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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,296 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the $20 St. Gaudens.
    Walking Liberty half a close second.
    Buffalo nickel third.

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mercury Dime
    Walking liberty Half
    Liberty Standing Quarter
    Buffalo Nickel
    Indian cent
    Bust coins
    Seated coins
    Barber coins
    Shield nickel
    3 cent silver
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    lincoln
    ihc
    buff
    merc
    slq
    walker
    peace
    saint
    oregon
    20 cent
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  • MarkInDavisMarkInDavis Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭✭
    Walking Liberty Half
    Standing Liberty Quarter
    St. Gaudens Double Eagle
    Morgan Dollar
    Buffalo Nickel
    Mercury Dime
    Peace Dollar
    Flying Eagle Cent
    Indian Eagle
    Indian Half/Quarter Eagle

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,300 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pan Pac Octagonal
    Gobrecht Dollar
    St. Gaudens Double Eagle
    Indian Half/Quarter Eagle
    Walking Liberty Half
    Mercury Dime
    Buffalo Nickel
    Peace Dollar
    Washington Quarter
    Shield Cent
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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,819 ✭✭✭
    John Mercanti (retired chief engraver, U.S. Mint) is working on a book that will be published later this year,
    and in it he discusses several examples of what he considers strong coin/medal design. Interesting insight
    from someone who's "been there and done that"!

  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    St Gaudens 20
    St Gaudens 10
    Buffalo nickel
    Oregon commem half
    IHC
    Gobrecht dollar/no stars half dime/dime design
    Draped bust design
    Flying Eagle
    Tuban head gold design
    fat head gold design

    Probably no particular order.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    In no particular order:

    Peace Dollar
    Walking Liberty Half
    Standing Liberty Quarter
    Buffalo Nickel
    Flying Eagle Cent
    Draped Bust Cent
    Sacagawea Dollar (2000-2008)
    Franklin Half
    Fugio Cent
    Three Cent Nickel

    In looking at this list it is odd to note that it only overlaps by 50% with my actual collecting interests.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    St. Gaudens $20 and
    Indian $5 !!!
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walker
    Oregon
    $10 Indian
    Gobrecht Dollar
    Saint High Relief

    MJ
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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not in any particular order...

    Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet, Noe-1 (early American design at its finest; a coin that grabs your attention no matter what you collect)

    Fugio (gotta love the double meaning of "Mind Your Business")

    Chain Cent (some said Liberty looked a fright, but I think she looked just like Liberty in the late 1700s should look)

    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    St. Gaudens $20

    Indian Head Eagle

    Turban head gold

    New England Shilling (beauty = simplicity)

    Myddelton Token (Ok, I'm stretching it a bit here, but the coin was designed specifically to entice settlers to Kentucky)

    I'll have to put some thought into number 10...
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tough question to fill all 10 slots but I will give it a shot. A few are very easy choices....

    1. Mercury Dime
    2. Walking Liberty Half Dollar
    3. Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle "No Motto" with Roman Numerals Ultra High Relief/High Relief
    4. Standing Liberty Quarter
    5. Indian Head Quarter/Half Eagles & Indian Head "No Motto" $10 Gold
    6. Buffalo Nickel
    7. Indian Head Cent
    8. Heraldic Eagle Reverse Coinage from 1800-1807(depending on denomination)
    9. 1836-1839 Gobrecht Dollars
    10. 1853 Seated w/Arrows at Date and Rays Around Eagle Quarter & Half Dollar

    I did not consider modern bullion stuff or modern commems or classic commems.
    If considering patterns and commems etc, then I would like the following as well:
    11. 1836 Gold Dollar (J-67)
    12. 1874 Bickford Eagle1907 Indian Head Double Eagle (J-1905)
    13. Oregon Trail Memorial Half Dollar (1926-1939)

    I also find the FUGIO CENTS(especially the American Congress Pattern), CONTINENTAL CURRENCY and the 1792 Disme to be super duper cool. image
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  • DaggoBDaggoB Posts: 333 ✭✭
    Buffalo Nickel
    Oregon Commemorative
    Gold Indians especially the $10
    Morgans
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar

    In order
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,300 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Top 10 Favorite US Coin Designs? >>



    I'd also add the St. Gaudens Winged Liberty which was a design but never a coin.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    20 cents
    sheild nickels
    half cents
    bust coins
    standing liberty quarters
    indian head cents
    seated quarters
    seated halfs
    franklin halfs
    $10 indian gold
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1785 gold striking Immune Columbia~~~1793 half cent~~~buffalo nickel~~1915 panpac half~~barber dime~~~1976 bicen quarter~~~Morgan dollar~~~one dollar gold type 2~~~Indian $10 gold~~Hudson NY sesq
  • ZriderZrider Posts: 365
    HR Peace dollars
    2009 UHR
    walkers including ASE
    Morgans
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,577 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1921 Peace dollar
    1999 Gold Washington commemorative
    Type 1 Buffalo Nickel
    1998 Proof Platinum eagle
    Pan Pac Half $50
    High Relief Saint $20
    New Jersey copper
    Maryland Statehood quarter
    Connecticut commemorative half dollar
    Walking liberty half dollar

