If you came into a windfall today , what kind of coins would you purchase ?
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The finest 1885 trade dollar - which sits raw in a safe deposit box about 8 miles from me as I type this
AWESOME !!
An 1804 $ and 1794 flowing hair dollar both in choice mint state.
Edit to add: I love my own set and I’m not greedy but $3 million would likely buy me the Forsythe Walker set, if I were so inclined..
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Lots and lots of crusty old gold. RGDS!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
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I would buy CH AU 1799 lgc, a choice MS chain cent, UNC 1796 quarter and dime, 1802 Half dime, 1823/2 quarter, 1873 cc No arrows quarter, 1853 no arrows half 1878-s half, 1794 dollar for starters then maybe 1854-o or 56-o $20. 1870-cc $10 or $20
I'd probably just allow myself to get nicer examples of the stuff I've been getting - half dime die marriages and die states. I've given up on dreaming about trophy coins.
Collector of Liberty Seated Half Dimes, including die pairs and die states
Bust quarters to start
Anything from the neighborhood yard sales for 50 cents on the dollar.
Just 3. A 55DD cent with plenty of lustre in the date, motto areas,a blazing Peace Dollar,a high MS Saint Gaudens $20 piece. I would know the pieces when I saw them if they fit my criteria.
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(1) An MCMVII HR MS-63 or better
(2) A Saint-Gaudens DE MS-67 in a scarce date
(3) A Liberty Head DE, maybe a CC.
Other coins I'd look at: Some Morgans (esp. CC's)....Vatican gold...commemoratives.
39 coin set of $3 Princess Gold coins in AU58 would be a fun challenge and cool series. I would do the proofs too, but don’t want to look greedy
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Complete my Morgan CC GSA set, upgrade my Morgan 1889 CC to a MS64, complete my Lincoln MPL collection including the 09-VDB, and pick up a MS 1793 Chain cent and the nicest 1794 Flowing hair dollar.
Really not asking for much. Lol
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✓ Everyman Mint State Carson City Morgan Dollars (1878 – 1893)
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✓ Matte Proof Toned Lincoln Cents (1909 – 1916)
I would purchase a DCam Proof Morgan.
Student of numismatics and collector of Morgan dollars
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I would add gold to my type set
A complete set of Lib Double eagles and 1$ gold
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
An 1893-S Morgan in MS
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~Wayne
What is considered a "windfall"?
I would love to have a 1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Edge and Flat Edge pairing. Or make an offer on the 1907 $20 Ultra High Relief, Inverted Edge Lettering, PR69 PCGS. Judd-1909, Pollock-2003, JD-4, High R.7.
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Just the Parmlee VG 10 Strawberry Leaf cent, a reeded edge 1795 cent with a legible date, a nice starred reverse and a Jeff Head.
Edited to add: “Just”
Empty Nest Collection
MS Bust gold, 1793-1795 issues in MS...
personally I have no want for 1804 or 1913 , prob just me.
A really nice original chocolate Higley copper of some variety…. CRO had a beauty last year but I just couldn’t bring myself to cut a nearly 6 figure check
Octagon Gold Owl
I would tackle the gold coins of the 7070.
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1915-S $50 Pan-Pac Octagonal
^^^see above^^^
...ie, ALL of the above... lol...
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1916 FH SLQ. always wanted one.
Define "windfall". If it was The Lottery a few weeks ago for $1.8B... even taking the cash payout and after taxes you'd end up with around $500M or so? Some dude in Arkansas could have a heck of a coin collection if he so desired...
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A Confederate Cent
I think it would be a lil more... however , What'a few million between friends . LOL
I'd wander the bourse asking select dealers what the coolest coin they have is and leave the show with an exceedingly cool box o' loot.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Some nice slabbed Barber material, more slabbed gold coins.
I’d love a 1907 high relief saint but I’ll go outside the box and go with a 1964 SMS Kennedy.
Every classic rarity I could lay my hands on, starting with the 1792 half disme, 'till I ran out of money. I could get a decent one today, but my wife would kill me. If I go too much over lower 5 figures, I gotta buy her a new car.
Nothing really. I recently did, and it went toward my kids and a perpetual giving project.
You guys are making me dream !
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Pre 1839 type set with high grade original coins.
It would require a big windfall from a grateful patient I cared for during my career who decided to remember me in her will. I rank that dream up there with winning the powerball. LOL
Commems and Early Type
Depends on the size of the windfall, but if it was enough something along these lines to start a nice 1916 set:
I got a list of about 100 VAM's
Throw in some traditional big varieties from the various Cent and Nickel series
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A really nice $50 gold slug with all of the wording visible around the outside of the obverse and nice edges with no bumps.
I would try to buy one of the 1894-S dimes. Should be able to buy for $2-3 M? I've got Flynn's book, now just need lottery jackpot money to make the purchase of the coin.
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I’d take a Brasher Doubloon.
Put me down for a nice 1933 $20. Nothing special.
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Slabbed CACG gold AGE, some nice Classic Commems.
Any or all of these here, oh hell yes, drool!
That's if its a small windfall
Silver and Gold slabbed bullion coins. Perhaps some CC Dollars MS64 and higher. Then something really low pop I liked.
I'd get my hip replaced, then what's ever left, I'd get the nicest 1856 Flying Eagle I could afford.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Many of you guys are thinking too small. If I won a billion dollar lottery, I'd buy the King of Siam proof set.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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God bless you brother !
silver eagles
How big of a windfall? If 9-10 figures or more I’d try to assemble the finest known complete set of antebellum U.S, coins including proofs and major varieties.