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What's the most MACHO US coin?

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For sheer testosterone bragging rights in nearly any numismatic venue, I'll pick the 1895 proof Morgan.

Yours?

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,779 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>For sheer testosterone bragging rights in nearly any numismatic venue, I'll pick the 1895 proof Morgan.

    Yours? >>



    Yep, Morgan Dollar, but I'd vote for the 1893-S in MS-65 over the 1895 Proof.
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  • PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭
    1876-CC 20-cent
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    1895 Morgan is overhyped. It's relatively common as proof Morgans go. I vote for high relief saints.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    The SBA.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • MillertimeMillertime Posts: 2,048 ✭✭


    << <i>I vote for high relief saints. >>



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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bill Jones, mgoodm, ......y e a h.... I ...... suppose..... in THIS crowd.

    BUT....in a room fulla folks who know either a lot or NUTTIN about coins..... the 95 proof is gonna get da...
    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH's.

    And .....Russ.......um........Russ.......er.....well...........have you tried any ....um..... "adult novelties?"

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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $50 territorial gold or Pan-Pac commem.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • ecosecos Posts: 391 ✭
    I'm gonna agree with the $50 octagonal Pan-Pac.
    Drop that puppy on the table and the Proof Morgan loses its luster. image
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Early dollars.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    Any slug ($50) would qualify.

    THE most Macho coin, IMHO, would be either of the Half Unions in the Smithsonian.

    Absent those, J-1776, my icon, would be.
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Pan Pac octagonal.
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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Julian, I didn't mean......INTIMIDATING !!!! image

    Just sorta "beer bar overpowering."

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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    The Horseman $10 gold, and not the reproductions. I also think the 3 legged buffalo should get some consideration, because it is well known outside of the realm of collectors.
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    I would have to go with something much early than a lousy Morgan... maybe a high MS 1792 Half Disme... image
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
    Nothing says macho like an old, bald guy...Mike

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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From when I started collecting in the 60's ---there was only one coin that said it all.

    1804 silver dollar.

    Wasn't it the first million dollar coin?



    I suppose if you asked the question in 1920....it was the 1913 nickel....
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  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    I don't see how you can get any more macho a.k.a. (a tougher bad image!) than a "rebel" and a "blue belly" at Gettysburg!!!...
    They really didn't like each other either!image

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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,093 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The SBA.

    Russ, NCNE >>



    Get it right Russ. Its the SAC $

    TorinoCobra71

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>$50 territorial gold or Pan-Pac commem. >>

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    Very impressive coin especially to non collectors.

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Norse Medal... Thick variety of course.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Macho macho coin,
    I want to buy a Macho coin.
    Macho macho coin,
    What dealer here sells a macho?
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Macho macho coin,
    I want to buy a Macho coin.
    Macho macho coin,
    What dealer here sells a macho? >>

    Only those in the village. A strange folk they are, but nothing wrong with that.
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  • AccentonCoinsAccentonCoins Posts: 40
    07 high relief saint, i had one in my hands (PCGS MS64, wire rim) and i could not stop staring at it, totally mesmerized. Pics never do this coin justice, you have to see one.
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  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would have to go with something much early than a lousy Morgan... maybe a high MS 1792 Half Disme... image >>



    ALthough I would love to own one of these, I just can't agree with you. Any coin with that obverse and a rubber chicken on the back cannot be considered "Macho".

    I'm thinking Stella $4
  • KoinlinkKoinlink Posts: 593 ✭✭✭
    Stone Mountain maybe?
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,509 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The ultimate macho coin is Madmarty's cook island coin. That guy is hung (the guy in the coin--not Marty). imageimage

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ShuShuBatShuShuBat Posts: 32
    I would agree with others and choose the Pac-Pan Commem or the High Relief Saint. The Pac-Pan beats all though.
  • boyhowdyboyhowdy Posts: 657 ✭
    My vote goes to the type I SLQ.

    You have a babe running toward you with her clothes littering the ground behind her.
    She has a quill pen in one hand so she can sign her check over to you. She carries a shield
    in case you need protecting. Breen says that that MacNeil's original design didn't include
    the shield. She was carrying a tray with a mint julep on it for her master. The eagle on the reverse
    surely represents power and vigilance.

    What could be more macho than that?

    Steve
    Collecting XF+ toned Barber dimes
  • ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016


    << <i>The Norse Medal... Thick variety of course. >>



    Man, you read my mind.
    Everything I write is my opinion.

    Looking for alot of crap.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 29,937 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It would definitely be a struck copper core; too sexy for its cladding.
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  • EJBEJB Posts: 640
    Boyhowdy, I think you nailed it.. image
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    civil war era 1861-1865 proof gold

  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭
    I have always loved the Long Island Commem - the Indian & the Colonist look very manly on that one.
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  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    Macho?--Dolly Madison Commem with pink toning right where it should be.
    morgannut2
  • BASEagleBASEagle Posts: 383
    MACHO, he said MACHO!

    Some of you people don't know what the word means.

    It means this:


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    Mike


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