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Stu66

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Hi all, just a light hearted question, I have just started stacking with just half a dozen coins so far. I don't touch the silver and its all in capsules but I have a hankering  ( is that a word ) to jangle some about in my hands. So what's the best to jangle/rattle from hand to hand?... I fancy maybe some silver dollars or half dollars but never handled any ... half a dozen or so would seem about right.... more weight or less is best ?... now getting too technical. : ). ..  Any suggestions and comical replies welcome .

Cheers and good rattling

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Get a few Eagles or Mexican Libertads for about £15 each and fondle them at your leisure.
American Eagles & Libertads seem to be more resistant to handling than many other coins that mark if you dare to breathe on them.
They have a satin finish that doesn't show fine lines compared to highly polished coins.

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I have quite a few coins in capsules that I have never touched as I know that I am the first to own them.

But I have a couple of second hand full tubes, random year (all 2015, that is just what they're called on the site) philharmonics from Europeanmint.com and a tube of britannias that I got from this forum.

Both I got for an OK price and in both tubes most have milk spots, some severe some not that bad. But I handle them a lot, flick them up in the air, stack them in different piles and just jingle them around in my hand, I love it ☺️

One of the philharmonics even fell onto my tiled floor in the kitchen and has a small dent around the edge. 

I don't mind any damage like that though as the price I got them all for was good and can see the spot price most likely go up eventually to the price I got them for (1 year? 10 year? 20 year?) 

Also when I got my first tube it was another type of feeling. The first lot of coins I got were mostly all different, kookaburras, Perth mint rectangle dragons, pandas. Just got what I thought looked nice. But when I got my first tube of philharmonics, I dunno how to explain but there was 20 coins and they were all the same and just seeing the same design throughout, I imagined back to the days when silver was actually currency, dropping them in my hand and hearing them all jingle together. 

Haven't even been stacking for a year but this is just how I feel and I recommend you save up and get a second hand tube from the forum when one comes up, have 5-6 coins you keep on the top and have them to play with. 

You won't regret it 😉

4 hours ago, Pete said:

Get a few Eagles or Mexican Libertads for about £15 each and fondle them at your leisure.
American Eagles & Libertads seem to be more resistant to handling than many other coins that mark if you dare to breathe on them.
They have a satin finish that doesn't show fine lines compared to highly polished coins.

That's interesting about the silver eagles, will have to be my next tube 😊 see if the floor will dent them when I don't catch one flicking them in the air 🤣

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14 hours ago, 999magnum said:

It doesn't matter. It's just bullion.



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right?

 

 

It may just be bullion but I’d want a coin to be in nice nick.

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