I Was Convinced To Start A Small Cents Collection

Wow the dog sled must have sped up. Letter wasn't on Informed Delivery. Well final Canadian small cent is here. I'll take pictures later. But I can state my Canadian Small cents collection is done. Now do I go to large cents?

I got pictures, not great ones but pictures. I'll take better ones tomorrow, this was a quicky as I had to make dinner tonight.

My last letter from Canada (for small cents that is).




My final Cameo proof.



And the small cents album.

I have been following this thread and would love to see this progress to large cents!

You can get the PEI subset done pretty quickly

Hey all better pictures and I can mark the small cents COMPLETED.














I'll start another thread to document my Large Cent collection. To all that gave great advice and even better coins I thank you!

Well I thought this one was done, but while buying the proofs I put 2 low offers on slabbed coins on ebay not expecting to be accepted. My final offer was pretty low (not insulting but below the Price guides by a dollar or 2 or 3).

Totally forgot about them and I get an invoice for one and then an hour later for the other. Price was good so I picked 2 proofs in MS.

Have to be more careful when I place bids and offers even if low. Not that I'm unhappy, both were coins I wanted but really didn't need. I'll post pictures when they come in :)

Usually I lose on bids as my offer is like $19.78 and the coin ends up selling for $20.12, but usually I have a limit and I stick to it. Its also rare that I buy on ebay as the prices are much higher than I can get locally, but some times (especially with Small and Large Canadian cents), I couldn't find some items locally.

The one time I went higher than the price guide, the coin sold for 3 times what it was worth and 2X my high bid. Happy I didn't win that one

This one I liked more as its a reverse proof, and I wasn't expecting to get it. The price I offered wasn't terrible, but considering the last reverse proof sold for over $60 on bidding, it was MUCH MUCH lower than I expected. Oh well sometimes you get surprises and its not a bad one.