Which is your favorite coin design of all time?

Japan's gorgeous Meiji Dragon Yens never fail to mesmerize me.



The gold yens are even more alluring - until one looks at the price tag...

 

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Maybe I'm a cheap date 'cause my favorite is the Morgan Dollar. It's Lady Liberty was modeled for by a Philadelphia schoolteacher, personally selected by Morgan himself. I like his taste in women. It's eagle is my second favorite topped only by Mercanti's eagle on the American Eagle bullion coins. It has a very interesting history as well. And, of course, my collection is dominated by Morgans, I study them. I invite any of you who know interesting little-known facts or anecdotes about Morgans to post them.

 

If the choice is among all coins of any time in the world, I think that there isn't other like this, not only for design, but for its significance, the symbol of ancient Greeek democracy




For US coins, my choice is Buffalo nickel.

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Of all the coins I actually own, the owl is my favorite. But I would love to be able to afford a decadrachm of Syracuse.

 

Well I closed my eyes and picked the SG $20 (after changing my initial vote for the SLQ) just for the sake of casting a vote but to be honest with myself I like the design of the SLQ and the WLHD just as much. In addition to those three coins I would have to add the 1926-1939 Oregon Trail Memorial Commemorative to my list. That does it for me as far as my favorite designs. However, as I stated, for the sake of this exercise I cast my vote for the SG $20.

 

Right now my favorite is the 1915 Pan Pacific 50c coin...prior, it was the 50$ round issue, I,ll probably change my mind again soon.

 

I'm very unfamiliar with ancients but i appreciate examples like yours where the coin really resembles a mini sculpture. We saw this effect more in our older US coinage but hardly so anymore

 

This is how I deal with liking all the early 20th century designs. This now sets on my desk so I can see them all the time. It's a 1917 year set. Both my parents were born in 1917.



I voted for the SLQ. This one has a purple cast from light toning.

 

Nice set! Do you know what that merc would grade out at?

 

I think it may have been undergraded by my LCS. It said AU and was $9 or $10 (I got one for my mother at the same time, so I think this was the $10 one). I have it written down as AU, but it has never been to a TPG.

I will try to get better pictures later. The obverse is taken out of the holder, the reverse is through the holder. It is blast white, and there is a little loss of detail, but I can't tell if it is wear or just the strike. It is also FB.