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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What do you do when you can't realistically complete a set you've been working on for a number years? Do you stop saving for that last coin to start something new or do you just hang in there?
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 United States
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Is saving enough for the last coin realistic, allowing for normal life expenses?  save up for a few months, okay  save up for a few years, maybe  save up for a lifetime, probably not  |
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Rest in Peace
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Nfine, most would say hang in, save 'til you bleed...not me! On disability income, selling small dollar items on ebay even, there is no way I'll be adding even a low grade 1909S-VDB anytime soon. Same as the older large dollars in a 7070. Gold....ah, ha,ha,ha,ha,ha...yeah right, pull the other one! Solution: use fakes! Ive put an 1804 Bust dollar, an 1864 SL $1, & an 1873 type Trade and 1878-S Trade in there, a few gold imitations, but still looking for a 1909SVDB fake(all I need). As long as my coins are marked "copy", (by me w/Dremel) why not?. I may be able to swap out the Trade for a genuine some day, but $150 is about the loosest the bark on my tree gets! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Hey, tell us what the coin is!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3468 Posts |
I collect what may be the most unloved coin in US history, the Sacagawea dollar. I can't explain why. The final coin I need is the 2000 P Cheerio dollar, well out of my price range in any grade. |
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United States
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Yeah, the coins that I am missing to make full complete sets are a slightly higher price range, so I consider the coins unobtainable. Those sets are complete with a little asterisk beside them.
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United States
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Maybe time to move on to a new denomination/area of numismatics? That is what I do when I hit the "stoppers".
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Valued Member
United States
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Nfine, I collect Morgan, and I don't think I will ever have a full set. But just keep collecting and have fun doing it, you might come across some good deal and be able to trade up or find sometime else you enjoy collecting, like morgans or some other Morgan's or some other coin. I also like Mercury dimes and cool looking coins HAVE FUN |
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United States
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This is a good question because I hit that wall in one set (Me rcury dimes) and fast approaching it in another (Lincoln cents, where the 1914-D is the last "affordable" hole). When I stop spending what I am spending now (on lower priced holes), I could probably save up for those key dates over a couple of years. That puts me in the category.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Do you have a Goodacre dollar? IIRC, those are a few hundred bucks instead of $5k+
If it were me, I would choose a new set to start, and maybe use any extra cash to roll hunt and hold out hope? There *should* be 5,420ish Cheerios dollars our in the wild.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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May I ask, in complete sincerity, what the 2000 P Cheerio Sacagawea dollar is and why it is so special? Edited by Coinfrog
09/05/2017 6:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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This is not a criticism, but it seems that before we start a set, we should decide if we are prepared to pay for the full set, or be psychologically satisfied with having a few unobtainables (made of unobtainium perhaps?), or as Fuzzy said, sets with asterisks beside them. Then you put them on the shelf as complete*, and move on to something else.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
744 Posts |
 As a promotion for the new dollar they made 5,500 for General Mills who put 1 coin in every 2000 or so boxes of Cheerios. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I have no trouble starting a set I can't complete. Most of the sets we all have aren't complete. That's the fun of collecting. Start another collection, you never know what is going to pop up. Most of mine will be incomplete, and then I will make frog noises.  |
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United States
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Hang in there. Coin collecting is a lifelong hobby. Get a deticated jar and start saving. John1 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
94367 Posts |
So what is the premium on this "Cheerios" dollar?
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Posted 09/05/2017 4:35 pm
