Holed Key Date Coins.

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2ltdjorn
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Attached is a picture of a holed 1955 Double Die. Its legit, prob an AU coin. Does anyone else have any?
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  • LanLord
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    I'll bet Lord M will be along on this one!
  • JupitarCoins
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    Can we see a better pic?
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  • 2ltdjorn
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    Working on the picture. Took with iPhone. Do you know how to post a picture to the body of post, instead of an attachment?
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  • STONE
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    Photobucket [img] link
  • tightbudget
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    << <i>Working on the picture. Took with iPhone. Do you know how to post a picture to the body of post, instead of an attachment? >>



    Most of us use Photobucket
  • 2ltdjorn
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  • 2ltdjorn
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    http://s1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb408/2ltdjorn/?action=view&current=IMG_0014.jpg
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  • 2ltdjorn
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    got it

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  • JRocco
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    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • HoledandCreative
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  • Justlooking
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    I think I'm gonna be sick ...
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • melvin289
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    Now this just plum makes me queezy.

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  • BillJones
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    Given the poor quality of the photo (Sorry! image), it's still hard to be sure that this coin is genuine. I imagine that it is, but given the fact that the Chinese are prepared to reproduce anything, you can't it rule out.

    The lowest value on the Gray Sheet for the 1955 doubled die is $875.00 IN GOOD. image (Has anyone ever seen a 1955 doubled die in Good?) I would not pay $50.00 for this coin, but that's me. I suppose the price on the holder is fair, but I would not want that kind of money in it.

    As to holed 1955 doubled dies, they have to be rare. This is an era after a lot of coins were holed. But in this rare does not equal valuable. Many collectors think that a hole is the worst of all numismatic damage.
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  • DIMEMAN
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    I'm with Bill.
  • ricko
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    To coin collectors (most of them), a holed coin is a travesty. To the people that holed the coin, it was done for a purpose, and it served them. Not everyone is a coin collector, therefore, they do not attach the same significance to these metal orbs. Cheers, RickO
  • OldEastside
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    From a legal standpoint
    This thread is full of holesimage

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  • Tdec1000
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    << <i>To coin collectors (most of them), a holed coin is a travesty. To the people that holed the coin, it was done for a purpose, and it served them. Not everyone is a coin collector, therefore, they do not attach the same significance to these metal orbs. Cheers, RickO >>




    I agree with you! My dad told me that a few of his friends found these when they were kids. They even put them on the train tracks with the rest of them. Including indian cents that they found in change. He was 8 yrs old in 55.

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  • Baley
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    sometimes the hole saves the coin,

    in this case, if not for the hole, the coin would have certainly been worn down more, and probably would have been melted, lost, or more severely damaged.

    Or if not, then without the hole it would not have been affordable for me, as a 1797 13 star half dime in Fine+ (with these surfaces!) is well beyond my budget for a coin the size of my pinkie fingernail

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    Here's a non-holed half dime for which I paid about as much as the above half dime, here I traded detail for the lack of a hole, but if I found a prettly holed dbhehd, I'd buy it.
    (especially an 1802, 1803 small 8, or 1805)

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    I've got a holed type set going alongside my regular type set, and enjoy holed coins more and more as the filling of a regular type set "hole" becomes more and more infrequent..

    each of these coins has a neat, vintage hole at k12

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  • pocketpiececommems
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    I was waiting for Holedand creative to chime in on this one. How about an 1856 Flying Eagle?
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  • johnny9434
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    that just makes my heart sink image
  • 2ltdjorn
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    It is a genuine 1955 ddo. It has the appropriate rotation and the 2 polish marks under the t. I always find it interesting when People comment On the price. We all know that anyone can ask whatever you want price wise. It's what we pay that's important. As far as collectibility, well there's a market for everything.
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  • lordmarcovan
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    << <i>I'll bet Lord M will be along on this one! >>

    You rang?

    Actually, for holey key dates, HoledAndCreative is more the guy than I am.

    I do have a couple of key date Philly-only Seated dime issues in my love token date set. (No '44 or '46 yet, alas.)

    In the 1879-80-81 key date dimes, only my 1880 is holed. The 1879 has a loop mounted on it and the 1881 is unholed.

