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Here's a hilarious one: Yesterday, I was showing my friend ( who is not a collector but his dad is) my 1947 Canadian penny, and then I tell him it's worth 75 cents, but then he says "No! That's worth billions of dollars! Sell it!"  |
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United States
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 United States
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Was the "certain date" in 1981?  |
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 United States
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lizzyjo- Actually that raises a good point about dollar coins. I have found that some people who were aware of SBA's refer to all dollar coins as that. I remember a few months ago asking a teller if he had any SBA dollars and he said "Yes, we just got a bunch of them." He then proceeded to hand me a roll of Presidential dollar coins. |
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Valued Member
India
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invest in coins you will get rich
or the best one clean dirty coins with acid
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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spock1k- Even better: Use steel wool on your coins to clean them up, after all, cleaning them will make them be in mint condition again.
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United States
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What an awesome thread! I could take up an entire page just responding to quotes with LOL's!
Here's one of my proud moments: I distinctly remember when I was younger, I bought some candy or a soda or something on my pittance of an allowance, and when I got the change back I had an off center cent (had to be at least 50%). Anyway, I just remember thinking that if I didn't get rid of that coin quick I'd never be able to spend it! Nobody would possibly take this coin! I RAN and bought a 2 cent piece of bubble gum. I couldn't spend it fast enough!
Wish I knew then, blah, blah, blah...
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United States
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Scooby Due- Well your fear at the time was not entire unjustified due to the fact that for the longest time the US was one of the only countries where errors were considered valuable. Collectors in most other countries thought of errors as defects, not curiosities. On top of this, the coinage of many countries throughout history, such as the Asian and African British colonies, so frequently had errors that collectors tried to find examples that lacked such flaws. Nowadays, improved minting technology and influence from the US collector market has caused foreign coins with errors to gain some attention. So how could you have known collector tastes within the particular country you live in? You just knew that it was a defective penny.
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United States
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Well your fear at the time was not entire unjustified due to the fact that for the longest time the US was one of the only countries where errors were considered valuable. And until the late 50's early 1960's they didn't get any respect here either. Even in the early sixties collectors of error coins were considered odd and errors were thought to be worthless by most collectors. Back in the 30's and 40's error coins such as off-center V nickels major clips etc, were consigned to the wastebasket by coin dealers. |
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Quote: Back in the 30's and 40's error coins such as off-center V nickels major clips etc, were consigned to the wastebasket by coin dealers. I wonder how many people will remember this for the next "time travel" thread?  |
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United States
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Conder101- Really, they just threw them out? That is wild since they probably could have still spent them. Why do you think that such an error coin market developed in the states? I always have had the theory that in the US, where there is such a short history of coinage and where pre-Civil War coins are quite pricy, collectors just don't have enough diversity to collect without branching out to dark side coins. So error coins & other such oddities have become part of the scope.
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United States
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Today at the bank I saw a customer notice some Presidential dollars in the teller's tray. He then said "Huh, when did they start making the State Quarters gold-colored? I wonder which state that ugly, bald guy represents." Edited by Archraz
04/03/2010 7:12 pm
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United States
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Quote:"Huh, when did they start making the State Quarters gold-colored? I wonder which state that ugly, bald guy represents." |
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Belarus
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Sister (3,5 years) about one of ancient coins: "Vlad, what for you has bought it, after all it such old that nobody will want to play with it"))
Children, children!)
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United States
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One day I was going through a foreign bargain bowl at a local coin shop. In walks a family with two boys. The boys headed directly for my bowl, one of them grabbed a Hong-Kong 10 cent coin. When he saw Elizabeth II on the obverse he said, "ah, it's Canadian". Then he flipped it over, "no, wait, it's Chinese!" He flipped it again, "no, it's Canadian!"
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