My Type Set

Great job Cave. First time I have seen a religious set together. All HOLEY..... (pun) It really is a shame that some of those coins were speared, but, I see there is a great use for them now. Fantastic idea and congrats.... Watching here as I go through this latest purchase to see if there are any of them in it. If so I know where they are headed.

 

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Very cool collection. I have a holed 1855 Lg Cent and found 2 holed halves in my last roll search, but I haven't run accross any other ones.

 

Your collection may not be for everyone, but I sure think it's neat! Congratulations!

 

Very nice! Thanks for sharing...Mike

 

very cool!
and its nice becuase they are cheaper

i actually found a 1974 Clad Quarter with a hole in it, in change, lol.
(and kept it)

 

Interesting concept. Holed coins are a part of history, unfortunately not everyone agrees about that. It's a shame that so many otherwise good coins have been holed. How do the prices compare in buying holed coins vs non-holed ones?

 

If you look on Ebay, holed coins are cheap, but not as cheap as they "should" be in my opinion. It's probably better to seach through the inventory at coin dealers. I sort of thought that a holed coin should sell for about 1/4 to 1/3 of the price that the coin would cost in the same condition but without the hole. I don't know if this is correct. Holes are major damage, but holed coins are still obviously collectible.

 

I have found that the 1/3 to 1/4 rule usually applies, unless the coin is AU or better or a key date (in both cases the holed coin is worth less than 1/4 of an unholed example). I figure that my set cost me in the neighborhood of $500.

 

Funny, several of the coins you holed yourself are the ones I have come across. Clad quarter 1967 was a detector find, clad dime ,also 1967 came out of the candy machine at work and an old jefferson nickel that I've had since I was a kid.

 

Please poke one large enough to see only the hole and no coin! Sorry, just kidding. :high5:

 

why do suppose the holes were put in those coins?

 

All this made me spit schweppes ginger ale about, glad I didn't have any coins out near my pc workstation!

 

Way Cool !!!!
Glad this got bumped, Hobo I think is working an a 7070 hole set, he'll love this.

That 1st Capped Bust half is painful to look at, wow !!!

 

Awesome set.

One quesiton: So how many did you have to cheat on and hole yourself, Cave?

 

LOL, nice. :thumb:

That's a neat set Troll, keep it up! :thumb:

Phoenix

 

Troll , great collection , I once read of a guy who collected mostly holed coins , he had a hat & vest with coin hanging everywhere , do you know him ?
rzage

 

Lord Marcovan, he has posted a very interesting story about one of his bust halfs.........I'll see if I can dig it up for another thread.

 

I saw this in an up coming auction and thought of you Nice collection...

 

I thought they were all from the New Orleans mint.