I'm sure it's all individual taste, but I just don't understand wanting to collect a coin that looks like it was run over by a freight train. I suppose as long as you don't clean them.. it's ok Pt. 2.. what is with people wanting waffle coins.. Coin collecting is getting wierd
Well, some folks like chocolate - some like vanilla. But every now and then you find somebody who likes pistachio
Coin collecting is getting wierd I used to collect clad 1965 Washington Quarters from change. Before I cashed them all (over $40 worth) in I even had them in a Dansco album. Interesting to see the wear (and damage) on 40 year old coins. Most still graded VG or better. - But I'm much better now. - No, Really! I am!
I agree about the waffle coins,Iv'e even seen them certified by NGC,the slab is probably worth more than the coin which i guess is no longer even face value since it's cancelled.
Please no more of this "error" coin talk, at least not in mixed company. Around here I prefer to call them "oddities". That seems to cover it fairly well.
I don't get the error thing either, i've been collecting several years and i still don't understand the attraction. I don't suppose i ever will.
Cool stuff Becky !! I guess some folks just wouldn't have them though !! Im not one of them !!! I would love to have those coins !! Never stop looking for the pistachio !!! Rick
Hi, There is supposed to be a fair amount of quality control at our modern Mint facilities. When a coin falls outside the norm, it is not supposed to escape the Mint. Of course many do but some are extremely rare. Some of us like the different. As an Analogy, millions of people may own a Ford Taurus as they have similar tastes, some of us, on the other hand, get a kick out of having the unusual like this 1963 Buick I once owned Have Fun, Bill
That’s the thing about the waffle coins, thier not error’s; I guess originally they were until the mint destroys them. So basically what you have is a cancelled/destroyed error coin, in an NGC slab, just doesn’t do it for me.
Well think of it this way an 1877 Indian Head is a great coin for any collector but a rare error coin is just as exciting for those (myself included) who enjoy searching through thousands if not millions of coins. Ben
“oddities”, is a good description of this side of the hobby. I started with a few oddities. Then lead to an education and now a bit of on addiction. A lot of these things are coming from weirdo’s looking through 1000’s of coins with a 20x loop. Besides, even the really ugly coin needs good home.
Soooo....I guess that makes for light side, dark side, and odd side collectors Error collecting has other facets too such as the ability to track the life and death of a particular die (die-cracks, cuds, etc.)....which is just an extension of a facination in the process of minting coins....which of course ALL of numismatics depends on I guess then you could say error vs other collecting is like software developing vs just using the program. Some of us like to know how the program is created, works, and what happens when it goes wrong.....other just want to use the program
Ah well that is where i now understand why errors do nothing for me. I have no interest in how coins are minted, to me it's not how they are minted by why are they minted and who minted them? I actually care little for coins, my passion is history, coins are just a cheaper way of owning a bit of history. Well cheaper and easier to store than a medieval tapestry and or castle. Cathedrals go down well though. As do Psalter books and original manuscripts like Magna Carta. But none come on the market very often (ecept for pages out of psalters) so coins are my only way of physically connecting myself with the periods i study.
As someone who collects the different holder varieties that the grading services have produced, I won't call any other collector weird for what interests them. I find the waffle coins ineresting as an example of what the mit does in order to cancel coins before shipping to the scapper. I see it as a legitimate operation that the mint undertakes and therefor worthwhile of study. By the way these are also slabbed by Global Certification Service as well now.
Bill, what is so different about your 63 Buick? Looks exactly like the one I drove for many years. Now if it had been issued with a Chevrolet grill and a Pontiac bumper, it would have been an oddity. But then I doubt that they would have ever sold it in the first place, and you sure wouldn't have wanted it for the an increased price. Right?
Way to go OldDan I still call most things that are not normal odditys...but many a people have looked at me reallllly funny when I say it Speedy
Hi Old Dan, The unusual is in the details. Its a '63 Buick Wildcat, around 12,000 made. The unusual part, admittedly is tough to make out. It has an original cream colored vinyl top. One of very few that were made that way. Almost all were, if two toned, painted that way. Also, the front bumper is called a One Plate State bumper. No pre-drilled holes for a plate on the front bumper. I don't want to get too far off topic. If we want to go on with the car, we can move to another section of the forums. Have Fun, Bill
