What do you collect and how do you display/show it?

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  1. charlottedude

    charlottedude Novice Collector

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  3. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    So sweet. Lovely pieces and all in order. Very nice.
     
  4. RonSanderson

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    So far I collect the same things I hoped to find when I was sorting pocket change in the mid-1960’s - early 20th century classic designs. I have a few Morgans and Indian Head cents starting at 1879, but very little older and essentially nothing modern unless it continues a series, like Lincolns or Jeffersons.

    I take pictures of each coin and make animations, like I post here fairly regularly. I am a software guy, so I wrote an application to replace the Windows desktop display with a randomly ordered display of the animations. Each shows for 15 seconds and then moves to another one.

    I have two main computers and four monitors on my desk. That means 16 coins a minute come up for display.

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    Here, for example, is how the left monitor and right-hand monitor would be showing these 2006-S and 1930-D cents.
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    01c 1930-D full 01.gif
     
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  5. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    I love your animations, Ron. I know you post on the “follow this” thread a lot. Always amazed with your work.
     
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  6. Lehigh96

    Lehigh96 Toning Enthusiast

    It has been a while since I updated my Jefferson Nickel collection photo, the only hole left to fill is the 1963-D.

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  7. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    Re: Jefferson Nickels - So do you now have the 58, 61D and 62D? or were there none in those years? I would guess that part of fun of collecting these is that in most cases there are probably plenty of them so you can look for really nice/interesting pieces, which you have done for sure. Is the 63D a key coin? A lot of the coins in this collection have beautiful toning but are also high grade uncirculated coins.... Would we assume they were in albums for a long time? Thanks for posting. Nice collection and good pics. Why nickels for you?
     
  8. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    A little follow up - a nice looking 1840D quarter eagle - VF35 details (ANACS - removed from jewelry) sold on Heritage last nite. I put a couple of bids on it - it looked like a decent piece - sold for over 4K. I would have gone 3K but even then I probably wouldn't have felt all that good about it. I'm beginning to doubt I will ever get to 100% in my 1840 mint set. Oh well, there are obviously far more important things to deal with these days. I hope everyone is staying safe. Seems like a lot of the folks who participate in this forum are, like me, "of a certain age" (baby boomers?). Enjoy the life you have. One reason I collect things is a vision of when I'm gone my grandchildren will see this stuff and think "wow, he had some really cool stuff". I also collect old pocket knives and some musical instruments - I have a chromatic harmonica museum on a shelf in my office. Fortunately all of these things are small (most of my musical instruments are small, harmonicas, violins, etc. I don't "collect" guitars). I have friends who collect guitars and some who collect old cars! They have to build humidified rooms and garages just to take care of them. Wow!
     
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  9. Lehigh96

    Lehigh96 Toning Enthusiast

    Yes, I have the 58, 61-D, and 62-D, The 63-D isn't a key date, there are plenty of them out there, but none that meet my standards. I am looking for a premium gem with some measure of attractive toning, can't find it. And yes, the majority of Jefferson Nickel toners are target toned from spending years/decades in albums. I used to just collect anything with toning, but in 2008 I purchased several Appalachian Hoard Jefferson Nickels from Anaconda, and that jump started a war nickel collection that eventually expanded to a full Jefferson Nickel collection. Anyway, here are the missing three nickels.

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  10. fiddlehead

    fiddlehead Well-Known Member

    Interesting, yes. For me it has made sense to focus on one issue, mint, date or something, even if it is means having some sub-sets - otherwise it's just everything, anytime, anywhere and to me that kind of limits the fun of it. And one develops some expertise in the idiosyncrasies of a particular year, mint or whatever. The hunter gatherer instinct needs a focus! haha. I can see where the nickel would be good - for one thing lots of people put them in albums. Do you think there is any particular reason why you've found it more difficult to find the right 63D as opposed to others. Are the more recent issues, like the 63, more difficult to find with interesting toning or other aesthetic characteristics than earlier issues?
     
  11. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Well done!!
     
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  12. buzzard

    buzzard Active Member

    I love the old commems, Just startd collecting these, Each coin has a story to tell.
     
  13. Gallienus

    Gallienus coinsandhistory.com

    That's very interesting about the 1840 reverse of 38 half dollar. I should look into that article. Sometime around 1978 or 79 I bought a group of high grade (probably AU 55-58's today) Seated Half Dollars for $30 apiece. They were from an old date set that was being broken up. Included in that set was an 1839-P with drapery seated half. I wonder if they did the same thing with those coins? Probably not as the 1839-O Bust Half was made in large numbers so there'd be no need to strike a Seated one in New Orleans? Still I should photo my piece and look at the reverse.

    Oh, on the coin shows they can be a lot of fun. I always have had really bad luck with US coin dealers tho. They're without exception always nasty to me: I don't know why. I try to observe all the usual coin show etiquette, not bothering them if they have other people buying stuff, not asking to see coins I don't buy, dressing well, not asking dumb {or any} questions. I wouldn't even know how to buy a US coin at a show anymore...

    This is a very impressive collection of these beautiful half eagles. I've never had one of these early gold coins but always dreamed of owning one. For a long time I was discouraged by the high prices of the Turban Head eagles. Recently I've come to like the half eagles more as I think these pieces are closer to what was used in commerce of the days. The eagles were almost too valuable for anyone to spend. Also the half eagles have more of a continuity as they were produced throughout the 19th century, in many different types, unlike the eagles.

    Recently a friend of mine finished a mini type set of 4 of these pieces dating from 1806 until the 1830's.
     
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