What is the coin that you most dream of owning? Not necessarily the most expensive one, but the one that you can't afford but would want above any other one. Mine is the 1795 Gold $5. :thumb:
How about the octogonal Panama Pacific Exposition $50 gold piece? But I'd settle for a Saint Gaudens high relief double eagle.
Mine is the New Brunswick 1/2c. coin,which is the same design as the Nova Scotian one,apart from the name change.The Nova Scotian 1/2c. coins turn up,but the New Brunswick one is a rare one. Another would have to be the Newfoundland gold $2 coin.I did have a mounted one,but lost it as a result of a break-in into my council flat back in 2002.I was really gutted.Of course,I would also want the Newfoundland 1946C silver 5c. & 10c. coins. Aidan.
I would want the most beautiful coins: 1: St. Gaudens $20 gold 2: Seated Liberty anything 3: Peace Dollar And also the odd ones, like the guitar shaped coins (somewhere in the carribean, I forget where), Square coins, a Yap Island coin But if I had my way, I'd really want one of every coin and variety from every country ever made.
You'd certainly have trouble lifting a Yap Island stone 'coin',as some of them weigh around a ton or two.There has been a series of guitar-shaped fantasy pieces that have been struck in the name of Somalia,but are denominated in Dollars.If they were from Somaliland,& denominated in Shillings,then I would be interested. Aidan.
yeah, a yap coin from Micronesia will take a whole corner of a living room and some might require a high ceiling This is my dream coin: Brutus EID MAR denarius
That's the famous coin commemorating the murder of Julius Caesar on the 15th of March 44 B.C. That is one coin I have never seen,let alone been offered. Aidan.
It is extremely rare. Saw a listing of one that is better centered that sold for around 150,000 USD, I think it was sold by Barry & Darling. Talk about a coin with serious history. Oh, and Brustus would have said it was not minted to commemorate the murder of Caesar but to commemorate how he freed Rome from a tyrant...
An 1804 dollar, without a doubt, or, a permit to hold and keep the ten 1933 double eagles that the government has siezed. (Those turkeys.)
A specimen-quality 1796 half cent. I've never even seen one, but I've heard of a few that exist. Fish
Mine would be an 1895-P Morgan $. Also a 1964-D Peace $. However, I would settle for an 1893-S Morgan.
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