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United States
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It's an fascinating situation Amazon. I remember someone in CU a few years back offered $1,000 for a POOR1 Ike for a registry set. It's probably true that collectors will seek the highest quality in coins that they can afford. These POOR1 or FAIR2 coins for registry sets and the prices they go for would suggest me that perceived quality isn't carved into a grading number. |
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1892 (FR) has 950.000 and 1893 has 1.550.000 emitted number of coins.
I have the 1892 and 1893 version in an nearly uncirculated condition. The 1892 I paid for 8 US dollars, the 1893 5 US dollars. In Holland America is very cheap...
Edited by valutarick
07/18/2007 2:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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MS for me, but my eyes are bad and I need to detail to see.
Jim
I like being able to read them too. |
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United States
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I would buy the MS63 crack it out of its holder and resubmit it
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nobody ever circulates a commem! A great pocket piece, but not my first choice for $65. Any number of rarer gouged and worn coins out there. I guess I'd take the MS coin and stick it in my pocket, maybe 50 years from now it would look like the 1892.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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New Member
United States
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The FR-02, then crack it and keep it in my pocket for about 3 months to make it a PO-01.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nobody ever circulates a commem!
I would have to disagree with that. Modern commems may not circulate, but the older commems saw alot of circulation. A non-pocketpiece FR-02 might be a bit of a stretch but I have seen plenty of VF-XFs. Columbians that didnt sell at the Chicago Fair for $1 were dumped into circulation at face value afterwards and many saw quite a bit of circulation. Many of the more common commems also spent quite a bit of time in commerce. |
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United States
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This is the insanity of the PCGS "Low Ball" registry. Personally I think it's irresponsible to reward lower grades with more registry points, because I believe we should be preserving our coins for the future generations of collectors, not intentionally wearing them down for more registry points. It's just another gimmick of many that the slabbers are using to get more coins slabbed that don't need slabbing. And unlike other gimmicks used to encourage more submissions, this one DIRECTLY encourages ruining coins.
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07/23/2007 1:03 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I agree with ziggy, plus I think some of the PCGS registry people have too much time and money on there hands.
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United States
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This is the first I have heard of the "lowball registry set" concept. Can someone elaborate on what this is and how it works? Not knowing anything except what I have just read here, it does sound like a ploy from the grading firms to get more submissions from coins that would otherwise not be graded.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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registry, smegistry, bah, just another way to take the fun out of collecting coins, what a shame.
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United States
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This is the first I have heard of the "lowball registry set" concept. Can someone elaborate on what this is and how it works? Not knowing anything except what I have just read here, it does sound like a ploy from the grading firms to get more submissions from coins that would otherwise not be graded.
PCGS runs a "Set Registry" (online here: http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/ ). Here you can register your various sets, and get it scored based on completeness and quality of the coins in set. They have a category for low-ball sets where you get points for the lower the quality. I think your comment on it sounds about right to me.  |
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The MS coin and if its in a slab it wouldn't be for long
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Posted 07/18/2007 2:53 pm
