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I'm not a fan of Eisenhower dollars. Big bulky and clad and some bumpy headed bald dude on the front. Maybe if I collected everything else I'd get to it but probably I'd still pass on it. |
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Not one but "many" of today's modern commemorative coins! To many terrible designs to pick just one. The Mint spits them out like the post office spits out stamps! Same for me. I don't want any and have none. |
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IMHO - modern commemoratives are a give and take type of item. If I am interested in the subject, I will most definitely obtain a copy. Case in point, the recent Apollo 11 items. Modern minting processes create wonderfully detailed and aesthetically pleasing examples. Yes, it can be mentally and economically painful to collect them all, so I don't.
If I had to pick one item (or type of item) that won't likely be in my collection it would be any precious metal other than silver. I just don't want to tie up that kind of money in a piece. I like a few of the modern and classic gold commemoratives but the price per is too much for my meager collecting budget. On the other hand, some would say spending decent money for an old copper token is crazy (so call me crazy, I guess...)
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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They really could make those much more popular overnight with just a composition change And elimination of the one dollar note. Everyone would be forced to like them then.   Quote: I'm not a fan of Eisenhower dollars. Big bulky and clad and some bumpy headed bald dude on the front. Maybe if I collected everything else I'd get to it but probably I'd still pass on it.  |
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United States
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Probably a Lincoln Shield cent, unless it has an error or variety on it. Other than that reason, I find them so ugly! The design is just too plain and boring.  Errers and Varietys.
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08/13/2019 12:50 pm
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One coin I will never own is the Boy Scout commemorative with a girl on it.
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United States
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State Quarters - Some of the most flat and visually uninspiring coins out there.
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United States
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I like the color of silver (even the not silver metals, so maybe I like grey? coins). . . The penny and the 'gold' dollars are firm no's for me.
I, too, have gotten burnt out on the bazillion quarter designs...hmmmm.
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08/15/2019 11:22 pm
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One coin I will never own is the Boy Scout commemorative with a girl on it. Do you belong to the he-mans woman haters club ?  |
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State ,Park ,etc. Quarters are boring to me but I realize they have brought many Newbies into the coin collecting hobby. But being a classic raw coin collector I think I have one MS State Quarter in my entire collection .  |
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They really could make [the modern small dollars] much more popular overnight with just a composition change I doubt it; we'd just end up with an entire series of dollars that are typically mistaken for quarters. Which was the whole reason the composition was changed in the first place. I suspect they'd actually be less popular. I mean, at least the modern brown dollars don't really look like any other coin! (I think that the brown color is quite pretty, incidentally.) |
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Well I have samples of most modern coins but the few I really have no interest in acquiring more are 1) The Franklin 50 cent piece. Looks like Elmer Fudd 2) SBA. I admire the person but the coin is ugly 3) President dollars. Can we stop it with ugly white men on coins I want a 1917 Liberty on my money (Type 1 not the prudish Type2) 4) Jefferson nickel. I don't even like spending it especially the 2005 when he is looking at me. Creepy! |
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1) The Franklin 50 cent piece. Looks like Elmer Fudd I have to agree . This type was the last type of coin I decided to collect only because everything else was too expensive for me . Never finished the set , it got too boring for me .  |
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United States
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Lincoln cents. Other than the type pieces in my 7070 and the jar of wheats and steelies in my junk drawer, I have no draw to these things whatsoever: not to collect, and not to hoard as copper. And Presidential dollars.....I'll spend them but that's it. |
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I want a 1917 Liberty on my money (Type 1 not the prudish Type2) For the record, the story that the second variety was created out of protest is a myth...  http://goccf.com/t/258658#2181120Quote:
For the 1916 SLQ, there was no actual "public outcry". This change appears to have been made as a combination of factors: continuing artistic developments and personality clashes at the Mint, the changing political situation in the leadup to America entering WWI, and (yes) fears from Treasury over a potential outcry. But the popular histories prefer simple answers to complex ones, so the "victory for prudishness" myth continues. Search the newspapers, and you will find no editorials demanding that Liberty be covered up. http://goccf.com/t/258658#2181839Quote:
I many cases the idea of "public outcry" is a myth. In most cases changes in coin designs were underway well before many people could have even seen the coins and had a chance to comment on them. In some cases long repeated stories of public outrage are completely fictitious. http://goccf.com/t/274746#2325864Quote:
Quarters were widely circulating at the time (In fact that was one of the reason the quarter WAS chosen.) There never was a bare breast controversy over the initial design. (In fact the addition of the chain mail was against the instructions from the mint.) There has never been any contemporary evidence presented that there was any published objection to the bare breast design, and no documents in the national archives on the subject. The bare breast controversy is a numismatic myth. And even with the changes to the date area the coins still had wear problems around the date. |
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