Merry Christmas! What coin did you get??

SurfinxHI

I’m hoping for something good from Santa!

Surf

Type2

Merry Christmas to all, I get to work for the next two weeks in the snow 24/7 no rest for the support team.

Twobitcollector

Merry Christmas

Jzyskowski1

The final piece to my reverse proof ase collection 😍

ricko

No coins as gifts..... Lots of other goodies though. Even a lovely bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon....Cheers, RickO

MWallace

@Jzyskowski1 said:
The final piece to my reverse proof ase collection 😍

I love the look of the Reverse Proof Silver Eagles.

johnny9434

Noo coins either. I guess I'm just happy and thankful to get up this am,fwiw 🙂

DoubleDime

My wife got me a NGC Proof 70 Ultra Cameo 2014 Canadian $20 Woolly Mammoth. Our new local hockey team are the Mammoth.

sellitstore

A VF 1957D Wheat Cent in change yesterday.

mirabela

Merry Christmas! No coin gifts here, but I got a tremendous home work station upgrade -- new router, new lamp, new powerstrip, new space heater, plus a hand-me-down 32" tv to use as an extended display monitor and the return of a bookcase I bought 20+ years ago that my son decided he no longer needs in his room. Taken all in all, serious office ergonomic / quality of life improvements.

Here's a piece I've been enjoying looking at under the newly improved illumination. It's the only coin I bought this year.

EagleScout2017

I haven't opened anything yet. I doubt I'll get any coins (or paper money) for Christmas. My parents can hardly tell the difference between a Roosevelt Dime and Mercury Dime, to begin with.

Glen2022

BOO-HOO A lump of coal!!!

Fraz

Merry Christmas!
A no-good in-law redeems himself some. Great pick. These are the pretty things that I do not buy for me.

@Jzyskowski1 said:
The final piece to my reverse proof ase collection 😍

Nice coin and accomplishment.

@Type2 said:
Merry Christmas to all, I get to work for the next two weeks in the snow 24/7 no rest for the support team.

Thank you.

gumby1234

I would rather not get coins for Christmas because my friends and family know nothing about coins. They have given me some in the past. All the stuff you see over hyped and over priced everywhere. Even if they found something nice like an ASE they most likely paid 3 times what you could get it for through normal channels.

Merry Christmas everyone and a healthy New Year.

Jzyskowski1

@gumby1234
I understand as most of the family doesn’t collect or even follow.
You received a pretty good recovery from a nasty injury and for that I know your grateful as are your friends and family and I happily add my name to that list. You’re a wonderful friend and contributer to the forum and for that, thanks. Jzyskowski and the herd😁🙀😸😽🦫

BillJones

I received this one less than a week before Christmas ... Many thanks to Heritage for getting this piece to me quickly. I didn't think I'd see it until after Christmas.

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I had thought about buying an example of this minor, and not often recognized gold type coin for a while. This piece represents an interesting piece of U.S. coinage history.

In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson suspended the coinage of the silver and the gold eagle or $10 gold piece. The reason was that he wanted to stem the flow of silver and gold from the U.S. economy. Jefferson thought that these large silver and gold pieces facilitated that flow. Little did he know that the United States would not issue any examples of these United States flagship coins for more than 30 years.

After the mint operation moved to the second Philadelphia on January 1, 1831, the mint turned its attention to modernizing its production processes and re-introducing the dollar and $10 gold piece.

The dollar returned in 1836. It was the Gobrecht Dollar named after the man who designed it, Christian Gobrecht. Gobrecht was sharing the chief engraver's salary with William Kneass who a suffered a partially debilitating stroke. These coins were struck in 1836 and '37 and were restruck in the 1850s.

Gobrecht created a design for the $10 gold coin in 1838. With a mintage of 7,200 coins and a low survival rate, the 1838 eagle is a very scarce coin. Gobrecht used the same design at the beginning of 1839. These coins are overdate pieces with a "9" over the "8 and are known as the "type of 1838." which the coin shown at the top of this post. With a mintage of 25,801, this coin is a bit more common, but still hard to find. Most of the survivors fall in the VF to EF grades. AU graded pieces and most especially strict Mint State pieces are quite rare.

