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Coins You Own But Have Never Touched?

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 Posted 05/31/2016  11:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add muddler to your friends list
With many proof sets, ASE, commemorates, and slabs I would have to go above 10%
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 Posted 05/31/2016  11:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list
How about "Bitcoins" you can't even see these let alone touch them
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 Posted 05/31/2016  11:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list
Most of my collection is assorted low-end coins from very cheap junk bins. I also prefer being able to touch my coins, or at least look at them very closely with my extremely nearsighted eyes (which isn't always possible with 2x2s) - and this "looking very closely" is often part of my purchasing process, which means that even many of the better coins are raw (it helps that my idea of "better coins", in this meaning, is less about grade and more about rarity - at least, type rarity).
However, if it's in a 2x2 when I buy it, 90% of the time it stays in a 2x2 - because I probably won't be able to get it back there if it comes to that, and the preservation is much better. (OTOH, if it's raw when I buy it, it stays raw - I've never inserted a coin into a 2x2 that wasn't its own originally.)

I've only ever removed, I believe, 5 coins from their 2x2s; three of them because their 2x2s broke and the coins slipped out (and I put them back in anyway before putting the broken 2x2 in a barely-fitting ziploc), one because its 2x2 was clearly going to break anytime soon - I regret that one, incidentally - and one because I couldn't make anything resembling a photo through the particularly awful plastic (and wanted to be able to identify that ancient coin).

I also have one set (Israeli) in what I suspect is OGP (complete with what looks like PVC damage), and one weird German "set" (more of an assortment) in a weird multi-piece plastic holder (that I probably could've screwed open, but I'm worried about losing the coins). Might have a few other encapsulated coins too.
No slabs, but only because I can't afford any. I'd love to get some, but they tend to go for high money.


End result: I'd say 1-10%, because there are just so many raw coins, but it's probably closer to the upper end of that range (there are certainly dozens of 2x2s in there, many of them with uncirculated-looking coins).
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 Posted 06/01/2016  12:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CelticKnot to your friends list
25-50% here. I have lots of "from circulation" collections but I do buy the annual mint sets and various other stuff that hasn't been out of the OGP capsules.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  01:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MontCollector to your friends list
I have a few ASE Proofs that I have never taken out of capsules, as well as some graded coins. Since I wont break a coin from a reputable slab I have never touched any of these.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  02:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add X2an to your friends list
The coins I can think of I have nevet touched are:
- 2011 ASE
- 2015 AU Koala
- 2000 "Last Gulden" silver issue
- 1921 1 Penni, Finland (still red, unc)
- 1956 200 Markka, Finland (blast white, without toning)
- 1946 Booker T Washington Half Dollar, encapsulated since the day I bought it
- 1969 US proof set
- 1968 Israel uncirculated souvenir set

This probably corresponds to less than 1% of my quantitative collection. Few coins rest in flips but I have a fair amount of uncirculated coins.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  09:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list
Only one. I have a Mercury dime in a slab that says it's a Doubled Die. I have never been able to see where or how it's doubled so I just left it in the slab.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  10:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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How about "Bitcoins" you can't even see these let alone touch them



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I have never been able to see where or how it's doubled so I just left it in the slab.
Probably for the best.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  11:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list

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How about "Bitcoins" you can't even see these let alone touch them


I keep my bitcoin collection right between my twin Panama-Pacific $50 pieces and my Eucratides 20-stater.
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 Posted 06/01/2016  5:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add UltraRant to your friends list
Most of my bullion coins go untouched (at least by me). I like to keep that beautiful silver or golden shine. :)
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 Posted 06/02/2016  2:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mamastinky to your friends list

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How about "Bitcoins" you can't even see these let alone touch them


You mean you have enough Bitcoins to count? You know how much they are, right?

Do BU rolls of pennies count? Gosh, we are thinking, without pennies maybe 20%, and with maybe more like 60%. So hard, coins all over the place..
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 Posted 06/02/2016  3:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list
That's actually a good point about BU rolls. I have almost a whole box of 2009 LP-1 and LP-2 that I haven't opened, because the thrill of not knowing if there are DDRs in there.
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 Posted 06/02/2016  5:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Potsdam to your friends list
To be honest I think that there is not a single coin in my collection that I haven't touched. :D
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 Posted 06/03/2016  12:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GR58 to your friends list
I only took a guess, 25 to 50% ...
It's just to late to do any math
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 Posted 06/09/2016  03:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinlover168 to your friends list
For some of the coins I moved from the dealer's 2x2 to an air-tite, I still haven't touched them. I carefully slide it from the 2x2 into the air-tite and use my squeeze blower thing to clean it off. Even to flip it, I put the opposite half over and flip the whole air-tite.

I'm guessing the majority of my collection has not been touched by my hands yet, nor will some of them ever. When I do handle my coins directly, I make sure to wash my hands before.
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