The Five Most Beautiful US Coins... What's Your List?
ambro51
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Here's mine. 1. Type two Gold Dollar (in Proof). 2. Buffalo Nickel (early date with whittled fields). 3. Bicentennial Quarter (best design on a currently circulating coin) 4. Pan Pac Half Dollar (technically perfect design) 5. $20 Saint (ultimate eye candy)
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High relief St. Gaudens $20
$3 gold piece
Standing liberty quarter
Antietam commemorative
1913 Buffalo Nickel Type 1
Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Standing Liberty Quarter Type 1
Flying Eagle Cent
Winged Liberty ("Mercury") Dime
Runners up would include the $3 gold, No-Stars Seated Dime/Half Dime, 3-cent Nickel, Small Eagle Bust Dollar, $10 Indian
Oregon Trail commem
Standing Liberty quarter (slight preference for T.1)
Buffalo nickel (slight preference for T.2)
Pan-Pac octagonal $50
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CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
$20 Saint
21 Peace
Morgan
Walker
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Tommy
Mercury Dime
Buffalo Nickel
Bust Dime
Seated Liberty Half (arrows and rays)
Standing Liberty Quarter
UHR Saint
Mercury Dime
$10 Indian
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
Standing Liberty
Pan Pac Half
St Gaudens
Walking Liberty
Sorry V Nickel. No love.
Here are the ones I like.
Winged Liberty Dime (Mercury)
1907 UHR $20
Draped Bust Type Heraldic Eagle Reverse
Walker Half
Pan-Pac Exposition Half
Texas Centennial
Oregon Trail Half
1921 Peace
Indian Head Gold No Motto
Buffalo Nickel Type 1
Indian Princess Head $1 Gold Type 2 / Indian Princess Head $3 Gold
Gobrecht Dollar
Seated w/ Rays around Eagle
Indian Head Cent
Standing Liberty Quarter
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
Baldwin $10 Horseman MS64
Pan-Pac MS65 - Octagonal
1857 FE 1c in P65Cam or better
1794 $1 - TDN's specifically
Walking Liberty Half
Mercury Dime
Buffalo Nickel
Oregon Commemorative
Cheers, RickO
Buffalo Nickel
Standing Liberty Quarter
Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Sac Dollar (yeah, I said it!)
JH
Proof Buffalo Registry Set
Capped Bust Quarters Registry Set
Proof Walking Liberty Halves Registry Set
$5 liberty head no motto
mercury 10C
IHC
$1 draped bust
Buffalo Nickel
Oregon Trail Commem
SLQ
$5 Indian Gold
$10 Indian Gold
jom
$20 St. Gaudens
$10 Indian
Flowing Hair dollar
Walking Liberty half
$5 Indian
SLQ
Connecticut Half dollar
Oregon trail half dollar
Photos courtesy of CoinFacts.
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No. 2:
No. 3:
No. 4:
Flying Eagle cent,
UHR Saint,
Walking Liberty,
Oregon Trail.
U.S. Type Set
Chain Cent
Buffalo Nickel
Walking Liberty
Oregon Trail
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
Susan B Anthony dollar
Eunice Kennedy commem
Ike Dollar
YUK!!
SLQ
07 HR Saint
Pan Pac
Oregon Comm
Mercury dime
Walking liberty half
Peace dollar
Sacagawea dollar
Honorable mention: Standing Liberty quarter
Interestingly, this list does not correlate with the what I actually collect.
The coins on my personal top five list would change constantly as I look at new examples of various coins.
You have regular issue circulating coinage, regular issue proof coinage, regular issue commemorative coinage, regular issue bullion coinage, regular issue coinage produced by the US Mint for other countries, patterns, specimen strikes, varieties and errors [made innocently and made with ill intent] and unauthorized coins produced surreptitiously. Probably other categories that I do not remember.
You also have different metals used in the production of coins, each of which has good and bad attributes.
You also have different production technologies that span the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries during which the USA has minted coins.
The above said, I really like:
1. J-1776 (this pattern is my favorite US Coin and I would be an eager buyer of a D Carr reproduction of this pattern coin);
2. 18th Century coinage of all denominations (particularly high grade eye appealing examples);
3. DCAM proof silver and gold from the 19th and early 20th century (particularly high grade eye appealing examples);
4. Ultra High Relief Saints; and
5. Buffalo Nickels, Standing Liberty Quarters and Walkers.
My list is non responsive to the question asked of the OP, but it is the best I can do at this time.
