Favorite Coins?

Hi everyone,

What's your favorite coin? I love to hear stories about how people got a coin or why it's their favorite, and sometimes they turn out to be very interesting, whether it was a coin that was passed down or something that you found. So please share. :smile

 

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My 1909 Indian Head Penny. Found it last summer searching through rolls of pennies, and I carry it on the golf course for good luck. Not a great idea cause of the value it has, but oh well.

 

If you have a photobucket account you can check my FAVORITE COIN at ALL TIMES! This coin has NO DUPLICATE! as UNIQUE!
http://s817.photobucket.com/user/edwinrd117/story/11905

love to read stories?

 

What the **** happened there?!

 

Where? To My Favorite Coin are..
The Past!

the Present: The two top Great Presidents voted by Presidential Historian Society are as follows number 1, Abraham Lincoln, Number 2, Frank Delano Roosevelt, number 3, George Washington.

 

Now you've done it.....

 

Great question but it's like asking which child is your favorite. :smile

My favorite coin changes from time to time. Right now my favorite is an ancient coin. It has my attention right now because it is so tiny (11 mm) and it has an incredible amount of fine detail. It amazes me that an engraver in 450 B.C. could accomplish this artistic work.

MYSIA. Kyzikos.
AR Obol ca. 450-400 B.C.
0.85 grams, 11 mm
Obv: Forepart of razor-back boar left,
tunny upward behind
Rev: Head of roaring lion facing left
within incuse square
Grade: gEF fully struck, Almost mint on
porosity-free, choice flan. All lion &
boar details present w/ partial tunny
Other: Similar to Sear 3848 but w/o K;
Von Fritze II 9; SNG France 361-72;
SNG von Aulock 1213; SNG Kayhan 54.
From Barry Murphy May 2013.

 

lol

 

Captures the moment.

 

I know what you mean haha, mine changes all the time. That's a really nice coin! Especially since it's an old coin, the detailing is still great.

 

I have no story on this one. It just makes me happy looking at it. Will you not find it pleasing?

 

Just for the fun if it, I will add my 15 pesos (5 over a 10). It is worth 10 pesos.

 

Bought this in graduate school 40 years or so ago for more than I could afford and have not regretted it a day since.

 

I wish I had an answer to this.

 

If you're not fondling the coin you're fond of,
Fondle the coin at hand.

 

One of my favorites is a 1916 Walking Liberty Half in G+ condition. I took piano lessons for about 10 years, and my teacher's husband was a serious coin collector. One day he asked me out of the blue if I had any obverse mintmark walking liberty halves, and when I said no, he walked into another room and brought it out and gave it to me. I had no idea what I had until I got home and looked it up in my redbook. A $100+ coin was a very big deal to a 16 or 17 year old kid with very limited money!

 

Just wonderring, did you take the $7 million?

 

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