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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I realize this has a hole and so makes it almost worthless. But I came across a person who has a small collection of these, all with holes. But all in this condition or better. Some much better. And all she wants is a buck a piece. On the one hand I keep thinking "why waste my money". On the other I never owned any Large Cents before and for around Thirty dollars can have 30 different dated coins. Any and all opinions welcome. BTW this is the before pic while I do some conservation work on it with Verdi-care.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Besides the corrosion and the large hole, it looks nice. You can't go wrong at a buck a piece. One or two may be scarce ones. Worse comes to worse, you'd easily find someone else to pay a dollar for them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 I would pick them up if only to practice identifying varieties....then again I've not met a large cent I did'nt like.... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2077 Posts |
And you could put them all on a shoestring and wear them! How many coins in you collection could you do that with?
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Moderator
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23522 Posts |
There are One Thousand Things you could do with a collection of these, and each would be a contribution to numismatics. Please, do. And show us the jacket when it's done.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8904 Posts |
I think a collection of holed Large Cents would be cool!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
$30 for thirty holed Large Cents? I am not a big fan of damaged coins but that is a very reasonable price.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1195 Posts |
I'd be crazy enough to buy one of those in a date that I like at double the price as my first/type coin, since the damage does not detract from nor affect the devices very much. Good snag!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with everyone on this.
Before spending $30 in a single coin, buy all thirty. Then lay them out before you.
Pay attention to which example your eyes are drawn, and to which examples turn you off.
Put the "eye catchers" and the "not so good" examples aside.
Now, arrange the remaining in order from most pleasing to least pleasing.
By the time you are finished, you will have already learned a lot.
And when the time comes, you could always donate a few to the CCF for distribution
to the young collectors.
This same exercise can be used for just about any type of coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Heard a story of a holed-coin collector (who strung them all on a hat or something he used to wear to coin shows) who found that one of his coins was a new, unique bust half variety. Anybody remember the details?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Lord Marcoven (sp?)
Wore a vest decorated with holed coin, and a hat with holed gold coins. The back of the vest was a set of holed large cents.
Another holed coin collector wanted to buy the holed 1806 bust half he had on his vest. Lord Marcoven agreed and sold him the coin. When the new owner tried to attribute the die variety of the coin it didn't match anything in the book. Some more experts were called in and it was eventually determined to be a new variety, O-129. I think two more specimens have turned up since then.
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Valued Member
United States
196 Posts |
I would buy them and would not think twice about it.
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Valued Member
United States
350 Posts |
Honestly, I'd buy 1000 of them at that price if the offer was there! do it!!
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Posted 09/11/2012 11:05 pm