(Maybe a stretch)
Connecticut half
Saint DE
Walking lib half
Peace dollar
Standing lib quarter
PanPac Octagonal
St Gaudens 20.00
Peace Dollar
Walking Liberty Half
Standing Liberty Quarter T1
I noticed no one really posted any moderns with the exception of the OP which is not a surprise to me. For me just not a lot there in terms of design. There are a couple of exceptions here and there but it is really more of a 'Wow, neat design' vs. a 'Wow, that is a really beautiful work of art' type of response. I do like the bicentennial pieces but for me just not the wow factor. Maybe because they were issued in the heart of my childhood collecting and I owned a lot of them. Nothing I could just wish someday to own!
K
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Mercury dime
Capped bust half
Bust dollar
Morgan dollar
$20 Saints
$10 IH Eagles
T-3 Capped Bust 50c
Hawaiian 50c commem - nice design & really cool lettering
Oregon Trail 50c commem
Cheating!!! --> Honorable mention - FE 1c, modern Civil War 50c commem, Buffalo 5c, don't even get me started on patterns!
Comments - I am surprised by the number of SLQ answers; the Antietam half is also one of my favorites; I have to agree that the Sacs are a nice design; the eagle on those schoolgirl dollars always reminds me of a turkey (with a guy holding a hatchet chasing it); for some strange reason I really like the Miss Liberty on 1794 cents, but can't justify putting it on the list...JMHO
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Silver American Eagle
Flying Eagle Cent
Texas Comm.
St. Gaudens $20 Gold
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Oregon commem
Standing Lib quarters
Walkers
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
I've since gained respect for the St. Gaudens and my favorite dollar is split between the Drapped Bust and the Flowing Hair. I think historical significance comes in to play here, but love the Morgans still!
Pete
Louis Armstrong
Barber dime
Barber Quarter
Barber Half Dollar
Liberty Nickel
Buffalo Nickel
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SLQ
$10 Indian
Flowing Hair Dollar
Peace
<< <i>Barber dime
Barber Quarter
Barber Half Dollar
Liberty Nickel
Buffalo Nickel >>
Totally this.
But I'd put the dime third.
$1 Draped Bust/Heraldic Eagle Rev 1798-1804 (But i love all the Drapped designs)
$20 Saint ULTRA HIGH
Morgan
Buffalo 5c T1
Walking Liberty
Eh...I want to list a few more. Top 8??
Judd Patterns of Morgan $ are great too!
Countless large & small dollar deals completed
Saint Gaudins $20
$10 Indian
Connecticut Half Dollar
$5 Indian
Saint Gaudens
Standing Liberty Quarter
Trade Dollar
$10 India
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Quarter/Half Eagle Indian Head
Buffalo Nickel
Saint
Walking Liberty Half
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Dime's
Quarter's
Half's
Dollar's.
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Some honorable mention coins ... (not top 5 though)
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My Toned Lincoln Registry Set
Walker (for beautiful figure with great composition and awesome eagle)
SLQ (for design success/composition and awesome eagle)
Buff (for portrait, sculpted fields and natural look)
2.5 Ind (for incuse nature and beautiful rendering for its size of both subjects)
Eric
<< <i>$20 Saint
Oregon Trail commem
Standing Liberty quarter (slight preference for T.1)
Buffalo nickel (slight preference for T.2)
Pan-Pac octagonal $50 >>
I am with you though would refine that to have the $20 Saint be a high relief and would have the nickel be a 3 legger - and have voted with my pocket book accordingly.
2) Saint Gaudins Eagle
3) Standing Liberty Quarter
4) Walking Liberty half dollar
5) Saint Gaudins Double Eagle
But don't hold me to it. It might change next week...
Oregon Trail Fifty Cent Commemorative
Standing Liberty Twenty-Five Cents
Buffalo Nickel
Indian Ten Dollar Gold
St. Gaudens $20
Indian Cent Proofs with great toning
Buffalo Nickels
$10 Indian Gold
Peace $'s
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