If you could only own one coin for the rest of your life, what would it be, pictures welcomed!
chabot510
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Let's ignore the other post, there are a lot of opinions about it. Now this hypothetical ?. Let's say you could only own 1 coin for the rest of your life. You could not sell it, so monetary value is not a factor. What coin would it be?
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1941 S walker in 68 !
<< <i>No photo for me
1941 S walker in 68 ! >>
thats a nice choice. toned or white?
chabot510
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i would vote for Julian's icon, the $20 Indian pattern. I love the obverse of the $10 Indian. Combined with the beauty of the reverse of the St. Gauden's $20, wow, what a coin!
<< <i>Toss up for me.
Either the highest graded blast white well struck 1921 Peace
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The craziest deep cameo high grade trade dollar with thick frost >>
Pinnacle had an amazing Trade $ on their site a few months ago. Only a PF 65*. The toning was unbelievable. IMO
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what a coin!
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Edit: 1084 dollar.
<< <i>You know what, instead of just picking some ultra-rarity that anyone with enough money could buy, I think I would pick a coin from my collection that I worked really hard to find. Maybe my 1963 cent. It would have more meaning to me.
Geez!! The Holy Grail in Memorials!!!
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I read about one in a Hardy Boy's book, The Melted Coins, and after reading about it I thought coin collecting sounded fun. So it was that book and a pine tree shilling that got me interested in collecting coins. So if i could only own one coin that would be the one I would want.
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–John Adams, 1826
That would be way up there. But for me, it would probably be one of the following two from the dawn of coinage. They're the reason we're here, folks. If they don't butter your toast, something's wrong with your toaster.
Miletos electrum stater, 600-550 BC, David Sear, Greek Coins, Vol. 2, # 3439. ($10k)
Or...
Lydian electrum Trite. circa 610 BC. “Walwet”. Lion head r., “WALWET” in Lydian script before. Rv: Double incuse punch. Weid.109 ($5k)
--Severian the Lame
Looking for alot of crap.
Lets revive this thread. I think this one checks all of the boxes for me:
An octagonal $50 Pan Pac in gem, like this one:
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
I'd be soooo torn, as I have about 10 favorites!!
I'm VERY certain that I'd NEVER be able to replace this one, especially at the price I paid.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Syracuse decadrachm, ca. 400 BC. (This one sold for $130k in 2013).
I think the dolphins on the $50 Pan-Pac are a tribute to this coin,
and the helmeted figure on the Pan-Pac is from another ancient - the Corinthian stater.
That is a nice coin, too - horses are cool.
Either EXHR or this (round also).
Funny story that could have turned out very bad.
If any one asks or cares, this experience resulted in the the obvious First Rule of Coin Authentication being formulated as I sat in the Numismatic Dept. at the Smithsonian: In order to authenticate a coin you must know what the genuine piece looks like.
In 1972, a man came into the ANA's Authentication Service with a Pan Pac slug he wished to have authenticated. The coin was his worn down VF pocket piece. We told him to come back in a few hours. We took a look at the coin under the scope and determined it was probably a cast counterfeit! The surfaces were very wavy and the design was mushy. What the heck, it was a perfect summer day in DC (low humidity) and Hoskins suggested we take a walk over to the museum to look at one of the examples in the National Collection.
Long story short - the pocket piece coin was 100% genuine. It turns out these coins look different than any others. In the case of this very worn coin, the "key" to its authenticity was its perfectly shaped, sharp "S" mint mark - exactly as found on many coins in this time period! Aside from the "S" and having never seen one of these in hand before, even the high grade genuine coins in the collection looked like cast counterfeits! That summer day, an important lesson was learned to be passed down in counterfeit seminars since then.
I'm confused, as I thought that it had to be a coin that you already owned...
If it was ANY coin, then I would like this one from the #1 Gerald Forsythe collection:
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Well, some variety of California USA Assay Office/Augustus Humbert $50 slug. I would hope to be able to pick the specific coin.
I am also partial to the Roman/Augustus gold coin with the heifer on the reverse. It would be nicer to pick the specific coin, but this one is pretty scarce in private hands.
Obviously it goes without saying that this photo is a rip.
High grade UHR Saint for me as well.
No photo for me. TDN once owned an 1814 Plain 4 Classic Large Cent in PC 4 BN in an OGH. It's one of probably ten coins I've seen in my life that sang to me that I could actually afford to purchase when I first saw it.
Excellent strike, even glistening chocolate brown toning on obverse and reverse. A noticeable, but not obnoxious hit around 9:00 in the obverse field was the coin's only distraction.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
I'm surprised no one picked the 1849 Liberty double eagle. It's unique and the first one.
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
I would love a Disme or Half-Disme minted from the silver that Jefferson carried to the mint in his person, referenced in that story I read somewhere.
I always wanted an 1804 Draped bust dollar, too.
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
$4 STELLA
Me too.
Except a gem is not necessary; the closest version of reality that my dream gets is MS62.
A Cal 2.5 gold. Love the history of that coin!!
Someday 😀
Maybe this one-
THE 1794 dollar.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
This is a fantasy topic for most of us. Love that coin but go for at least an MS-69 "finest known" with a gold CAC!
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
I would revisit my collecting roots and go with Blay's 1919 Lincoln in MS69.
Territorial $50 Octagon, not fussy which type just a nice one.
When this post was started I had been a Parole Officer for only 5 years, retirement would have seemed like an eternity. Now I'm retired.
If it were one I already owned, it would by my 1909D $5 Indian....If it were one I would like to own, it would be the octagonal PanPac Gold....Cheers, RickO
Brasher Doubloon.