Do you own any truly rare, special coins that no one else appreciates as much as you do?

dan1ecu

Seriously... Do you have a coin that you really love, which nobody else seems to like?

How about if you show a picture of it and explain why it's so special to you.

Dan

Purple73

Yes, But others like it too.

mgoodm3

Brown MS copper. I seem to be about the only one that really likes the stuff.

coppercoins

I have a number of Lincoln cent die varieties for which there are fewer than a dozen examples known to exist. To most people they are just common date wheat and memorial cents. For those inside the variety market, they are gems that come along only once in a lifetime.

PutTogether

I've got an an an 1867 Three cent silver in AU/MS. Only four thousand minted and the vast majority believed to be melted before release. No one seems to care.

morgannut2

Most of my dug-up Colonials!!

stev32k

<< Brown MS copper. I seem to be about the only one that really likes the stuff. >>

I like that stuff also. I really like smooth, evenly colored, chocolate brown half and large cents.

markglicker

I own a few wretchedly toned Morgans. I love em.

LeeG

<< <i>Brown MS copper. I seem to be about the only one that really likes the stuff >>







<< <i>I like that stuff also. I really like smooth, evenly colored, chocolate brown half and large cents >>

OKbustchaser

Most of my collection...I mean, really now, they're not even in plastic!!!

Jim

MWallace

I own an example of most of the stuff on my website - SmallDollars.com .

Few people seem to appreciate that stuff.

Mike

Russ

Three so far:







There are actually a few people who appreciate them, but not many.

Russ, NCNE

flaminio

My 1982-D Washington Half in an ANACS MS69 holder. Never mind that it's a pop 1/0 in that holder, or all the trouble I went through to get it there. People look at it and either scoff that it's just a $5 coin, or harumph that it'd be worth more in PCGS plastic. Doesn't really bug me tho'; I appreciate it and that's all that matters to me.

Russ

<< <i>People look at it and either scoff that it's just a $5 coin, or harumph that it'd be worth more in PCGS plastic. >>



Not me. I think it's many times cooler as an ANACS MS69 than it would be as a PCGS MS69.

Russ, NCNE

66Tbird

A 1965 50C in MS68. not a hint of CAM just total MS and bright as the sun. To most it's just another Kenny. To me it brings back the memory of the Proof set plastic it looked at me through and the submission I made knowing it would go an 8.

haletj

This is almost full red but not quite, so many of the Lincoln collectors would pass over it. In fact the collector who sold it to me "upgraded" to a 64rd that he said cost twice as much and looked half as nice.

tjkillian

I have a WB-102 1861-O half dollar. For those who don't know, it has the die crack going from Miss Liberty's nose to the rim. The four original Confederate half dollars have the exact same die crack, that makes everyone believe that the coins with the die crack were minted under the auspices of the Confederacy, in May, 1861. Mine is in an ANACS VG-10 holder.

Tom

oreville

Haletj: Really nice mint bloom on that 26-S. Awesome!

tsacch

I have a high end AU 1834 bust quarter. It was once in a ACG holder as an MS60.........since she is out of her doomed plastic tomb and conserved very delicately more people have said its ok, but like the Bust halves better.

edited to add the other bust halves range NGC 61 to 63, so i see why, but you just dont see nice early au quarters much.

roadrunner

Most everything I currently own! None of it registry stuff.
Someday it may be of interest to someone.

roadrunner

kryptonitecomics

I think most of the nice and rarer coin I have are appreciated so from a coin standpoint no.......but from a bullion standpoint I have an Englehard 10 oz silver bar that I am just fascinated with Most people just see it as a hunk of silver...which it is...but there is just something about a hunk of silver that I really like....strange I know but I have a silver fetish

coinkat

I do not think I have ever seen a 26-s as attractive as the one in this thread... what a great coin.

haletj

Thank you oreville and coinkat.

mirabela

I don't have a good pic to post, but I have the only textile-toned Eisenhower I've ever seen. It lives at present in my type album. It's an MS64-ish silver-clad 71-S that I bought when I was a kid. My dad would spring me from school to travel with him on business, and we'd hit the coin shops in whatever was his destination city. I have no idea what the poor coin was stored in nor why, but it has golden brown corduroy toning across the obverse. The reverse is toned in similar colors, but without so obvious a pattern. Under magnification, the toning is a fantastic pointilistic blend of violet, green, blue, red, gold, etc.

dpoole

Hammered strike on the 26-S! That is a nice coin!

Lakesammman

Yes - some of the more esoteric IHC varieties and patterns.