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Valued Member
United States
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Hello - First post, long time grazer! I am an avid collector of mid/high/toned grade lincolns. But, I am at the point where the coins that I need are getting ridiculously hard to find, not to mention pricy. So, I started a roosevelt set and a jefferson set. Ho Hum, has not done a whole lot for me. Just this past weekend, I was at my local, and wanted to look at some older dimes. Looked at the Barbers, Seated and Bust dimes that he had. He had quite a collection of Seated dimes that caught my interest. I went home, did some reading/research, and decided that I was going to start a F-XF range set of Seated dimes. I purchased 4 today, and 1 is on the way from the bay. I am excited to start accumulating these interesting little devils in a new Dansco. How many out there have found a liking to these coins. They have a decent life span (50+ years), several variety changes, some major rarities, cool design, all 19th century, etc.) Does anyone see good value in this series. Just searching for thoughts, opinions on the series. Thanks! Chris |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2797 Posts |
eagle 1,
As the USERID would imply I have some familiarity with the series. I do have a few dimes, but with my advancing age and impaired vision I need the larger pieces to really appreciate them (halfs and dollars). The series is doing well and I would guess it will continue to do so. There are lots of examples to pick from relatively speaking. The key is finding "unmolested" pieces and hold onto them for dear life. A coin that has withstood 150 years of "compulsion to clean" is a rarity. It wasn't until around 1960 that the hobby as a whole decided cleaning was "not good".
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
I respect and admire anyone attempting to tackle a series that has more than 20 coins with a mintage under 100,000  The prices do not necessarily indicate the true rarity of some of those issues and could very well increase in price dramatically in future years as some of the more common series become overburdened by collectors. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6381 Posts |
Hello Chris,  I'm basically a type collecter so I need some Seated coins in my collection. However, I have managed to accumulate quite a few more that what is needed to fill the type slots. I really like these coins! Several months back I picked up this dime on ebay; I considered it quite a buy. It's graded MS-64 in an NGC holder and I'm pretty sure it's the scarcer "Type 1" reverse.   Good luck with your Seated dime set; it's an ambitious choice!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2602 Posts |
Great series to collect. I just started collecting this series in the last month and maybe have 15 or so of the commons now, low grade though.
Good luck with this series- many very tough dates.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
580 Posts |
Welcome Chris! I don't collect coins of the seated variety, but I DID pick this one up in a junk bin for 2 bucks. It's not much to look at: well worn, harshly cleaned and has a big hole popped in it and then resoldered. But if you look closely it appears to be from the Carson City mint. I like to wonder what kind of stories it could tell if it could talk!   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1801 Posts |
great series to collect. I don't have the $$ to try a date set but I pick up an occasional piece at small coin shows whenever I can find a nice, undamaged, uncleaned branch mint example. I don't think the demand will ever go down for early CC and S mint coins. My only suggestion to you is if you are going to try for a full set, is go after the scarce dates first, don't fall into the pattern of buying the easy ones and then trying to go back and fill in the key dates. The easy ones are always out there, it's the key dates that climb in value and get harder and harder to find. You'll likely find more long term satisfaction in a collection containing 5 high grade key dates than a collection of 50 low grade commons.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
Welcome to the Forum ! glad to have you posting ! I like the Seated dimes but have confined myself so far to the O mints for my collection .   |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks for the info - Great to be here. Yeah, just because I started collecting these, does not necessarily mean I will finish. There are a lot of rarities, and did notice that the market prices on some of them do not reflect the population, as opposed to the hugely popular Lincoln Cent series! I will post my initial buys once I get the time to photo and upload. It is always wise to get the keys first. I need to become a little more educated on that front, but more importantly I think $$$ will be a limitation, so I will have to go slow with this series. I just wanted to buy a few that I liked to get my collection kick started. I do not anticipate buying slabbed, unless I learn that the rarities (like the lincoln series) require authentication on some issues. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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and a real big WELCOME. I am sort of a Dime collector. I have well over 3,000 Mercury dimes and now with 12 Whitman Albums mostly full and several Albums of Liberty Head Dimes. Also, quite a large amount of Seated Liberty dimes but all in 2x2's. No Album for them yet. Not even sure there is one. I usually wait until I have a massive amount of any coin before I attempt to put them in Albums. Those Seated Liberty dimes are just really expensive and not a great amount available. One of my favorite dealers usually only has one in 6 months. Says they are just to expensive for him to play around with. When the average G-4 coin is well into the $20 range, this is a really tuff set to ever complete. Good luck with this collection. Hope you find a bunch real cheap. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've thirty of them - ranging from Fine to Extra Fine. I like the seated design, but haven't put alot of concentration into them yet - just pick up one here and there when I can get a good deal on it.
Like JustCarl, I don't consider buying an album until I've got a scad of coins to put into it.
As for a good value, I'd say yes. I believe they will continue to go up in value in the years to come.
This will be a fun, and challenging, series for you. I don't think you'll get a Ho Hum feeling with it. Good luck to you.
Ralph
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Here is something to wonder about. Ever notice that almost all coins everywhere have just the heads of someone, an item like a tree, a shield, an Eagle flying, sitting, standing or just a big number. Some coins have animals sitting, running or standing like our Buffalo nickel. So why would anyone have a design of a lady sitting down? Why is she holding that staff thing? What is she sitting on and why that whatever it is? AND my biggest question is why is she facing to the right and looking to the left? See if you can turn your head that much. I can't. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There are a lot of great dates there!
But, you will never finish a set, at lease I won't!
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