Is your favorite coin your most expensive?
Justacommeman
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My favorite silver Federal coin is far from my most expensive. It came from dealer friend John Agre via one of my good collector friends Mike Stefano so it has value added sentiment. Something about this coin just speaks to me a little louder then the others
Post yours if you are in the same boat.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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My favorite and not the most expensive.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Mike comes up with some great stuff - doesn't surprise me it came from hi via John.
I really like this PCGS 1907 Wire Rim for a variety of reasons and its not the most expensive. Just has a special look to me.
My favorite. Pulled from a junk pile and still raw.
Tough call but this might be my favorite that’s not my most expensive
The one I just can't "not" look at every time I plow through the boxes is a Flying Eagle in VF.
No, but close.
Well-said @Justacommeman Some coins do just speak to you. That Kennedy I posted does speak to me. In fact, it speaks so powerfully, even @ricko had this to say about it when I posted it awhile back.
If @ricko gives ANY sort of compliment to a coin with tarnish, you know it's a keeper.
My favorite coins are not the most expense pieces. I have a 1796 No Stars Quarter Eagle and an 1808 Quarter Eagle. Neither of them are my favorites. I like them, but other pieces command more of my interest.
Although not my most expensive $20 Gold Double Eagle (1890-CC & 1893-CC) this one really speaks to me.
It’s probably the most Attractive & Eye-Appealing MS-61 coin that I own. 😁
1873 (Open 3) $20 Liberty (Type 2) Double Eagle - PCGS MS-61
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Not my most expensive silver coin, but a favorite:
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I mostly collect exonumia, but I do have some coins. One of my favorite coins is one of my two Seated dollars. Another candidate would be my Dan Carr Winged Liberty double eagle overstrike.
The first seated quarter I ever bought was a somewhat scarce 1843-0 back in 1974 via a Coin World ad from a West Virginia coin dealer - paid $14. It was the first date/mm in the series I fell in love with. I tried to buy every 43-0 I saw back then. And that first one had a crude pair of deep X's carved into the obverse fields. What was I thinking?
It wasn't until 35 or so years later that I found it again around the house and noticed it was the much scarcer "large O" variety. Rather than a life-time burial, I sold it at the FUN show for $35 to someone who appreciated it. As luck would have it, I ran across another one of these in the wild about 12 yrs ago at my local coin shop....in a junk silver pile possibly headed to the smelter. Also a large O and in essentially PO-01 "all wear" grade....paid $8 for it. Pretty sure this is the least expensive seated coin I own. It could just be my favorite coin.
I have two tied for favorite. I seriously can't pick one over the other. They are 3rd and 4th behind the most expensive.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
One of my least expensive coins, also one of my favorites.
It's my lowest $ coin and is dragging my registry set down but I won't upgrade it.
sent it in for a 65+ and host wasn't having it.
Show me a 15-S with any kind of toning....Even the big guys are hard pressed to do so.
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Not really, but there's a strong correlation.
It’s been quite a while since I posted Images of my Forum Avatar Coin — Certainly one of my favorites!!😁👍
1799 AU Draped Bust Dollar (B-10, BB-163) - Blue Peripheral Target Toning
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
No.
I, seriously, really like all of my coins, so 'no', my most expensive one is not my favorite.
One coin I would never ever sell is my 1882 CC GSA given to me by my father. It's definitely the most sentimental.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
OK.
Never mind.
Some great coins all!
Not my most expensive:
“Is your favorite coin your most expensive?”
Yes
I will say no, I have three that come to mind. One is my 1851 seated dollar, 1849 gold dollar. But I’m posting this one that I hold dear.
My goodness.
I just don't understand this freakin' forum. Sometimes posts post ... other times they don't. AGAIN I GET SOME FREAKIN' MESSAGE ABOUT SOME KINDA FREAKIN' "APPROVAL"!!! ... WTF is with this stupid forum?!?
It will say your message will be posted when it is approved if you try to post images with no text. Just putting a
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I like every coin in my collection, I suppose if I followed some mantra like a box of twenty it would be easy to pick just one as a favorite but that is not my style. I really like this one and it is far from the most expensive heck its not even in the correct plastic for most on this board. Haha
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These are my favorites ...
NO ... they are NOT the cheap reconditioned type. I just didn't know how to take good pics at that time.
No
My 1866 Philly Mint Set
Not my most expensive, Since I'm a Philly guy I always have one of these.
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It was.
My favorite has bounced around over the years, but always comes back to also my most "expensive", which I guess means valuable, since it cost me nothing. The sentimental value plus real value inspired a lifelong interest in coins.
For me, likely yes. My 1868 $3 I suppose is my favorite, but I have a few others that were a lot less but I like almost as much...
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But these two were half the price but I’m very happy with them:
And this.
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Design / eye appeal holds more sway with me than my cost in it.
Here's my favorite. Still raw.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
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Probably not, thought it depends on the day and the coin I am looking at.
It’s hard to pick a favorite but it would probably be this one:
It was my most expensive coin when I bought it but two others have since passed it. However, I believe if auctioned now it would beat the other two.
It's not my most expensive but it is my first coin in the series that i bought. it set the tone for what i collect in terms of quality and rarity.
Hard to pick my most favorite but many days it's my tiny 1613 British farthing which still has its silver tin coating on it-- struck for only 3 months and has a strong connection to pre-1630 Virginia. Not nearly my most expensive though.
If it isn't, start spending less on your coins 'til it is.
Not my most expensive. But a little dear.
This is an R5 bust half in PCGS 58+, a very elusive grade for the series, unlike many others.
Lance.
Nice coins.
I could love them all especially the '44 WLH in the OP!
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Expensive by any mean because IT IS and even more because it is a thoughtful gift from 40 members