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This is kinda a wierd question but do you hoard a particular coin just because you really like it? I got a 2011 Canada half dollar today from a roll and I'm just sitting there admiring it thinking maybe I should just buy a ton of these things! lol Edited by TheForce
08/26/2011 07:49 am
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I have started hoarding 1875-dated coins, particularly IHCs, in the past few years as that is my centennial birth year. I do not really search for them but I will usually buy if one presents itself. I currently have about a half roll of the Indian Heads along with a handful of Seated coins. |
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I collect (partial hoarding) coins from when I was born. I have the US proof and mint sets, as well as an Irish Penny. I might try for an example from each country for that year.
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collect (partial hoarding) coins from when I was born I do the same, with the added benefit there were no proof sets, and there are many folks selling war sets! |
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2005 westward journey Buffalo nickels (as long they are not too bad looking). Personally I see them as kind of like a modern version of the original Buffalo nickel. Also, used to pick up every shield cent I came across, but I just came across too many of them and it got kind of annoying, so I only save problem-free MS examples. |
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also many people are hoarding/saving copper cents. I am keeping mine separated from the zincolns.
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I like the Washington quarter Bi Centennials for some reason if I come across either I have to save it. When I was small maybe 3-5 my mother showed me one and said when ever we find one of these we have to save it. So before I started collecting I would always bring them to her. But now shes beat lol |
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Quote:I like the Washington quarter Bi Centennials for some reason if I come across either I have to save it. When I was small maybe 3-5 my mother showed me one and said when ever we find one of these we have to save it. So before I started collecting I would always bring them to her. But now shes beat lol I have a running contest with my brother in law to see who can amass the most 1976 Quarters. I suspect I am winning but I have not seen his stash for a few years. last count I had 216 rolls in my foot locker. My wife adds every one she and her friends find. I hoard road kill coins ans 2 Cent coins I don't know why I just feel compelled to do so. I used to hoard all coins so you could say I'm getting better.... |
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do you hoard a particular coin just because you really like it? No. I purged my collection of all hoard-like "duplicates" long ago. "Keep the best, sell the rest" is my philosophy when I acquire duplicates now. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Wheat cents and I have no idea why. I think i'll go through them later but later never comes.
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I like to save coins from my birth year, 1983, which also happens to be a good year to have uncirculated coins! What I would do to have a OBW roll of 1983 quarters!
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Quote:I like the Washington quarter Bi Centennials for some reason if I come across either I have to save it. When I was small maybe 3-5 my mother showed me one and said when ever we find one of these we have to save it. Quote:
I have a running contest with my brother in law to see who can amass the most 1976 Quarters. I suspect I am winning but I have not seen his stash for a few years. last count I had 216 rolls in my foot locker. My wife adds every one she and her friends find. Those things are my favorite HORROR story. Way back in the 70's when they first came out, myself and a friend thought this coin would be the future coin to have. So we both started to amass as many as possible. After about 30 years of that stupidity, he ended up with virtually thousands of dollars worth. He beat me out since I only had several hundred to maybe a thousand dollars worth. We both went to coin shows and tried to find a dealer that would buy all our fantastic, wonderful, monitarily great coins. Our BEST offer was $0.24 each. Sort of a way of saying NOT REALLY. ALL ended up in banks. May have just as well collected Beanie Babies.  |
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The only coins I actually "hoard", are Wheats and anything Silver that I can get for free or from roll searching. I "purged my collection" of most junk Silver coins awhile back to pay some bills.....it pained me to do so......but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. I suppose that's a large reason as to why I sought them....to have for such a time if needed. If gold keeps going up....may be parting with the rest of those too ! (never could afford to "hoard" gold though ! ....  ......so....only got 1 $50.00 Buffalo proof and a couple other smaller denom's left of my gold) Gettin' mighty tempted ! Wheat Cents......well.......I have many thousands....but I doubt I'll ever sell them.......I just like to "hoard" them.... I doubt I'd ever get more than 2 or 3 Cents apiece for all the common dates....so I just keep building on them and putting them away. My birth year is '68......I've never collected that year before.....never saw a worthwhile reason to....but I like Bio's "Centennial" theory of doing it.....  1868 coins could be VERY interesting to collect for me ! Hmmmm........got some pondering to do 'bout that one ! ....  |
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I'm a 76'er and those bicentennial quarters are extra cool! :)
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but I like Bio's "Centennial" theory of doing it..... Since I was born in 1975, I got shorted three denominations  I find 1875 to be a much more interesting, albeit expensive, date with a wider variety of coins and most importantly, silver! |
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I was hoarding foreign coins, thinking of dealing in them one day. Now I got 20,000 of them. Oh well always room for more.
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