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LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭
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IF you were to narrow your holdings down to say, 5-10 coins, what would be one(post only one) that would surely be thereimage

Here`s one of mine...
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Let`s see one...

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I had to sell down to just a few coins, I wouldn't keep anything as a souvenir or trophy. Instead, I'd pick coins that would make a good start on my next primary collection. At the moment, I'm thinking that would be a type set of cobs, and that would leave me with only two coins as a start. Sorry, no pics available.



    Andy Lustig

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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    I made/sold that 1891! Glad you liked it image
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I made/sold that 1891! Glad you liked it image >>



    I seriously do.
    You know what I have invested in this coin and we both did well.
    A 91-P like this is just not to be found.
    Thanks...
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only 118 (better)

    Doubt they have this eye appealimage
  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    It would be a toss up between a high grade 1972 Philly IKe with the proof artwork reverse (type 2) and a 1972 high grade quarter, also with a high relief proof artwork reverse. Who here has one of these? In any condition? I guess I would keep both. It was only a $1.25 initial investment.
  • LeeBoneLeeBone Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    Let`s see more
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    Nice coin Lee, you're right, they are not found with a better look often. Really any date as that is refreshing in the sea of dipped out white Morgans.
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭
    If all my coins had to go I would keep this one. It is what I love about the series wrapped up into a low value gem.
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It took six years for this to find me. It was love at first site. MJ

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since you have limited it to one piece, I guess it would be this one, but it really is a photo-finish with a couple of others. This is a 1795 $5 gold piece.

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    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • RB1026RB1026 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭✭
    This coin was my great grandmother's and is priceless to me.

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one for sure.

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  • OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Since you have limited it to one piece, I guess it would be this one, but it really is a photo-finish with a couple of others. This is a 1795 $5 gold piece.

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    This coin is amazing
    Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



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  • IrishMikeyIrishMikey Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭
    My 4 coin set of shipwreck coins from the 1600's. I would have to be in pretty bad shape financially
    before I would consider selling them.
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Could never narrow it to just one. 16-S, 17 S Obv, 18, 18-S, 19-S, 20-D, 23-S & 27 S are among my fav. halves.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    dang it Duiguy! I was hoping you'd part with that one day!
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  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My newest Antoninus Pius aureus would be the last I'd part with:

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  • njcoincranknjcoincrank Posts: 1,066 ✭✭
    MJ...nice Hawaiian!

    njcc
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,300 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While I don't know off-hand what all 5-10 would be, there's an AU 1859 half dime in my collection that I got from my grandmother that would be one of them.
    John
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  • CMCARTCMCART Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭
    As of today two - the first and lastimage

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    Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)
    5$ bills are WOW with the numbers - wanted:
    02121809
    04151865
    Wanted - Flipper notes with the numbers 6-9 or 0-6-9 ON 1$ 2$ 5$ 10$ 20$
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  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    The 08 rev of 07 ASE that was sent to Coin World for photographing would be the very last coin to go. Then only if I was starving ! ! !

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    HH
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    first half dime I ever purchased (now PCGS AU58)


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  • aclocoacloco Posts: 952 ✭✭✭
    This is easy.

    I have a Jefferson nickel, graded/attributed by ANACS - F12/scratched, of the 1943/2 variety.

    Why? Found while roll searching with my mom while roll searching. Everytime I hold it in hand, I can remember sitting at the kitchen table with her and my little brother, searching cents and nickels. Our mom has since passed on, but this memory will always be around.

    THIS coin, is the cornerstone of MY collection.
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Man, just one doily?? That's tough! image
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  • Raybob15239Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭
    No pics to post, but my main collection is Morgan VAMs. I have hundreds of coins (no dupes) including couple dozen and change discoveries, some really great VAMs and some high value varieties. If I could keep only one coin, the decision is very simple. It would be an ugly, VG 1881P Morgan. That coin was in my grandfathwr's dresser and was the birthyear of his mother. When I was little, I would play with that coin...so impressed that it was almost 100 years old... when he died, I got the coin and it was the start of my Morgan collection. To me, this tired old lady is simply the most valuable coin (to me) in my collection. It is theone and only coin that I will never, ever part with. That coin is my last physical connection to my grandfather and I will never give it up.
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    I really enjoy this one:

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