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A dusty old Spanish Trail

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Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org

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  • OldIndianNutKase
    OldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For the time being, it is the one that I hope to have in hand in a few days.......

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    A PF65+ with out of the ordinary toning for a 1859 IHC.

    OINK
  • golden
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    << <i>For the time being, it is the one that I hope to have in hand in a few days.......

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    A PF65+ with out of the ordinary toning for a 1859 IHC.

    OINK >>

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  • braddick
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  • RYK
    RYK Posts: 35,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My signature coin (below). If you see it on the BST, or anywhere else for sale, you will know that the fat lady is singing. image

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    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • CoinJunkie
    CoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don't have a single favorite coin, but RYK inspired me to post my favorite early American coin (same year).

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    My Roosevelt Dime Registry Set
  • Rayman311
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  • coinbuf
    coinbuf Posts: 12,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No way to pin it down to only a single favorite but this one would be hard to beat for me.

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    My Lincoln Registry
    My Collection of Old Holders

    Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
  • illini420
    illini420 Posts: 11,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Had my 1909 set on display at our table at Long Beach recently... hard to pick just one but probably this one image

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    Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 700

  • ahopewell55
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  • brg5658
    brg5658 Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If I were forced to pick one, it would probably be this one:

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    My opinion might change tomorrow. image
    -Brandon
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  • bolivarshagnasty
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    << <i>Had my 1909 set on display at our table at Long Beach recently... hard to pick just one but probably this one image

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    That too, would be my favorite if I owned it Mike!

    Shylock, That OST just says old dusty trail to me. Great coin!
  • BAJJERFAN
    BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    One of these two, can't decide which.

    1885-S PCGS ms64

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    theknowitalltroll;
  • SmEagle1795
    SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hoping to pick up my new favorite some time this week or next, but in the meantime, here is one of my runner-ups, a gold stater with a portrait of Alexander the Great:

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    Learn more here: Alexander the Great
    Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection
  • Ed62
    Ed62 Posts: 857 ✭✭
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    Alexander the Great?? Are you sure that is not his dad??
    Ed
  • bolivarshagnasty
    bolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Probably my favorite coin. Actually more intense color in hand than what Phil captured.
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    This textile toned Morgan would run a close second.
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  • Mesquite
    Mesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
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    In keeping with the '99 theme.

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    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
  • SmEagle1795
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    << <i>Alexander the Great?? Are you sure that is not his dad?? >>



    While it is lacking the usual "anastole" shown on Alexander the Great, this specific type is known to depict him, rather than his father, Philip II. It was produced shortly posthumously: subsequent staters deviate from this portrait into a more abstract Apollo on the obverse.

    For a comparison, here is a tetradrachm of Philip II (although depicted as Zeus in this case, but still with some features which are reflective of Philip II):

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    Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection
  • OldIndianNutKase
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    << <i>Probably my favorite coin. Actually more intense color in hand than what Phil captured.
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    This textile toned Morgan would run a close second.
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    Very nice Sr. BolivarS.....,

    I hope that you keep those gems close at hand and have not relegated them to a SDB........

    OINK
  • AnkurJ
    AnkurJ Posts: 11,375 ✭✭✭✭
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    All coins kept in bank vaults.
    PCGS Registries
    Box of 20
    SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
  • MFH
    MFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭
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    Mike Hayes
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    Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !

    New Barber Purchases
  • BryceM
    BryceM Posts: 11,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm having a difficult time seeing what limits that Barber to a grade of 64+. Even on the large TrueView shots I'd guess much higher. Stunning. Gorgeous.

    The gold stater is pretty darn impressive too. Do people realize how old that thing is???? There's a bunch of familiar coins here and a few new ones (to me). Great stuff everyone.

    Here's one that I've perhaps shared too often, but it would be very difficult to part with:

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  • MidLifeCrisis
    MidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,617 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Do I have to own it? If so, no.

    Here's one that I used to own and it's one of my all time favorites:

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I couldn't possibly pick one favorite.

    This is my current favorite for the month, fresh back from NGC with a perfect grade.

    From the pictures and the other eyecandy posted in this thread, you'll quickly guess who I bought it from. image

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    But I tend to be more sentimental about my detector finds than the stuff I've bought.

    I had the excitement of digging this last November, in an Essex farm field in the UK.

    Knowing I was the first person to touch it in about 700 years was a singular thrill.



    << <i>1300-1310 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Closed E, outcurving h- Cross pattee - Crown 1 - Type 10 cf3 >>



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    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • ambro51
    ambro51 Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1785 Vermont Immune Columbia. imageimage
  • Eagleguy
    Eagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Some really nice coins here, especially the OP coin!

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    JH
    JH

    Proof Buffalo Registry Set
    Capped Bust Quarters Registry Set
    Proof Walking Liberty Halves Registry Set
  • agentjim007
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  • JJSingleton
    JJSingleton Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    All of my coins are favorites...otherwise they would not be in the collection. But here is the last favorite acquiredimage

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    Joseph J. Singleton - First Superintendent of the U.S. Branch Mint in Dahlonega Georgia

    Findley Ridge Collection
    About Findley Ridge

  • CharlotteDude
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    'dude
    Got Crust....y gold?
  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • DaggoB
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  • Crackout
    Crackout Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My current favorite is my latest acquisition (which is always the case). Today it happens to be a foreign gold sovereign:

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  • Broadstruck
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    << <i>Hoping to pick up my new favorite some time this week or next, but in the meantime, here is one of my runner-ups, a gold stater with a portrait of Alexander the Great:

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    Learn more here: Alexander the Great >>



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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • LotsoLuck
    LotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
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    Spoiler alert! I don't have a favorite coin image But if I did it would likely be whatever the last one I purchased was. The majority of my favorite coins or tokens are not the one's I paid much for. Hopefully I'm not "Throwing Shade" on this thread but a favorite that comes to mind is a token. I bought this from Broadstruck right after arriving here. And I'm still using his pictures image


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  • Raufus
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    << <i>

    << <i>Alexander the Great?? Are you sure that is not his dad?? >>



    While it is lacking the usual "anastole" shown on Alexander the Great, this specific type is known to depict him, rather than his father, Philip II. It was produced shortly posthumously: subsequent staters deviate from this portrait into a more abstract Apollo on the obverse.

    For a comparison, here is a tetradrachm of Philip II (although depicted as Zeus in this case, but still with some features which are reflective of Philip II):

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    Thanks for the informative post and for the photos of these incredible coins!
    Land of the Free because of the Brave!
  • Type2
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    Very nice coins all image


    Hoard the keys.

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