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Oh ya shoot, I just looked at my info and realized a mistake, my older brother has a password saver program on our computer and it posted his info to the entries when I registered, but I changed my name and stuff, must have missed the birth date, cause he's 19, I am actually 12. Sorry about that

 

How did you get that Morgan dollar for 17 dollars?

 

I was at a We Buy Gold shop, and they sell their Morgans for melt plus a couple dollars, regardless of date or condition. He thought this one was damaged because it was stained.

 

Cool

 

Most valuable:


Favorite:


'dude

 

My favorite best coin is my current avatar.
Here is the rest of it.

 

I was going to say the same but since he's 12, make that 7 years older. My favorite coin, while not my most valuable or best is this 1884-O VAM-39 Morgan

 

I don't do much for high dollar value in coins, but not all "value" is measured in monetary terms. By my reckoning, this is my most valuable coin:

 

I loved this set. Glad I picked one up.

 

It was last year's Christmas present from my best friend, and having lost a child the subject matter is near and dear to me. It is more valuable to me than all of my other coins put together.

 

Sorry to hear that. Having a 2 year old currently I couldn't imagine what that would do to me. I see why it's your most valuable coin.

 

Here is one of my best. Found it in a roll of quarters. Got it slabbed and then sold it for nearly 200.00. Dropped letter error where the Mint Mark is the dropped letter.

 

Really beautiful 1893 Proof. I would guess it's probably 5 digits.

 

Just to complicate things further... the coin I paid the most money for is not my rarest coin, but it is "a" favorite. I can't really pick out any single favorite, but I do have a few coins that I come back to over and over.

Examples:

As much "wow" factor as this coin has on screen, it's even more impressive in hand. Definitely a favorite. But, this is a common coin with a mintage of 334,948,380. To put that in perspective, the total number minted for the entire series of Morgan dollars is 656,977,299, so about 2 Morgans were minted for every 1962-D dime.

Here is my rarest coin (I think):

Antoninus Pius, AR denarius
Diameter: 18mm
Weight: 3.01g
Obv: IMP CAES AEL ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head right
Rev: PONT MAX TR POT COS, Diana standing right, holding bow and arrow.
Ref: RIC III 1b; BMCRE 3 note; RSC 665a. Near EF.
Seller notes: Very rare early issue without PIVS in the title. Only two specimens in Reka Devnia hoard. From the second of the two short initial issues of Antoninus' reign that do not yet call him Pius, before he returned to Rome and forced Hadrian's consecration through the unwilling Senate, thereby earning that title.
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This coin also has some beautiful, golden iridescent toning that simply does not show up in the photograph.

Mint records not being what they are today, we have no idea how many of these coins were struck in ancient Rome. But, we do know it was struck in July 138 AD. How? It has a date.

I'll leave it at that. Neither of these coins are anywhere close to my most valuable coins, but I would say they are both, indeed, favorites.

 

Oh, I have some that are way too valuable and some that I love that aren't all that expensive. Here is one of my favorites. This one is desirable and enjoyable independent of the number on the slab. SLQs just don't come this way. The collage is era-appropriate to world events at the time:

 

Some of my favorites

 

That is to_die_for.

 

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You have such outrageous Chinese coins. I love this collection of spades you posted. Simply scrumptious! Thanks for showing them because I never knew there were such coins. Recently (perhaps because of a post you wrote) I learned about Chinese coins that are tiny knives. So cool.