The Pillars of your collection

Boosibri

Certain coins are so foundational to your collection, that if they were ever sold, your collection would be fundamentally changed. Show us some of those pillar coins the define your collection.

TwoKopeiki

I don't have any "Pillars", but here are a few Portraits my collection would not be the same without. The core is still made up of Huntington pieces, plus a few other high grade examples here and there.

TheGoonies1985

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SimonW

This post really goes to show me...I need more pillars in my collection. (Pun intended.)

Cladiator

JohnnyCache

@Boosibri

Are you only considering crowns in your collection?
I always had an extremely high regard for your Norweb 4 reales.
I thought it was a beautiful coin and it had all the bells and whistles.

Boosibri

@JohnnyCache said:
@Boosibri

Are you only considering crowns in your collection?
I always had an extremely high regard for your Norweb 4 reales.
I thought it was a beautiful coin and it had all the bells and whistles.

Yes only considering crowns. The 4R is amazing but if I were to sell it, the basis of my collection would continue on.

BSmith

William II

Richard III

Philip & Mary

Elizabeth I

Cromwell

Abuelo

It's like choosing only one child 😂

Sergey74

Very beautiful coins. For me the coin is the part of history. If i read about the French Revolution i want to have the coins of it, it's like link with history for me. The English Revolution with Cromwell - when i read about it my favorite coin was halfcrown by Charles 1 1641-45. My main theme of coin's collecting is revolutions and time of freedom. And now i have like favorite this coins, another month - another. In my life i sold all collection twice - one time i stopped collecting and sold all, another time i changed my theme and sold 150+ coins, and like not very young man i know that everything can change, so i like the coins but don't think about it like "pillars". All coins what you have you have temporarily and you are only episode in coin's life. It's the mood what i have about it. Sorry for my English.

Clio

I'm just going to pick one. This 1758 I bought off eBay raw for $220. It is the coin that helped change the scope of my collection into something greater. I went from a lot of hole fillers to chasing exceptional coins. There's just a handful of coins with a longer tenure in my collection because once I bought this, I slowly sold off those that I felt didn't match what my collection could be. It helped raise the bar and set me on to better goals overall.

neildrobertson

I wish I had a few key coins in my collection I could point to. I am working on 10-15 different sets, so if I lost one of those sets I'd still have 9-14 left. Conceptually, my collection wouldn't be significantly diminished as a result. I don't know if I should call my collection resilient to theft, or uninteresting.

coinandcurrency242

This is the better year "stonecutter" coin with only 17k minted this year and only 1 graded higher by PCGS

Zwiggy

@Clio said:

I'm just going to pick one. This 1758 I bought off eBay raw for $220. It is the coin that helped change the scope of my collection into something greater. I went from a lot of hole fillers to chasing exceptional coins. There's just a handful of coins with a longer tenure in my collection because once I bought this, I slowly sold off those that I felt didn't match what my collection could be. It helped raise the bar and set me on to better goals overall.

I had a very similar experience! After I won this coin (a nazarana Mughal rupee, Shah Alam II, AH1218/1803AD, Shahjahanabad Mint), the world of collecting changed and within 2 years I slowly sold off most of my large and random collection to a much narrower and happier focus. This coin sort of became pillar #1

EVillageProwler

These two are foundational to any collection of Anglo-Saxon pennies.

Ælfred the Great was a key figure in the history of the English nation, and having the reverse with the Londinium monogram is important. This coin is ex Lord Stewartby.

King Harold II was the last of the English monarchs, losing to William the Conqueror at Hastings. This coin is ex Conte.