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If you only could collect coins from one year what year would it be?
tydye
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I have a thing for coins (especially CBH) dated 1814. 1853 would also be a good choice. Lots of varieties. 1853 dimes with arrows are fun - try to collect all the different placement of the arrows.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
The rest of the story:
The cent doesn't matter & there were no silver dollars.
This was the first year of the Walking Liberty Half and the Standing Liberty Quarter.
Also for a bonus, I'd get a Barber dime and quarter. To top it off came a 1916 Doubled die Buffalo nickel and the 1916 D Mercury dime.
I'd take variety and this year offered enough spice to flavor my numismatic dish.
My second choice would probably be 1957. It's the year I started collecting and paying attention to world
events. It's the year of Sputnik and beginning of the space age. I'm not too crazy about 1957 US coins
but there are lots of great world coins from '57.
Otherwise 1897 is great for my Barbers, so I'll go with that.
Low mintages, key coins and nicely engraved (for one year) coins.
Pete
...but if money were no object, 1875!
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Don
definitely 1816.
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1796 - The only year before 1849 that the mint struck all denominations. A lot of classic coins in this set. You also need to be a millionaire to collect them.
1807 - Love this date for some reason, and you get transitional types as well.
1857 - Great year and you could go for every date/mintmark, although some are expensive, none are show stoppers.
1866-1873 - These are the 16 type coin years (17 for 1873 counting proofs), no other years of coinage have so many different types. Picking a date from this era, I guess I'd have to go with 1872. No proof only issues that year and the S and CC mints are not show stoppers if you want a complete date/mintmark set. 1869 would be good also with no CC coins involved. Interesting thing about 1869, a new series of paper money was issued that year, as well as a new series of stamps. You could do a collecting trifecta.
1890 - first year of the standard 10 denomination set. I like this set because only in 1890-1891 do you get the 10 denomination set with a liberty nickel and Morgan dollar along side the last of the seated coinage.
1921 - First year all classic designs were minted, although the last of the Morgans throws off the symmetry. You also get the nearly impossible $20.
For modern, 1974 - you get the standard 6 denomination set, plus a new series of federal reserve notes were issued. You could get everything from 1c to $100. This is possible for 1977 as well.
<< <i>If you only could collect coins from one year what year would it be?
definitely 1816. >>
Ah, you espouse the 'Box of One' concept. I tried that, but staring at a single large cent got old. The year for me is 1857, a bittersweet year for early copper afficionados.
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<< <i>If you only could collect coins from one year what year would it be?
definitely 1816. >>
Ah, you espouse the 'Box of One' concept. I tried that, but staring at a single large cent got old. The year for me is 1857, a bittersweet year for early copper afficionados. >>
Could be a box of 9.
Next choice would have to be 1861, 'cause I'm big on Civil War stuff and I'm the furthest along with it, gold included.
Heck, anything Civil War dated. I'm so tempted to set a few grand aside for these type of purchases. What is going to be the market for this stuff in 2011, the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War? I wonder what the TV coin show hype will be like?! Sheesh!
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<< <i>For me certainly it would 1866
My 1866 mint set >>
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