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Valued Member
Switzerland
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What do you think. Should I keep these four coins or spend them? The quarter I think I should keep, but the other three I am not sure. Thank for your help.     |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4911 Posts |
They're all keepers in my eyes but overall its up to you.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
Just where do you intend to spend them in Lachen? I like the Cud on the nickel. |
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Valued Member
United States
256 Posts |
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Valued Member
 Switzerland
57 Posts |
Thanks for your answers. I will keep them all  Quote:
Just where do you intend to spend them in Lachen? Of course not in Lachen. I will be in Florida for 2 weeks in February and there I could spend them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
561 Posts |
Good call on keeping them.  |
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Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
If "kind of neat, but not really valuable" is a criteria for keeping them (it is for me ), I'd spend the $1 and keep the rest. The Quarter can be called a "your money or your life" die crack - someone wants to rob Washington. Cuds are common on Jeffersons, but it's still a Cud. The offset on the $1 isn't (IMO) sufficient to warrant interest, but the one on the Cent is. Is the reverse of the Cent similar? |
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Valued Member
Switzerland
57 Posts |
Thanks for all your answers. The reverse doesn't look special.  |
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Valued Member
Switzerland
57 Posts |
A keeper for me doesn't have to be valuable. It has to be something Special or unusual.
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Valued Member
United States
368 Posts |
of course save the cent and the nickel. the others I would spend
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4809 Posts |
When looking through a bunch of coins, if it has market value, I keep it. If it is not necessarily valuable (yet anyway), I might keep it if the color strikes me, an error, or for about anything else that might make it intrinsically valuable or interesting. There is a danger of becoming a hoarder if you don't settle on some kind of limit though. Also, it may be better to cash in an unwanted coin (with only intrinsic value) on something better for your collection.
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Valued Member
United States
446 Posts |
The way I see it, if you like the coin, keep it. If it gets to where you don't like it anymore, you can always spend it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
At one of the coin shows I go to there is a dealer with an Album full of those 20 slot plastic pages. It is full of similar types of minor errors. He told me he got all of them from change, rolls, bags of coins. He has possibly hundreds of them and sells them at coin shows. He gets from $1 to $10 per coin pending on the denomination and type of error. Like he said, although seams like a small amount for error coins, it is all profit. And he said they do sell well.
I'd say keep all of those.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Do people really buy the slightly misaligned dies? I've found hundreds of cents like the one pictured, but I assumed they were all within the Mint's margin of error as long as the coin was round and none of the design is cut off.
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