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My first Classic Commemorative

MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Well, besides a scratched up Columbian Half, this is my first. I payed a little too much, but I really like it. There's a small rim bump above A in America; it's not too distracting though. Hopefully I will be able to obtain many more. Please give any and all opinions and grades. Thanks
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    mojoriznmojorizn Posts: 1,380 ✭
    Love it! Nice wear and color. Obviously a well loved pocket piece! Everyone has a MS for sale but a circulated Commem set has a lot of soul!

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    illini420illini420 Posts: 11,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very very nice! Well done!

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    BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Pleasing color and nice even wear. I like the coin, it really

    does have personality and character. Well done indeed!image
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    cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great look of a favorite design of mine.

    Nicely done.
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    CircOnlyCircOnly Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭✭
    Great circ look to it. I'd be proud to own that.
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    ajaanajaan Posts: 17,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice Ch. VF example.

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    FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,270 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice looking coin.
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    InYHWHWeTrustInYHWHWeTrust Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭
    Hard to improve on that one image
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    ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a nice specimen imageimage
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    lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    my favorite series, so historic
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    EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Such a great series to collect. Enjoy!

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd grade it Fine-12, and it's nice and original. It probably got a lot of use during the Great Depression went 50 cents seemed like a fortune to many people.
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    llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭


    << <i>I'd grade it Fine-12, and it's nice and original. It probably got a lot of use during the Great Depression went 50 cents seemed like a fortune to many people. >>



    When 50 cents was a lot of money and not a Rapper! image
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    NotSureNotSure Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Great circ look to it. I'd be proud to own that. >>



    I agree.....I can just picture what a Dansco (or album of choice) would look like uniformly matched with that one!! It'd be SUPER sweet!
    I'll come up with something.
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    SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent looking pickup!
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    kazkaz Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like the look, a lot of character and not seen circulated very often, for sure.
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    LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    I love that look, very nice image
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    MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks everyone!
    The circulated look was what made me get it.
    I love the relief on these older coins and the obverse design is just killer!
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    claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    That could be a fun Dansco or album to fill!
    Are you going for the 50 piece
    set, or all in for the 144 complete set?


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    InYHWHWeTrustInYHWHWeTrust Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭
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    When I first started and before I sent many to PCGS; I would have had the whole first page filled, including the Ala 2x2, Mo 2x4, Grant* HI and Maryland

    The later years get harder as they didn't circulate but were mostly pocketpieces

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    This is what I had before selling many; I have 8 left to look at in my Dansco for happy days image They are a fun challenge, and most intriguing to wonder what journeys they made...
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    thats a nice looking coin, congrats on the pick up to image
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    MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That could be a fun Dansco or album to fill!
    Are you going for the 50 piece
    set, or all in for the 144 complete set? >>



    The more realistic (also semi-unrealistic) goal is the 50 piece set, as I am only 16. If I stick with it, and don't run out of money, I hope to put together something like InYHWHWeTrust's set, which must have been quite the challenge. There are many nice pieces in there. I haven't been able to concentrate my collecting in one area, though, and I have collected bank notes, proof state quarters, and errors, and now I'm moving towards more classic coins like these commemoratives, Morgans and Seated and Bust coinage. I might be able to go to the Chicago show this August, if I can convince my parents. Hopefully I can gain a lot of experience there and maybe add a few things to my collection(s).
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    DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    image
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    kazkaz Posts: 9,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love that vermont half in the Dansco!
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    thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice natural looking circ. commem. image
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    pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only circ commem that I don't have from the 20's is the 1928 Oregon and I have not seen that one at all. I'm sure that it's out there. It's only a matter of time before it shows up. My highest graded from the 20's is a VG08 Oregon. The date placement on the Oregon makes it tough to get a low graded one.
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    CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very interesting endeavor, and I have to say I have never seen most of those coins in circulated condition in hand.
    I would agree that most are pocket pieces, with some like the Monroe and Columbian well known to have been released at face value when the original issue did not sell out.
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