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If you were born today, would you rather receive a 1/2 oz platinum eagle or an 1885-CC Morgan ...

CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...from generous Aunt Agatha and Uncle Ned.?

I'll take the Dollar.

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  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 12, 2018 3:40PM

    FWIW...The Dollar is BU has no sticker.

  • CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    '85-CC any day.

  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can I see the Morgan please

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  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 12, 2018 4:10PM

    Whichever they choose, they should slab it so that I do not teethe on it ;).

    Edited to add: I forgot to mention I'd take the Morgan! :D

  • SONOMOSCASONOMOSCA Posts: 423 ✭✭✭

    1885 CC for me please. :)

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  • hutze1nmhutze1nm Posts: 235 ✭✭✭

    Morgan all day

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,624 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll take the dollar, thank you!

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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dollar.

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Always take the coin over bullion....ALWAYS!

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 5,004 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting. If neither are dated the birth year then the 1885-CC Morgan. Otherwise, a nice 1918 or even 1818 half would be awesome!

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would rather receive a 1885 CC Morgan silver dollar.

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would definitely take the platinum coin! That’s half an ounce of a very expensive industrial metal. The 2004 looks amazing with the low mintage of barely 5,000.

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  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since the price of palladium has outperformed the Morgan dollar by multiples over the last dozen years, and since palladium has value as a commodity and is more liquid, my unsentimental answer is the palladium coin. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't consider a Morgan as a birth gift in hopes that i might be creating a future collector, but the odds are that the kid will appreciate the palladium coin a lot more when he/she goes off to college.

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It’s not like I don’t think Morgans don’t make great gifts because they do but to a non-collector a CC mint Mark won’t mean much. Go for a nice AU-55 1880-s for $30 so they can handle it and appreciate the history it is.

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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would rather debate a nice 1885-O or a Proof Silver Eagle. Once the kid gets old enough and maybe likes coins, there aren't a whole lot of "affordable" Morgans that are uphill from an 85-CC. I think they should appreciate the value of coins before having a key date handed to them. I guess all this means that I vote for the Pt. as much as I would rather not.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,947 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hmmmm, bullion vrs history...............................let me think................................................ah ha! 85cc it is!

    bob ;)

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  • VanHalenVanHalen Posts: 4,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If the Morgan is truly a BU piece then I'd go that route. A 1/2oz plat proof in ogp would be tempting though.

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,774 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Morgan please.

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  • musstangrmusstangr Posts: 61 ✭✭✭

    Morgan

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 12, 2018 7:55PM

    Whichever one has a CAC sticker.

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  • mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,251 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @oldabeintx said:
    Since the price of palladium has outperformed the Morgan dollar by multiples over the last dozen years, and since palladium has value as a commodity and is more liquid, my unsentimental answer is the palladium coin. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't consider a Morgan as a birth gift in hopes that i might be creating a future collector, but the odds are that the kid will appreciate the palladium coin a lot more when he/she goes off to college.

    Pt, NOT Pd

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  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    Pleagle. Too many Morgan's, unless you're going to pony up for a nice proof morgan...

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Morgan

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Morgan $ !!! :)

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just gimme the nipple . I'm only a day old.

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  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mbogoman said:

    @oldabeintx said:
    Since the price of palladium has outperformed the Morgan dollar by multiples over the last dozen years, and since palladium has value as a commodity and is more liquid, my unsentimental answer is the palladium coin. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't consider a Morgan as a birth gift in hopes that i might be creating a future collector, but the odds are that the kid will appreciate the palladium coin a lot more when he/she goes off to college.

    Pt, NOT Pd

    oops, but same answer

  • oldabeintxoldabeintx Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a PS, for the record I would rather have a nice chain cent than bullion of equivalent value.

  • CoinPhysicistCoinPhysicist Posts: 603 ✭✭✭✭

    I'd rather have the Morgan over 1/2 ounce of platinum, but that's just me.

    And a nice chain cent costs like 20 or 40x the items in discussion here... we would all rather have that, but that isn't an option.

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 13, 2018 8:46AM

    Platinum

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,869 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a collector, the 1885-CC dollar would be more interesting, but who knows what the new born will be? The platinum is just a hunk of metal and not a particularly pretty hunk of medal at that.

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  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 36,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 13, 2018 9:43AM

    Neither. Tell Aunt Hagatha to put the $500 in a mutual fund. When I retire at age 75, it should be worth $500,000. Neither of the coins is likely to be able to do that. They certainly didn't in the past 75 years.

    [Side note: I'd expect platinum and palladium to start dropping in the next 10 years as the main industrial use (catalytic converters) starts to disappear with the increase in electric cars.]

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  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭

    85CC in MS65 please

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Give me the platinum dad :)

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 23,291 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll take the 2008-W Burnished Plat

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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1885-CC

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 13, 2018 12:47PM

    What about getting either of the coins custom engraved like this one - originally posted here by @afford.

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  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 13, 2018 1:31PM

    @TwoSides2aCoin said:
    Just gimme the nipple . I'm only a day old.

    A day old,,,,, some of us still feel the same way 50+ years later. But if that's not one of the options, I'd take the CC in anything over MS66.

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 13, 2018 1:27PM

    @jmski52 said:
    I'll take the 2008-W Burnished Plat

    Good Choice!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The CC Morgan... Immediately, no regrets..... Always liked them, that is why I did a set years ago. Cheers, RickO

  • YouYou Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

    This is an easy question . . . I would get whatever one was worth more at the time of purchase.

  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Morgan for sure!!!

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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,166 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Platinum eagle. Not even close. I would expect that by the time I hit age 21, the platinum eagle would be worth 2 or 3 times an 1885-CC of equivalent value today. Maybe sooner.

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