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Stop the Insanity! - Post an image of your favorite under $2500 coin!

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Stop the Insanity! - Post an image of your favorite under $2500 coin and tell us about it.

No flames, please!
Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
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    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • VonZipperVonZipper Posts: 707
    Hey you left that on the grill to long before flipping it. image

    Pennies make dollars, and dollars make slabs!

    ....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!

    Erik
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lucy
    He was shot,not burnedimage.Al
  • eagle7eagle7 Posts: 1,441
    This is the least expensive coin I keep around. It is as much a favorite of mine as is the most expensive one I own.It is in a PCGS 64 holder. No fbl. The reverse is brilliant and has a few scattered light marks. The obverse is squeaky clean and has full luster. The color is pink which fades into gray and marble. A breathtaking coin in person. image I paid 16.00 for it.

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    In an insane society, a sane person will appear to be insane.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bad, Lucy!

    Let me rephrase the question. Post an image of your favorite coin worth anywhere from 51 cents to $2500!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
    Now in an NGC MS 65 slab. No story, just that Mr. Eureka helped me pick it up.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • ConstellatioCollectorConstellatioCollector Posts: 1,909
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    Constellatio Collector sevenoften@hotmail.com
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    "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
    "If it don't make $"
    "It don't make cents""
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    image
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,069 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bought this Indian head cent pattern from Julian eight or nine years ago at the ANA show. I can't remember which ANAimage They tend to run together after a while. Kinda neat looking at a "transitional" coin dated a year before the design was struck for circulation.image
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the tone on that barber..Al
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    My latest favorite Monster image

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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,420 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Less than $200.00 for this baby. The 1900-S has been the date with the most known Die cracks. This one is original (most are cleaned) and dripping with Die crackage!



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  • barberloverbarberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
    The President claims he didn't lie about taxes for those earning less then $250,000 a year with public mandated health insurance yet his own justice department has said they will use the right of the government to tax when the states appeals go to court.
  • barberloverbarberlover Posts: 2,228 ✭✭
    FC57, that morgan got me so flusstered it left me speachless, thats the prettiest mint state morgan i've seen in a long time, if i were still working i'd beg you to sell it to me [wow] Les
    The President claims he didn't lie about taxes for those earning less then $250,000 a year with public mandated health insurance yet his own justice department has said they will use the right of the government to tax when the states appeals go to court.
  • ConstellatioCollectorConstellatioCollector Posts: 1,909
    You've been PMed Grip!
    Constellatio Collector sevenoften@hotmail.com
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    "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
    "If it don't make $"
    "It don't make cents""
  • ElectricEyeElectricEye Posts: 2,354
    found it in change as a kid...
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have seen a lot of Morgans toned,at's and all ,but that one is just breath taking..for sale?.image.Al
  • AndroidAndroid Posts: 726 ✭
    Just got this a couple weeks ago...

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    1917 Type I PCGS MS65FH

    Andy image
    We are finite beings, limited in all our powers, and, hence, our conclusions are not only relative, but they should ever be held subject to correction. Positive assurance is unattainable. The dogmatist is the only one who claims to possess absolute certainty.

    First POTD 9/19/05!!

  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    1900 NGC PR(anything but)BN. Was upgraded by a collector of monster toned proof IHs whose coins you'd have to see to believe. I like the colors, toning pattern and clean planchet. Very tough to image and is much more vibrant and reflective in person.

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,317 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of you have seen this one. Probably the best coin in my collection bang for the buck wise...


    I need to get some better picture of it, you should see it in person. My pastel gem.


    Lucy, is that franklin toned like that or is that refelection off something else?


    Be good,
    John

    siliconvalleycoins.com

  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    1903 Philippines 50 Centavo NGC Prf64. Commonly considered now to be coinage of the US.

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    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    shylock
    You just had to do that to me,didn't youimage.Awesome.Al
  • bernbern Posts: 24
  • bernbern Posts: 24
    Got this from family member.
  • bernbern Posts: 24
    sorry. image
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's one of my "less expensive favorites" from my collection. It's an 1853 $10 gold in NGC AU-58. The No Motto $20 gold coins are tough as nails to find in attractive condition with get eye appeal and underrated.

    Given the results from my most recent submissions, coins like this are getting into MS-61 and 62 holders, which ups them to bids that are over $3,000. imageimage Really nice coins cost too much these days!

    imageimage
    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 ... ?
  • ConstellatioCollectorConstellatioCollector Posts: 1,909
    Here's Bern's coin...
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    Constellatio Collector sevenoften@hotmail.com
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    "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!"
    "If it don't make $"
    "It don't make cents""
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like this Barber quarter. No Monster or nothing and I have plenty of nicely toned coins with color.

    But this is just an honest original surface coin, no problems and very pleasing to me. It's not high grade and is graded MS63 by pcgs. I've posted this before. Obv has some rose color and rev is kind of an orange, over most of the surface.

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  • WWWWWW Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭

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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This 1866 $3 NGC-58 qualifies:

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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I could have posted quite a few very nice coins (IMHO) that were purchased for less than $2500 (some for much less including this coin) but here is one of my favorites:

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    This is an 1819/8 Bust Half graded AU-55 by NGC. The coin is lusterous with very nice electric blue irridescent toning. It's one of my favorite designs created by engraver John Reich at the first U.S. mint. I don't have the PCGS population report but NGC has graded about 120 1819/8 and about 250 1819 Bust Half's in total so you're talking about a coin that may have a total surviving population of less then 1,000 coins.
    The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it possible for an empire to rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin

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