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What coin would you like to be buried with or have put in your urn?

jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
I know it's a little dark, but have fun with it!

And for the sake of this thread we are going to make the following assumptions;

You HAVE to choose a coin. You can't say no.
You don't have to worry about selling the coin for your heirs - they don't need the money.
Can be any country of origin.
You don't have to 'own' the coin in question. It can be your dream coin.

I will go first - I think, right now, I would choose for a 1792 Half Disme or a 1776 Continental Dollar in Silver.


Your turn!
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  • 1874cc trade dollar with a Chop Mark, it was my first!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1933 Saint

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've already thought about this too! image

    I want a clear lucite grave with all of the 5 oz ATB coins in them. It'd be a fun grave to visit. I would have my name, DOB, DOD, and the maxim: "Lif is too short."


    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.


  • << <i>I've already thought about this too! image

    I want a clear lucite grave with all of the 5 oz ATB coins in them. It'd be a fun grave to visit. I would have my name, DOB, DOD, and the maxim: "Lif is too short." >>



    Your "lif" was actually too short. A full letter.

    If that was intended, nice. If not, might want to use spell check before submitting that to the lucite company who recieves such a macabre purchase order.

    Also, dont get buried in a bad neighborhood. Price of silver will be pretty tempting.


    I want Daniel Carr to engrave and strike a coin with a grey alien on one side and gibberish made up alien words on the back then under it, in english, have "He who rules over all, even in death." Just to screw with future archaeologists.
    Brandon Kelley - ANA - 972.746.9193 - http://www.bestofyesterdaycollectibles.com
  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I want Daniel Carr to engrave and strike a coin with a grey alien on one side and gibberish made up alien words on the back then under it, in english, have "He who rules over all, even in death." Just to screw with future archaeologists. >>



    You might fool them for a while, but then they would inevitably find this old post and the jig would be up.
  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    A Token that says " It doesn't matter I'll probably get hit by a car anyway"
  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    any 2 pennies would do.......isnt that the price you pay to cross the river into hell?
  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stuff my casket with Chinese counterfeits. Got to get rid of them somehow.
    3 rim nicks away from Good
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  • Exactly - gotta pay the ferryman to Hades or Arcadia or some such. I used to remember his name. Charon?

    Eric
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    A 1792 Half Disme
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
    PCGS Registries
    Box of 20
    SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!


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    << <i>I want Daniel Carr to engrave and strike a coin with a grey alien on one side and gibberish made up alien words on the back then under it, in english, have "He who rules over all, even in death." Just to screw with future archaeologists. >>



    You might fool them for a while, but then they would inevitably find this old post and the jig would be up. >>



    I am sure the data stored on these servers will be long gone by then. Even if it wasnt though, it would be like my kids looking at a floppy disk and thinking it was a real life save button.
    Brandon Kelley - ANA - 972.746.9193 - http://www.bestofyesterdaycollectibles.com
  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Exactly - gotta pay the ferryman to Hades or Arcadia or some such. I used to remember his name. Charon? >>



    Yes, Charon's obol to pay the ferryman to pass into the afterlife. An obol is a very small ancient Greek coin, weighing less than one gram. My example, from 420BC, is 0.8g and only about 12mm across, but incredibly engraved despite its size:

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  • End of Pain. Appropriate.
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only coin that my father purchased, a Korean War commemorative. He took part in that conflict, and was in the Marine Corps.
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • A 1972 Ike type 2 with the proof artwork reverse.
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are several coins that I am "buried" in, but none that I want to be buried with. Of course, I don't plan on ever needing to be buried.

















    So far, so good.image
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    just a single "1-cent" U.S. coin...any year in any condition...just to ensure that I didn't die "penniless!"

    Erik
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe a 2109-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent???
  • Probably an old penny I once picked up. As the old saying goes, "A penny saved is a penny urned."


