2003 US Coin Scrapbook - Post Your Favorite US Coins Purchased This Year

FatMan · December 23, 2003 8:15AM

As 2003 comes to a close, let's create a forum scrapbook in honor of our favorite US Coin additions to our collections. Post as many as you like. Let's keep this going through the New Year. This should be very cool. Happy holidays to everyone.

trozau · December 23, 2003 8:17AM

airplanenut · December 23, 2003 8:18AM

Got her yesterday...

FatMan · December 23, 2003 8:33AM

Darkhorse · December 23, 2003 8:34AM

Barry · December 23, 2003 8:35AM

Hey Fatman, I didn't know there was a Frisbee commem

Fairlaneman · December 23, 2003 8:36AM

Collecting is Collecting. What difference does it make if a coin is not a USA coin ? Just real curious about this.

Is this a start of USA coin collectors versus World coin collectors. Geez what a petty thing to bring up in the Holiday Season. As always Just My Humble Opinion.

Ken

RGL · December 23, 2003 8:39AM

I imagine there are a few favorites among the Cherrypicking Finds o' The Year in this prior THREAD.

FatMan · December 23, 2003 8:45AM

<< <i>Collecting is Collecting. What difference does it make if a coin is not a USA coin ? Just real curious about this. Is this a start of USA coin collectors versus World coin collectors. Geez what a petty thing to bring up in the Holiday Season. As always Just My Humble Opinion.

Ken >>

Ken, you are right, collecting is collecting and everyone is entitled to collect as they wish. However, the powers to be have recognized different areas of interest in collecting and have provided several forums to accomodate those areas of interest. As this is the US Coin forum it is only appropriate to discuss US Coins. I have no ill will towards the darksiders, however I do not believe their hijacking of the previous Coin Scrapbook thread was appropriate behavior. That is my humble opinion.

Fairlaneman · December 23, 2003 8:56AM

Fatman

Probably if a couple of our esteemed members would have kept their mouth shut the thread would have been a Great Thread of interest to almost any collector. Now it will die a slow death.

Again I think some people just need to Un-Wind a little when they come to the forums. Again JMHO.

Ken

theboz11 · December 23, 2003 8:57AM

sjbrian · December 23, 2003 8:57AM

not my favorite, but always wanted a US-PI peso

Lakesammman · December 23, 2003 9:00AM

Sure glad you said "coins" as I'd have a hard time picking a single highlight! It's been a great year, in retrospect.

MacCoin · December 23, 2003 9:32AM

tlhoy · December 23, 2003 10:03AM

Glenn

LanLord · December 23, 2003 10:36AM

Nothing too crazy

FatMan · December 23, 2003 11:21AM

boiler78 · December 23, 2003 11:23AM

ccr · December 23, 2003 11:38AM

These are a few of my favorite things.

The Seated Quarter I`ve shown so many times, people are probably getting sick of seeing it. It`s still a babe in my eyes. The Peace Dollar is a redundent piece But, I couldn`t resist it and is semi - prooflike. The other piece is equally as nice and won`t part with either one. The Ike I consider to be a fair scan of the colors.

Baley · December 23, 2003 11:43AM

I was really happy to get this coin this year:

FullHorn · December 23, 2003 11:44AM

Lakesammman · December 23, 2003 11:49AM

Great coins, all. Boiler, that 1st pattern is my favorite!! Post it as often as you like.

Baley · December 23, 2003 11:54AM

Also, this coin was the object of a long search:

Baley · December 23, 2003 11:57AM

Upgraded my type Walker in 2003:

kyleknap · December 23, 2003 12:01PM

I can't decide.

Windycity · December 23, 2003 12:07PM

Here's mine - bought as a set

Nic · December 23, 2003 12:13PM

A good year for my(sons) collection. K

FC57Coins · December 23, 2003 12:25PM

Here's three of my faves for this year John

coinlieutenant · December 23, 2003 12:30PM

Would have to be these two...

Windycity · December 23, 2003 12:36PM

This group has some mighty nice coins!!! I'm impressed.

