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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Canadian Classic Decimal coins that are underrated in no questions VF or better my top ten
1884 10 Cents
1889 10 Cents
1893 Round Top 10 Cents
1875 H 10 Cents
1875 H 25 Cents
1893 25 Cents
1889 25 Cents
1905 50 Cents
1904 50 Cents
1921 50 Cents
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
576 Posts |
1933 five cents in MS state raw. I'm constantly on the outlook for exceptional coins at friendly prices. I've bought several high end 1858 Twenty Cent Pieces on ebay in the last two years at bargain prices and lower grade ones aren't difficult to get. I agree with the 1881H large cent with a single serif N. It's on my list but has eluded me to date. |
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Canada
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All coins in my collection are underpriced and underrated. Everything I don't own is overpriced and overrated.  |
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 United States
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Any Canadian specimen dated before 1937. The mintages are miniscule.
1859 W9/8 cent. The mintage was only a fraction of any other large cent date. The problem is demand remains relatively low because they are over-dated varieties and not part of the yearly date set.
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Canada
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I would add any specimen strike before 1971, excluding 1967, to that list bosox.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Agreed they are scarce. If you disregard 1908 and 1911, the pre-1937 specimen mintages are often in single digits and occasionally 10-20 copies. I haven't studied them, but from 1937 forward I think they were a bit higher than that.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I might throw 1858 onto that list as well bosox. Not as common as 1908, 1911 or 1937, but they seem to be more readily available than a lot of other early date specimens.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1352 Posts |
Depends on which type of 1858 specimen you are after.
http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My all-time U & U is the 1894 50c, VF and up. I've seen one in 40 years.
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--- Mario Andretti
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I agree; with the exception of 1967, all pre-1971 specimen coins are relatively scarce.
Some years between 1937-1966 are scarce...the 1953 series has a low mintage, as do some of the George VI years (namely 1938, 1944, 1945).
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04/28/2020 8:55 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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A lot of good underrated and undervalued coins in here...but what about the
1953 SF 1 cent in MS - 63 or better (good luck in full red!)
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Canada
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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4 for now.....maybe 5 soon!
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Australia
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If you can buy a scarce coin at what you consider to be at low price, then jump on the opportunity, because the opportunities for doing so are also scarce.
Always keep in mind: value for condition.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Four of the eternal favorites that I have owned (including the one in my avatar pic): 1889 10c, 1893 RT3 10c, 1913 BL 10c, 1947 ML C7R 50c. They aren't "cheap", but with their scarcity, if they were US coins, average guys like me would never be able to own one. In a way, I guess the whole Canadian market is under priced...but price is of course influenced by demand. We all know NFLD stuff can be quite scarce, but if only a handful of people are really serious about it, there's no real driver for price appreciation. |
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