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What is your pet peeve with coins ?

mach19mach19 Posts: 4,223 ✭✭✭
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How about the " S " stamp on a IKE Dollar, A coin that size with a mint mark the size of pin head. I never understood that.

What's yours?
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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That green stuff on copper.

    Oy!

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  • sanitarium1inmatesanitarium1inmate Posts: 1,078 ✭✭
    The wash stains left on coins. It just kills me.
    In the time of Chimpanzee's
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  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    In the 1880's they made too many Morgans and almost no
    halfs or quarters ...what up with that ?
  • jmj3esqjmj3esq Posts: 5,421 ✭
    Spaghetti hair and most modern coin designs piss me off.
  • AskRaqAskRaq Posts: 2,303
    I agree with "spaghetti hair" - ugh.
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


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  • CratylusCratylus Posts: 871 ✭
    Are we only allowed ONE? OK, maybe most of these aren't pet peeves about COINS, but they're close enough...

    - The whole "State Quarter" series thing (Yawn!)
    - The whole "Presidential Dollar and First Lady" series (BIGGER Yawn!)
    - ALL modern issues (are there ANY creative designers working at the US Mint??? Where has the beauty gone?)
    - Weak strikes (you're the US Frickin' Mint for Chrise-sakes, how hard is it for you to do your job correctly???)

    AND...

    - People who artificially tone coins
    - People who clean, dip, whizz, etc. coins
    - People who LIKE THE LOOK of artifically toned, cleaned, dipped, or whizzed coins (they perpetuate the practice)
    - People who buy the slab because they need the slab ticket grade for their Registry Set (as opposed to people who actually buy the COIN)
    - People who think a coin is automatically graded accurately just because it's in a PCGS slab
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Many, but not all, modern designs and...


    FLAT RELIEF...

    Boring...
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,775 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not having enough coin for the next coin up.

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  • JulioJulio Posts: 2,501 ✭
    "That green stuff on copper". Swampboy.

    Yep, that and the cost. Why is it everything I seem to like now is out of my price bracket?

    The darkside beckons.

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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Comparing our modern State quarter program to medals, such as this:

    image

    Honestly... designers couldn't have come up with something other than the hodgepodge of lame designs we have now?
  • NHSBaseballNHSBaseball Posts: 2,470 ✭
    It bugs me that the obverse of my capped bust half dimes never looks as good as the reverse.
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  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
    clad and zinc
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,337 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That the majority of buyers and sellers in our hobby get poor deals or are ripped off. While that may not be the case for Forum Members it is certainly true when taking all parts of the hobby under consideration.

    roadrunner
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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    I can't have all the ones that I want.image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    That they put JFK on a coin.
  • charleycharley Posts: 2,071
    The cost. Respectfully, John Curlis
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The glaze & distant stare that appears on my wife & kids eyes whenever I want to show them something.

    dizzyfoxx - You should make that sig line picture into a poster. I'd buy one. I stop and admire every time I see it. image

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    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stripped matte proof gold. I would love to build a set of original coins, all with their distinctive original colors. Now, the coins are practically extinct. The thing that makes it even worse is that virtually nobody else cares.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I also hate T1 and T2 1979-S and 1981-S proofs. I simply cannot bring myself to learn the difference, so the sets just pile up in my garage. One day, my heirs will probably sell them at a garage sale for a buck a piece. Still too much, if you ask me.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Are we only allowed ONE? OK, maybe most of these aren't pet peeves about COINS, but they're close enough...

    - The whole "State Quarter" series thing (Yawn!)
    - The whole "Presidential Dollar and First Lady" series (BIGGER Yawn!)
    - ALL modern issues (are there ANY creative designers working at the US Mint??? Where has the beauty gone?)
    - Weak strikes (you're the US Frickin' Mint for Chrise-sakes, how hard is it for you to do your job correctly???)

    AND...

    - People who artificially tone coins
    - People who clean, dip, whizz, etc. coins
    - People who LIKE THE LOOK of artifically toned, cleaned, dipped, or whizzed coins (they perpetuate the practice)
    - People who buy the slab because they need the slab ticket grade for their Registry Set (as opposed to people who actually buy the COIN)
    - People who think a coin is automatically graded accurately just because it's in a PCGS slab >>



    Well said. And I will add to that list - Any coin with a President on it.
    - All clad coins
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1) Many of the people I must deal with to get them.

    As a subcategory, the dealers who don't know the difference between a "market acceptable" POS and a nice coin, but price all of them
    as if they are PQ for the grade.

    2) All of the overgraded **** and coins which imo should not be slabbed due to artificial toning and / or environmental damage that I have to go through before finally finding something worth buying.

    3) People like the 'esteemed' Mr. Kagin.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
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  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Are we only allowed ONE? OK, maybe most of these aren't pet peeves about COINS, but they're close enough...

    - The whole "State Quarter" series thing (Yawn!)
    - The whole "Presidential Dollar and First Lady" series (BIGGER Yawn!)
    - ALL modern issues (are there ANY creative designers working at the US Mint??? Where has the beauty gone?)
    - Weak strikes (you're the US Frickin' Mint for Chrise-sakes, how hard is it for you to do your job correctly???)

