Your "Dream" Coin.
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If given the opportunity, what Obverse/Reverse design combination of U.S. coinage would you pair up to achieve your ideal coin? Obverse for obverse, Reverse for reverse. You can mix denominations.
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Peace $ Obverse with Morgan $ Reverse...done in $20, high-relief gold
Great question!
I would have to think more on this. However, I think a $10 Indian obverse paired with a Morgan dollar reverse would be awesome.
I think the St. Gaudens is the most beautiful obverse (walker in close second) and I really like the Standing Liberty Quarter reverse. Let's make an ultra high relief Saint with the SLQ eagle.
I'm not sure.
The High Relief Saint Gaudens $20 obverse with the High Relief Saint Gaudens $20 reverse.
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The Standing Liberty Quarter obverse with the Walking Liberty Half reverse. High relief would be sweet.
In high relief gold, the WLH obverse with the Sacagawea Eagle reverse. Cheers, RickO
Sorry pasted my picture before reading your post. I just saw the title "dream coin" and this immediately came to mind. Regards!
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A Charlotte mint $20 ultra high relief saint with my birth year.
1850 Baldwin obverse with Palladium Eagle reverse in $20 high relief gold. The Baldwin is not a US issue, but it is American. Perhaps substitute a cowboy for the Vaquero. A gold high relief Oregon $20 would work too.
Interesting. My favorite sides of the Morgan and Peace dollars are the opposite of yours. I like the high-relief gold concept! The eagle would look magnificent.
My dream coin would be the obverse of the shield nickel and the reverse of the type 6 shield cent. I would have it encapsulated in a PCGS Gold Shield Label holder. I like shields.
Ultra high relief obverse and a WLH reverse with the edges of the Birch cent.
Saints & walkers are my top two.
The draped bust would be number 3 if I could come up with a nice reverse....
Hmm....How about the eagle from the original "Susan B" design?
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I think a Gobrecht Dollar is unimprovable, that would be my choice.
Since I have already acquired quite a few of my dream coins, it comes down to a piece that a bit of a duplicate. I would like a nice (Choice Fine to EF) 1793 Chain AMERI. Cent.
Second would be a nice Augustus Humbert $50 gold piece.
Third would be a 1907 $10 Indian with the wire rim and periods.
All of these are possible, but not probable given my divorce for the U.S. coin market.
If I were really out of my mind dreaming, it would be the King of Siam Proof set.
Gobrecht Dollar..........No stars obverse and flying eagle among stars reverse........I CAN'T improve upon that.
I have always fantasized about that piece.......ever since I was a child.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Maybe a couple classics like this:
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My Dream Coin would be a 1795 Draped Bust One Dollar Obverse and 1843 Liberty Seated Dollar Reverse with rim modification. Come on Dan, make this happen.
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Yes, I would like to have the off-center 1795 Bust Dollar. I think that marked then introduction of the beautiful Draped Bust design. I have a nice example of the centered bust variety.
I have had this Gobrecht Dollar for a number of years too. What I really like about it is that it is the original coin turn with the eagle flying "onward and upward."
If you really want those coins...you could talk to Dan Carr. That's his specialty.
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I already like the $10 Indian.
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I really like this pattern with the modified Trade obverse and the Seated Dollar reverse. But I guess it’s not technically a dream coin since it exists.
dream coin...
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Wow, never saw this, I really like this Eagle!!!!
Indian head (buffalo) nickel obverse; Walking Liberty half reverse.
Many years ago I literally had a dream about finding a coin exactly like this in change - a 1942-d-D-d silver "war" nickel:
So I'm going to produce some over-strikes like that
Mixing and matching obverses and reverses doesn't do anything for me. It's like a wrecked truck that was repaired with parts from another vehicle of a different color. It just doesn't look right.
As far as a dream coins go, as a type collector, the bust small eagle half dollar is a show stopper. There are maybe 200-300 extant.
Something like this would do nicely. The photo is of a VF30 coin that I borrowed from CoinFacts:
Full steps to boot.
While your at it Dan, be sure and make an example of the '42 D over horizontal D ……………. but over the Monticello dome!
I would also like my reverse "No Stars" WF, the stars are just to darn distracting.
Zero stars for me.
I'd love to see this in high relief
When can we order those?
Look at the STEPS on that thing,,,,,,,
I'm in.