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  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walkers
    MercuryDimes
    Capped Bust halves
    Morgans
    Standing Liberty Quarters
    Flying Eagle cents
    St. Gaudens $20 Gold
    Drapped Bust anythings
    Buffalo Nickels
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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,866 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In no particular order:

    $20 St. Gaudens
    $10 Indian
    Walking Half
    Buffalo
    Peace dollar
    Flying Eagle Cent
    IHC
    almost forgot the beautiful Winged Liberty Dime (Mercury to some ).
    Flowing hairs are gorgeous too!!

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  • LogPotatoLogPotato Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭
    <-------- Barber
    Seated
    Draped Bust
    Flowing Hair
    Capped Bust
    Standing Liberty
    Liberty Head Gold
  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭
    #1 & #2: The Morgans that never were:

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    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • mikeygmikeyg Posts: 1,002 ✭




    Indian head cent,buffalo nickel,standing liberty quarter,walking liberty half,peace dollar,2009 UHR,$10 indian gold.
  • PinkFloydPinkFloyd Posts: 1,762 ✭
    No particular order.

    Walker Half
    Peace Dollar
    Mercury Dime
    High Relief Saint
    Oregon
    Antietam
    Connecticut
    Lincoln Wheatback
    $10 Indian
    Buffalo Nickel

    I guess I would have felt at home in the 20s and 30s. Epic era for great coin designs.
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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    In keeping with RKKay's line of thought. My favorite coin that never was. Flowing Hair Small Dollar.

    Ron

    Real coins though MMMMM In no particular order:

    1 - Walking Liberty Half
    2 - SLQ
    3 - Buffalo Nickel
    4 - Franklin Half
    5 - Barber Half
    6 - Winged Liberty Dime
    7 - Peace Dollar
    8 - Nickel 3¢
    9 - Octagonal Pan Pac $50.
    10 - Booker T. Washington and Carver/Wasington Commems

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  • RKKayRKKay Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭
    I agree with Melvin. That Flowing Hair is beautiful.
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • PinkFloydPinkFloyd Posts: 1,762 ✭
    Quite a travesty this was never produced. Perhaps someday....




    << <i>In keeping with RKKay's line of thought. My favorite coin that never was. Flowing Hair Small Dollar.

    Ron

    Real coins though MMMMM In no particular order:

    1 - Walking Liberty Half
    2 - SLQ
    3 - Buffalo Nickel
    4 - Franklin Half
    5 - Barber Half
    6 - Winged Liberty Dime
    7 - Peace Dollar
    8 - Nickel 3¢
    9 - Octagonal Pan Pac $50.
    10 - Booker T. Washington and Carver/Wasington Commems

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  • coinman23885coinman23885 Posts: 1,126
    In no particular order:

    1. St. Gaudens $20 Gold Double Eagle
    2. Liberty Walking Half Dollar
    3. Standing Liberty Quarter
    4. Indian Head Cent
    5. Flowing Hair Half Dollar/Dollars
    6. Draped Bust Dollars, Half Dollars, Quarters, Dimes, and Half Dimes
    7. Capped Bust Half Dollars, Quarters, DImes, and Half Dimes
    8. Gobrecht Dollar
    9. Trade Dollar
    10. Indian Head $2.50, $5

    Alternates: The Peace Dollar, $10 Indian Princess Eagles, and Mercury Dimes

  • dogwooddogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭
    $10 Indian.
    Winged Liberty Dime
    3 cent Nickel
    $20 Gold St Gaudens
    $3 Indian Princess
    Trade Dollar
    Peace Dollar
    Indian Cent
    Walking Liberty Half
    Barber Freakin' Half


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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While it is hard not to have the St. Gaudens 20 and the WLH in there, I think there are some very well designed commems-

    Illinois- not just because of the Lincoln portrait, but the eagle reverse may be the best ever on a US Coin

    Oregon- just a terrific coin

    The California Pacific Internation (San Diego)

    Bay Bridge- I like it - suppose others would include this

    I like the Buffalo Nickel and the $10 Lib and SLQ and probably the 1853 arrows and Rays Seated half

    No order on these- I left out patterns- otherwise patterns would be on here too

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of my favorite coin designs is the obverse of the Pan-Pac $2 1/2 gold commemorative coin---Ms Liberty riding on the back of a hippocampus while holding a caduceus.

