If you had the money . . .

I would be okay with a Gettysburg even if it wasn't a 64 or 65. I also wouldn't pass up a Pan Pac, Lafayette or Isabella in XF/AU if it had attractive surfaces.

Maybe this is off topic, but I would possibly spend the $500 on a nice large size type note instead, such as a solid VF Chief or XF-AU Woodchopper. I can be a bit ADHD in my collecting habits since there is so much that I like...

 

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I'd buy some gold

 

I will buy any nice 58's your have for under $500. A nicely toned 45 would also run around $500. So it really just depends what your tastes are.

 

Ouch, really? I am getting old. I used to collect Bust halves EF/AU and I do not believe I ever paid more than $200 for one, (a really pretty AU from the early teens). I guess my sons will appreciate the value when they inherit them all.

 

AU-58?

no way

AU 50 YES

 

Like I said before, depends what you want them to look like. Sold this coin for a lot more than $500 and I'll regret it till the day I die and its only a 45. I'd take this over a dull grey AU50 any day. (check it out on Rich Ulrich's website) You may not agree with me, but numbers don't lie!

 

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a seated dollar is kinda on my next buy list also. I had a chance about 3 weeks ago to buy a nice AU53 for about $800 but I let it go by. now I wish I had bought it. (sigh)

 

Well I can't fill either of the holes in the set for that so I guess I can't play today's game.

1815 and 1839-O

 

Pics?

 

I really don't know, to many to choose from, especially with only $500. Can I do a little mixing and matching?

 

Bought one $5 Indian head, 1911-S, better pics will follow soon...

 

Well, I've had a bit more time to ponder this approach. I understand that there will always be the spoiled older collector among us, that still has everything his dad had before him. Some collections will always be admired for their treasures and there will always be a newbie that I can make drool with my humble collection. All is fair.

Once again, I've picked up a couple more US coins and I must admit, you guys have the best variety, quality and availability of beautiful graded silver coins, for less than the actual cost of silver content and grading fees. This means that, in my opinion, unless you are lucky enough to be spoiled and saturated with only expensive US coins, for the average person, they are very affordable at a very high quality, graded and with tremendous designs on them, to boot.

 

But who said anything about "still has everything his dad had before him"? I did not inherit a single coin sir, my father could not afford to have a coin and not spend it to make ends meet. So, as to your "spoiled older collector" comment, I find it repugnant. I am 45 years, but simply have been around US coins and collecting them since I was 5 or 6. The fact that today there are not very many US coins that interest me is partially due to my extensive knowledge of the subject, (I nearly memorized the 1976 copy of the redbook), and the fact that since I now collect mainly ancients I find most US coin designs to be wanting in the design department.

So, maybe you should actually ask us before you assume I am some kind of trustfund baby idly pissing away my inheritance. I have worked hard for everything in life I have, including my coin collection. If that is offensive to you, so be it.

Btw, there ARE occasionally US coins I buy when I am at shows. Mainly out of boredom, but I have picked up a few bust halves, SL halves, and a couple of weeks ago a PCGS MS65 Oregon Trail that I found to be quite attractive for the issue. So I guess there are a few sub-$500 I will buy at times, but not much came to mind at the time. The one US coin I would intentionally go after and would love to own someday would be a 1793 AMERI. chain cent in a pleasant VG. I lusted after that coin as a child, as a young adult, and still today. Something about the documented first US circulating coin I find nearly irresistable.

 

Well then, you're not one of the lucky ones. Don't blame me, I only let my imagination go wild based on what I read. You jumped into the topic a certain way, I'm adding my colorful spin on it, after careful consideration.

PS. For me, everyone living in the US is spoiled and saturated with US coins. I'll trade you my Canadian quarters...

 

Well I did better than I thought on my wish list, I bought an MS Coronet head for under $500. I'll be posting it soon.

 

Don't take it so seriously. I wasn't even thinking trust fund, silver spoon, inheritance, etc. I was merely trying to differentiate between those that find $500 not enough for one new US coin, and those that can still add 10 - 20 US coins to their collection with that amount. I just keep seeing great deals on silver graded US coins, everywhere I look. I think you're reading way too much into my comments. I'll be happy to modify my thinking. I'll even invent a modesty index, where you'll be in the $500 - $5000 per coin category.

You know what, with comments like this, you're really making it hard not to joke around with you in this topic. I'm happy for you and jealous of such a US coin collection. I still think that for the average person, US coins in reputable slabs can be bought for a bargain.

 

I am just thinking you shouldn't be assuming someone who in not very interested in sub-$500 US coins as some kind of snob or something. I add coins to my collection all of the time sub-$500, in fact most additions are. I would say most of us here are no rich kids, but hardworking collectors who simply have already acquired any sub-$500 US coins that interest them. Excluding the Oregon Trail, my last purchase was a $180 Trajan tet, and before that it was a $15 Italy 500 lire celebrating Columbus. Its a really pretty coin, and glad I picked it up. My first numismatic love was US coins, specifically a worn 1942 version of your avatar. But, I now own about 400 of those coins, many in XF or above, so you are right I am now somewhat jaded.

Oh well, I bet I could find a ton of interesting Canadian coins I wouldn't mind owning that you would consider boring as well.

 

That's all I meant by spoiled and (possibly) having collecting as a tradition in the family, meaning all coins from dad, granddad, passed down. It's a great tradition, if you can continue such interest from one generation to another.

Yes, the Canadian Voyageur silver dollars are nice. The rest is pretty dull with repetitive designs and monarchs taking up the surface of each coin. I could never get into them. Polish and US coin designs trump the Canadian coins I have access to. Grass is always greener on the other side, I guess.