If you were to go back in time, and get one coin from the mint

1934S Peace Dollar in MS67 or MS68.

 

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So what? at least we got out coin.

 

patterns are allowed, anything you want, as long as it is a coin.

 

First strike 1916 SLQ FH

 

1895 Morgan proof.

 

For all you know, one of your forbears was affected/influenced by the coin, and as a result, your family as you know it never existed.

Chris

 

As long as you got the mint to issue a letter that our was struck in the first 60 days and then seal it in a box, PCGS would give you the label. Just don't open the box. [emoji2]

 

If I were to get my dream coin I don't think I'd worry if it was a First Strike.

 

Haha, I'm not sure they'd put "very first coin struck by the US Mint" on my label

 

No kidding! I guess I'll chime in... Being a Fugio guy, of course I'd want a minty fresh 1-CC. Maybe with Franklin's fingerprint on the rim.

 

C'mon, don't you know that a coin is only valuable if it's MS69-70 and has a first strike label?!

At least that's what Mike Mezack says...

 

Mike Mezack wouldn't know what to do with an 1895 Morgan proof if it walked up and bit him on the ankle -- except to try to sell it at five times market value.

 

Oh, I reckon any 'first strike' Carson City Trade Dollar.
And second would be a Victoria Maundy set complete with the case.

 

My first pick was what Kanga just said so I would skip back a year instead and get a Birch cent.

 

Or , because of that coin we have our family and world exactly as we know it .

 

1894-S Barber dime or even better, 1913 V Nickel. I would always take a 1793 strawberry leaf cent off the mint, it would be the only MS coin in existence.

 

A 1913 Liberty Nickel. I expect it to get to five million in five years and perhaps twice that in ten.

 

So many great ideas. I'm torn. Would I go back to Carson City and get a freshly minted Morgan, or maybe to SF in 1893 and buy a Morgan over the counter?

I think I'd go back to Charlotte and get one of the rare date gold coins. I don't even collect them, but there's something about a short lived mint that stirs the soul. I'd probably go back to 1861 and get a Half Eagle.

 

I could imagine the oldee mint workers sitting there scratching their heads as we pick up one coin after another inspecting it saying, "64, nope. 64, nope. 66, maybe. oh! a 68!"

 

And wanting to pay for the coins with current currency....