Ok here's the idea post your absolute favorite coin you own the one you'd keep if you could only pick one it could be for sentimental reasons or just cause you love it here's mine for 2 reasons first years ago an older gentleman who was a huge influence on a 8 year old coin collector had a flowing hair dollar which was the prize of his type set it left a lasting impression I've never forgot he was so proud of it and I've wanted one for 30 years (and finally got one) second reason is I feel its one of the most beautiful coins ever made
Hard to pick but I would say this coin. Orbiana (225 - 227 A.D.) AR Denarius O: SALL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, draped bust right. R: CONCORDIA AVGG,Concordia seated left holding double cornucopia and patera. Rome 19mm 3.8g RIC IV 319, RSC III 1, BMCRE VI 287, SRCV II 8191
This coin was handed down from my grandfather to my father. My father gave it to me a few years before he passed away and I sent it to PCGS for grading.
Why? I mean, it is a nice coin and all, but what makes it special? (If I may ask. Just curious....) Mine: Electrum from Miletos, about the time of the first coins. Recumbant lion (looking to your right over his shoulder). Incuse punched reverse. For me, it represents the origin, the beginning. And it is unique. The citations below are all to coins like this one, clearly in the same series, but visually different. 2.37 grams electrum one-sixth stater c. 550 BCE Miletos British Museum Catalog Vol. III, No. 7: Ionia Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Von Aulock, #1796. Ernest Babelon Trait Des Monnaies Grecques Et Romaines, plate I, 14 and I, 20. Agnes Brett, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection Weidenauer 129, 130 Nancy Waggoner, The Rosen Collection, Pozzi 2465 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Huharrem Kayhan Collection, Coin 442. This is a one-third stater from Vilmar Numismatics with the same kind of lion.
This isn't a fair question...but since you posted it in the US Coins Forum I picked my favorite, only US coin I'd go back in the burning house to save. This picture fails to do justice to how bright the shades of blue and purple are (not my picture but I still think it's a good one).
