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Collectors Society - W.K.F.'s Journal Entry
A Very Beautiful Coin Series...
Posted: 10/30/2009 5:04:27 PM
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I don't own but one of these slabbed but....
Greetings Collectors,
I am leaving to go back to Jacksonville Fl. in the morning after spending the week with my dad. While I was here I had the unfortunate occurance of having my transmission go out on my van. When something like this happens, as in a large expenditure, I always think of what coin or coins I could have bought with the money. Is this "sick" or what? Anyway while I have had the chance to spend some quality time with my 81 year old father, I was very disappointed that I forgot to bring the charger for my digital camera battery thus not being able to take any pictures while I have been here. Being away from my PC where all my photo pics taken recently are stored, I had no way of posting any shots while I have been away. Then it hit me. I still have the pics Andrew (krytencoins) from Australia had sent me via e-mail. I am not a computer person but I am proud to say, I was able to open them and load them to my dads PC and now I have a few pics with me. Guys I am really "eat up" with this "photo stuff" and that coupled with the thought of Six Mile Rick " going into a severe case of "withdrawals" I figured for his sake, I would attempt this task of taking an e-mailed pic and getting it to a place I could pull it from and post it.
So anyway the Barber coin series, the half, quarter and dime, take me back to the day, early on in my coin collecting past. These along with the "V" nickel, the Buffalo's, "Merc's and "Wheaties" and a very few old worn AG Morgan and Peace dollars were the vast majority of my collection way back then. I never owned a coin in that era that would grade now as a "BU". I can't recall even having what would have been considered a "slider" by todays grading standards. In the last 4-6 years, I have been on a vast number of "coin kicks", as in, I would, for a time, start buying Morgan dollars, then it would be Peace dollars, then I would change to Mercury dimes and then back to "Walker" halves, then over to modern $5 gold eagles. It seems like I have jumped all over the place for a several week or couple of month period and then almost always returned to one of my favorites ie, Franklin halves, pre 1933 gold etc. My point being is that with the coin pictured here, I keep coming back to it and the whole design of it and I am starting to feel a desire to start a set of these "Barber dimes". (I feel the beginings of another "monster" created, as in "It is aliv v v v e") The obverse I have always liked but the reverse is a work of art also, the wreath reminds me of the reverse of the $3 & $1 gold coins of the mid 1800's. I love the way it says in big letters, "one dime". Exquisit artwork as so many of our "older" U.S. coins have. It's just that I feel that attachment "urge" welling up inside me, that makes me want a few more of this particular series. I can't really explain it other than while I saw this coin and I really liked it and the price was right and was only buying it to add another 19th century "type coin" to my collection, more has happened & bottom line is, I like this coin and the series in general way more than I thought I would and now I want to add to it. This is ALWAYS the way it begins. Just don't know why and when this "feeling" will come over me, I often wonder if any other collectors feel this exact same way? But enough "rambling", I just wanted to share this "double pic" with the rest of you and hope that all of you had a good week and here's hoping your weekend goes well also. I leave you with "both sides" of my only slabbed "Barber Dime" PCGS MS 63
Again as I always say, "I hope all of you are having fun with your coins" and again, "Happy Collecting!", WKF
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