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Bedrock of the Community
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I don't think you could go wrong with any of those choices. If your just buying to stack, your best bet might be Walkers, Franklins and Mercury dimes. If you can buy them out of the 90% bins. When I was younger I bought Mercury's and Roosevelt dimes. This last time silver went high I sold a lot of them, at much more than I paid for them .. to buy the gold coins for my 7070. If you like big coins I would like to suggest Canadian silver dollars and half dollars. Most coin shop have some in their junk foreign silver boxes. Canadian silver, in my experience, can be bought at the closest to melt price or under. I like that a Canada silver dollar is .800 fine and .6 of a ounce. So a roll of 20 coins is 12oz. ...easy to keep track of. Roll of 30 Half dollars is 6oz. |
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I can't get silver Ike's near spot around me, I have been trying. All of them seem to be $10-12 even damaged. I was also never a fan of the candian voyager silver dollars design. I would be tempted by the quarters though. I recently completed a silver Rosie collection out of junk boxes and it's left a hole in my heart for raiding junk boxes. I'm also getting far along on my mercury collection but there is no way I can find the dates I need from the junk boxes anymore. I can't collect Franklin halves since my significant other collects them at the same time as me and we don't want to compete. I have a feeling that one day I will buy their collection from them if they loose interest. Right now I usually help them pick out each coin to match my standards and gain a sense of how to grade a coin haha. Edited by Bertensgrad
03/08/2015 11:08 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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There's a reason everyone collects Morgans.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm leaning towards collecting silver dollars. Peace and morgan. I just love the image of silver dollars sitting in old bank vaults. I like the Wild West image of the Morgan and the flapper Art Deco women and eagle on the Peace dollar. I definitly plan on collecting circulated coins that I can stack and handle raw a bit without having to worry too much about them. |
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I'm using it to stack but more of a fun stack, that isn't meant to sell. Just to hoard over like a dragon in the hobbit. I just feel I would be eventially bored with piles of walkers but idk. I also know I could three walkers for every silver dollar so that makes me lean that way. I would go with barbers but the premium is too high.
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There's a reason everyone collects Morgans. Yes. . . . yes, there is.  Quote:
I'm using it to stack but more of a fun stack, that isn't meant to sell. Just to hoard over like a dragon in the hobbit.  AWESOME. I know exactly what you mean. Please, Bertensgrad, stare at the picture below. I know which stack is calling to you. . . .   |
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Yeah, you guys all need to quit collecting Morgans.
More for me. Okay, you have convinced me to cut back on the number Morgan dollars I buy each year to add to my coin collection. Last year I bought four. So far this year I bought one, an 1884-CC GSA NGC MS-64 which I will probably sell to buy a Liberty Seated coin for my type set. Quote:
There's a reason everyone collects Morgans. And there is a reason why some people do not. For me it is because "everybody" else is. Besides what I have in type sets I have just less than ten individual Morgan dollars. |
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United States
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I always say I wanna stack or hoard more it never happens. I always wanna type coin for my 7070 or something else. I only own 2 morgans and they are both in my type sets, same goes for the Peace dollars and the Walking Liberty halves. I started a franklin set so at least I have 5 of those. Heck the next 2 morgans and Peace dollars I get will be for type sets. So I guess doing type sets makes sure I have a few of them. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I suggest trying to collect Canadian Cents from about 1999 to present. Or go for all the USA Large Cents. I've heard there are about 1,000 varieties or more. |
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That wouldn't do I have a silver bug, and just can't stand toned copper besides large British pennies. I have never met a 90% silver coin I haven't liked. Toned over blast white.
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03/09/2015 10:00 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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P L E A S E ... Refrain from hoarding counterstamped coins and all colonials as there aren't enough of those to go around, as it is!
T H A N K S !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like to collect silver and gold coins. These coins actually have some value besides what government puts on them. A copper, silver clad, coin just does nothing for me. My brother has a beautiful collection of Ike Silver dollars, however, and they are nice. I bought them at an auction for peanuts and gave them to him for his birthday. Now I wish I had them back.
John
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United States
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I've always wanted to do a complete Ike set with all the silver releases. Something about the Ike just that big gaudy coin that I love. I buy dollar coins at the bank every week and throw em in a piggy bank and cash em out at the end of the year for a vacation the lady thought it was funny when I got all excited she had an ike yesterday. The ikes don't get cashed out they get stacked :)
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I came to a half way decision today and bought three nicely toned walkers and a used dansco for them for $26. It was the same price as their lower grade Morgans haha. My favorite set as been Mercury dimes so I felt they were a good counterpart to them. I also collect Buffalo nickels and lincoln wheat cents so the time period matched well beyond the same designer. I might still get some silver dollars on special events buts I like the volume of walkers for prices. |
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I may be a voice from the wilderness (or the dark side) but I say collect Mexican Republic 8 reales coins. Minted off and on from 1823 to 1895 at 14 mints and in circulated condition they are available near spot silver price, except for the keys and some of the early dates. Big beautiful historic silver coins and "not what everyone else collects". Since they were legal tender in the USA until 1857, you could stick to the early dates and call it a US classic collection.
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