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JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
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maybe not your best comm. but favorite design.....any takers?
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <=========== I like this one

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  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,757 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My favorite would be this one, but it didn't gradeimage


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    Another favorite is


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  • Lehigh96Lehigh96 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭
    The Lafayette Dollar is my favorite design as well.

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,939 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Love this design....I call this one Scarface Grant w/ Star. image
  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭
    I go back and forth on this one, sometimes it's the Lincoln, and sometimes it it's this one, and there are three or four others in the pack
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Today I'm in the mood to post this one:

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    tomorrow I could be in the mood to post this one:

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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭



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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • quattrocoinsquattrocoins Posts: 1,881


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    I knew that someone would post a picture of my fave! image

    I don't have a good picture of one. image

    A '37-D was the second coin that I ever bought.
    Bought it raw back in 1979, and it has since been graded by our host as MS66. image


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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am going to have to get one of those Oregon's for my numismatic orphanage, but until then...

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    Our fair host graded this as an MS-67.

    BTW Stef, I love the Lincoln too - bought one from a forumite a couple of months ago.
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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,538 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    Our fair host graded this as an MS-67. >>

    That one is sweet!....and WHITE TOO! Like the Eagle over the Star!
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    My favorite - and it is mine.

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    ==Looking for pre WW2 Commems in PCGS Rattler holders, 1851-O Three Cent Silvers in all grades



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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    Sorry no pictures at the moment. My favorite design is the Vermont but my favorite Commems by far are the Booker T. Washington and the Carver/ Washingtion.

    Ron
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  • smallchangesmallchange Posts: 194 ✭✭✭
    Does anyone here collect commems with themes. I think it would be cool to collect ones with ships. How many would that be, i'm going to have to look that up.

    Jim
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does anyone here collect commems with themes. I think it would be cool to collect ones with ships. How many would that be, i'm going to have to look that up.

    Jim >>



    I believe seven plus the Rhode Island. Here is good article on commem themes from Pinnacle, MJ

    commem themes
    Walker Proof Digital Album
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  • PonyExpress8PonyExpress8 Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭
    I like all of the above. Here is one that is also ahhh yes, A BARBER! LOL

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    The End of the Line in the West.

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  • jhdflajhdfla Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭
    May as well make it an Oregon thread:

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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭

    If you can't fight them, join them. Too many Oregons to fight anymore.

    Ron

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  • smallchangesmallchange Posts: 194 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>Does anyone here collect commems with themes. I think it would be cool to collect ones with ships. How many would that be, i'm going to have to look that up.

    Jim >>



    I believe seven plus the Rhode Island. Here is good article on commem themes from Pinnacle, MJ

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    Thanks MJ, just what i was looking for.

    Jim
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  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    Varies on my mood. Today it's this one...

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gettysburg 1, Oregon 1A................MJ

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    Walker Proof Digital Album
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  • TinyTiny Posts: 2,598

    One time on the board there was a picture posted of all the Comms in a holder in beautiful
    grades and colors. Was a rather large picture but had all of them obv & rev and I had saved
    it but now I can't find it any longer. If anyone remembers or has the pic Please post.

    Thanks
  • ElKevvoElKevvo Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bay Bridge and Rhode Island...plus lots of the others...sorry no pics image

    TomB...nice Connecticut!

    K
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice commems all. i still like the connecticut and gettysburg. one day ill get the antietum as well.
  • PinkFloydPinkFloyd Posts: 1,762 ✭
    Wow. Some fantastic pieces here. To me, Oregon Trail, Connecticut, Hawaii and other classic commems represent the some the greatest American coin designs.
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  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,509 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My favorite 2 sided design is the Oregon, but there are a lot of them posted here. Probably my favorite one sided design is the Monroe (although the other side is boring IMO).

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  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭


    << <i>My favorite 2 sided design is the Oregon, but there are a lot of them posted here. Probably my favorite one sided design is the Monroe (although the other side is boring IMO).

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  • RB1026RB1026 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭✭
    It's hard to argue with the Oregon. Simply a stunning design with outstanding execution and a terrific historical theme. It's timeless.
  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭
    I see my first post didn't "take," I have three or four "favorites," today it is this one.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys have covered the designs that were the best esthetically, so I’ll go in a different direction and cover my favorite design from a symbolic point of view, the Panama-Pacific quarter eagle. Over the years, Charles Barber has taken a lot of flack for the fact that he was a bureaucrat who did all he could to block the outside artists whom Teddy Roosevelt and later others invited to design U.S. coins. His actions to save his job are true, and how many of you would have done anything else?

    At any rate symbolism on the obverse of this piece was Charles Barber’s masterpiece. It shows Lady Columbia (The United States) riding a mythical beast, a hippocampus, which had the head and neck of a horse and the body of dragon. In her left hand is the medical symbol, a caduceus. This design symbolizes the increased commerce that would result from the construction of the Panama Canal, and the caduceus stands for the triumph of the medical team over the tropical diseases that had plagued earlier attempts to construct a canal across the narrow neck of Panama. Unfortunately the piece was stuck in low relief, and many examples of this coin do not show the design to its best advantage.

    The reverse, the defiant eagle, was the creation of George Morgan. It is based upon a design he developed in the 1870s on pattern coinage. Some have suggested that it was symbolic of the American desires to protect our interests during “the Great War” or “THE War to End All Wars.”

    At any rate here’s my contribution, and the piece shown here is an MS-66, which is grade stretch for me out of respect for interest in this piece.

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