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Kind of a stupid question, but has anyone bothered collecting the old large nickel dollars (1968-1986 era)? I guess this would have been one of my least favorites since I never bothered. Perhaps I should since it won't cost much and there isn't many of them.
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 R.C.M. stuff! Glenn  |
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Kind of a stupid question, but has anyone bothered collecting the old large nickel dollars (1968-1986 era)? I guess this would have been one of my least favorites since I never bothered. Perhaps I should since it won't cost much and there isn't many of them. Indeed, perhaps you should... the nickel dollars continue the voyageur series, right up until the end... I am surprised they are not more popular. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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10/13/2011 08:27 am
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 with Glenn also. However there must be a lot of people buying that stuff for whatever reason. |
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50c pieces, because they no longer circulate. I do like some of the silver years, but they are at the bottom of my priority list, unless they are UHC PL's. 1cent what about UHC PL's in the nickel 50-cent series? They can be equally as stunning...  "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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10/13/2011 1:07 pm
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As a non-Canadian with a decent amount of Canadian coins, I do say my east favourite Canadian coin is 10c. Probably because it's too small. I don't really enjoy small coins, and henceforth, my most favourite Canadian coins are the 50c pieces due to the beautiful design. This is just my opinion, I haven't ever lived there and didn't see any of those coins in circulation.
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Canada
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I agree with the masses, dimes are my least favorite. Low relief, small, no interesting varieties.
Though I do like the Newfoundland dimes!
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10xloupe,I'm just curious, what coins do you if you don't like dollars, halves, quarters, 10 cents, 5 cents and pennies? No, I meant to post in order in which I like them... lol Edited by Apollo
10/13/2011 7:00 pm
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Canada
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I have to agree with everyone else I really dont like the dimes very much and it probably is just the lack of varieties more than the size because I do find them appealing to look at. Pennies are undoubtably my favorite followed by the half dollars.
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Loonies & Toonies ... I like collecting "bills", so I was bummed-out when they phased-out the one and two dollar bills and brought the Loonies and Toonies into the starting line-up ...
Ironically, I love silver dollars and/or nickel dollars => why didn't they merely start bringing those into circulation rather than creating a newer, less appealing dollar? (again, I guess it's all a matter of taste, right?)
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I'm with the majority of responders and find that I don't really like the dimes.... I stopped collecting them at 1967. The other denominations I kept on collecting.
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United States
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If you don't mind, I'd like to toss in my opinions too.
My least favourite to collect are quarters, for the simply reason if there are too many varieties. The Provincial set started it, then all the millennium set of 1999-2000 and finally the never-ending Olympic set. If they would just keep it as a plain Caribou coin with the occasional Poppy it wouldn't be so confusing.
Now I hear there will be a wildlife quarter set for 2012 (or something like that).
My favorites are the 50¢ coin, the Looney and the nickel dollars. I have a complete set of nickel dollars and really like them.
The Toonie, nickel and Bluenose are somewhat boring but at least they're an easy series to find.
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Canada
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1cent what about UHC PL's in the nickel 50-cent series? They can be equally as stunning... Love them, but to date I have only been able to knock two of the dates off the list of a theoretical eight coins. I don't own an UHC nickel dollar, but they must be out there too. |
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Which 50c dates do you have? I assume 1975 is one (the most common I could find)...
The only UHC nickel dollars I have, are specimen strikes, possibly derived from the VIP specimen sets of the early 1970s.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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10/18/2011 1:23 pm
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Canada
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Yes, you are right SPP, one is a 1975. The other is a 1973. I have a 1975 PL set that has a nice cameo dollar in it, but it's just not quite strong enough to make the UHC designation. Given enough time and money, I'd love to build a complete denomination UHC set from 1961 to 1975, or at least as complete as possible (I've never even seen UHC cents past 1971, but suspect they exist).
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