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About 3 months ago, a friend of mine picked up a Lot of 9 of them for less than $200 at a Toronto/Hamilton auction here. You just have to look around .. Don't pay $100 for something that you can get for half or less than that.
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I'm starting to think that that guy in Alberta has a huge crate of these books and is slowly selling them off and planning his fancy retirement.  I'm too old for this.... Maybe I'll just give them to a church bazaar or a hospital. I'm sure that the patients could always flip through them..........and check their pocket change....if they had pockets...  |
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or...maybe I'll just give them to Bill,.. .....no wait,..he doesn't need them either,... because his amazing collection already has every variety that's ever been seen in those books..........  |
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I gave my whole set of Zoell's to a younger collector where they will do some more good than laying here gathering dust or thumbing through to get a Zoell number.
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Those that sold above were in poor and in a badly stained condition. He must have found a rare variety while looking through his book...  |
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 condition of both was sad. |
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So what is it that's happening to the price of these Zoell books? I have a couple myself, and wouldn't mind filling out my set but holy cow these things are going through the roof! I thought that they were only supposed to be in the $50 - $60 range unless in sweet mint shape. I sure can't afford to buy the ones I need at those kinds of prices.
I like them for the information contained within them; that's their value to me, so even lesser grades would be okay if the book was complete. But $100+ for poor grades, wow, that's a lotta dough.
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Being a coin collector probably means that we are "very fussy". I know that when I used to look at them way back when,...I would only open the book up a bit so as not to flex the backing. My variety books look unopened today and basically were never used except for one passing view...and then stuffed in a box and stashed away...I mean there were only so many dates to check in those books and naturally I didn't have that many dates. These books don't do well with handling and some were probably very cheaply made. Who would have thought that "some day" these $2 books would still be relevant and so expensive today..?  Edited by DEVLEC
03/23/2013 1:34 pm
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DEVLEC you have made it really tough for me to get any of these booklets. 1345 have read your topic so far.  Against all odds I have managed to get 2 since you posted this topic & I don't pay 100 bucks plus for them. Edited by littlemoney
03/23/2013 4:54 pm
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I'm sorry...I'm so sorry.... How can I correct these errors in my past...?  You know that because I brought these books up now.....I can never sell them... What else will I have left to do but empty out all of my penny jars and check for varieties .?. .. ....that is,.. while I can still see varieties...  |
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DEVLEC, I could loan you my glasses to go through your penny jars, if you will loan me your books when you are done. |
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@ DEVLEC, To answer to your question, I beleive that the Zoell's books are still relevant, in 2013, for errors and varieties : the photos, descriptions are up to date, and prices are a guide for the rarity. @ pennysaver, In your post, 03/02/2013, you say : " I hadn't realized that the number of errors collectors was so small as an error collector myself... " In my opinion, if this was true in 2003, this is not true in 2013. As examples, we have now the following statistics : 1- For coincommunity, in the forum " Canadian Variety and Error Coins ", we can see 2440 topics and 19,883 posts. 1- For numicanada. in the forum " Errors and Varieties ", we can see 4707 topics and 39788 posts. This is a clear indication that the interest for errors and varieties is growing  I think too that it is important for an errors collector to have many books to have much more informations as possible : Zoell, Charlton and others if possible. I refer you to: http://www.coinsandcanada.com/shop.php You could see there a book that is very useful for my searchs in the field of errors and varieties. |
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DEVLEC, I would like to ask you a question, can you send me a personal message? Just click on the letter icon in the header of my post - or turn on your personal messaging.
cheers,
SPP
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SPP
2 messages sent...
Cheers, D.
Edited by DEVLEC
04/27/2013 10:14 am
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