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  • CaptHenway
    CaptHenway Posts: 34,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BloodMan said:
    1873

    HXB

    Ah, good old Harry X "No Period" Boosel! Mr. 1873! He did have fun with that year.

    The morning after the night he passed away he was supposed to meet with me and a couple he was friends with who had some coins to sell. Before they got there Harry's son called me to give me the sad news, and I had to break it to his friends. Eventually I helped his wife and son dispose of the leftovers of his 1873 collection, miscellaneous tokens and medals plus a lot of stuff dated 1973.

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  • USSID17
    USSID17 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 11, 2021 7:07AM
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    Sorry, you're all wrong! The correct answer should be: The year we each "started" collecting. ;)

    For me? June 7th, 1960 @ 3:04pm, my 8th birthday party when I opened my first 1909-1940 Whitman folder. :D

  • BloodMan
    BloodMan Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @PerryHall said:

    @BloodMan said:
    1873

    HXB

    What is HXB?

    Harry X Boosel, also known as Mr. 1873. He wrote a book on the open and closed 3 varieties of that year.

  • BloodMan
    BloodMan Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CaptHenway beat me to the answer

  • brianc1959
    brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Crypto said:
    In this respective order
    1839
    1876
    1795

    1934

    So, you're the one who keeps bidding up those 1839 coins I try to get!

  • brianc1959
    brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BillJones said:
    1795.

    It’s the one year I have an example of every denomination and design the mint issued that year.

    I would like to do that with 1796, but the half cent and the $5 and $10 gold coins are stoppers for me. I suppose I would have to get both types of cents and a 1796 With Stars $2.50 to make it complete, which would make it even harder. Some big collectors have tried to form a 1796 “Proof set” in the past. That involves some very heavy lifting.

    I also like 1795, and have a "mini-me" set (no gold, nothing uncirculated). But the 1795 $5 Heraldic reverse is a pretty scary coin!

  • JRGeyer
    JRGeyer Posts: 157 ✭✭✭
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    1875

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I also like 1795, and have a "mini-me" set (no gold, nothing uncirculated). But the 1795 $5 Heraldic reverse is a pretty scary coin!

    It has a scary price for sure, but it took me less than a minute to decide on this one. It as one of the fastest buying decisions I ever made on an expensive coin. It popped up at a Baltimore show.

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  • jesbroken
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    @koynekwest said:
    Yeah, Jim. I agree. That was a pretty good year, too. And 1938 was a bad year.

    38 was the worst year.
    Jim


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  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This 1796 Bust Dollar was dipped at one point, but I have always liked the look of it.

    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 ... ?
  • brianc1959
    brianc1959 Posts: 350 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BillJones said:

    I also like 1795, and have a "mini-me" set (no gold, nothing uncirculated). But the 1795 $5 Heraldic reverse is a pretty scary coin!

    It has a scary price for sure, but it took me less than a minute to decide on this one. It as one of the fastest buying decisions I ever made on an expensive coin. It popped up at a Baltimore show.

    I was actually thinking of the other 1795 version with the large eagle reverse, but that small-eagle 1795 of yours is beautiful!

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I was actually thinking of the other 1795 version with the large eagle reverse, but that small-eagle 1795 of yours is beautiful!

    Thank you! the large eagle version is above my pay grade.

    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 ... ?
  • thefinn
    thefinn Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    For some reason 1859. It is Antebellum (before the Civil War destroyed so much), and a 1859-O silver dollar is an available and impressive thing to hold.

    thefinn
  • Nederveit2
    Nederveit2 Posts: 162 ✭✭✭
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    1837...bust to seated and Civil War era coins are my favorites. That said, it won't stop my from buying coins unrelated to those years!

  • koynekwest
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    @jesbroken said:

    @koynekwest said:
    Yeah, Jim. I agree. That was a pretty good year, too. And 1938 was a bad year.

    38 was the worst year.
    Jim

    Seems we lost all of our coin artistry from 1931 thru 1948.

  • Davideo
    Davideo Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭✭
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    1. I can feel it's going to be a big year...

    Actually I'll go with 1916. I always thought it was sort of neat that it has key dates for two different series but of the same denomination (quarter).

  • JimTyler
    JimTyler Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I gotta go with 1796

  • ColonelJessup
    ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2021 8:25AM
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    I always suggest to beginning collectors that they start with an 1816 year set. Easy to complete, :#

    I'll go with 1792, 1916 next

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  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1652 and MDCXXX for me

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  • Dave99B
    Dave99B Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    '1950' - Can't really explain why...I just think it looks ultra cool.

    Dave

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  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I've been looking at a lot of 17xx dated coins, but the date I gravitate towards most is 1795... other dates are more unobtainium for me...

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  • The_Dinosaur_Man
    The_Dinosaur_Man Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    100 years before I was born, last year of the Seated Liberty Design and first year of New Orleans' return to minor silver coinage. There are a couple of New Orleans proofs for the dime and quarter out there too.

    The image is a screencap of a project I spent a few months researching and compiling, where I looked into what the U.S. Mint put out each year. Quite often I'll come across an individual asking what coins were made during which years, and the project answers that. And this thread, and everyone citing their favorite coin year, really reminds me of that.

    Here's the project, and you can navigate to any year that you like. https://coinsandstamps.com/www.collect1.coinsandstamps.com/uscoins/Coins_by_the_Year/coinsByYearIndex.php#1891

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  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My mother’s birth year, 1921.

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  • coinnut
    coinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1839
    1793

  • MFeld
    MFeld Posts: 17,131 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ColonelJessup said:
    I always suggest to beginning collectors that they start with an 1816 year set. Easy to complete, :#

    I'll go with 1792, 1916 next

    I don’t dare look. Is there an 1816 registry set option?😄

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  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have always liked the date design of the 1938 Jefferson nickel

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  • 1northcoin
    1northcoin Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 13, 2021 4:12PM
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    Looks like 1849 and1850 haven't been claimed yet.

    How many years get to have a whole numismatic book written about them? :)

    There is so much history tied with the 1849 and 1850 coinages given their association with the emergence of the American West and its included gold discoveries.

    My 1850

  • ɹoʇɔǝlloɔ
    ɹoʇɔǝlloɔ Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    whatever the current year is

  • 1northcoin
    1northcoin Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It merits adding with regard to the 1849 $20 in the Smithsonian, Moran and Garrett wrote in their book "1849" (at page 185) that this singular coin is "The undisputed king of the U.S. Mint Cabinet, which became the National Numismatic Collection, owes its rarity as a single coin to its unsuitability for mass production. Its relief would not sufficiently coin up. Yet the design clearly had merit; with subsequent adjustments to lower the relief of the obverse, it would take its place within the circulating specie of the realm and become an icon of newfound U.S. economic wealth."

    Given its provenance tying it back to having been in the personal collection of its designer James B. Longacre, this 1850 may well have been the first of the above referenced "circulating specie" to have been minted:

  • Weiss
    Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Numismatically the answer is 1883. You could do a whole collection off of the 1883 coinage. I know: I tried.

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  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    In my type set, several years are represented by 3 or more denominations, 1795, 1805, 1812, 1838, 1855, 1867. but if I had to pick a favorite year and just collect that one, it would probably be 1797.

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  • 1northcoin
    1northcoin Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Cool!

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