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    Here's my only Eliasberg-pedigreed coin: a Roman/Byzantine gold solidus of the eastern emperor Zeno, struck sometime after 476 AD. It's the centerpiece of my Holey Gold Hat.

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    It's not a key date, perhaps, but there are folks out there who like the 1860 $3 as a "sleeper".

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    A few years back, I thought myself nuts for paying $160-ish for that coin (around melt at the time). No regrets now!

    I know of a member here who has a holey 1856 Flying Eagle cent.

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  • GeorgeKellogg
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    I have a holed, about uncirculated 1855-C quarter eagle, the lowest mintage Charlotte gold piece, for which I paid the princely sum of $200 in 1983. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo. Although I don't normally buy "problem" coins, I couldn't resist this one. It is one of my favorite coins.
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  • LostSisler
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    The one that hurts me the most is the 1877 IHC that is in the ANA Grading Set, it's a beautiful coin, even with the hole.
    It comes from and amazing run of cents from one collection/donation. A gentleman, in the 1800's started collecting IHC's rite when they first came out. He didn't have a Whitman album (lol) at the time so he did the next best thing, he nailed them to his door frame every year.

    The 77 would be a 66 coin without the hole.
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  • HoledandCreative
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  • lordmarcovan
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    That's the second '56 Flyer I've seen that's holed through the date.

    Pretty coin. Tidy hole, too- the other I've seen was more ragged.

    Looks like it's in a slab of some sort?

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  • HoledandCreative
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    I really like your Half Dime, Baley. I know I have said that before.image

    LM, I'm interested in your 79 Looped Dime when you find a holed replacement. Maybe I have said that before, too.
  • originalisbest
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    It's no key date, but somewhere tucked in a box I have a nifty 1809 half cent with a contemporary hole. As was noted, its the price paid that matters. They're cheap (usually) and fun! I really enjoy seeing the examples posted. I also have a nice xf holed 1888 nickel, except the darned hole is right in the center of the piece. image
  • SullyFan
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    I really like holed coins. I've always wanted to make a type set out of high grade key or semi key dates that were picked up inexpensively. I know they will never appreciate in value, but they are interesting conversation pieces. That 56 FE is way cool!
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  • thisnamztaken
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    This is my only holed coin, and I kind of like this wounded lady.

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  • mkman123
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    ouch, looking at this thread hurts
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  • 2ltdjorn
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    anymore?
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  • LindeDad
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    Only one now.
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  • 2ltdjorn
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    Any others?
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  • mirabela
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    Unfortunately I have no pic, but my great grandfather's collection featured a holed 1928 Peace dollar, an otherwise VF-ish coin. My dad parcelled parts of this collection to his sister, his first cousins, my first cousins, my sister, and me. He kept that one coin back for himself.

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  • jwitten
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    I have an 1841-C $2 1/2 I stole off ebay for a little over melt because of a nice hole in it.
  • Overdate
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    This 1879-CC resides on my key chain.

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  • shish
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    Without the hole it would not have been affordable for me.

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    WITH were these people thinking???
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    any new ones?
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  • TwoSides2aCoin
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    Picked up a 1911 D $2.5 Quarter Eagle At St Louis show.

    Holed and AU details in a PCGS holder. No pics on hand. Most I ever paid for a problem coin.
  • pocketpiececommems
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    I was waiting for Holedandcreatives double hole double die image
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  • HoledandCreative
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    Bob, it is earlier in the thread.
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    I still like that 1851 Dollar. If you ever get tired of it, or you want to trade it for something you collect, look me up.
  • carabonnair
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    Originally posted by: thisnamztaken

    This is my only holed coin, and I kind of like this wounded lady.image


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    I too like the late die state O-107a
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  • Twobitcollector
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    I got bored with collecting, so I decided to due a 1876 centennial set holed, no gold.

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  • mustangmanbob
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    I have a trifecta of $1 gold coins, all holed, that I got for melt when gold was cheap.



    2 are earrings I made for my wife, and another is now a necklace.



    Worse comes to worse, I am still ahead 4X just on the increase in price of gold.



    Agrees, probably would have been lost or melted without the holes.



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