What is your favorite coin in your collection?
bennybravo
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Mine is an 1826 Bust Half dollar.It's far from the most expensive coin I own, but I'll never part with it.About 8 years ago, I was looking at some old coins that a guy had at a local flea market booth.I hadn't been activly collecting for some time, and being about 20 at the time, I didn't have much money.I bought a few circulated walkers and buffalo nickels for a few dollars, and looked at a really nice raw bust half dollar in a cardboard/mylar staple holder that had a price of $150 penciled on it.It was the only thing he had that was really a standout coin.I didn't have that kind of money at the time to blow on a hobby, so it might as well have said $1000 dollars.I thanked him for letting me see it, moved along, and didn't even mention it to my wife.She wasn't with me at the time, and knew nothing of it.About 3 weeks later, I opened a small box from my wife for our 1 year anniversary, and inside was the very same half dollar!I asked my wife how she knew, and told her she shouldn't have went so overboard, and she explained to me that she went to the coin booth the next week, and told the guy she wanted something really nice as a gift for her husband on our anniversary.He showed her the coin, and said he would take $85 dollars for it.Anyway, being so proud of having such a nice coin, and not knowing too much about grading at the time,I saw one of those PCI ads in a coin magazine, and sent it off(back when PCI was respectable and pretty tough).It now resides in a PCI AU53 holder, and it's still my favorite, and will always be the one coin I'll never sell.Whats your favorite coin in your collection?
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Always looking for nice type coins
my local dealer
It's hard for me to choose my fovorite, but I recently bought a seated half from Mr.Mark Feld(coinguy 1)
Although I haven't seen it in person yet, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be one of my favorite because it'll be the first gift from my wife
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production, I waited until I saw a real nice '82-P quarter in change and tracked the
source to a nearby bank and bought a bag of new quarters. It was an excellent
bag with lots of well struck coins. There were gems of three or four different die
pairs! One of the runs was quite special and one coin from this run stood out as
being much nicer than the others. I guess this 1982-P is my favorite coin though
there are other contenders which I've found over the years.
Frank
Friday I sold a 1942 Walker in proof-67 that I just graded for $1,350 and didn't really get any charge out of it. In the past year I've probably sold 10 bags of circ Walkers and never got a charge from that. I'll just never forget the charge I got when I got that 1943 half.
I'd love to see the 81 GSA dollar - got a pic?
Frank
I've watched this post every day.I finally decided to reply.I have to say my favorite coin was the 1937 PR66 CAM Lincoln.While I no longer own it,it will remain my favorite,because I made that coin.Not literally.I believe everyone dreams of makeing a pop 1 coin or at least owning one.The way I felt at the time,couldn't have been any better.
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While I'm sharing here is my favorite currency note.
When I was a kid in the '70's, my older brother and I both collected coins. He had a paper route, and could afford the large circulated Morgan and Peace Dollars. I had my ``puny'' Lincoln cents and Jeff nickels.
After I resumed collecting a few years ago, the first thing I did was to decide to specialize in Silver Dollars. Perhaps 3 years ago, my Mom finally decided it was time for her to share with me her ``heirloom'' that she got from her mom when her family escaped from China in the late '40's.
I remember vividly when she gave me the heirlooms. I went to visit her, and she sat me down to tell me a little bit about her childhood. (I never get tired of those stories.) She asked me about my coin collecting. (She likes to look at my coins. Come to think of it, my Mom and I have nearly identical interests...) Then, she goes off into her bedroom and comes back with a small bundle wrapped in ratty old paper. Inside was a bundle wrapped in tissue paper. She pulls out 4 silver dollars: 3 with the old general on the obv, and 1 1896 British East Asia Trade Dollar. (All of these look undamaged, unchopped and in avg circulated condition.)
I wasn't expecting my Mom to give them to me. (Yes, I did want them!) I was so touched when, unexpectedly, she just gave them to me.
4 silver dollars -- that was what was left of their wealth in old China. And, that was what my Mom kept secret all these long years.
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What a coincidence that we both have chosen the same coin as one of our favorites. I too acquired a relatively common Capped bust hald that I've grown to love, but, I also have a Morgan dollar, first design of the first year of issue. Neither coin is a "big" dollar coin, but both are near and dear to me. I haven't had the half as long as the dollar, but I can say, over at least four different sales of my Morgan dollar holdings, I have been unable to part with this one. As for the half, I imagine, it too will never be a part of any voluntary relinquishment. Here are a couple "less than perfect" images, but you can get a sense of the coins.
1826Obv
1826Rev
Vam17 Obv
Vam17 Rev
Brian.
