Thread: Morgan dollars VS 1913 Liberty head nickel

Would you rather have a truck load of morgan dollars or a 1913 liberty head nickel

1913 Liberty Head Nickel. I'd go for quality/rarity over quantity.

Have You ever seen colored cardboard-mylar hoders you know the kind you staple ive never seen them in any color but white. It's a wierd thing to think about I geuss but I'm a little wierd

tcore, I agree about the question i asked !913 Liberty head nickel

I'd take the 1913 nickel...auction it off and buy THREE truckloads of morgan dollars.

To me it's a goal of any collecter to aquire at least one rare or valuable coin to highlight there collection

Mikjo0 I totally agree it's all about the money

I was talking to this guy about what i would do if i was rich i told him i would buy a 1913 liberty head nickel he said if he had one he would throw it in the trash it seems peoplle have no respect for numismatics

Originally Posted by Foster dollar

I was talking to this guy about what i would do if i was rich i told him i would buy a 1913 liberty head nickel he said if he had one he would throw it in the trash it seems peoplle have no respect for numismatics

To me, you're either a collector and you understand collectors or you're not. For instance, I am a collector. I collect coins and several other things. I don't collect snow globes and have no desire to, but I understand what drives those people and what makes snow globes collectible. I think most people that don't understand collecting and don't have the "collecting bug" don't necessarily disrespect collecting, they just don't get it.

Well I guess it depends on the size of the truck---if it was a large one I might take it and sell the coins and then buy the 1913---but then I really don't think I want a 1913 either....

Speedy

Originally Posted by tcore

To me, you're either a collector and you understand collectors or you're not. For instance, I am a collector. I collect coins and several other things. I don't collect snow globes and have no desire to, but I understand what drives those people and what makes snow globes collectible. I think most people that don't understand collecting and don't have the "collecting bug" don't necessarily disrespect collecting, they just don't get it.

Funny you mention snow globes. A lady at work has been collecting them for many years. She is ready to sell and they go for some seriously large amounts of money. She is probably going to make ten times what she paid for them.
I'm a collector, but also a speculator. Yesterday I took a look at my Mercury dimes and put 20 of them in an album I just got (used for a dollar). The rest are doubles or extras. I have 61 Mercury dimes. To sell off the 41 extras now won't be much profit. But if I hang onto them another 5 years maybe they will bring a good sum.
I don't plan to buy up all the dates I'm missing to fill the album. I did that with the Roosevelt dimes and now can't sell them. So I'll just sit on these 61 Mercs for 5 years or more. My idea of collecting is to save the coins. Just keep them if they have any age to them at all. The Mercs are all older than I am!

Silver prices will be about $15.00 an oz. in another 9 months, so you will sell them then. By the way, they're not Mercury Dimes. The so-called God, Mercury was a male, the dimes are winged Liberty head dimes.

Clinker

Originally Posted by tcore

To me, you're either a collector and you understand collectors or you're not. For instance, I am a collector. I collect coins and several other things. I don't collect snow globes and have no desire to, but I understand what drives those people and what makes snow globes collectible. I think most people that don't understand collecting and don't have the "collecting bug" don't necessarily disrespect collecting, they just don't get it.

that's true

I show some of my friends(who are collecters) mercury dimes and people(who are not collecters) will ask if there made out of mercury and I feel obligated to explain why we call them mercury dimes

Originally Posted by Victor

Funny you mention snow globes. A lady at work has been collecting them for many years. She is ready to sell and they go for some seriously large amounts of money. She is probably going to make ten times what she paid for them.
I'm a collector, but also a speculator. Yesterday I took a look at my Mercury dimes and put 20 of them in an album I just got (used for a dollar). The rest are doubles or extras. I have 61 Mercury dimes. To sell off the 41 extras now won't be much profit. But if I hang onto them another 5 years maybe they will bring a good sum.
I don't plan to buy up all the dates I'm missing to fill the album. I did that with the Roosevelt dimes and now can't sell them. So I'll just sit on these 61 Mercs for 5 years or more. My idea of collecting is to save the coins. Just keep them if they have any age to them at all. The Mercs are all older than I am!

that's true I will look at some coins and be baffled by the age for example I had just bought a guy out of foriegn coins and there was a mexican 1888 1 centavo my grandpa was born in 1929 41 years later!