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Name a coin you dont understand why?
soty27
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Thought I would throw this out there.
Name a coin or series that you just dont understand why in the world anyone would want to colect them. I will start, roosevelt dimes, I just dont get it.
Name a coin or series that you just dont understand why in the world anyone would want to colect them. I will start, roosevelt dimes, I just dont get it.
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-Paul
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<< <i>Thought I would throw this out there.
Name a coin or series that you just dont understand why in the world anyone would want to colect them. I will start, roosevelt dimes, I just dont get it.
But check out the low pops for 1997
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<< <i>I agree with Paul, there is at least 1 interesting aspect to each series. Take the SBA, for example. They're ugly dog coins, but they're the first small dollar coin made in the US, and they were only minted for 3 (4, really) years. That could be considered interesting to some people. >>
You mean that they're interesting for people with no sense of aesthetics, right?
Obscurum per obscurius
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<< <i>I agree with Paul, there is at least 1 interesting aspect to each series. Take the SBA, for example. They're ugly dog coins, but they're the first small dollar coin made in the US, and they were only minted for 3 (4, really) years. That could be considered interesting to some people. >>
You mean that they're interesting for people with no sense of aesthetics, right?
Although I don't collect SBAs or any "moderns", I do appreciate the artistic skill involved in designing the SBA portrait. I also appreciate the "higher relief" and border style.
Compare an SBA to one of the most hideous coins of all time; the retooled, flattened Washington Quarter clad. At some point in the early 90's, someone decided to steamroll the relief in order to extend die life, and at the same time, carve out every little spaghetti strand of hair on Washington's head. The overly detailed neck combined with a flattened cheekbone Washington gives the appearance of a messy piece of aluminum foil. It is is far cry from the bold, simple, and respectable Flanagan design of the past.
<< <i>Thought I would throw this out there.
Name a coin or series that you just dont understand why in the world anyone would want to colect them. I will start, roosevelt dimes, I just dont get it.
Well I used to think the same until I saw a few album toned Rosy's.
I hope to image Sanction II's set shown below in July. Picture does not do much, you really have to rotate the set in the light to get mesmerized.
<< <i>Take the SBA, for example. They're ugly dog coins, but they're the first small dollar coin made in the US........ >>
I hate to break the news to you but there were small dollar coins made from 1849 to 1889. In fact the type 1 gold dollar (13mm) is the smallest coin ever made by the US mint.
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Just kidding guys
Peace Dollars
Franklins
Walking liberty halves
St. Gaudens
Indian Gold
Trade $
Capped Bust (obv) (The rev is ok)
Roosevelts
Sacagecrapras (obv) (The old rev is ok - the new ones suck)
SBA (obv suck - rev is ok)
Ike (Obv suck - rev non-bicentennial is ok)
I think that is it for now.
<< <i>Ikes - I just don't get it. >>
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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<< <i>Take the SBA, for example. They're ugly dog coins, but they're the first small dollar coin made in the US........ >>
I hate to break the news to you but there were small dollar coins made from 1849 to 1889. In fact the type 1 gold dollar (13mm) is the smallest coin ever made by the US mint. >>
I 'member when we first started usin' 'em, too. We used to have real tiny pockets with zipper on 'em so the tiny coins wouldn't fall out, but in those days we called zippers "Augustus Zip's patented interlocking device." You'd use gold dollars to buy eggs if'n you was out in the gold fields, but back East you could buy hair tonic, a broom, a patent medicine or two, and some hard rock candy for a gold dollar and still have enough to take your favorite girl uptown on the trolley. We didn't have none of them fancy automobiles like you young folks have now. And we didn't have none of them talkin' pictures, neither. If you wanted to see a play, they acted it out for you on stage. They didn't have no machine do it for 'em.
Obscurum per obscurius
<< <i>I dont like to chop on someone's elses gig........but I dont get Ike's out of em all. >>
Don't get IKE's either as they look like Kojak to me w/o the lollipop.
<< <i>Anything modern. I'll grant an exception for wheat cents. >>
Agree. Also commems - they're not real money...
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<< <i> in those days we called zippers "Augustus Zip's patented interlocking device." >>
Collecting coins is all about studying differences in minting techniques from one mint to another and between same mints and different years.
Looking for markers that indicate aging of dies, and studying history.
All of that exists in every coin you can possibly collect, be it US or foreign. I can understand the collecting of every coin available.
Sorry, I know they are not "coins" as in government issue circulating legal tender, but they don't interest me.
Even though there are some beautiful pieces out there, I can't take them as seriously as the standard denominations...
Which is good for those who do like tokens! More for them!
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<< <i>I know a lot of you like these but I don't understand the appeal of a PO1. >>
I'd almost agree, except that I can see the appeal of collecting these old workhorses and wondering what stories they could tell. What I don't understand is the appeal to slab them.
<< <i>I don't understand why people pay so much money for the 1995-W silver eagle. I know the coin has by far the lowest mintage in the series, but with a mintage of 30,125 and a survival ratio that is close to 100%, I think the coin is over priced. >>
It's the key to a very popular series so the price isn't surprising.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Coins are just coins. Fun is fun. You can have one without the other but what fun is that ?
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<< <i>To the contrary to this thread, I don;t understand this kind of train of thought. >>
To some extent you are correct. If we dont study the coins that suck then we are doomed to recreate the coins that suck...good point!
<< <i>Ikes - I just don't get it. >>
Those and susan b's
<< <i>Tokens.
Sorry, I know they are not "coins" as in government issue circulating legal tender, but they don't interest me.
Even though there are some beautiful pieces out there, I can't take them as seriously as the standard denominations...
Which is good for those who do like tokens! More for them! >>
Blasphemy!
As for the Ike's, for a long time I didn't see the particular interest in them either, but recently go into them because they are very easy to obtain, offer a lot of coin for the money (I like large coins), they are a short series, and have many varieties.
I'm beginning to gain respect for this largely ignored coin.
Dwayne F. Sessom
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