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Showing content with the highest reputation on 12/14/2022 in Posts

  1. 4 points
    mrbadexample
    That's a part of collecting I don't get. I don't have the desire to replace rarity with fakes / replicas or whatnot. You'd spend your money and still not have a 1933 penny.
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    secret santa
    Absolutely https://headsntails14.wordpress.com/victoria-official-pattern-obverses-reverses/
  4. 2 points
    secret santa
    There is an indescribable feeling of owning a particular coin - any coin. Even if it's locked away, modern photographs are sufficiently good as to provide visual access at any time. Some people may prefer to spend their money on holidays, or expensive cars - I prefer to buy coins - I can't really describe why and I don't expect others to feel the same way or understand. That's what makes us all different.
  5. 1 point
    oldcopper
    The last 1860 pattern pennies I recall were in Spink auction Dec 2015, both bronzed beauties, one the Roman date in a curve. Fantastic coins.
  6. 1 point
    1949threepence
    Yes, that really would be interesting to see.
  7. 1 point
    1949threepence
    So what motivates you to collect?
  8. 1 point
    Rob
    You set out your collecting criteria and buy whatever ticks the boxes, irrespective of whether there's 1 or millions of them. I've got a couple dozen things which are either unique or the only one available, but also coins of which billions were struck, such as a clad steel penny to tick the eponymous box. The vast majority are somewhere in the middle, but all have equal status within the collection as value or rarity aren't defining parameters.
  9. 1 point
    oldcopper
    It's the forgetting where you hid it that's the problem......
  10. 1 point
    1949threepence
    Keep it as part of the the rest of your collection at home. There are numerous unique and virtually uncrackable hiding places for items as small as a coin, which something so iconic as a 1933 penny, could be secreted in. But nevertheless still readily accessible for the owner who has sole knowledge of its secure location. It's not like the security options available for a rare painting.
  11. 1 point
    mrbadexample
    Because then I've got something not many other people have got.
  12. 1 point
    Rob
    Russians who want their snow cleared quickly this winter can just write "no to war" in it.





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