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In no order:

    Buffalo Nickel / $50 gold
    Walker Half / ASE
    $10 Indian
    $20 Saint / 2009 UHR
    Peace Dollar - esp the 1921
    Merc Dime
    Flowing Hair Half
    Standing Lib Quarter
    Barber Half
    Capped Bust Half

    ..... And, very strange, so far Peace Dollars are outnumbering Morgans 3 to 1. Who wouldda thunk it?
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,507 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In keeping with RKKay's line of thought. My favorite coin that never was. Flowing Hair Small Dollar.

    Ron

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    The return of LIBERTY on a circulating coin would have been cool. This is a COOL DESIGN! I forgot all about it. Thanks for posting this Ron.
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<The return of LIBERTY on a circulating coin would have been cool. This is a COOL DESIGN! I forgot all about it. Thanks for posting this Ron>>

    +1

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  • GoldClauseGoldClause Posts: 838 ✭
    1801-1807 50c
    Standing 25c
    Merc dime
    Walking Half
    Barber Half
    1839-1865 Seated Half
    Liberty 5c
    Flying Eagle 1c
    1838-1865 $10
    1795-1797 $10
  • Ed62Ed62 Posts: 857 ✭✭
    #1 Favorite Design:


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  • Kaline6Kaline6 Posts: 345 ✭
    Not in order, and no commems or 1-year types:

    St. G $20
    St. G $10
    Peace Dollar
    Walking Liberty Half
    Standing Liberty Quarter
    Mercury Dime
    Buffalo Nickel
    Sacagawea Dollar 2000-2008 (I love the 2013 too but see my rule above...)
    Flowing Hair Dollar (the early one--I'm sorry but the Gasparro design looks clunky and amateurish to me)
    Pratt Indian gold

  • Ed62Ed62 Posts: 857 ✭✭
    #2 Favorite Design:

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    Ed
  • Ed62Ed62 Posts: 857 ✭✭
    #3 Favorite Design:

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    Ed
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 16,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. Lincoln 2. Morgans 3. Kennedy 4. Silver Eagles 5. Jeffersons 6. Standing Liberty 7. Buffaloes nickles ( I know, why so far down the list,when my avatar is a buff.?) 8. Indian cents 9. Mercs. 10. Washington quarters Just curious, is our O.P.going to show us the "numbers" in which coins are most chosen and/or least chosen? I would say that the Morgans, will be the most chosen,anyone else? Cool thread,by the way!image

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  • weresteveweresteve Posts: 1,224 ✭
    Indian Head Cent
    Buffalo Nickel
    Mercury Dime
    Standing Liberty Quarter
    Walking Liberty Half
    Morgan Dollar
    Peace Dollar
    Indian Head Quarter Eagle
    Indian Head Half Eagle
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,991 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pan-Pac $50 octagonal
    St. Gaudens $20
    Flowing Hair everything
    Bust dollar
    Walking Liberty half
    Indian $10
    Pine Tree colonials
    Morgan dollar
    Trade dollar
    American Silver Eagle
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1976 Bicentennial Quarter, 1915 pan pac half, 1793 half cent, Vermont landscape copper, Kennedy half. Type 2 gold dollar. Barber quarter, Saint, buffalo nickel. Bar Cent. image
  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭
    Standing Liberty Quarter,
    Walking Liberty Half,
    Mercury Dime,
    Peace Dollar,
    Indian $10,
    Saint $20,
    Flying Eagle Cent,
    Buffalo Nickel,
    Seated Liberty Dollar,
    $10 Liberty Type 1
  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Walking liberty Half
    Mercury Dime
    Liberty Standing Quarter
    Bust coins (particulary halves)
    Buffalo Nickel
    Flying Eagle cent
    Morgan Dollars

    (Oops! Didn't realize this was an old thread)
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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Classic Large Cent
    Classic Half Cent
    Liberty Seated Dollar (if I can only pick one denomination of Seated Coinage)
    Flying Eagle Cent
    Walking Liberty Half
    Standing Liberty Quarter
    Mercury Dime
    Buffalo Nickel
    Capped Bust Half
    Indian Head Cent
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  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the old Miss Liberty designs the best. In order:

    Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle
    Draped Bust, Small Eagle
    Draped Bust to Right gold, Heraldic Eagle
    Draped Bust to Right gold, Small Eagle
    Liberty Cap cent/half cent
    Draped Bust cent/half cent
    Flowing Hair silver
    Capped Bust silver
    Capped Bust to Left gold
    Classic Head Cent/half cent
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1) the Indian head cent
    2) Bust coins
    3) Indian head $10 gold eagles
    4) The Oregon/Texas commems
    5) Buffalo Nickels
    6) Seated quarters
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    Saint
    Morgan
    Walker
    Illinois Centennial commem
    $10 Indian
    Flowing hair dollar
    Buffalo
    Fugio
    Peace
    Wheaties
    Let's try not to get upset.

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