When showing your collection.....

Popcoin

When showing your collection to a non-collector type friend or family member, what coin(s) or set of coins get the most excited responses??

- oldest coin
- most expensive coin
- most shiny coin
- biggest coin
- smallest coin
- silver dollars
- gold coins
- set of state quarters
- other

Now be honest!!!!

For me it is my 50 of so UNC Morgan dollars in flips and then the Proof State Quarters.

Larry

nOoBiEeE

Other - My toned coins - People love seeing the pretty colors..

jbsteven

for people who do not know coins at all it seems the oldest coin is the "most valuable" to them. Then comes the "oldest is not always the most valuable speech". I know you all know what I am talkiing about.

EvilMCT

The oddities: two cent, 3CN, 3CS, half cent, large cent and Proof SAEs.

Ken

baccaruda

Definitely oldest.

I leave a few circulated Morgans and Peace dollars on my desk at work. Inevitably, someone will pick one up and say "1883, wow, how much is this worth?"

Crackout

For me it is my oldest - which happens to be a 1804 Half Cent, so it also has that "oddity" factor as well.

mgoodm3

I think people like the oldest generally.

ConstellatioCollector

That's easy to answer, for me, Oldest usually brings the most excited responses. Then comes the better quality and then expensive. But most of my coins are old!!!

Dennis88

Most of the time the oldest, but sometimes the biggest coins as well ('that are big coins to have in my wallet")

Dennis

Baley

yep the attention goes to the oldest, the goldest, and the boldest!

I get lots of oo's and aah's over this one:



non-collecting folks love the ones dated in the 1700s

this one also happens to be large (a silver dollar), fairly expensive, and it just looks old

coachleonard

when shown to males: oldest
to females: most visually pleasing

Numismanic

$20.00 gold coins seem to get the most interest. When I show them a nickel or a quarter that cost more they give me strange looks.

Don

BillJones

GOLD

Big, bright and shiny gets them everytime. Most of the rest are just "interesting."

JrGMan2004

I had a friend who was interested in slabs... just the idea of slabs excited him...

Another guy at church was intrigued by one of my Half-Dime...

Hedger

I am very reluctant to show my collection. A completed set brings the most oohs and ahhhs to those who see it.

FatMan

Non collectors are almost always most excited about American Eagle Proofs. For the most part they don't get as excited about the tarnished older coins.

LanLord

I have sort of quit showing them to non collectors.

My wife looks at the coins and wonders why I like all the really dirty ones. She says that I should do something to clean them up, they'd look better that way.

My Bro in law wondered about a 1889 PROOF Seated half dollar how they were able to pour the metal so well.

I just give up. I'll be happy to look at them and think about them, but I can't deal with the agony.

Shamika

"My Bro in law wondered about a 1889 PROOF Seated half dollar how they were able to pour the metal so well."

The Mint really does a good job pouring the metal don't they.


With me, the oddest coins get the most attention. Showing MS67 steel cents always gets a look of amazement!

airplanenut

Putting them away usually gets a good response

WACoinGuy

$2 1/2 Indian coins seem to interest people. Probably because they're gold, have an incuse (e.g. different) design, and are a pretty weird denomination if you think about it.

Tootawl

I'll agree with EvilMCT. It's usually the "oddities", 1/2 cent, 2 cent, 3 cent, etc. It's the face values that most people never knew were minted that get the most attention.

cladking

Most people seem incredibly uninterested in coins but there are some things that will grab
some peoples attention. Great variety like a type set or a collection of variously shaped coins
can get some people's attention. Also gold or most anything shiny can be of interest. Odd ball
items are often most effective such as spectacular errors or strange tokens.

It often seems as though much of the responce is based on how they are presented and on how
interested you are in them.