    AND...

    - People who artificially tone coins
    - People who clean, dip, whizz, etc. coins
    - People who LIKE THE LOOK of artifically toned, cleaned, dipped, or whizzed coins (they perpetuate the practice)
    - People who buy the slab because they need the slab ticket grade for their Registry Set (as opposed to people who actually buy the COIN)
    - People who think a coin is automatically graded accurately just because it's in a PCGS slab >>



    Well said. And I will add to that list - Any coin with a President on it.
    - All clad coins >>



    I hate Dead Heads too! And it's a shame that our Nickel will have a Dead Head indefinitely due to our legislators succumbing to the pressure of Virginia special interests; at least until they stop making 5-cent pieces b/c it costs too much! Which leads to another peeve. Quit producing paper dollars already and let the coin circulate. It will save us taxpayers billions!!
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  • intocoinsintocoins Posts: 602 ✭
    Modern designs and base metals used.
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    Too many coins, not enough moneyimage
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    Th lack of service most B&M shops give of late due to the recent run-up in PMs. Most wont give you the time of day if you are not there selling silver or gold. Even at the shops that know me they are always busy and it is just frustrating sometimes. Even though I own PMs myself sometime I wish the PM market would just crash so these shops would realize who their customer base is or was
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No silver dollars from 1936 - 1970 image


    Steve
  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
    1. Alpha Hotel coin dealers, which is to say, 99% of coin dealers.

    2. The Canada-like depths that our coinage has descended to. Get ready for Kwanza quarters and colorized titanium "lucky" 7-dollar pieces.

    3. No Carson City coins from 1886-1888.


  • sanitarium1inmatesanitarium1inmate Posts: 1,078 ✭✭
    One more. The overpricing of new coins and rolls from the mint. A roll of dollar coins for $35 when you get the same dinged up crap from the bank. When silver is at $20 an ounce then the new ASE should be $20 not $25 plus $4.95 for shipping.
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    I was a Monkey
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    Hey David! Good post! I must say that I agree with most of the "peeves" imageimage
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  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    That helps as there are like half a dozen Davids here. image
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    Sorry Griv. I checked the OPs profile....David McNeil.
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  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    My bad then but I was planning on changing MY name to David and you really spooked me. I don't know what to do now. I could change in to kstoolheader but that's already claimed.
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭✭
    schemers and scammers who seem pervasive throughout the hobby....makes me sick....and to them, go get a life!
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  • GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭


    << <i>schemers and scammers who seem pervasive throughout the hobby....makes me sick....and to them, go get a life! >>



    You are TOO much a gentleman. Capitol punishment for coin doctoring!
  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭✭
    roadrunner stated

    >>>That the majority of buyers and sellers in our hobby get poor deals or are ripped off. While that may not be the case for Forum Members it is certainly true when taking all parts of the hobby under consideration>>>


    if you include all buyers and all seller then how can a "majority get ripped off"?? even in a deal where there is a rip being performed there can at most only be 50% of the participants being ripped

    am i taking this too literal?
    greg

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭✭
    oh, i forgot to list my peeve:

    being a member of such forum, the ladies might mistake me for a coin nerd

    i'm not a nerd am i guys? ........ ....... guys???

    greg

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    I never seem to have enough money for the coins I want. image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> 3) People like the 'esteemed' Mr. Kagin. >>



    Elcontador---Could you be more specific?

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  • dtkk49adtkk49a Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭
    The inability of the US Mint to come up with a new, half way decent coin design.

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    Not really a pet peeve, but I'm wondering where the designers have gotten to? (not literally, of course)

    Remember the Pan-Pac coins? Or the Standing Liberty quarter design? Or the Walker? The Columbus commemorative, or most commemoratives for that matter.....

    I'd love to see the mint put some artists to work.


    -William

  • WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    MS 70 Moderns...
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    The ones I really like are too expensive.
  • nutz4coinznutz4coinz Posts: 902
    That the MS64 I have is 'overgraded', yet, a week later, he has it priced at MS65 because its PQ.
  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    Morgan and Peace dollars....Some of the dullest designs. People have to resort to VAM collecting to make them interesting....

    BTW.. I am not flaming anyone, they are just not my choice.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No hinges on Slabs, as they can hide a lot of charachteristics of a coin.image
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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,992 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. Market grading

    2. Bidiots and the people who prey on them.

    3. Dealers with poor customer service.
    You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    >>>That the majority of buyers and sellers in our hobby get poor deals or are ripped off. While that may not be the case for Forum Members it is certainly true when taking all parts of the hobby under consideration>>>


    if you include all buyers and all seller then how can a "majority get ripped off"?? even in a deal where there is a rip being performed there can at most only be 50% of the participants being ripped


    Most dealers do far more deals than most collectors.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    Another one for me is damaged slabs or holograms. I realize I am buying the coin but presentation counts with me as well.
  • EdscoinEdscoin Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭
    The fact that the money I use to buy coins with seems to have gotten scarcer than the coins I am buying!
    ED
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