Most over rated coin

It gets confused in a world-wide forum like this.

Ruben

 

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Sorry Ruben,

Should have been more clear. He is not an IKE basher, he is an IKE collector. His set is mint state set is ranked 20th and his proof set is ranked 11th in the NGC registry. Would a been a good fight between him and Ben me thinks.

 

Well, Ben will have better days. He's still finding his sealegs

HEY ALL YOU IKE COLLECTORS - Here is a very long and poorly written INSULT

oh Sorry - take it light! I didn't mean to insult anyone

BUT IKES REAL DO STINK


sorry --- never mind

 

LOL i guess so.

 

Well some look nice.

 

Cool...

very cool.

 

Personaly I think Ike's are a good solid looking coin, the design is great and I also like Ike

What is wrong with this design



or this one?

 

Any issue except die varieties since 1964

Any issue except die varieties since 1964 - plain and simple they are everywhere - anyone can find them, their mintage's are monstrous, and there is probably less than 10 coins in the 45 years that are truly rare by any standard except for some bullion and die varieties, and grade census coins.

 

Not in Gem states...in fact, Gem Ikes are likely rarer than Gem Morgans.

Ruben

 

Did I somehow miss and Ike bashing party???

Did I somehow miss and Ike bashing party???

 

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t38354/#post387318

 

Originally Posted by mrbrklyn
Well, Ben will have better days. He's still finding his sealegs
HEY ALL YOU IKE COLLECTORS - Here is a very long and poorly written INSULT
oh Sorry - take it light! I didn't mean to insult anyone
BUT IKES REAL DO STINK
sorry --- never mind

Some Ikes I like. Perhaps we should start a thread depicting the Ikes we like.

Back to the subject of this thread, I feel the 1909-S VDB is over rated. You can find one of these common rarities in almost every dealer’s case & you won't find one in my Lincoln cent collection.
Very best regards,
collect89

 

A defend your Ikes thread? You first...

 

I'll start it with a photo tonight.
Very best regards,
collect89

 

Shhh, don't tell anyone.

 

Fixed.

 

Ardatirion makes some excellent points!

But consider, for a moment, this thread from my point of view; viz. a non-American's.

First of all, I haven't a clue sometimes what you are all talking about: - what's an ASE? a vdbc (or whatever it was)? They're just alphabet soup to me. No, I'm not looking for an education right now! Just giving another perspective. So while you guys might be sick of the sight of them, or hearing people talk about them, they'd probably attract quite a bit of interest anywhere else - simply as representatives of some other part of the world.

Secondly, as an Aussie, I reckon all those large pennies and ha'pennies I grew up with are fairly boring - except for a couple that are hard to find - but I'd still have the very first US quarter I ever picked up in change at the milk bar as a kid, if it weren't for a very involved series of circumstances that are irrelevant right now. It was such an interesting and, yes, a different kind of coin.

After all that, I'd like to paraphrase Ardatirion's sentence: "Personally, I think all US coins are over collected" thus: "Personally, I think all coins of just about any country are over collected by the citizens of that country."

Or more precisely, perhaps: Any coin collected more by the citizens of the issuing nation than by those of all other nations is probably not quite as noteworthy as the first group of citizens think it is.

Of course, we have to allow for pride in one's country and community; in a very real sense, coins, stamps, medals and banknotes represent a significant part of the shared cultural capital of a nation or community. And so that "everyone ... [should] have an opportunity to collect", it makes sense that many of us begin by collecting the most interesting coins we find in pocket change (or stamps on the envelopes we get in the mail). In some countries where poverty is endemic, even that form of collecting is simply impractical.

And I, too, would "take a unique coin over a coin in a unique grade any day". I''m not a condition collector; all I ask is that the major design features of the coin are reasonably easy to discern, because my interests centre more on design and history than on monetary value. (Of course, if I do get a coin in excellent condition, I try to keep it looking good.) But rarity, by itself, doesn't much interest me, except in so far as it hinders my completing a series or set, or (sometimes) even seeing a good likeness of an object.

So although I do have a moderately complete collection of commoner Australian types, I'm actually much more excited by my Chinese collections, both the cast "cash" coins (mostly bronze) and the machine-struck silver dollars. I also have the nucleus of a collection of many different kinds of token, which I aim to grow gradually as circumstances permit. And I'm now reading up on East Asian charms (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam), and looking forward to beginning a representative collection of some of the better designs - considered as miniature artworks.

In the sense that these collections are personal and idiosyncratic, are not driven by monetary value, and (to some extent) are not chosen because they are fairly accessible, I don't expect to contribute greatly to the kind of "over-collecting" that will make it harder for other collectors to find what they like. But anyone who aims first and foremost at acquiring the rarest specimens certainly does contribute to such over-collecting. I suspect that if we all collected just what we actually liked and enjoyed, in itself, the competition between us'd be a little less severe ...

 

fixed??

 

I'm voting for all the first day of issue coins even though I've bought three of each of the FDOI presidential dollar issued so far by the mint. Why am I buying them; I don't know? Call me a fool but I'm also still investing in the stock market despite the PONZI scheme that it represents?