Apparently, the mint officials were not totally satisfied with Golbrecht's first design. He modified it later in 1839. The most obvious change was that Ms. Liberty's ear was now uncovered. This design, with some minor changes, was current until 1907 when the St. Gaudens designs changed it. The biggest change was the addition of the motto, "In God we trust," to the reverse. Here is an example of the Liberty Head which replaced Gobrecht's first design.

bagofnickels

No actual coins here but lots of coin stuff. My family knows what I like which makes me feel quite blessed. Happy holidays to all here!

Smudge

I have to pick them myself.

Dscoin

I’ll let you know surf after GC auctions end tonight

pmh1nic

Not a U.S coin but a beautiful 5 oz silver Libertad

Pnies20

Catbert

@BillJones Nice new piece and I appreciate the education on its relevance to your collection and the history of the design. I don't collect gold, but it nonetheless was interesting to me.

As an aside, I'd love to own a Gobrecht dollar someday but they are too expensive for me.

Tomthemailcarrier

My subscription to the Numismatist was renewed by my wife. Another year as an ANA member. Just what I wanted.

johnny010

Picked this up last night while the girls were making sugar cookies.

Lew

I got this in the mail yesterday.

BuffaloIronTail

I got a rock.

Pete

justindan

It's my birthday! Bought myself this:

johnny010

@justindan said:
It's my birthday! Bought myself this:

Love this. Nice pickup.

erwindoc

I have a gift card to my favorite B&M. I'll get myself something nice this week, I hope.

IkesT

I got an off-Santa strike.

yspsales

I got Covid, but waiting on my colorful 5 coin Roosie sub to PCGS to pop.

vulcanize

Finally completed the Liberty Dimes Dansco album 7121 with lowball Barber dimes in the raw sans the 1893 3/2 and 1894 S Proof ofcourse, after pulling it out of storage.

** Edited to add picture.

asheland

@bagofnickels said:
No actual coins here but lots of coin stuff. My family knows what I like which makes me feel quite blessed. Happy holidays to all here!

Those Snow books are excellent!

asheland

I work at my friend’s B&M, I got this as my Christmas bonus,

asheland

And two friends sent me $25 each and I got this with the funds:

asheland

Happy with both! Pre33 gold and rabbits!

pmh1nic

@yspsales said:
I got Covid, but waiting on my colorful 5 coin Roosie sub to PCGS to pop.

Our traditional Christmas Eve family gathering had to be canceled due to two cases of Covid in the family. Feel better soon.

pmh1nic

@Pnies20 said:

You better not be naught next year .

golden

I got nothing. I tried to buy one coin off of Ebay but it was sold before I could get it.

FranklinHalfAddict

Bought these two on my own. No coin gifts from Santa.
Very excited to get these in hand. I love the Oregon design and have wanted one for a long time. It has taken quite some time to find the right one.
Same with the 53-D. Been a very long time to find the right one at the right price. This is also the first new date I e added to my Franklin set in a very long time.

Goober

GRANDAM

I won this in the Christmas Day Great Collections Auction so this will be my X-mas present to myself.
It is an upgrade to my Buffalo Short Set.

oih82w8

From a secret Santa at another forum.

I have a couple coming in late.

bramn8r

Won on Christmas at GC, for the registry set.

DisneyFan

And I was told I need to share them.

Jzyskowski1

Gelt. Lovely. Yes their for sharing. Nice😉

WillieBoyd2

Nothing from Coinstar.

Steven59

Yikes - all I asked for was a circulated trade dollar and I guess I should have just bought it mice elf............

DisneyFan

@justindan said:
It's my birthday! Bought myself this:

Which day?

BLUEJAYWAY

No coins, just currency. The spendable type.

justindan

@DisneyFan Christmas day is my bday.