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CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
A bit unorthodox but:

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I like to think this coin and many others were stolen by pirates from Colonial ships off the Atlantic coast. Then later the pirates were sunk by English ships and it was recovered sometime in the 1900's. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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  • YorkshiremanYorkshireman Posts: 4,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one may well be my favorite given its historical significance even though it is from the "darkside".



    From the date, I would wager American collectors care for this coin more than one from Spain, where the coin was minted. The Spanish helped finance the fledging colonial army, including the decisive Battle of Yorktown.



    If this coin could talk, what story could it tell?!?



    (Thanks John / CRO!)



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  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To each his own...another foreign piece...

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    Tom

  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looked through my inventory. Have some classic stuff, some gold, but this one still makes me smile when I pull it from the box. It's been about 6 years ago when I sent this PCI holdered gem to PCGS for a cross.





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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always like looking a this 1909 VDB Lincoln Cent:

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I know I post it a lot, but it's my favorite:
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  • Circa 300 BC





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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TPRC
    To each his own...another foreign piece...

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    i like
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure if this is my absolute favorite but it is certainly in the running, at minimum.



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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,457 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can be fickle about these things, but right now this one has pleased me greatly for a long time.

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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,904 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: illini420
    I always like looking a this 1909 VDB Lincoln Cent:

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    Nice!
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Excellent Small Eagle Bill image

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,457 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you!!!
    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 ... ?
  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This has been my favorite since I bought a few years back. Probably will be for a long time to come.
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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,292 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TPRC

    To each his own...another foreign piece...



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    Very cool!
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like this for its historical significance and because of family ties to the Cornish tin miners in the late 1600's who provided the tin.



    The 1688 American Plantations tokens are the first coinage authorized for the British Colonies in North America.



    These pure tin tokens were struck at the Tower Mint in London for circulation in the New England and New York plantation colonies of England. Struck at 50 to the pound, they had a stated value of 1/24 of a Spanish Real.



    At some later date they were called "Proclamation Money" and deemed worth 1 1/2 Farthings. In spite of this they traded at double face value in the Colonies.



    All examples are rare, and always have rough surfaces. Most specimens have a common "tin pesting" appearance as the tin changes from its shiny metallic form to a brittle gray one.

    Lance.



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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TPRC
    To each his own...another foreign piece...

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    Cool ..Any history behind it?

  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't have a single favorite coin. There are maybe a half dozen that circulate through my favorite place at any given time. Here is one of them...


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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice to see what people enjoy!



    This is my current favorite. Beauty, gold rush history and provenance (Norweb) all rolled into one coin.



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  • bigjpstbigjpst Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Favorite coin in my personal collection



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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW!!! Nice bunch of coins. I'd be proud to own any of them.

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For now

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  • This is a fun little R.6 slug whose claim to fame is that its obverse is a pattern and its reverse is a production strike. I like it ;-)

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  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: MWallace
    WOW!!! Nice bunch of coins. I'd be proud to own any of them.


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  • thisnamztakenthisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: USMarine6
    This has been my favorite since I bought a few years back. Probably will be for a long time to come.
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    Sweet coin!

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't have it anymore and don't have pic, but my favorite all time coin owned was a 1916-D Dime PCGS62!
  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dib - love that Jeff error. Really eye catching!
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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Catbert

    dib - love that Jeff error. Really eye catching!




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  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭✭✭
    very cool coins everyone. i know which coin mine is, but i don't have a photo for it ... yet.
  • GhosOfRudyGhosOfRudy Posts: 108 ✭✭✭
    Ill be the first "non-coin" entry!

    My puck/wm j Bryan artwork

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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Had my all time favorite for 18 yrs. Sometimes you just have to let go and give someone else a chance.



    My favorite today? A PO1 1843-0 Lg O seated quarter that cost me $8 about 10 yrs ago. The sentimentality here is that the first seated quarter I ever bought was back in 1974.....also a low graded 1843-0 Lg. O quarter with huge "X's" carved in the obv fields. I sort of regretted selling that a few years ago. But, now I have a better replacement as a reminder.
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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    DANG!



    First thought was the Muera Huerta Peso



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    Then the lo grade Chain intruded.



    Now I'm not sure.



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  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An 1850 Double Liberty "Proof"/"Trial Piece" First Strike that was once in the personal collection of its designer James Longacre:

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    Link for "the rest of the story:"

    More regarding the 1850 "proof"/"Trial Piece" First Strike Double Eagle
  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • HandHHandH Posts: 438 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Lakesammman
    Nice to see what people enjoy!

    This is my current favorite. Beauty, gold rush history and provenance (Norweb) all rolled into one coin.

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    OMG. That is the cats meow. Just an awesome piece!

    US Civil War coinage
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  • HandHHandH Posts: 438 ✭✭✭
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    Favorite US coin at this time.

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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have so many favorites... scrolling through my photobucket I chose this piece. It's pretty incredible in person!

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,230 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I bought this one via mail order for $50 in 1964 from a Coin World Magazine dealer.

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    United States $20 1927

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Lakesammman

    Nice to see what people enjoy!



    This is my current favorite. Beauty, gold rush history and provenance (Norweb) all rolled into one coin.



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    That's my holy grail.

    Someday

    Came close this year but 1st was NGC and not "the look" I wanted.

    Called on a PC but although on the site, it was "not available."

