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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 713800, member: 16510"]Here is the winner, well thought out and includes many truly rare coins  Here is the winner, John please pm me and I will send you the star note.We had three good complete lists - I wish there were more but, I was hoping to get folks out of most of the 1900's and the more popular coins.Truly rare coins are the ones we don't see often and are not always popular by a long shot but they are rare.As I said I quickly wrote down a total of 169 coins within 24 series of coins that I felt would qualify.  Maybe it was a little too complicated but that's my fault.  I counted a series as Liberty Nickels, Shield Nickels would be a different series and so on.Seated dollars are one series that we overlook often IMO.  Almost all are rare and when is the last time you saw a dealers caes full of them if ever???So are dimes esp. from 1844 to the 1890's, quarters and halves also, I think very over looked all of them.There are many within these that offer the smart researcher a chance to buy very, very rare coins that are still good bargins.There was hardly any copper that I thought would qualify, (4-one cents and 1, 2-cent pcs.) and to me copper is king!  Reason? - many, many numbers were minted and they are widely saved, collected, and sought after. The whole point of this was to get folks thinking away from 09-S VDB's, 16-D dimes, and such as that - they are everywhere.  They are nice, they are expensive, they are popular but they are not rare, at least not rare as so many others are and these others are overlooked and if your going to "get" this stuff and learn it then you will need to dig a little deeper.  Again I ask you, as I always ask myself, what am I not seeing at this show, in this case, or at this store and why are those coins to, not here???That was the whole point of this contest.Thanks!!![/QUOTE]

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