What would be the coolest coin ever? - that does not exist already

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  • PerryHall
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    A $50 gold coin dated 2013 celebrating the election of our first female chief executive---President Sara Palin.image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • 57loaded
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    << <i>A $50 gold coin dated 2013 celebrating the election of our first female chief executive---President Sara Palin.image >>



    the "first spouse" coin being?
  • GrumpyEd
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    NASA lands on a distant planet and finds ancient ruins with coins showing martians on them.
    It's a big universe, there might be some very darkside coins out there.

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  • PerryHall
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    << <i>A $50 gold coin dated 2013 celebrating the election of our first female chief executive---President Sara Palin.image >>



    the "first spouse" coin being? >>



    She has a husband---Todd Palin.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • scottgardener
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    Designs based on the newly discovered and unearthed concept molds secretly designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens for the rest of American coinage, from the cent through the $100 Union, with the $2.5, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 respectively being used on modern 1/10, 1/4, 1/2, and 1 oz. gold, and 1/2 and 1 oz. platinum eagles, while the one cent through one dollar are used on our modern coinage, with original size and relief preserved. That's my daydream. (The 1/2 oz. and 1 oz. gold Eagles would be based on the flat rim $10 and UHR $20, the latter of which resembling the 2009 UHR limited run, except with a more matte finish that doesn't obscure details, and without "In God We Trust," as Teddy Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens originally intended. (Some of us Americans--love us or hate us--are Pagans, and others may share Roosevelt's sentiment that God's name on money is crass.)

    As for the 1964 Peace Dollar--the surviving ones are safely stored away in Warehouse 13. The team managed to switch out the one 1933 "legal to own" one with a restrike, so they can put it with the others.
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  • CaptHenway
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    << <i>A $50 gold coin dated 2013 celebrating the election of our first female chief executive---President Sara Palin.image >>



    We're talking fantasies here, not nightmares...........

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  • BillyGoatsGruff
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    << <i>My idea of the coolest coins would be a 55 DDO Lincoln with an equal DDR. Both sides doubled dramatically. >>




    That would requires a 10.0 on the Richter scale.... image
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  • swhuck
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    << <i>My idea of the coolest coins would be a 55 DDO Lincoln with an equal DDR. Both sides doubled dramatically. >>




    That would requires a 10.0 on the Richter scale.... image >>



    OK, so make it a 55-S. image
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  • yellowkid
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    The Lincoln commem in gold.
  • piecesofme
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    When I look at the coin, it would still be a coin but it would show what is in my minds eye at the time. Now THAT would be a cool coin! Too out there for ya? Hey, you asked.
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  • rooksmith
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    Time to revive this thread... Happy LABOR day...!!!
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  • GoldenEyeNumismatics
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    a 1907 High Relief, with the final strike being about 30% off center. That would be pretty sweet.


    or perhaps a full Union... any design would be cool on that.
  • D
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    J-1776 but...larger? I can't think of a coin I would much prefer to have or even see.

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  • Stew
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    I know I already put forth the idea for this coin earlier in the thread.
    But it is a quiet Saturday morning here, and nothing more do I like
    than to play with the coins on an early weekend morning.
    I saw that this thread came back to the top and thought
    I would add some visual spice to it.

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  • ambro51
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    A little coin comes to light.....unknown until now. Dies had been sent south, but never used.


    Wrapped up in a letter from the coiner of the New Orleans Mint.....an 1861 O gold dollar, untouched, unmarked and unblemished............................................................................. and a handwritten script says "Only One Made".
  • PerryHall
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    The mint struck some Half Union $50 gold coin patterns. A Union $100 gold coin would be really neat---almost 5 oz of gold and five times the weight of a double eagle.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • dizzyfoxx
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    I wish the Confederate government in the early 1860's would have been able to mint more CSA coinage.
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • PerryHall
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    << <i>I wish the Confederate government in the early 1860's would have been able to mint more CSA coinage. >>



    A Confederate gold coin other than those struck with Federal dies would be really neat.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • DIMEMAN
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    A nice looking modern coin with Liberty on it instead of a dead President!imageimage
  • OnWithTheHunt
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    A proof 1916/16 Buffalo nickel.
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  • johnny9434
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    an 1959 cent with wheats on the reverse
  • Zoins
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    St. Gaudens Winged Liberty Double Eagle
    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • drei3ree
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    << <i>A nice looking modern coin with Liberty on it instead of a dead President!imageimage >>


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