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Pillar of the Community
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I am a fan of the Seated Liberty coins. The only 19th century design I'm not a big fan of.would be the Barber coins (please don't hit me Barber people!) Although I have several Barbers... "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Bedrock of the Community
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Worn ones to me, are kind of bland but a nice XF-BU I am a fan of. I would rather a bust design and have no problem with Barbers except they are tough to find in higher grades too. Both those coins circulated heavily in their day. One thing neat about the seated design is you can have a Half Dime, dime, Twenty Cent Piece, quarter, half dollar and dollar to make a denomination set of 6 coins. The 1853 arrows and rays is till an eye catcher even in lower grades for some reason. I suggest you get the nicest one you can if you get another. |
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SL issues would interest me if the sets weren't so darn long.
At my age I stick to sets that I have a reasonable chance of finishing (or almost finishing) before I pass on to that great slab in the ground.
But I completed a subset of SL coins.
All the ones with arrows at the date.
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Pillar of the Community
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Gee, I'll have to think about this and get back to you.
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Pillar of the Community
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If you can find one with sharp details, they can be quite beautiful. But so many of them are worn to the point where all I can see is a triangle, and that's something I can't unsee, even among nice ones of smaller size.
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I think all the early silver (1930s and earlier) is very pretty. I have recently grown into likening Barber half dollars, even though I only own 1. Edited by RoyCoinBoy
06/14/2017 1:16 pm
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I don't really care for Seated coinage especially Dimes . To me the word Liberty is too small to see on a low grade coin . The designer could have made it larger or designed the shield differently IMHO .  |
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The attraction for me is the rich history surrounding the coinage. A lot happened in this country between 1839 to 1891 ... the movement west, our industrial development, our Civil War. When I hold an 1846 Tall Date half that shows wear from circulation, I wonder who else touched this piece, where has it been an what has it seen (hypothetically). My interest transcends the design of the coin. They are my own personal time machines.
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I like them. The ones in my 7070 make me happy. Perhaps one day, given a broader budget, I will expand my holdings.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Love these, especially the quarters, which I collected for twenty-five years. Some fantastic rarities in all of the denominations.
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Pillar of the Community
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I like them, lots of varieties. I have at least 1 of each denomination
Tim Hughes
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I like them. My grandfather gave me an 1857-O Dime when I was a kid and I just remember thinking I never even knew coins like that existed.
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06/14/2017 7:06 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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let me think...   IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Ok, Ok you deserve bragging rights on that gorgeous proof .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I don't own that $80,000 coin. I just like it. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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