    I sure wish consignment guys would tend their websites.
  • msch1manmsch1man Posts: 809 ✭✭✭✭
    Like others, I've got several favorites that rotate on and off that favorite list, but this one has consistently been on there ever since I bought it...



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  • jomjom Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, here is another "favorite," my 1861-S Paquet Type I Double Eagle with its "story" as related below:

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    As much as anything it is "the story" that makes this coin a "favorite" although its rarity with estimates approximating as low as 150 existent today, and the fact that no mint state examples have been found are added factors. (Doug Winter in his eBook on TypeI Double Eagles estimates 150-200.)

    With regard to "the story" I find it of special note that with only the Pony Express available to get the stop production message all the way to the San Francisco Mint, there was sufficient delay to allow some to escape into circulation. Had the newly established transcontinental telegraph been completed we likely never would have seen this coin.

    Here are some excerpts from Doug Winter's eBook regarding the 1861-S Paquet:

    "In 1860, Anthony C. Paquet, the mint’s assistant engraver, produced a new reverse for the double eagle. It was characterized by tall lettering and a very narrow rim. By the earliest part of 1861, it was decided that this design would not wear well, due to the narrowness of the border. A telegraph was sent to the San Francisco mint ordering a return to the old style Longacre reverse. This telegraph appears to have taken a considerable amount of time to reach the mint and by the time it had, $385,000 worth of the new reverse 1861-S double eagles had been struck and released into circulation. [Per PCGS'a CoinFacts 19,250 were minted, and as noted above the transcontinental telegraph had not yet reached all the way to California with the final leg requiring use of the Pony Express.]

    "The 1861-S Paquet reverse double eagle was a mostly-forgotten issue until it was “rediscovered” in the 1930’s. A number were found in European holdings of United States gold coins and many were repatriated back into the American coin market. Today, this issue is rare but it is still considered an important issue within the Type One series which is collected alongside the “regular” 1861-S double eagle. This variety was clearly made to circulate and it is unquestionably a regular issue.

    "PERFORMANCE SINCE 2002: In the current market, a choice Extremely Fine example of this date (equivalent to EF45) is worth $65,000-70,000+. When the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the same coin would have sold for $15,000-20,000. In the current market, an average quality About Uncirculated example of this date (equivalent to AU53) is worth $75,000-85,000+. When the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the same coin would have been worth $25,000-35,000. The price performance of this issue has been excellent and part of this has to do with prices, in 2002, being undervalued relative to actual rarity. After peaking in 2008, prices dropped in 2009-2012 but have begun to rise in 2013 and seem strong at current levels.

    "COMMENTS: The popularity of the 1861-S Paquet reverse double eagle has soared since the first edition of this book was published in 2002. It is now one of the most desirable Type One issues, partially due to its rarity and partially due to its great background story. It is scarce in all grades ..."



    Here is a link to a photo essay I did which expands upon the Pony Express and its role with regard to the 1861-S Paquet's existence:


    The Carson City Mint & The Pony Express's role re: the 1861-S Paquet
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,671 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't narrow it down to one.



    It's a three-way tie for my favorite.





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    OK, OK, if you twisted my arm really hard and made me narrow it down further, I'd have to go with either the Greek Mercenaries Perseus drachm or the Aethelred II penny.



    But I still don't know that I could choose just one.



    I will say that I admired that Aethelred penny in a friend's collection for nineteen years before I had the opportunity to make it mine.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,671 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: grip

    Originally posted by: TPRC

    To each his own...another foreign piece...



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    Cool ..Any history behind it?







    Inchiquin Money


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some amazing coins here.... so difficult to narrow down to just one 'favorite'....If I was forced to choose, it would probably be my 1909D Indian $5 gold coin.... I just really like that coin. That being said, on any given day it could also be my gold Haida coin.... yeah... on second thought, that would be the one. image Cheers, RickO
  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: lordmarcovan
    Originally posted by: grip
    Originally posted by: TPRC
    To each his own...another foreign piece...

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    Cool ..Any history behind it?



    Inchiquin Money


    A slightly more detailed history can be found here..

    Inchiquin Money

    With a nice excerpt as follows, and a thank you to Mr. Eureka for finding this piece for me:



    The Lords Justices Coinages of 1642

    In 1642, Dublin and its hinterland was surrounded – it was a siege in all but name – Dublin was cut off from the rest of Ireland but still linked to their political masters in England by sea. The massive influx of the 20,000 soldiers in the “English Army for Ireland” caused economic problems for Dublin – they had to be paid and they needed to spend money on essentials – and they needed money to do this and the Dublin merchants needed coins for change.

    There were three separate emergency issues in 1642 – struck from cut and flattened silver plate collected in around Dublin by supporters of Charles I on the outbreak of Civil War in England. The plate was at first donated (£1,200 worth) and later received in exchange for promissory notes. All three issues are also collectively known as ‘Inchiquin Money’ which does cause confusion with the other issues of 1642

    It was originally believed that these coins were issued by Lord Inchiquin on his own authority
    The issue of all three by the Lord Justices in 1642 is now well established
    Each of these issues vary according to the way their monetary value (denomination) was displayed
    There were also differences in the range of denominations issued

    Tom

  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like most of us here my favorite changes from time to time and it is difficult to pick from my top ten or even top twenty but this is consistently near the top.



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