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You posted on the want list that you wanted wlh. Your email is turned off email me.
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1929S - F15 cleaned
1920S - VG10
1920 - EF40, possibly cleaned
1927S - VG10
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Bummer, I was worried about that. It's funny of all the listings, I bid on this one because the seller stated they were not cleaned! I'm going to contact him and see if he's willing to refund the 1929s and 1920 without just returning the whole lot
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I like the 1920, even with the scratches in the field above In God We Trust. I've accumulated walkers like this over the years. For some reason I like the 1923S, and have maybe half a dozen in G-VF. Your mixed lot looks similar.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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I like the 1920 as well since it has sharp skirt lines, lots of detail, and the head is very good. It does look like it might have been cleaned but hot horrible. The 1929-S looks rough IMO. The others look ok to me. You notice, of course, that when you get Walkers before 1925 or so they begin to show a lot of wear. Your 1920-S has typical worn and flat look of this coin. They must have got some definite heavy usage in their life times. My Walkers from the same time period all show wear and tend to be flat
I see you jumped into the deep end of the pool. I collected all the Walkers from the 1940's first which was pretty easy. You can really see what they should look like in AU to Unc. condition with 40's Walkers. First sort of expensive one was 38-D. I think you are doing well. I learned just like you. You can go back and improve your set for years. It is a great coin, and you see it is the model for the modern Silver Eagle.
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Cool. Thanks for the encouraging thoughts Terry. Although they were cheap, I still don't really want to have any cleaned coins in my set, especially with one of the first purchases for it. I emailed the ebay seller, and he will only return all four coins for a refund. I was going to do it, but now I'm kind of on the fence. I'm starting to realize there's a lot of nuance in this series, and it's a lot of dates and mint marks to remember. I really should start with the short set, I was just worried of overpaying to buy single, or a few coins that are the most common and should easily be found in better grades. The older coins looked like a good deal, so I jumped on them. First I couldn't focus on a Set to collect, now I can't narrow down what years to focus on. There's always the sneaky feeling that if I just pick one thing to focus on, i'll be missing all those deals on every other date because I'm not looking. But hey, I'm sure plenty of us are overlooking great coins all the time because we are looking for one specific thing. Thanks for the reply |
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If you focus on one set you have a lot better chance of filling it than if you let yourself get distracted by all the other coins floating out there. I was focused on LSQ's and got down to just three coins left, but I find it hard to pull the trigger because prices are so high for coins that just don't look that good. 1919-D LSQ in EF is $600 or thereabouts. The 1916 is $10,000 in EF. You will find the same problem with the money shot Walkers. You want a 1921-D in EF and it is $2300 and the 21-S in EF and it is 4000. These old silver coins caught heck and they show it in lower grades.
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So what so you guys think of this four coin lot? Would you keep it to get two good coins and two problem coins for only $10.25 each? Or would you return them all and keep looking?
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I would keep them and focus on the others to fill your set. If you are like me you enjoy all walkers and maybe some day you will look at upgrading as I am. 1929 s (cleaned)   |
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I upgrade my Walker set when I get a chance. I just upgraded my 1916-S. All the money shots are the coins before 1923 except for 38-D. If you were one day able to get all the Walkers before 1923 in EF condition that would be a major accomplishment. That might cost you close to 10 grand just to get them all in EF. I am sure it is worth it, but if you are investing in them it may take ten years to really show big advances in price or it might go the other way. Just collect for the sake of collecting and forget about appreciation and all that.
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Yeah, I dont think i'll be collecting a whole set in EF, I'm almost sure all of the keys and semi keys will have to be low grades, I dont think I could swing ten grand even if it took a decade! You never know. I envision my completed set starting at G and moving up in grade to AU or MS grade for the later years. Even though I hear a lot of collectors wanting a set that is matched in grade, I like having a variety. Getting to have the whole range of grades seems like a good way to know the series
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Here's a good site to look at fairly graded walkers http://www.hjbltd.comI used to go into Berks a lot when I lived near Chicago. Always a good excuse to go downtown, see the coin in person and dig in their junk boxes. "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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11/06/2015 09:30 am
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thq: that site is pretty nice! photos are great and I've already found a couple dates that are fairly priced! thanks
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I only have the short set of Walkers and they are all heavily circulated. I would like to someday put a nice complete set together, but have too many open projects to do that any time soon. Enjoy building yours!
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