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Hey now, I'm thinking of starting a Barber quarter set in circulated condition. However I don't have money spend on the 3 key dates: 1901S, etc. my budget for this project is no more than ~$1,000-$2,000 I kind of like the condition shown below, certainly not worse, but a nice worn partially darkened look, if you know what I mean. I want them all to be in about the same condition. I want to avoid getting an album and having empty holes. Does any company make one without mint marks? So just dates, but really doubt they do. If I did just Philly coins, it seems I could get all the years for well under a thousand. The one below was something like 8 dollars.I looked though many to get the look I wanted. I'm very picky. Any ideas? Maybe blank Dansco pages?   |
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yah a blank dansco would work. or even less fancier you could get a binder and put those coin pages in it that hold flips.
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I was also think about air-tites, but there does not seem to be a decent way to look at them all at once. If they made a book where you could press air tites into holes, I would buy it.
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Personally I like the three ring binder that you can put the clear 20 pocket pages in that hold the 2x2 flips. Like what this guy did.... https://goccf.com/t/126346Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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08/25/2013 5:26 pm
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Ray, thanks for the tip. I'm not really into binders or even cardboard 2x2s for that matter, I don't find binders enjoyable to look through. Maybe at a show or something like that, but not at home. I have a dansco book for a Liberty nickel set I just finished. It's actually hard to enjoy the coin in the album, especially looking at the reverse as you have to turn the book upside down, etc. Actually the most enjoyable way so far has been looking at the photos I have taken. This forum has been great for helping me take very good photos. I put them most out on Google drive (the NSA can look at my Liberty nickels, hahaha). I like looking at them on an iPad. The detail and clarity is outstanding. Also it easy to view on my iPhone and I can look at them anywhere! Google drive lets you look at them offline if you set it that way. Anyways, I've been thinking about it. I think I will try for just dates, which gives me 24 more to go. I think I can get them for ? $8-$12 a piece in about G to F condition. That would be about $250 or so. Then I would do the same for Barber halves, which seems like a similar deal for maybe double the price. This would all come in under $1000 and I would enjoy the shopping and looking for a few months Something about 2x2 just irritate me. I didn't look at coins for about 30 years, since I was a child. Shockingly technology in the hobby hardly advanced at all! I do like the Air-tites and they there not around 30 years ago. I don't have any slabs, which were also not around, but they seem to make sense for more valuable coins then I'm looking at, or those that are counterfeited often. Edited by Bababooey
08/25/2013 7:27 pm
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I'm doing a date set of Barber quarters and halves, but only have a couple of each as of now (I've got several series going on at one time...). I got blank Littleton green folders for each one and just carefully and neatly wrote in the dates in order. It doesn't matter to me what the mint mark is so I can try to get the best deal for each date. Mine so far are G to F - I like circulated coins :) |
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Kevro, thanks I'll look into that. Sounds like we are collecting the same thing.
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You can actually buy printed dates from Littleton that you can transfer onto the album spots.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Thanks for the suggestion about the folders, I'll check it out. The depressing news is I check out some of the quarters on ebay, many seemed over priced, over graded or both! Even the overpriced Red Book lists, for example a 1915 in VG at $10. This the 2013 Red Book, printed when silver was $30 something an ounce. There was nothing on ebay in this price and this condition. I looked though 350 listings. The ones that actually looked VG were like $20+! I guess this is going to be harder than I thought. Correct me if I am wrong, but one is supposed to see a few letters of liberty for a VG and at least parts of all letters for Fine? For this type and condition of coin buy raw coins seems the only feasible way to go. Yes? |
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The PCGS grading app is a great tool for grading coins - and half the time I end up opening it up just to look at the pics.
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Whitman too has blank Albums covers, blank pages, rub on numbers/letters in Gold or Black. You could easily make your own Album. Or you could simply buy a Barber quarter Album and cover the dates with a Felt tip marker and still make your own Album. With Whitman it's easy since the Albums are dard Blue and a Dark blue felt tip marker is almost the same color. If not particular, you could still get an Album with removable pages and turn them upside down. Again, if it bothered you, you could still use a felt tip marker to cover the info now on the back of the page. |
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The three big keys are fairly unobtainable. Outside of them, however, there's really only 2-3 more that are even tough at all in fairly circulated condition and maybe you could get them eventually. You could simply by a nice complete Dansco or Whitman album for them and just put another quarter in those three spots if you don't want any holes. A Barber quarter date set doesn't really have that many coins in it (25), frankly, and you'd be leaving out so many easily obtainable ones. |
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08/27/2013 4:45 pm
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Thanks for the tips. With a little more looking on ebay there seems to be some G/VG in the $8-$10 range. I'll look into the album options. Why are many listings priced over the Red Book? Wishful thinking? Just wondering. Most completed sales seem to be Red Book price or lower. |
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Cruise ebay during the week and you might find some bargains. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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I started and bought four different dates of quarters off ebay all for about $10 each. Thanks for the advice. There are certainly a lot on there, and many common dates in good or worse listed for $15+. I guess people have wishful thinking, or perhaps there are a lot of impulse buyers. It's a lot of fun looking. I think I may go with a regular album (dansco or other) with blank pages. One or two pages for quarters and one or two+ for Barber halves. Then I can write in the dates in with a sharpie or other marker . Not going focus on different mint marks for now. An album won't take up much space.. And no blanks holes for the pricey key dates! This should keep me busy for a few months. |
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