What modern commemorative dollar coins do you consider your top five favorite?

My top five favorite's are

2008 Bald Eagle Dollar
2005 Marine Corps 230th Anniversary Dollar
2001 American Buffalo Dollar
2000 Leif Ericson Millennium Dollar
1994 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dollar

 

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time for new glasses eh GD?

 

I love the 1991 Mount Rushmore commemorative. Why? Because it was my first commemorative, modern or otherwise.

 

I agree, and not only because I have the two coin set.

I'm also looking forward to the Medal of Honor coins in 2011

 

2006 Benjamin Franklin Founding Father......love the classic Continental Dollar reverse.

 

2001 Buffalo a classic design, sold out in no time, have held their values in the last 9 years, and were the foundation of the gold buffalos.

 

Allow me to illustrate....

 

I like the 1992 Columbus dollars. Just something about that reverse design that calls to me.

 

I love the 2005 Marine Corps 230th Anniversary Dollar. It depicts Five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag at Iwo Jima.

 

The 2001 Buffalo is awesome and probably my all time favorite, but I just love the 2006 San Fransisco Old Mint. The Unc version is just stunning. The Reverse looks like what a new Morgan dollar would look like today.

 

My top 5 are as follows:

1) 2000 Leif Ericson: A powerful design, fantastic font, and very well spaced. The Viking ship blows me away. It is one of the only modern commemmoratives where I love both the obverse and reverse



2) 2001 American Buffalo: I didn't think I was going to like the original Buffalo design on a larger coin until I saw one in person. Magnificent!

3) 1984 Olympic Coliseum: IMO, the reverse eagle design is the best eagle design in all of United States coinage. A very elegant design and a coin that looks fantastic when toned.

(Not My Coin)

4) 2005 Marine Corps: Historical, Simple, Beautiful, what's not to like.

5) 1993 Jefferson: As you guys should know by now, I love everything Jefferson and the representation of Monticello on the reverse is top notch.

 

I would have to agree with the Dolly Madison choice.

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here is the reverse of the olympic dollar untoned, it looks pretty good also tho that example was a felicitous accident of toning.

 

too bad you decided to quit and gift me all of these. well at least they will be loved and cherished

 

you should take all my coin pics from now on wow what a pic

 

Partial

Yep. I'm partial towards the "Ira Hayes":so-sad: coins.

 

With so many to pick from it hard for me :kewl: to pick a top 5

 

1986 statue of liberty, 1987constitution, 1982 washington, 1983 and 1984 olympic. these five were the top favorite. you can see it how they performed. the final mintage.

 

A Jackie Robinson Gold Uncirculated $5 and PCGS made a mess of it with their encapsulation process.

 

My favorite commerative design is the Jamestown commerative