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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As a coin collector, do you build sets from your pocket change and roll searches or do you only piece together UNC coins?
While circulated coins don't have much value compared to its UNC counterparts, they do have a story/history to tell.
I feel UNC coins don't really have that story to tell behind them, though what they lack in history they make up for it with their beauty.
Your thoughts?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I collect both sets. I like the circulated sets because of the history and it's fun to look for mint errors. I get really excited when I find an older coin in amazing condition too. Thoughts of how a 60 year old coin maintains it's condition while a one year old one doesn't fascinate me. Of course I have to do the uncirculated too! Roll searching for the finests examples of those is fun in it's own right! I think for me by doing both I am learning to grade coins. As they say, the more coins you see the better your chances of avoiding a costly mistake.
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I often wonder, was that Morgan dollar used at a saloon for some drinks? Or how a family used to use pennies in the depression to buy a loaf of bread, and things like that. Money was valuable during the depression but yet it was scarce. Hence a lot of coins from that period are heavily worn. |
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I started my collecting from pocket change and continue that method to this day for all new releases. The advent of Satin Finish Mint sets has pretty much sealed that method in stone. I have pulled coins from mint sets when necessary. For example, I bought a 1973 mint set to get the NIFC Eisenhower dollars. I say that there is a certain satisfaction that comes from knowing a coin took a longer journey to get into my album.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I started out from cracking out a roll of pennies in a restaurant 20 years plus, there were wheats and than a 1885 IH. It was in amazing condition, over time I decided to join NGC and submitted that cent and it came back as MS 64 BN.
I don't think I will ever find something that lucky in change or roll, at least not now.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do both.
A lot of the modern varieties are extremely rare in unc anyway. If future collectors value well made coins then a lot of uncs might be valued at less than circs anyway.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i agree with you circulated coins have a story to tell and uncirculated coins make up for not having such a history with there beauty that is why I collect both
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United States
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I collect both circulated and uncirculated coins but all my sets except two are uncirculated. I have circulated coins in my Lincoln Cent set with the circulated coins being from 1909 to about 1935 and my Washington quarter set with circulated coins from 1932 to about 1940. I have a large part of my collection (not sets) in circulated individual coins like Indian cents, large cents, Buffalo nickles, etc that I buy because just because I like the coin. I like others often wonder what stories the coin could tell about it's history if it could talk. If they could I'd like to heat the stories from the two mid 1830's half dollars or old Morgan dollars that are in my collection. That's what makes collecting some much fun and keeps the interest level up for me. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I have both mixed in with my collection. I keep track of which ones are unclirculated on an excel spreadhseet. The uncirculated ones cost more so to me it is cheaper to go with circulated coins. This seems to be the easiest way to fill some gaps and is the least costly for me.
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