin.

    I have a nice 95w, but it's just not anything special in my mind.
    It's just a crazy coin that became worth that overnight in perspective.




    Larry

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    DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Take the coin with a true story and exceptional history. >>






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    GemineyeGemineye Posts: 5,374 ✭
    If they were raw you could buy them both...............image
    ......Larry........image
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    robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭
    For collecting, the shilling, for investing, the eagle. The eagle is more liquid and has a market value that has historically risen steadily and is easy to determine. Pricing on the pine tree shillings, OTOH, is sometimes difficult to determine and varies erratically from sale to sale (off the top of my head, and without looking into it).
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    DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825


    << <i>Take the coin with a true story and exceptional history. >>



    No question about it.
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    IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
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    dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    The Pine Tree Shilling is literally ONE MILLION TIMES cooler. I don't think there's much question about which to purchase.
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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    Which one has gone up in the most value since 2 years ago

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    robecrobec Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    michael has probably already decided by now, don'tcha think?image

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    OneCentOneCent Posts: 3,561 ✭
    What happened to Robertpr???


    When I first joined this forum he was still posting but disappeared soon thereafter.
    He had some great Lincoln toners and other on the BST that I wish I had bought at
    the time.


    And, yeah, pinetree shilling hands down. I think that this thread makes a great point.
    There are those that collect for purely investment purposes and those that collect to
    collect. Two totally different approaches to coins.







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    GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    The pine tree shilling!

    If that didn't work out.... find a nice MPL image
    Ed
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    ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>michael has probably already decided by now, don'tcha think?image >>



    I'm pretty sure he had already decided before he posted in 2006.

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    WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806 ✭
    I'd go with the pine tree shilling, but more importantly than why, is how I got the $6000 in the first place, that is something I'd like to have keep happening.
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    GritsManGritsMan Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭
    Neither is all that appealing to me, so I'd go with the sell option and buy something else--or a LOT of something elses! Maybe some California gold???
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    RYKRYK Posts: 35,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's two years later, and I purchased the Pine Tree that matches your description perfectly. image
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I also purchased the Pine tree in the meantime.image
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's two years later, and I purchased the Pine Tree that matches your description perfectly.

    Congrats...


    Now try and find a Henry VIII Shilling (Testoon)

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    CertifiedGoldCoinsCertifiedGoldCoins Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭


    << <i>would you pay even a fraction of the amounts kicked around here for slabbed 69/70 grades if the coins were raw? If not then you should rethink your position. "Buy the coin not the label in the plastic holder." ANYONE who pays the kind of dollars that is being batted around here is buying that little label that is sealed in plastic. >>

    That quote comes from the OP (for those who missed it), and what he wrote is as true today as it was two years ago. I once owned an Oak Tree Shilling, and I'd use the $6K to buy one of those. The Pine Tree Shilling is too common. image
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,382 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd like to see a pic of the $6,000 Pine Tree Shilling before I made a decision. I thought you had to spend a bit more for a nice one.
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