End of World War II gold eagle proof on sale Nov 5, 12 PM ET

Aren't a LOT of collections really status symbols? Many even have the collector's names on them, and famous ones appear on the slabs. Although meager by comparison to so many great collections, my collection is a source of pride for me, and not something that just anyone could have. I think that is a form of status symbol.

If I am lucky enough to get one of these coins, it will go into my collection - not into the secondary market. Same for the ASE coin, which I want even more than this coin because I have a bigger collection of ASEs and it would feel somewhat incomplete to me without this one. YMMV, of course.

Collect what you like, and like what you collect!

 

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Exactly. My collection started 72 years ago and it is based upon coins that were in circulation and have eye appeal. I never cared about MS this or MS that. I hope you get one. You will let us know!

 

Completely false, and people and this hobby in general really need to stop trashing things and being demeaning towards them just because they don't like it.

 

Thx. Mine started more recently (1963) and started out as a hobby to see all the different types and dates of coins I could find in my grandpa's change. It was NOT unusual at that time to find coins that were more than 50 years old, and there was a LOT of variety . . . Indian head cents (and Lincolns, of course), Buffalo nickels (and Jeffersons), Mercury dimes (and Roosevelts), standing Liberty quarters (kind of rare, even back then) (and Washingtons) . . . "wheat" cents were no big deal. Didn't give a thought to silver coins - ALL dimes, quarters and halves were silver!

Now that I'm about the same age as grandpa was back then, about the only "old" coins I ever find in change are those hated 1964 Jefferson Nickels . VERY rarely even a meager wheat cent. It's just not the same.

 

Hmm. Maybe I'll try to get one of these, and consider trading it for 2 ASEs, the 1995 W Proof and the 2019 Enhanced that I missed out on, so I can have a complete set of ASEs. Then again, if I could sell it for even 10k, I could buy both of those and have some money left over, maybe for a nice 1916 D Mercury, to complete that collection