Post your most expensive circulated coin.

This thread is moving along nicely.
I like the 1916 SLQ. Not many of those around.
The 1876 20-cent is a bit unusual. Most people end up with the more common 1875-S.
ANY 1790's coin is special.
I don't collect Barbers so they didn't catch my attention as much.

 

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Would you believe the cent die was clashed with a die from a $20 gold piece?

 

Ha, wacky mint workers, I read about a lot of halves etc, but not a gold die clash! Beautiful.

 

This one is the most I've paid for a circulated coin.....

 

I don't have many "coins" in general, but this would definitely be the one from my collection. It is not valuable for the coin, but for the counterstamp.

 

This one is probably my most expensive circulated coin. The only overdate in the St. Gaudens $20 series too.

 

My most expensive circulated coin? Okay THAR SHE BLOWS

 

Absolutely nothing compared to Lost Dutchman's (HOLY COW!!!!), but here is my most expensive coin, by an order of magnitude.

 

wow! Incredible coins!! Here are mine.

 

this is my highest value circulated coin, it's a 1829 half crown. mike.:whistle:

 

Circulated, yes but just barely. Bought this raw, often wondered what this would grade at?

 

Okay new pics of same coin, because last ones were crap...

 

Here's one I've posted a few times before on this forum...that also happens to be my lowest grade slabbed coin.



PCGS FR-02 (CAC)

 

Great thread! cwtokenman, I'd like to learn more about that counterstamp.

For me, I don't care or really pay attention to "values" per say, which is not to say I don't keep up with the basics, so as to not get "taken", but it's certainly not something I spend a great deal of time thinking about.

What I can tell you is the most I've spent on a single coin. I just can't tell you the coin. I don't keep track of what I spend on anything (I'd rather not know) and I got my two most expensive coins on the same day. One I paid $25 for, one $20. I am stricktly a lower-end collector, at least for now.

I can't remember if it is the three cent silver, or the flying eagle cent, that I paid the most for.


The other three were $5 each.



I am a little dubious as to the originality of the standing liberty quarer, but for that price, I don't really care.

Sorry I can't get indivigual shots, I am still working on that.

 

I believe it is this 1911D, my highest used to be a pattern 2 1/2 in copper till I sold it.

 

wow!
Just wait until Clembo sees this one!

 

I'm having to guess this would be mine.

There are still some boxes I've not dug through yet from the clan collection.

 

While it's been over a thousand years since it circulated, my most valuable coin is this double sestertius of the Gallic emperor Postumus that dates from 260-268 AD.

For those who don't know, in the mid third century, the Roman empire was in a severe crisis. There was a plague, economic collapse, barbarian pressures, and the emperor Valerian was captured by the Persians and used as a footstool. The problems were severe enough that in 260, France, Britain, the Iberian Penninsula, and the bits of Germany that were part of the empire seceded and formed what is now called the Gallic Empire. For some reason, Postumus, its first emperor, chose to revive a previously unsuccessful and obscure coin that we call the double sestertius. This coin did not outlast him, and the empire itself declined after his death, with the last bits reconquered by the Roman emperor Aurelian in 274.

The double sestertii of Postumus remain as one of the more unique remnants of this short lived empire, and they are quite desired by collectors. I managed to nab this one for $10.50 (due to taking a chance on a poorly presented eBay auction by someone with no feedback), though it's worth at least ten times that.

 

Here are mine!!

The first is a 1932-S Washington given to me by my grandpa!!


The second is a quarter eagle in high AU condition.

 

GAO~
NICE name, better story. Gaga coin!:thumb:

Is one a photo and one a scan?