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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3008085, member: 10461"]That's a good point. I suppose if you're an extremely specialized collector, and something as rare as the proverbial golden hen's tooth is in front of you, and you know another might not come on the market again for a generation or more, you have to make your move, and fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, I wouldn't really know. I've never been an <i>extremely</i> specialized collector, though when I was trying to build a <i>date set </i>of Seated dimes ... <i><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/">with love token reverses</a></i>, I tasted some of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>If an 1844 or 1846 dime with a love token reverse had shown up in front of me, I'd have pounced, even if the coin was PO1, smashed with a ballpeen hammer, and the engraving was a stick figure scratched into the coin with a rusty nail.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then there's pure dumb luck- I found a key date <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779187" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779187">1880 dime</a> love token in a bulk lot for $7.50, which I liked more than the one I had paid $125.00 for. You'd likely be waiting years to see another love token on an 1880 dime, since the host coin is 7.3 times rarer than the 1916-D dime, and then only a tiny fraction of the small mintage got made into love tokens. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there's the advantage to collecting "off the beaten track", in a narrow niche- nobody bothered to think about how rare the 1880 dime in that lot was, because it had been made into a love token![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3008085, member: 10461"]That's a good point. I suppose if you're an extremely specialized collector, and something as rare as the proverbial golden hen's tooth is in front of you, and you know another might not come on the market again for a generation or more, you have to make your move, and fast. Mind you, I wouldn't really know. I've never been an [I]extremely[/I] specialized collector, though when I was trying to build a [I]date set [/I]of Seated dimes ... [I][URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/']with love token reverses[/URL][/I], I tasted some of that. If an 1844 or 1846 dime with a love token reverse had shown up in front of me, I'd have pounced, even if the coin was PO1, smashed with a ballpeen hammer, and the engraving was a stick figure scratched into the coin with a rusty nail. But then there's pure dumb luck- I found a key date [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779187']1880 dime[/URL] love token in a bulk lot for $7.50, which I liked more than the one I had paid $125.00 for. You'd likely be waiting years to see another love token on an 1880 dime, since the host coin is 7.3 times rarer than the 1916-D dime, and then only a tiny fraction of the small mintage got made into love tokens. But there's the advantage to collecting "off the beaten track", in a narrow niche- nobody bothered to think about how rare the 1880 dime in that lot was, because it had been made into a love token![/QUOTE]
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