Most Collected US coin

Does anyone have any idea which of the US coins is the most collected, My preference is the Indian Head Penny.

 

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Most collected?

Traditionally the Lincoln cent

 

Thanks

 

I agree the most collected is the Lincoln cent.
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The State Quarters - well probably not many people actively putting collections of these together now; but I am fairly sure there are more existing collections of this series than any other.

 

Lincolns or Morgans

 

For those collecting straight out of circulation I suspect Jefferson nickels are close behind Lincolns.

 

I would say the Morgan Silver Dollar

 

No one has any clue. It is all guesses. What is the definition of most: a person with one, a set, an active set, randomly having ect?.

 

It used to be Lincoln cents as they were found in circulation and were rather inexpensive (except for the keys) to collect but today I believe it's the Morgan dollar.

 

So difficult to say.
I would imagine that if you look at it by age of The Collector you would get vastly different results.
The older The Collector, the larger the denomination is my guess.
We all do have our favorites though, and thought I am 62, I still have a great fondness for Large Cents.
As I get older, I do find myself not being as fond of Half Dimes as I was when I was younger because my eyesight isn't always good enough to see the mint marks on more circulated coins. Likewise with three cent pieces.
Morgan Silver Dollars seem to score high with everyone though.

 

Its a toss up between Indian Head Penny, Lincoln and Morgans

 

Hi , I have the Lincoln wheat penny anyone want to buy them off of me.

 

I got about as far as I can with Lincolns. Now working on Jeffersons. And next up is dimes.

 

It depends on the term "collected". If collected includes sitting in a penny jar, I imagine it is the Lincoln penny. If collected means that it has been placed in its appropriate home, it is probably the state quarter. I'm guessing that most serious collectors have some Lincoln cents in their collection. It is where many of us started collecting.

 

I'll bet there aren't many collectors that don't have a Lincoln Cent collection. That's what got me started and I'm still buying and filling Dansco 7106 albums.

 

I agree... Like most of us I imagine, I started with the circulating coinage of my youth, and yes, Lincoln cents and searching jars and rolls and change were my beginnings. I remember the old blue cardboard collection push in albums that hid the reverse and left the obverse exposed to air and I always felt sad that the years and mint marks ended with the year you bought the album of course, and you had to scribble them in by hand.

 

There may a fine line between collecting and hoarding...

 

Decent article:
https://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/must_have_coins/

 

I still have all my Whitman folders from my youth and many are mostly intact with what I found from circulation.