-Back in the mid 1980's when we were buying our first house out here in California we needed to come up with a down payment of 20% (it also allowed us to avoid the costy morgage insurance!). We were about $16,000.00 short. Our last hope was selling my then (pre-slab days) U.S. Type set (including a great VG Chain and many other super tough coins).
I came across an honest Dealer and after a four hour negotiation, came up with a solid price.
Well, at the end of the day, after the home was purchased, we ended up with a little left over cash. I went back to the Dealer and he was kind enough to sell me back a couple of coins at the price he paid me the week before! (No Dealer I've ever heard of since then would do that-).
One of the coins was the first coin I ever purchased, a 1806 Bust half in (now) PCGS VG08. It has the most smooth, solid gray, hard surfaces of any coin I've ever seen.
I know it isn't worth a ton but I don't care. It'll always stay with me.
peacockcoins
One of the first truly older coins I found with my first metal detector was an 1841 seated dime. The coin is about vf-30 and in great shape. I found it about a 1" below the soil on the side of a condominium complex that had been built over an old homesite. The complex when, built covered the entire square area of a city block, and was entirely concrete and asphalt, except for a small chase that ran down the right side fence line. It was a grass area about 3'-0" wide. Coin is not actually worth much, but priceless to me.
I still remember that day, looking for the beep. When I first uncovered it out of the ground I though it was a merc or a barber, then realizing I just found a seated coin. I can to this day, still walk back to the exact spot where I pulled this one out of the ground.
Has always made me wonder what other coins or intresting things are sitting under the pavement there???
Damn nice coin ! Very Pretty.
Ken
Thanks Fairlane its hard to beat those early busties especially the 07'-08' design.
My favorite coins are an 1852 quarter eagle and a 1917 Standing Liberty quarter--both slightly circulated and not of any great monetary value. But they were given to me by the father of one of my closest childhood friends, when I was about 12 years old (I'm now 56). This man was my role model as I was growing up in a small southwest Georgia town. His name was Jack. He owned a lumber yard and his father-in-law owned a large farm complete with lake and dam and circa-1920 millhouse. He took me with his Scout troop on my first camping trip to that farm when I was about eight. A terrible lightning storm came up during the night and we took refuge in the hay barn, sleeping in soft, fragrant hay--I recall the sensation and scent of it vividly to this day. In the company of my friend and his dad I learned priceless lessons on the ideals of family, friendship, courtesy, respect, and what the meaning of "gentleman" really is. This man faced all of life--and incapacitating rheumatoid arthritis in his later years--with a broad grin. Even if he chided us for some foolish error or infraction it was with genuine affection and good nature. I have an abiding appreciation for what it means to be taken under the wing of a natural-born teacher. Jack passed away some years ago. I miss him, and I regret that I will never be equal to his example.
I don't know why Jack saved these two particular coins. He gave them to me because his own children showed little interest in them, while I had begun collecting by age 10. I still remain in touch with his children, and I hope one of his grandchildren or great-grandchildren will someday develop an interest in coins so that I can pass Jack's little treasures along to them. I would really enjoy that.
Dell
Mine is probably a large cent my grandparents gave me about 20 years ago. It's completely worn. You can bearly make out the type. It's special because it belonged to my great grandpa.
Over the years they gave me, and the other grandchildren, a few coins they had stuck back. By far that was, and is still my favorite. For sentimental reasons this coin remains my favorite of all my coins.
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I'd have to go with the guy in the middle : THREE AMIGOS
Dave
I love benny's story with his wife finding his coin it is incredible! Now if all of our spouses could do that?????
I like wallstreetman concern about offending all the little babies if he says he has a favorite!
Now for me......I have well over $1000 in face value circulated walker liberty halves but for the life of me I can never understand why anyone could ever get tired of looking or owning one of them. One of the finest designs in terms of handling wear with dignity, especially, the reverse.
But a favorite? Well that changes frequently but a 1918 US cent that I found with a 1918 Canadian dime place in the hollowed out reverse of the cent. It represents the best of both of our mutual countries and it is so neat to look at. But yes, the circulated coins I kept during my youth are still my sentimental favorites!
My two children each have a $5 liberty gold piece (circulated of course) that was handed to them by my father-in-law who got them from his grandmother soon after he was born in 1920. I understand that his grandmother was so proud to have saved two $5 coins for her grandson that it was a sign of having some wealth especially when from the poor ghetto section of Philadelphia. So those coins were handed down from their great- great grandmother. Hopefully, I will get to see the passing of the heirloom coins from my daughters to their future children (my future grandchildren) . Cool.