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New guy on the bourse...

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montana-migration

montana-migration

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One of your (our) esteemed collectors suggested I introduce myself and elaborate on my collection interests.

Here goes...

 

My name is Don, I'm from various places (I'm never lost, people always tell me where to go!) but currently reside in Wisconsin. From Montana originally where my father was a silver dollar collector.

 

I also love the Morgan and Peace dollars, especially origianlly seasoned toners, no AT for me, thank you, and I have seen a ton.

 

My area of immediate focus is finishing my Disney Dollar and coin collection and American Silver Eagles in high end unc and proof.

 

My type set has been calling my name and calling me names for not working on it, so that is where I'll be delving into next. foreheadslap.gif

 

Thanks, all! sign-rantpost.gif

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dakra

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Welcome Aboard Montana!

It's always nice to see a new face on the boards. Me, I collect everything and everything. My main focus right now is my Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Washington collections. Although most of them are complete, I will most likely be forever looking to upgrade the coins in my collection.

 

On the side I collect any odd thing but also hope to work on Buffalo Nickels, Civil War tokens, a few Morgans here and there and I'm probably going to build another Peace Dollar collection. I love my Silver Eagles, I have one from each year and I'm now working on getting a roll for each year. aside from that, I collect modern coins mostly proof sets and mint sets.

 

It's a bit laid back here so don't worry if you don't get a ton of responses right away.

 

 

Dave

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Wihlborg

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Don,

 

Once again, welcome to the board, and thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself. There are a number of friendly collectors who post here that are very knowledgeable about the different series they collect, and in fact about coins in general.

 

I hope you enjoy it here! smile.gif

 

John

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montana-migration

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Thanks for the greatings dakra and Wihlborg!

Wihlborg, I'm going to enjoy looking at your commems and buffalos, I think I spotted some KILLER toned examples in there earlier!

Looks like dakra collects everything but lint hair. lol!

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Welcome montana Don! Hey, I happen to live in your home state! Not many of us knocking around these boards who live in this black hole of numismatics. insane.gif

 

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welcome to the boards 893applaud-thumb.gif i am sure you will really enjoy it here

 

if you have photos of some of your toned dollar collection please post them here we would love to see them!

 

 

michael

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Welcome Montana! And being born and raised in Chicago, I can only scratch my head at your choice of the land of cheddar over big sky country! tongue.gif (though I am sure by now you know all the nice colloquialisms for people from Illinois 893whatthe.gif). I share your interest in silver eagles, though none of mine are certified (so I guess they aren't high grade foreheadslap.gif but I enjoy them nonetheless. My main interest is in Saints, as my signature suggests. Welcome again and enjoy yourself on the board!

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Howdy montana and welcome. I think my type set and your type set have been talking to one another. gossip.gif We better watch out! shocked.gif

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TomB,

You have a great site. Still looking it over. I've been struggling a bit with my photography/scanning as well trying to get some techniques ironed out. I'll post some of my coins, especially the toners later on.

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'Lucille..' (spoken in 'Little Richard', if ya know what I mean...)

 

Thanks for your post! I have read numerous posts of yours and already viewed a number of your pieces you've posted here and elsewhere.

I'm feeling a bit blessed by your presence (please don't get all mushy, K?) and apprecaite a lady's touch in these 'collectin' matters.

 

I took a few photos of some of my toned Barbers last night and am a bit disappointed in the sharpness my lil ole 1.3 megapixile camera can produce. I get better colors and some original luster to come out over scanning with my old UMAX Astra 1200S.

 

Any tips,girl?

Thanks,

Don

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I took a few photos of some of my toned Barbers last night and am a bit disappointed in the sharpness my lil ole 1.3 megapixile camera can produce. I get better colors and some original luster to come out over scanning with my old UMAX Astra 1200S.

 

 

Heh Heh... A Camera upgrade maybe in order..... Such as a Nikon with excellent Macro mode...

 

Usually Scans lose the luster......

 

I always shoot my coins in a room that is bright from natural sunlight....

 

I can usually capture the colors and the luster quite well, under normal natural sunlight....

 

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I may as well introduce myself as well! I'm brand new to the "coin world" and only got started about three months ago after my grandmother died and I inherited by grandfather's collection (he died 10 years earlier).

 

I'm pretty much clueless. I bought the red book and subscribed to coin world and still havent really figured out whats worth buying, keeping, or selling. The collection was mostly morgans, peace dollars, and eagles...I've been working on completing the collections.

 

Just to throw a question out there...whats worth certifying with one of the companies and what should I just keep raw? I have a million loose proof coins (still in the original packaging but cut up to give to grandchildren), proof sets, morgans, and peace dollars...not to mention the mounds of pennies and halves.

 

And how can I find out the value of certified "error" coins?

 

Thanks!

-Jill

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I'm sorry to hear of your loss, jhollan2.

 

As for some of your questions, you have an excellent start in getting and reading the Red Book, however, you may also want to invest a similar sum of money and buy a copy of the ANA Grading Guide. This will help much more in determining the grade of circulated coins. As for slabbing, if you intend to keep the coins for a bit, you may want to hold off on sending anything in until you decide what it is you would like to collect and/or sell.

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Welcome to the board Jill!

 

The question of what would be worth certifying is not easily answered without knowing exactly what coins you have. The ' worth' of a coin is dependent upon three main factors, it's date, where it was minted, and what condition it is in.

 

For instance you could have two different Morgan dollars, both in the same condition, but one could be worth only a few bucks and the other hundreds or even thousands. I see you already have a red book, so you should be able to check the coins to see if any of them are 'rare' dates. You can tell that by looking at the values that are listed in the red book, the coins with a higher value than other dates of the same type of coin, in the same grade are 'rarer'.

 

The hard part is going to be judging what condition or grade your coins are. TomB's suggestion to buy a copy of the ANA Grading Guide is a good one and should be a big help if any of the coins are in circulated condition. If any of your coins are mint state it will be much harder for someone new to coins to be able to grade them accurately. Whatever you do DO NOT clean the coins. There is no surer way to ruin the value of a coin than to clean it or try to make it brighter.

 

If you post exactly what you have (type of coin, date, and mint mark) I'm sure we could at least help in letting you know if the coin might be worth having certified.

 

Good luck

 

John

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Hi Jill and welcome. I'm also sorry to hear of your loss. You have very good advice as mentioned above. As for error coins Fred Weinberg knows his stuff. He has a website and is willing to lend his knowledge.

Fred Weinberg.

This site may also help.

It's also good to hear from another Montana collector out there. And welcome Don.

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I took your advice and shot off an email with a picture of the error coin, altough I still cant really see an error... I guess that I'm still in the "untrained eye" category.

 

Let me ask you guys a question about the sin of "cleaning" coins. I remember watching my grandfather spit shine a few of the coins. I know that all of them were not effected because he had them sealed in chinese food containers and taped with duct tape. If a few of these coins have been shined up are they destroyed forever or is there a way to salvage them, perhaps through NCS? The main coins I can identify are morgans, mostly common dates but a few in the 90's. Is it worth the effort?

 

-Jill

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Unless the coin is quite scarce, or even rare, expect to lose something in the neighborhood of 80-90% of the numismatic value for any cleaned coin.

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montana-migration

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Jill, if you mean 'spitting' on the coins and then wiping them with some sort of cloth, then they may exhibit some deterioration and wipe marks. They need to looked at with a 'seasoned' eye to be sure.

Welcom to the boards.

Coins can be restored depending on the oxidation or other contaminants present. Cleaning may not be the best word to use but restoration may be.

Regardless, they need to seen by a seasoned collector to be sure.

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