  • << <i>Probably an old penny I once picked up. As the old saying goes, "A penny saved is a penny urned." >>



    image
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I just want to make sure that the right coins are put on my eyelids for the journey over the River Styx! I would hate to have the ferryman say that he doesn't accept those. >>



    I'm sure he will take a credit card. Everyone else does now.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,724 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe a 2109-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent??? >>


    You want to be buried with a mint error?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A token that says that "Now that you have stirred my bones I am going to make the rest of your existence an unholy nightmare"
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!


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    << <i>Maybe a 2109-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent??? >>


    You want to be buried with a mint error?image >>



    I think he is just being incredibly optimistic about his longevity and that of the Lincoln cent design!

    Eric
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,724 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Maybe a 2109-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent??? >>


    You want to be buried with a mint error?image >>



    I think he is just being incredibly optimistic about his longevity and that of the Lincoln cent design!

    Eric >>



    I was just pulling his leg and we all know the cent will be long gone by 2109.


    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire



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    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Maybe a 2109-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent??? >>


    You want to be buried with a mint error?image >>



    I think he is just being incredibly optimistic about his longevity and that of the Lincoln cent design!

    Eric >>



    I was just pulling his leg and we all know the cent will be long gone by 2109. >>




    Of course - and I was pulling yours image

    Best wishes for the weekend,
    Eric
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,682 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a coin but a medal ...

    An 1801 Jefferson inaugural medal by John Reich ...

    I have had two chances to own one of these, but I passed both. One was low grade, holed and polished, which was too low a grade for me. The second was a very nice piece, but I thought it was too much money, $12,000 more than the price it had brought at a recent auction. I now wish I had buried myself ...
    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 ... ?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I realize you said one had to choose a coin... however, not for me... will not be buried, just roasted and no urn.... do not believe in all that stuff.....when done, it is done.... Cheers, RickO
  • I might as well go out in style. Since I could not own one alive I will pick the 1795 $10 eagle to go out with.
  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭
    A 2050 newly minted penny.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess I do not understand the premise; you can't take it with you, and why deprive the collecting community of something nice?

    I think s4ny is on the right track with this one, except I'd like it to be a 2070 or later coin.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭


    << <i>you can't take it with you >>



    That is sorta the point. My question is more whimsical and I am asking "if you could take it with you - what would it be"?
    Awarded latest "YOU SUCK!": June 11, 2014
  • nagsnags Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    I agree that I wouldn't want to be urned with something of numismatic importance. Think if Eliasberg directed that he be interned in a vault with his entire collection.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some of you guys are taking the OP's question way too seriously. It's just a whimsical question as already pointed out.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I want to be buried with a circulated Morgan dollar and have told my family so on several occasions. I do not want to go out totally broke.
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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1913 Eliasburg Liberty Nickel in an undisclosed location image

    and not one of those cheap altered ones that just anyone could possess

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No coin... give me a beanie baby.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,724 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>1913 Eliasburg Liberty Nickel in an undisclosed location image >>



    I guess that's one way to AT a coin.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>1913 Eliasburg Liberty Nickel in an undisclosed location image >>



    I guess that's one way to AT a coin.image >>



    hehe especially if my last meal came from taco bell image

    You think it might set off the sniffer?
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,394 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My 1964 Peace Dollar, just to prove that I can take a secret to the grave.

    Oh...Dammit! Now look what you made me do!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>you can't take it with you >>



    That is sorta the point. My question is more whimsical and I am asking "if you could take it with you - what would it be"? >>



    Oh, I do get to take it with me? Ok, finest known 1797 small eagle $10

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Maybe a 2109-S V.D.B. Lincoln Cent??? >>


    You want to be buried with a mint error?image >>



    I think he is just being incredibly optimistic about his longevity and that of the Lincoln cent design!

    Eric >>



    I was just pulling his leg and we all know the cent will be long gone by 2109. >>




    haha, was just thinking medical technology will continue to advance and keep me around until then! image

    They can't get rid of the cent... not as worried about that part image
  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    a comfortable pillow
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 2068 Lincoln Cent

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