1000th Post Contest

I just reached my 1000 post here on cointalk, and since the time I started I have learned a ton of information which I would never be able to get anywhere else. I would like to thank everybody that has posted informative posts and helped me all here on cointalk.

For this contest all you have to do is post a picture of your most valued coin and the story behind it. The winner will be chose randomly from all the different names in a hat.

Good luck, Tyler

 

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Here is my first Carson City I ever bought. It is a NGC MS-61pl. This is (one of) my favorite coin, it is a proof like, CC, under-graded and in a fatty holder. It hooked me on the CC Morgan series and from one has gone to six (including four GSA's).

 

Mine has a great story.
I was randomly browsing facebook when I stumbled upon Modern Coin Mart's facebook page. They were having a contest where you had to like every post they made and every post you liked got you a point. I lost. Later, they had a voting contest based on the number of votes you got and nothing to do with the content in the essay you had to write. I worked at least 3-5 hours a day to get votes, and I won 2nd place. The prize I won was a 2004 w $10 platinum eagle.

 

received this coin from my great grandmother before she passed away. she had quite a few older coins in her collection and i own them all but this is deffinately my favorite.

thanks for the contest!!
cody

 

My most valued coin

This silver dollar is my most valued coin, not the most valuable but the most valued. My great Grandfather passed away in 1984 at the ripe old age of 86. It was the summer between my junior and senior year of high school and we went to Knox City Texas for Grand Pa's funeral. Grand Ma was in poor health and asked us to help haul off some junk so that she could sell the house and move into a nursing home (No Joke). The house had been in our family for around 100 years and I guess I came from a long line of hoarders because when we got to the shed outside it was packed full of family history. I found pictures of the family dating back to the early 1900's and where my Great Great grand parents paid life insurance back in the 20's. Long story short I picked up an old shoe box and heard this silver dollar sliding around. I took it to Grand Ma and told her what I had found. She said "Paulie, (Paul to everyone else) keep it, Grand Pa would want you to have it." I hauled off several boxes of what I called treasure that day but this is the only thing I still have from all of it today. Even though it had what appeared to be varnish on it I had it slabbed a few years ago just to preserve a small piece of my Great Grand Father. ANACS called xf 45 surface residue. I call it my most prized coin in my collection. RIP Grand Pa and Grand Ma........ I still love you!

 

My most valued coin would have to be my 1989 Silver eagle proof,my grandmother gave it to me for my birthday last year when i first became interested in coins.not much of a story but it's my favorite

 

1892 CC Morgan

My valued coin was given to me by my Grandma, its' a 1892 CC Morgan. She got the coin because it was the birth year of her Dad, my great-father and who I was named after. Its' one of the few coins in my collection

 

WHOOPS, It appears as if I accidentally added a picture of a seated liberty coin and now I am unable to edit it, please ignore it! sorry!

 

my great-grandfather once held this (he was born in 1883)... he's the one who saved it for reasons unknown (maybe it was passed down from my great-great-grandfather, or my 3g-grandfather, who was married in 1853). he gave it to my grandfather. my grandfather gave it to my dad. my dad gave it to me.

 

This coin is the coin I have lost money on twice. This dime I got in change at a local safeway self checkout as 1¢ in change. This Bust dime is one main reason I started collecting. And I have sold it twice (Once accidentally) and bought it back both times. My first coin in my collection.
And I promise myself that this coin will not leave my collection again for it has my love inside it.

 

Simple, hit edit, "Go advanced" and scroll down to the manage attachments, click and take it out.

 

My very first slabbed PL, I bought it from a man that lived about 3 hours from me. He was about 75 years old and had cancer and was selling off his collection for a reasonable price in order for his family to live a better life after he was gone. I used all the money that I saved for a year to buy this coin along with 3 other PL's. My dad called 2 weeks later asking if we could stop buy again and buy every coin that he had for one price, his wife answered and said that he passed away. He had some amazing coins at his house and now the family has to have a lawed because they don't have any idea what to do with his collection.

 

This Morgan belonged to my grandmother. She passed away earlier this year and I still miss her a lot, but every time I see this coin good memories come back to me. I don't' ever care to get it graded or slabbed, and it doesn't matter that it's not in great condition, it means more to me than any other coin I have.

 

Although I don't have a sentimental story like some of the other guys this is my most valued coin. It is an 1806 bust half eagle that I just bought last week. I saved up for a long time to get it and I absolutely love it. This is the first step of a journey that will take me a good couple years to complete. I'm trying to get a date set of this series. Sorry about the pictures not being the best, I took them the first day I got it with my cell phone and then brought it to my box at the bank so I can't take new ones right now.

 

Thanks for the contest!

It is my most sentimentally valued coin, as I acquired it the day my grandmother passed away.

 

I have so many to try to chooze from. But I think I chose wisely in 2001 when I bought this for $295



TylerG, What is the Prize?

 

Good point :thumb:. I have yet to figure out but it will be good. Drawing will be on august 25

 

I love the Silver Eagles which are my favorite U.S. Coins. I was able to get this set through a coin talk contest after the Mint sale was over.

 

Easy one, I was in graduate school and started getting stuff from a company called First Coinvestors, which I think was an old rip-off company. Anyway they sent me (on approval) this coin and there was just no way I could send it back, it was love at first sight, and I still love it.

 

But, I have to say:

1806
O-127a

R-7

Grade: G-4
[Note: no condition census given for die state. However, O-127: 20,20,15,12,12)
Obverse: 12-s2
Reverse: H

Diagnostics:
Obverse: Die Crack, Y above T at top.
Reverse: Berries do not have stems.


[Oops, pictures to follow.]







As an R-7, it is estimated that there are 4 to 12 known.


My favorite cherry pick, also.