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Valued Member
United States
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Poll Question
Before collecting coins I was big into baseball cards. With cards there are multiple parallel sets like numbered cards, different borders, etc. Question I have now is when collecting coins are you satisfied with just a 1881 Morgan for example or do you need all mint marks (1881-CC, 1881-O,1881-S).
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I do not collect Morgan dollars as a series. Normally, I would say "Need them all!" because that is how I collect everything else. However, I have been considering a "date only" set of Morgan dollars, especially after seeing one posted here... https://goccf.com/t/80643It would definitely be more financially feasible for me to complete. |
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United States
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I definitely want all the mint marks for the coins I'm collecting, but like Jbuck said, if It's a set that's probably going to break the bank, I'd settle for date only.
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If it was a little less expensive, I would want to get them all... However, it's difficult with a limited budget  |
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United States
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Bobby, moist collectors either collect one of every year or one of every year and mint.
People who collect Morgans and want every date and mint mark are biting off a big chunk!
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United States
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What about the dry ones?  |
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yes depends on the price---
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There are a lot of colletors that purchase an Album and then just try to fill all the slots. Many think it looks just wrong to have empty slots in an Album. Of course there are those that simply put a blank or something in them to avoid the irritations of those blanks. However, I suspect that collecting all is something from something when we all started and it was necessary to get them all.
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Of course there are those that simply put a blank or something in them to avoid the irritations of those blanks something like that-- or the little cardboard "sad" faces my daughter makes Retired USAF 1983-2003
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03/05/2011 11:42 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am not a wealthy man by any means. When it comes to the higher dollar collections such as Morgans, I would rather save up the money and buy one really nice example of say an 1881 CC. This one is not way over the top in price in MS-63 or MS-65. Easily in my budget with some "penny pinching".
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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or the little cardboard "sad" faces my daughter makes
Not a bad idea either. Since I use Whitman Albums, I used to try to find a piece of Blue cardboard and cut out a coin sized piece for those rediculous slots for coins just not possible. For example in my Albums for Liberty Head Dimes I have slots for the 1894S. I wonder what Whitman was thinking to do that for a coin with only 24 minted. Sure will never find one in change. |
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Sure will never find one in change. Hope springs eternal in love and in the coin hobby. It was simpler for Whitman to include the space for a known rarity than to deal with the complaints they would have gotten for the unforgivable omission and dashing of hopes, fantasies, wild-eyed caffeine-fed dreams of small-change glory. |
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United States
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Whitman folders used to have a cardboard plug in the 94s, 13 nickel, and other rare spaces.
At one level, the worst thing that happens in a hobby is commercial holders and price guides, because they stifle the creativity of collectors.
Take a Lincoln type set, for example. Every one I've seen has space for the vdb and non-vdb wheats, but almost never for when the vdb was returned to the bust in 1918. Zincolns get a hole, but no hole for tin removal in 1962. How about Jeffersons with and without designer initials, no different than the vdbs.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Take a Lincoln type set, for example. Every one I've seen has space for the vdb and non-vdb wheats, but almost never for when the vdb was returned to the bust in 1918. Zincolns get a hole, but no hole for tin removal in 1962. How about Jeffersons with and without designer initials, no different than the vdbs.
Sounds like Dansco Albums. For Lincoln Cents my Whitman has slots for almost every oddball coin ever made. I have slots for every 09, the 22 plain, 55 and 72 and 95 double dies, all 60's, all 70S's, every 82 and if I had the lastest, probably all 20 of the 2009's. Most Whitman Albums have slots for just about any possible coin. They really don't care that you'll never even see one let alone get one. I'd complain to them but afraid they would only start making Albums for every coin ever made error wise or not. Imagine an Album 10 feet wide.  |
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Thanks everyone for the opinions. With my budget and having four kids I am happy with anyone I can get.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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like pokemon. Gotta catch them all! ( I can't believe I just said that)
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