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Valued Member
United States
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Anyone out there have comments about this series popularity? It seems to me a distant third or possibly fourth behind the Buffalo, Jefferson and possibly Shield nickels. Do you think prices will change much over the next several years? I would like to build a classic set and this has always been one of my favorites cause it is a shorter set. How hard do you think it would be to build a set in MS64, MS65 or even MS66(LOL!)? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I don't collect the series but do like them. Certainly they are behind the Indian Head (Buffalo) series in popularity but I think they would be right up there with Shield 5 cent piece.
And yes, if you can afford them and make good purchases, they will increase in value nicely. A Mint State set would be VERY expensive and a complete MS66 set could take years and 100s of thousands of dollars to complete.
An MS64 set is more realistic and would still take a lot of time and money. If you have your heart set on MS coins then go for MS63.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do have a complete collection of this type but they are definitely NOT my favorite.
They did make a lot of them, with only one Key, the 1912 S, with 238,000 minted. (I'm not including the 1913 (with only 5 known!)) so you can usually get the dates you want at a reasonable price.
I, personally, don't care for the design, the obverse particularly.
And the design seems to wear out fairly quickly, so all the coins seemed to have gotten ugly fast in circulation. (I don't have any MS or AU/BU of these coins, so there may be a difference of opinion on this).
Just my opinion. Take it for what you will!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think it would be a challenging set to complete with full strike coins(separated stars, complete corn ears) and it would be quite impressive as that is a seldom seen set in MS. If you were going for uniformity, MS64 would be a good grade because most make a significant jump in value to 65.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I hope to buy my brothers complete set from him, but I only want to acquire it to make my run of continuous US nickels date and mint marks business strikes that much longer. 1883 to 2009 P ( No D! yet ) I love the design myself but only in higher grade. So I only want to own one "no cents" and one "with cents" in AU or better which now I think they are overpriced. There was a time in my collecting career when they were quite a bargain, I owned some higher grade V nicks and sold them, now I regret it. I never thought I'd complete the Buffalo nickels at that time so a set was not in my plans. Out of the 5 nickels designs ( I am counting the 3 cent series ) I would say in my opinion only, the most beautiful would be the Buffalo by a wide margin over all of them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wheezy! You don't like the 3 Cent Nickel best of all? 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wheezy! You don't like the 3 Cent Nickel best of all? No it is too small and it is really a pretty simple design. I do not dislike it though. One nice one for my rather empty type set will do. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It is small, true. And rare in many years. It seems like a classy design to me.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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buffalo is definitely my favorite as well, hands down.
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Valued Member
United States
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i like the SLQ ithink that they are pretty easy to complete and with two really expensive coins(1916 and 1918/7s) it is not a hard set to complete.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like the SLQ I think that they are pretty easy to complete I didn't find that to be true. I think the SLQ collection I have is one of the hardest I've ever had to do.  The coins seem to be disproportionally expensive and the coins' availability doesn't seem to be relative to their mintage. IMHO, any way. Edited by Moe145
11/15/2009 3:04 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Funny thing, I just got a 3 cent CN today from Zohar to fill that spot. 1874 AU-58  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As usual we get off topic fast. Meanwhile back to the Liberty Head Nickel, I've got several sets completed. Many are far from MS grades for now, however, it is really easy to upgrade if I wanted them. I really can't figure out why the lack of interest in that coin. I think they are really fairly nice looking. If you check out the prices on any price guide you can see the extreame lack of interest since even in the highest grades, not much value. Might be the really high mintage quantities as already noted. Even all proofs are reasonably priced. I think the Jefferson nickel is about the same or less in popularity though. Odd too that not much interest in the Shield nickels either. I wonder if people just don't like Nickels except the Buffalo and that is really an Indian Head Nickel but no one hardly mentions that. |
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Posted 11/13/2009 10:31 pm
