Merry Christmas! What coin did you get??

The final piece to my reverse proof ase collection 😍

My wife got me a NGC Proof 70 Ultra Cameo 2014 Canadian $20 Woolly Mammoth. Our new local hockey team are the Mammoth.

Merry Christmas! No coin gifts here, but I got a tremendous home work station upgrade -- new router, new lamp, new powerstrip, new space heater, plus a hand-me-down 32" tv to use as an extended display monitor and the return of a bookcase I bought 20+ years ago that my son decided he no longer needs in his room. Taken all in all, serious office ergonomic / quality of life improvements.

Here's a piece I've been enjoying looking at under the newly improved illumination. It's the only coin I bought this year.

I received this one less than a week before Christmas ... Many thanks to Heritage for getting this piece to me quickly. I didn't think I'd see it until after Christmas.

I had thought about buying an example of this minor, and not often recognized gold type coin for a while. This piece represents an interesting piece of U.S. coinage history.

In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson suspended the coinage of the silver and the gold eagle or $10 gold piece. The reason was that he wanted to stem the flow of silver and gold from the U.S. economy. Jefferson thought that these large silver and gold pieces facilitated that flow. Little did he know that the United States would not issue any examples of these United States flagship coins for more than 30 years.

After the mint operation moved to the second Philadelphia on January 1, 1831, the mint turned its attention to modernizing its production processes and re-introducing the dollar and $10 gold piece.

The dollar returned in 1836. It was the Gobrecht Dollar named after the man who designed it, Christian Gobrecht. Gobrecht was sharing the chief engraver's salary with William Kneass who a suffered a partially debilitating stroke. These coins were struck in 1836 and '37 and were restruck in the 1850s.

Gobrecht created a design for the $10 gold coin in 1838. With a mintage of 7,200 coins and a low survival rate, the 1838 eagle is a very scarce coin. Gobrecht used the same design at the beginning of 1839. These coins are overdate pieces with a "9" over the "8 and are known as the "type of 1838." which the coin shown at the top of this post. With a mintage of 25,801, this coin is a bit more common, but still hard to find. Most of the survivors fall in the VF to EF grades. AU graded pieces and most especially strict Mint State pieces are quite rare.

Apparently, the mint officials were not totally satisfied with Golbrecht's first design. He modified it later in 1839. The most obvious change was that Ms. Liberty's ear was now uncovered. This design, with some minor changes, was current until 1907 when the St. Gaudens designs changed it. The biggest change was the addition of the motto, "In God we trust," to the reverse. Here is an example of the Liberty Head which replaced Gobrecht's first design.

Not a U.S coin but a beautiful 5 oz silver Libertad

@BillJones Nice new piece and I appreciate the education on its relevance to your collection and the history of the design. I don't collect gold, but it nonetheless was interesting to me.

As an aside, I'd love to own a Gobrecht dollar someday but they are too expensive for me.

Picked this up last night while the girls were making sugar cookies.

I work at my friend’s B&M, I got this as my Christmas bonus,

Bought these two on my own. No coin gifts from Santa.
Very excited to get these in hand. I love the Oregon design and have wanted one for a long time. It has taken quite some time to find the right one.
Same with the 53-D. Been a very long time to find the right one at the right price. This is also the first new date I e added to my Franklin set in a very long time.

I won this in the Christmas Day Great Collections Auction so this will be my X-mas present to myself.
It is an upgrade to my Buffalo Short Set.