What is your holy grail?

Very true is impossible with the antiques but I surprise people when I buy coins at a sale

 

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A 1792 half disme.
It's not really a coin; it's a pattern.
But I could ignore that if I could get one

 

Mine would be a 1911 Canadian Silver Dollar.

 

Perhaps a better question would be, "What is your achievable holy grail?"

 

Pattern but a circulating one like a Gobrecht dollar I consider it the first us coin myself

 

Hopefully someday is the small eagle half and a 94 flowing hair right now I'm really hoping to get a decent chain cent I'd take a good solid problem free g- vg I'd take minor enviro damage too but no major problems

 

10 oz Australian Dragon for under $400.
It will never happen so please let me dream.

 

Shoot, Gobrecht Dollar! That would be a quest most magnificent!

 

Very true I consider that and the no stars dime and half dime the pinnacle of the seated liberty design their beautiful and the Gobrecht dollar has a great reverse too

 

I love that Eagle........

 

Ken me thinks you've recentlly seen Ted and Bills Most Excellent Adventure , which is most excellent .

 

Yes, a better question.
I need 9 coins from the 1790's to complete my NGC type set.
Under my current financial conditions I feel 4 are achievable if I limit myself to Fine.
They are from lowest price to highest:
-- 1795-98 Draped Bust/Small Eagle dollar
-- 1797 Draped Bust/Small Eagle dime
-- 1793 Flowing Hair/Wreath cent
-- 1793 Liberty Cap/Head Left half cent
I might be able to get one every year or two.

As for the other 5, "Come on lottery!!!"

 

Mine, too!! And I also got to hold onto one for a while before it left our shop ...

 

Me too it looks like its on a mission to the stars

 

I would say that this would be a holy grail coin for me at this moment:

 

Morgandude, I absolutely LOVE the high relief! For purely aesthetic reasons I still have to go with the Pan Pac though!

I was extremely fortunate to handle one last month! It's one of those coins I wished I could pry out of the slab to really appreciate ...


(yes I take crappy cell phone pics of just about every cool coin that crosses my path! )

 

Sometimes an achievable Holy Grail is just a dream. I've been trying for ten years to find a Vietnam Blackhorse token-11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. They catalog for $8. But I have never seen one.

 

I would LOVE to own that coin--a little out of my financial league at this moment. May pick up a later date (1908 or 1909 MS one) just to own a beauty like that. The '07 high reliefs are absolute killer!!!

 

Now, I could afford this one, and it is close to the holy grail one:

 

I'd love a continental dollar...