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DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭
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If you hit the Powerball tonight? (Single coin or series).

Hate to disappoint the Darkside, but I think I'd have to go for a complete set of Morgan Dollars. THEN I'd go after gold coins & finish off all my Whitman folders (both Lightside & Darkside!)

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  • NumismaticsNumismatics Posts: 1,092
    I will go for a completed Canadian Victoria large cent set (1859 to 1901) all in MS Red.
  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    I would buy everything that Mac has!!!image
    Terry

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I'd buy Colin Cooke's collection!!

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  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504

    I'd go after everything in the next World Coin Goldbeg Catalog image
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Complete my US Proof platinum series (1 troy ounce size) - I only have 2 years

    Complete my UK Proof Britannia gold series (1 troy ounce size) - I only have 1 year

    Go after my missing China gold panda 1 troy ounce proofs and special issues

    Start and keep up to date the upcoming US 9999 bullion gold series (1 troy ounce size)
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭✭
    I would have a serious conversation with Sid about his British Columbia gold.

    Gene
    Gene

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    Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors

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    Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
    Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Hmmm... I think I'd buy all the George V proof sets I could get my hands on (i.e. one of each of the Commonwealth nations).
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,988 ✭✭✭
    A complete set of BU Gothic florins. Well, as complete as I can find, anyway.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    UNA
    Bill

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably one of these, in MS64 or MS65.

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    PS- my first Darkside purchases might be the rare, proof-only 1901 Australian half-sovereigns, for my daughter Victoria's 1901 Victorian type set.

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    I really don't knowimage
    Omnicoin
  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I dont see them too often, but I would hold out for some obnoxiously large 2 and 3 taler monster coins from Austria and the German States.
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would buy everything that Mac has!!!image >>



    I'd sell the lot to you for about $1M plus personal delivery. imageimage

    Me? PF Gothic crown in FDC+++++

    Then, I'd buy a package deal of 1st class seats on Virgin Atlantic, a tidy flat in Mayfair, and all the Gothic florins Wybrit hasn't beat me to.image
  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    I don't know that I would stray too far from my favorites:

    1. I'd complete a set of GB fractional farthings, but all in MS, including the proofs.

    2. I'd work hard on German States proofs. I already have a few lovely examples, but only 0.01% of what's out there.

    3. Lightside: as with GB fractional farthings, I'd want to complete a date set of U.S. half cents.

    4. Work on a MS world type set 1700-1945 (no gold, just crowns and minors). This one alone could take a lifetime.
    Numismotography

    1/2 Cents

    U.S. Revenue Stamps

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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,988 ✭✭✭
    Then, I'd buy a package deal of 1st class seats on Virgin Atlantic, a tidy flat in Mayfair, and all the Gothic florins Wybrit hasn't beat me to.

    You've already accomplished all of that, Mac. What are you gonna do with the next $300M? image
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • docday2003docday2003 Posts: 1,100
    I would buy the Canadian 1931 5¢ PCGS MS67, which was just registered in this set...HERE
  • Rickc300Rickc300 Posts: 876 ✭✭
    My first coin would be a Prussian 3 mark. The 1915 Centenary of the Absorption of Mansfield. I have never even seen one in person and this is the only 3 mark left I need to complete that series. This would be the first coin I would try to locate. Then a whole bunch of commemorative Empire, Weimar and 3rd Reich coins that I need to complete those collections. Ah yes, the dream of having the financial means to actually complete my German Empire collection... That is the reason I keep buying those 140 million to 1 odds tickets at $1 each. I guess if I had never bought a lotto ticket and saved that money over the years I probably could have already bought that 3 mark I need image Oh well, for just a buck I can dream really big!

    Rick
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting that vote. Benjamin Franklin - 1779

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    signal I get for the most
    part. Go figure...
  • CoindexterCoindexter Posts: 1,074
    I think I'd hold a sweet give away contest to determine who was most familiar with Japanese coinage and then take that person to Japan with me for a downright decadent shopping trip.

    Yes I said Japanese. Darn darkside. So many beautiful coins that my interests change every week.
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,473 ✭✭✭✭
    A Swiss 1925 100 francs gold in MS65 or above,and maybe 2-3 Greek silver ultra rarities .But most of the money would have been spent for good times and invested in my job.
    Dimitri



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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    The King of Siam set. followed by Collins collection that he is selling, and an UNA for my lion collectionimage
    My Medals collection

    FOR SALE Items
  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    It would have to be some lightside rare 20th century gold (high relief double eagle, proof indian, etc.) Then some rare old Poland gold and silver (pre-1795). image
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Easy. One of each. From everywhere image

    But I'd sure start with GB - Una, gold and Gothic Crowns first image
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