Reverse proof Roosevelt dime most significant coin of century.

Yep, they’re Neanderthals - they react based on "gut feelings", little cerebral activity.

 

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Are you one of them that forgot what a barber is? Forgot what a toothbrush is? Lives in a van .... down by the RIVER? Then it's you I'm talking about. Otherwise? No.

I was at a sale a couple of Saturdays ago. "Gazillions" of ounces of silver. 2 100 ounce bars. Several dozen 10's. Hundreds and hundreds of loose rounds and ASE's. Several full tubes of 2010 and 2011 ASE's. Most of it went for under $16 an ounce. Stupidity on steroids, whether the owner was dead or alive. I'm sure he stacked like mad because the currency was gonna collapse. Pfffft!

I bought 3 coins: an XF 1909-S Lincoln cent (non-VDB); a 2011 BU U.S. Army commem $ at about half of original issue price; and an MS67 (my opinion) 1939 (philly) nickel Reverse of 1938.

 

Yeah, I'm educated, in economics, from the 2nd most strident Keynesian economics department in the U.S., behind only Harvard. I believe Austrian School economics, from which stacking sensibilities flow, is the stupidest economic paradigm ever invented.

 

Oh, sorry. Thought I was on the bullion forum.

As you were. Carry on fellows........

 

Yes, The "golden rule" is not to buy coins that they made yesterday. If I were buying coins for my grandkids today? I'd buy them a few MS Barber coins, standing lib quarters and buff nickels in the teen's & 20's....IMO, these are "real numismatic" coins...

 

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Would you give these as a gift sunday ?

Or slab in two coin holder PCGS 70 set ?

Which one

Seriously a small portion of the cost from these sets goes to women in need and how cool is that with mothers day right around the corner !

 

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Do you deny that every one of those was once " made yesterday"? If nobody collects today's made yesterday's, there will be no new classics tomorrow. ALL coins are real and numismatic enough to be respected when they are carefully conserved and curated. ALL OF THEM! No exceptions!

 

All 75,000 (PR70/69) pieces! it is a rarity if you own a PR68 piece..

 

some will get lost, damaged, melted, circulated, etc

 

Well, it would be a condition rarity, right?

 

I imagine a young child in Hiroshima on August 5, 1945 holding a shiny new fen in his hand, and his grandfather telling him it will be around long after he is gone. As it turns out, it was precisely a tie.

 

I also imagine the grading rooms at NGC and PCGS doing a run of silver dimes from these sets. One guy repeatedly flips one of the March of Dimes dollars, and yells "69!" if it comes up on the FDR and Jonas Salk side, and "70!" if it comes up on the baby side. Another man is grabbing another label off the appropriate pile and pushes it on to the sonic sealer room. And nobody ever looks at the dimes.

 

I want to laugh, but I can't......

 

No, but I wasn't born in the teen's. I love buying "type coins" before my time, b/c 30 yrs from now I don't wanna hear my grandkids asking me the Q ...hey grandpa, why didn't you buy me some MS type coins from the teen's & 20's instead of these 21 century coins?

 

Chances are they won't give a blank about old coins.

 

Fair enough, but I don't want to be asked why there aren't any coins more relevant to their lives and that of their father (my son).

 

Hate to break the classic guys' hearts, but I think you're right. What I know is that I couldn't give a rat's about anything from the Barber era and back other than by type. The only stuff I'll ever care about by date are the series that started more or less about 100 years ago. It's stuff I saw in circulation during my time.

 

I do! ...wish my grandpa have had left me a few MS/PR bust and seated coins.

 

Why? To have, or to turn a profit?