All Time Favorite Coin

wow!!! gorgeous coin Drusus!!!! regardless of our opinions on other subjects...<everyone is completely entitled to their own opinion >...(if james carville and mary matlin can get along)....that is one pretty coin!! i am not a "darksider" as i am having enough difficulties putting together a set of morgans...i love the ancient and european coins as well.....i had thought from the appearance that it was english (due to the obverse lion). may i ask what it is as well as the design signifigance? thank you for sharing your coin!!!

nice lincoln as well Phoenix ((if one could only collect every variety and type of every type they find interest in)
...ahhh to have unlimited funds...thank you for sharing your lincoln...very nice!!!! all the photos and preferences are greatly appreciated!. thanks all.

sincerely...steve

 

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Very cool clashing :kewl:

 

zane...you're on top of it...missed the clash...very cool and good eye!

 

No problem and I am glad you like it. The coin is a 10 Sols from Belgium. The somewhat creepy baby head between the 17 and 90 is the mint mark refering to Brussels.

Insurrection Coinage / Belgium, Revolt against Joseph II (HRE), 10 Sols, 1790, Brussels / obv. Brabant lion standing right, MON NOV ARG PROV FOED BELG (Currency new money Provincial federated Belgium), rev. two hands shaking, arrows behind, IN VNIONE SALVS (in union for health/strength/salvation)

The bundle of 11 arrows representing 11 provinces: East Flanders, West Flanders, Brabant, Hainault, Tournai, Namur, Luxembourg, Liège, Limburg, Antwerp and Mechelen.

This coin was minted during a small period of time when they broke away from the Holy Roman Empire.

 

Drusus...thank you for your response and info...it is truly a gorgeous coin w/ so much historical signifigance behind it.. so nice of you to take the time to tell us of this. i wish i could collect so many different types. the only other type of coins i have (other than u.s) are a widow's mite and a mexican doubloon which i have as a pocket piece. i hope to someday have the knowledge to branch out into other world (especially ancient and american revolutionary coinage). for now morgan dollars are my concentration point and from there to an 18th or 19th century u.s type set. hopefully, new testament era coinage after that goal is accomplished (or mixed and alternated within). thank you again for sharing such a beautiful coin and your willingness to share your knowledge.
sincerely, steve

sincerely,,,,steve

 

oh yes...and btw...why the "creepy baby head " representing brussels??? thank you so much.

 

Thanks! It is nice, hard to find some good quality eye appeal coins IMHO, and this fits the category of nice eye appeal for me IMHO.

Phoenix

 

Phoenix..i love the coin..i agree w/ you about your coin completely. you made a nice aquisitiion of a very pretty early lincoln cent. beautiful copper color and nice detail! thank you for sharing..steve

 

Good question, I dont know, maybe Bart knows. It might represent the Manneken Pis, a small fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating. It has several legends about what it represents.

 

Drusus..that is so funny!! i had a friend who took a job as an airline mechanic for several yrs. that was stationed in brussels...he told me about the statue and many other stories. i will ask him when i see him next.......thank you for the coin as well as reminding me of my friend's adventures in europe!!!!!! i will ask him if he knows the stories. thanks again...steve

 

It's a tough call and depends on my mood but a 1917 Standing Liberty Quarter would be right up there for me.

Ruben

 

Ikes?

Hmmm


http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/ikes.html

 

Well.. I tell ya.. nothing special But I could look at this one all day Long..





Also this one.. weird ,, I didnt think they would both be Dollars



any opinions on this? would this be considered proof?
The fields are super reflective. Majority of those scratches are on the air tight

 

Pardon the Green tint...it is from my card table...(reflection of green felt on Liberty)

My Favorite coin...(Modern) I could never afford my truly fav coin!

RickieB

 

It's hard to choose my favorite, but I have to go with my 1857 IHC Snow 22.

Bruce

 

Any nice condition S.L.Quarter would do me fine. Super neat coin.