Merc · December 23, 2003 12:38PM

Here is my favorite of the year, a 1936 Lincoln satin proof.

RYK · December 23, 2003 1:01PM

Askari · December 23, 2003 1:13PM

<< <i>Ken, you are right, collecting is collecting and everyone is entitled to collect as they wish. However, the powers to be have recognized different areas of interest in collecting and have provided several forums to accomodate those areas of interest. As this is the US Coin forum it is only appropriate to discuss US Coins. I have no ill will towards the darksiders, however I do not believe their hijacking of the previous Coin Scrapbook thread was appropriate behavior. That is my humble opinion. >>

Aw, come on, Fats, after all, the posts did fit the theme of the thread -- you don't see them hijacking this one, do you? And killing the thread by reducing the title to a period? For a guy whose byline is "

Simply for the love of the Game!

" aren't you taking it a little hard? JMHO.

I'll leave it to you to figure out whether these belong here or not (and, yes, they are American):

American Independence Centennial (Anon., 1876)

H. R. Linderman, Director of the U.S. Mint (Designed by Charles Barber, 1869)

Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Commemorative (Designed by Rene Paul Chambellan, 1945)

1904 St. Louis World's Fair Medal (Designed by Alexis Joseph Depaulis, 1904)

General Pershing Commemorative (Legastelois, Julian, c. 1918)

War and the Atomic Bomb (Berthold Nebel, 1945)

Memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (J. R. Sinnock, 1945)

Louisiana Purchase Exposition Award Plaque (Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1904)

1893 Columbian Expo Award Medal (Augustus St. Gaudens & Charles E. Barber, 1893)

originalisbest · December 23, 2003 1:19PM

Beautiful medals Mark!!!

FatMan · December 23, 2003 1:35PM

Askari,
Those are very cool. And are certainly welcome. I find many of the World Coins posted in the previous thread facinating and I welcome the oportunity to view them. The problem with the other thread was not so much the content, it was the intent. The intent was to hijack the thread with random posts, not just post their favorite purchases of the year. Upon discovering the true reason for the darkside posts I simply decided to create a new thread and end the old one. No hard feelings. And yes, I collect simply for the love of the game. So lets Play

zenny · December 23, 2003 1:55PM

this is the only coin i purchased this year that i consider unique and irreplaceable.

z

Askari · December 23, 2003 2:02PM

Let me let you in on a little secret, Fats ... when Darksiders like you, they hijack your thread (in a friendly way). It's a compliment ... not like on the Liteside where the nukes are brought out at the first imagined slight.

Your original thread certainly saw the posting of some incredible coins and medals of people who are obviously as enamored and proud of their collecting horizons as any Frankie or AH-Kennedy enthusiast (and a few of the most well-known of these US coin collectors regularly appear on the Dark Side). Why don't you restore the thread title on the original thread and let it run with everybody's favorites for all to enjoy ... and leave this one for US-only? I think CU has enough megabytes to accommodate both.

Really, the Dark Side is not merely about world and ancient coins ... it's about the full realm of numismatics that is terra incognita to the majority of Americans who collect only US coins and know nothing about what else is "out there." That's how the term "Dark Side" originated on this very forum! (Well, actually, its grandfather, if you want to be really technical about it.) There's a lot more -- a great deal more -- to numismia than is dreamed of in your Registry sets, folks.

Some of the medals I've shown above (all collected in 2003, so they fit the rules

) are by well-known US coin designers (and some on commission by well-known European designers, some of whom designed coinage for their own nations). Many US collectors don't know and have never seen their favorite US coin designers' medallic works -- and yet it was often by such products that they came to the notice of mint authorities. Some went to Europe and studied in the premiere schools addressing such arts. There they came into styles and interpretations which they carried back (especially from France, BTW) to produce the loveliest designs ever struck for US coinage, that last generation that succumbed to dead president mania. Of course, if one knows nothing of European coinage and medallic art of the period, how can they really appreciate the history of their favorite coins? The Dark Side is all about learning, including learning how to expand their horizons. Come and see ... we're only a forum away.