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Aside from Redbook collectors, how many Redbooks do you own?

seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
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Aside from Redbook collectors, how many Redbooks do you own?
I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

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  • ManorcourtmanManorcourtman Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I buy one about every other year. I own probably 7 or 8. I give them away to new collectors usually otherwise I'd own alot more!!
  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I only own 5 or 6. I own the reprint of the 1947 edition, one for the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2009. I buy one every several years and then give the old to Goodwill. The only reason I keep the ones from the 70s, 80s, and 90s is for comparison purposes.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a dozen or so... buy one every few years...have given a few away to new collectors. Cheers, RickO
  • ROBBItheOKIEROBBItheOKIE Posts: 369 ✭
    I own about 9 or 10 or so, pick one up every now and then.
    COINHUNTER
  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I buy a new one every year and give away the previous edition to a nursing home where there are some very interested patients. image
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,957 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1985 and 2010
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    A good half dozen that I know of, a few got packed in boxes when we moved in 1983, I saw the box the other day out in the garage, it's labeled "BOOKS"

    Does anyone have ones without the spiral?
    Chat Board Lingo

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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,561 ✭✭✭✭✭
    3 I think - 1983, 1998, 2002
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1957
    1978
    2008

    Kinda interesting comparing prices 1957 vs 2008 ...........................image

    NE shilling in fine $300/ $115,000 fine
    1956 Flying eagle cent in proof $425/ $20,000 pf63
    1796 quarter unc $425/ $100,000 ms63
    1836 Gobrecht dollar proof $450/ $25,000 pf60
    1794 dollar unc $2,500/ $650,000 ms60
    1795 gold eagle unc $375/ $275,000 ms63

    Of course they only listed one grade for unc coins back in 1957 but still fun to look back.
  • delistampsdelistamps Posts: 716 ✭✭✭
    I have one--a 1960 in good condition.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1981, 1999, 2005

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,129 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just a 1961.

    Like so many here, I give last years away when I replace it.

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    2008, 2004, 1966
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  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    1947 (both, 1st and 2nd editions) thru 2006, minus the third and fifth editions. Nothing less than xf+ condition. It IS for sale (though, I'm not actively pursuing it's sale). I might get aroung to picking up 1949 and 1951-52 someday image
    Lurker since '02. Got the seven year itch!

    Gary
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Several hundred but I'm not a collector. I give them away but the cost of shipping has made that a bit tough.
    Larry

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1 which was a gift. Since they no longer mint Morgans, I see little point in getting current issues.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1991, 1997, 2009. Had several earlier versions along the way but those were given away. My first was in 1963 or 1964.

    roadrunner
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • kurtdogkurtdog Posts: 1,456


    << <i>Aside from Redbook collectors, how many Redbooks do you own? >>

    I don't own any Redbook collectors, I sold all mine.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ONE, I use it for reference and not pricing.
  • scottgardenerscottgardener Posts: 1,205 ✭
    I've got one from 1998, as a reference but not a price guide. It's disturbing to look at how the prices changed so much since then!

    For pricing, I use the PCGS guide here as a starting point, recognizing that it tends to run high, as it's more on par with retail prices--I can often get closer to wholesale from vendors at coin shows. Heritage lets you look at, side-by-side, prices from PCGS, Numismedia, and Coin World magazine.
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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    Just one, the one I purchased in 2008, so it's the 2009 edition.
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1994 and 2004 here.
    John
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  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    two ... 1988 and 1991 ? ... and my youngest son has a newer one (2009?)

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  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    I keep my 1952 edition on hand for price checks on bstimage
  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    I believe we have four scattered throughout our library. At the latest local show i found a first edition, second printing, that I bought. Not in the greatest of shape but I figured the price was good enough that if nothing else it's a cool topper to the bookshelf image
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    A few months back i counted 10 of them, i am pretty sure that i have only bought 2 of them. I bought one that was not sprial bound and it drove me nuts until i bought one. Heritage mailed me 3 hardcover redbooks (all the same year, i think they somehow made a shipping error on 2) I may have 5 fingered one or 2 USED ones, some got left in the truck from riding together to shows and no one claimed them.

    I love those 2 inch black slide out magnifiers, at one point i had 8 or 9 of those. I am now down to 2. Maybe some of my frieds traded their redbooks for 1 of the magnifiers and forgot to inform me of the trade.

    I bought one of those 70 dollar signed, limited edition redbooks a few years back. I managed to sell it for 90 bucks. I never opened it, i am glad i do not own that now. I feel blessed to have not taken a bath on that one. I bought it off of a TV show.
    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
    Probably 7 or 8
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    One. The price info is useless, so why own more than one?

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