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Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable??
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These Boards seem to be shallow in content lately, so I'll take a shot at a new thread. This surely is not a topic of first impression, but doesn't seem to have been discussed lately. Unlike many recent threads, it actually pertains to coins!
Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable??
My answer is no, not by a longshot. My favorite coin actually is a set of seven circulated $5 gold pieces is in a custom Capital holder entitled "THE ONLY COIN MINTED AT ALL SEVEN MINTS". It contains an example from each mint, and my Dad (RIP) bought it for me in 1958 at a Coin Convention in downtown Los Angeles for the princely sum of $210! It's a bit outdated, as the $5 gold coin was coined at West Point long after the set was assembled. I have never seen another like it. It offers so many memories, and is at the top of my favorites list even though it would not excite many collectors.
As far as individual coins, two of my favorites (but not most valuable) are an 1872 two cent piece and a 1812 half, both in PCGS MS 66 1st gen holders. They are "condition census", in amazing states of preservation and are wonders to behold that would excite many collectors.
OK, it's your turn: Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable??
Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable??
My answer is no, not by a longshot. My favorite coin actually is a set of seven circulated $5 gold pieces is in a custom Capital holder entitled "THE ONLY COIN MINTED AT ALL SEVEN MINTS". It contains an example from each mint, and my Dad (RIP) bought it for me in 1958 at a Coin Convention in downtown Los Angeles for the princely sum of $210! It's a bit outdated, as the $5 gold coin was coined at West Point long after the set was assembled. I have never seen another like it. It offers so many memories, and is at the top of my favorites list even though it would not excite many collectors.
As far as individual coins, two of my favorites (but not most valuable) are an 1872 two cent piece and a 1812 half, both in PCGS MS 66 1st gen holders. They are "condition census", in amazing states of preservation and are wonders to behold that would excite many collectors.
OK, it's your turn: Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable??
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Of the coins I bought myself, it would be a 1960 LD over SD proof cent, one of the first coins I got when I got back into collecting. Don't remember the grade.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
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My most valuble coin:
My favorite coin: (currently)
David
Haletj - You must really love that 64-D if you haven't yet sold it for the 3K it's worth!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Just imagine how cool it would be to actually touch with your hands the coin that has all that history,
instead of holding the plastic container the coin is in!
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
Not my most valuable by far either.....
In order I received them:
The first: The Firemans 9-11 New York State Quarter (PCGS graded, Number 70/100, MS-65). A gift from friends of the forum.
The second: The 1924 $20 ST. G. (PCGS MS65) Also a gift from the forum.
As for prices... They are both priceless to me, they will be handed down to my daughter when I pass on, or when I hand over the whole collection to her.
Ray
me it certainly has sentimental value as Russ is my hero. I get choked up writing this (stman wiping a tear from his eye.)
Thanks again Russ!!!!
(pic courtesy mgoodm3)
<< <i>Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable?? >>
My most valuable coin wouldn't even make the list of my 5 favorite coins.
<< <i>Is your favorite owned coin your most valuable?? >>
not by a long, long shot. my favorite coins tend to be in the $25 - $100 range!
K S
Yes.
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
This is a very tough date in PL and the only type "d" PL I've seen from any year. It trends for $7 as
an unrecognized variety but it would be difficult to find a buyer. Few dealers or even modern col-
lectors would offer over $.30 for it.
Some of my other favorites are worth much more now days.
WOW!
1. 1890-CC Morgan in VG-F condition that was found by my aunt on the street in either Denver or Iowa in the early 1960's. She gave it to my mom cuz she knew I was a YN. My mom gave it to me. It is a sentimental piece.
2. 1913-S Lincoln in F condition - given to me by my mom in the 1960's when she found it doing some gardening in our back yard. Also sentimental.
3. 1974-D quarter in MS condition (66-67 IMHO) I plucked from circulation and placed into a Whitman Album, it has toned nicely, has no flaws I can see.
4. 1963 Proof Franklin contained in an original set I picked up for $10.00. This was acquired shortly after I got back into the hobby in 1998 and shortly after I first read Tomaska's book on 1950-1970 Cameos. The coin is DCAM+ and IMHO would grade a 68. It looked so stunning in the mint cello and even more so after I cut it out of the cello that it triggered my ongoing 6+ year project for assembling a raw set of 1950-1970 cameos.
5. 1957 Proof Franklin, the best of 3 coins I picked up 11-2004 at Santa Clara. I have looked for raw 1957 CAM/DCAM halves for years without luck and stubmled onto three of them last fall. The best of the lot is very clean and IMHO would be a DCAM.
6. 1964 DCAM non AH Kenndy half that I found in an original proof set for $10.00.
7. 1942 Proof Walker that has cameo contrast (light on the obverse and heavy on the reverse).
8. 1936 Proof Buffalo nickel, Satin Finish.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Jim
<< <i>In all honesty, I cannot come up with my favorite coin. I could, however come up with hundreds that I would sell to buy such a favorite coin.
Do it.
The coin in #2 position is my 1805 dime. That one is well down the list when it comes to value, but it's the piece that got me hooked on early American type.
Close, maybe third or fourth favorite
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