What Do You Consider the Most Popular 20th Century Key Date Regular Issue Coin?
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Let's hear it! Please explain your reason why.
This could be fun. I'll probably chime in later.
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1909-S-VDB cent. Almost everyone seems to start out coin collecting with this coin in mind as a big score.
Agree with the 1916-D dime being a close second. These coins are both being heavily counterfeited which attests to their popularity.
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You're both correct. However, the 1914-D Lincoln Cent was another coin that mystified me.
When I started collecting in the 1960's they, too, were already long gone.
Pete
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1909 S VDB
1916 D
1932 D -S
All holy grails for me forty fifve years ago and still today.
Gotta put a plug in here for a 1916 standing Liberty Quarter followed in 2nd place by a much more expensive 1901-S Barber Quarter!
It's gotta be the 09-S VDB. It's the most publicized and desired by more collectors than any other coin.
Personally, for me, tho, it would be the 1916 doubled die obverse nickel.
55/55 gotta be up there -- lot's of hoopala --
Get rid of the first half of the 20th century and its pretty grim, with the 55/55 being the only coin that doesn't fall into the "specialist" category in the second half of the century.
I would also say the 1909S VDB 1c - from a demand standpoint it is the coin most requested based on my 35 years as a dealer
I too agree with the 1909-S VDB as most beginning collectors start out collecting pennies. The runner-ups would be the 1955 double die and the 1937-D three leg nickel. I have never owned any of them, but that ship has sailed for me as I am into earlier dated coins.
All are correct, but where's the gold?
It was the same when I started (late 1967) and for a very long times afterwards. These were the coins that every Joe Collector aspired to own.
Okay .... 1907 High Relief $20 gold. It’s been called the most beautiful American coin, and it’s so common that all it takes is money to acquire one.
I'll say the most "Popular", meaning known to non-collectors as well, is the 1943 lead penny. It's the coin most people find where they think it's rare, and they're convinced it's lead. Not a key, but they think it is.
1931-S Nickel
I would certainly agree with the above inputs '09SVDB, 16D, 55/55... Those are coins most often asked for, especially by new collectors...and already possessed by many experienced collectors. I would add the '95W ASE for the closing years of the century. Cheers, RickO
I would agree with the S-VDB. Almost everyone in my age group began with Lincoln’s and stares at that empty place in our album with wishes of sugar plums in our heads each Christmas until it was filled.
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The 1909-S VDB was the first major key date I knew about when I was 8 years old and collecting from bank rolls. This was quickly followed by the 1909-S and the 1914-D. The 1931-S was the first true semi key date I ever obtained. When I started in on Indian Head Cents about the same time, the 1877, 1908-S and 1909-S in that series became mythic...
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No doubt the '09 SVDB is the king in this regard, '16-D merc and 55/55 are the next closest. Say what you want but no other coins have the wow factor that these have as these are the two most popular and widely collected series.
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1913 liberty nickel.. This is the coin used to attract collectors to the hobby. It was used by B.max Mel in his advertising. First coin to break the 1 million dollar mark.
"During the Great Depression, the Fort Worth, Tex., dealer B. Max Mehl carried on a years-long newspaper advertising campaign (which he later admitted had cost him over a million 1930s dollars!), offering to buy for $50 apiece any 1913 Liberty head nickels offered. This offer was not bona fide, being merely a come-on to promote sales of his Star Rare Coin Encyclopedia, which went through over 30 editions despite being of no numismatic value. The major effect of Mehl's publicity was threefold: It made Mehl very wealthy through peddling his worthless book; it made the 1913 Liberty head nickel one of the most famous of American coins; and it stimulated the ungodly to make thousands of altered dates (mostly from 1903, 1910 or 1912) pretending to be 1913's."
While cool the '13 lib nickel is not a regular issue.
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the 1926 s buffalo nickel
My mind went immediately to the 1916-D dime, although many other good ones have been mentioned, too.
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Susan B. Anthony dollar.
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I would like to get a 1916 DDO buffalo sometime.
I like the 27-D, although the popular "supposedly unreleased Key" is the 1933 Double Eagle.
Honorable mention to the 1921.
Pete
By 'most popular', I assume you are talking about widely collected series.
I think the obvious top candidates have been nailed - so I will throw in an honorable mention candidate,
the 37D 3 legged buffalo. Yes there are plenty around now in the market place, but how many people had that as their only blank spot on the last page of the album, and diligently searched all the 37D nickels they came across from
grandma's junk box, etc, hoping for a score?