Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
I also have a similar white MS64 CAC. I wonder how they were able to avoid toning all of those years. It's not like somebody kept a roll of them. Ot is that the back story?
This 1890 in AU makes me happy. It's a coin I bought at the LCS after dropping off aluminum cans for recycling. I reward myself by purchasing bullion and fancy 'junk silver' at the LCS. This coin is one of those coins and I always notice it and take a few seconds to admire its color, luster, smooth cheek, and overall good looks for a "junk" Morgan dollar paid for by recycling 2000 aluminum cans.
I have a couple of five-figure coins in my collection but they don’t make me as happy as this $300 one. One of my favorite designs (depicting landmarks of personal significance), and I collect blue toners and old holders.
This one makes me happy because it fills in the void that was left when I sold off my earlier example that I had purchased 6 years ago. I think the previous one that I sold made the buyer happy as well.
This coin brings a smile because I actually found it in a Coin-Star return slot while talking to my brother back in Chicago (I was in Gilroy CA - Nob-Hill store) on a Sunday morning. A very nice Not-Meant for-Circulation Silver Dollar from 1925.
A truly wonderful way to start a Sunday!!!
Love it. The one and only coin memorializing the valor of Confederate Soldiers, USA veterans that they are!
This may sound political but given that it was 150 years ago I don't think so. But that has got to be one of the most disgusting sentences I've ever read on this board. They were not USA veterans. They were traitors who tried to bring down the United States and they were enemies of the country. They fought against the United States. And for the oh so noble pursuit of maintaining slavery.
I won this on Heritage in early 2020. I had been collecting bust halves for a bit already but this coin really sent me down the path I’m on. I think it’s pretty even if it sat On a rubber band or something else for a decade 😜
This may sound political but given that it was 150 years ago I don't think so. But that has got to be one of the most disgusting sentences I've ever read on this board. They were not USA veterans. They were traitors who tried to bring down the United States and they were enemies of the country. They fought against the United States.
Thanks for your opinion. Didn’t mean to push buttons here. Fact is, they are USA veterans. There was more to the war than perhaps has been studied.
Enjoy your day.
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
This may not apply but many years ago my Oma told me about how she had two uncles that died on opposite sides of the civil war. she said, "They both died for what they believed in. Too bad they didn't just find what they both could live with."
@124Spider said:
As my collecting has evolved, having started as a kid filling slots in my Whitman folders, I find myself most charmed with coins with history (and, in order for a specific coin to have history, it must be at least minimally circulated). Generally speaking, I love looking at my various albums, and the slabbed coins I have, because it's all so unbelievable that I have them (to this kid who used to go to the bank to buy Lincoln cent rolls hoping to get some old beat-up coin I didn't already have, and for whom a particular highlight was finding a 1909 VDB cent in decent condition in change in 1970). But the ones that fill me with awe are the coins with history.
Here are my favorite "coins with history."
Maybe Socrates handled this one:
Struck by the Confederacy; circulated during and after the Civil War:
Struck during the presidency of George Washington; circulated for at least John Adams and Thomas Jefferson:
And, finally, struck while some Mayflower passengers still were living; striking these coins perhaps was the first significant act of defiance by one of the British colonies in North America, in reaction to having their needs ignored by Britain:
I'm a native of Massachusetts, and would gladly kill you for that coin.
This is a hoo-hum "scratch-VF details" coin that I've come to really enjoy because the color is a nice golden brown and the scratches are almost invisible to the naked eye, even though they cross the entire length of the coin. I struggle to find them.
I anticipate lots of inquiries about those scratches unless someone has a loupe. The coin is an 1840-O WB13 (R5)
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An 1848 CAL. quarter eagle, PCGS graded AU-55.
This blast white beauty - although a common date and not an expensive coin - always makes me happy when I see it
Had to have it……
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
One of my favorites and formerly owned by another forum member:
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
The talking Lincoln. Wonder what he is saying?
I also have a similar white MS64 CAC. I wonder how they were able to avoid toning all of those years. It's not like somebody kept a roll of them. Ot is that the back story?
This 1890 in AU makes me happy. It's a coin I bought at the LCS after dropping off aluminum cans for recycling. I reward myself by purchasing bullion and fancy 'junk silver' at the LCS. This coin is one of those coins and I always notice it and take a few seconds to admire its color, luster, smooth cheek, and overall good looks for a "junk" Morgan dollar paid for by recycling 2000 aluminum cans.
Never tired of showing this one. Not the highest of grades but love the look.
- Bob -
MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Central Valley Roosevelts
This one for sure:
Empty Nest Collection
Matt’s Mattes
I really like these two raw eBay pickups:
VF25 CAC
XF45 CAC
I'm very happy with this one
I have a couple of five-figure coins in my collection but they don’t make me as happy as this $300 one. One of my favorite designs (depicting landmarks of personal significance), and I collect blue toners and old holders.
This one makes me happy because it fills in the void that was left when I sold off my earlier example that I had purchased 6 years ago. I think the previous one that I sold made the buyer happy as well.
This is one of my favorite coins from a Whitman folder set at a local auction.
PCGS/CAC 55
This coin brings a smile because I actually found it in a Coin-Star return slot while talking to my brother back in Chicago (I was in Gilroy CA - Nob-Hill store) on a Sunday morning. A very nice Not-Meant for-Circulation Silver Dollar from 1925.
A truly wonderful way to start a Sunday!!!
I really like this one.
I don't even collect these as a series, but I just had this one slabbed because it has such great eye appeal. Incredibly lustrous. And it cost me $3.
This one stays close at hand on my desk, and she makes me happy because she has a nice smile, and I get to pick her up and hold her, raw.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Washington Crossing the Delaware. The country’s number 1 hero and genius. Proud to be an American. 2021.
This may sound political but given that it was 150 years ago I don't think so. But that has got to be one of the most disgusting sentences I've ever read on this board. They were not USA veterans. They were traitors who tried to bring down the United States and they were enemies of the country. They fought against the United States. And for the oh so noble pursuit of maintaining slavery.
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I won this on Heritage in early 2020. I had been collecting bust halves for a bit already but this coin really sent me down the path I’m on. I think it’s pretty even if it sat On a rubber band or something else for a decade 😜
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
Thanks for your opinion. Didn’t mean to push buttons here. Fact is, they are USA veterans. There was more to the war than perhaps has been studied.
Enjoy your day.
This may not apply but many years ago my Oma told me about how she had two uncles that died on opposite sides of the civil war. she said, "They both died for what they believed in. Too bad they didn't just find what they both could live with."
Lots of happiness in this thread.
This is a hoo-hum "scratch-VF details" coin that I've come to really enjoy because the color is a nice golden brown and the scratches are almost invisible to the naked eye, even though they cross the entire length of the coin. I struggle to find them.
I anticipate lots of inquiries about those scratches unless someone has a loupe. The coin is an 1840-O WB13 (R5)
Today it is these two. Graded yesterday.
Hard to pick just one...
Outstanding!!!
It just does. I can't explain it.
If we were all the same, the world would be an incredibly boring place.
Tommy