If you won the lottery...which coin would you add....

Go on an e-bay shopping spree : - )

 

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<snark>I consider that a pattern, not a coin.</snark>

The 1854-D would go a long away towards optimizing my "denomination set," where the goal is to cover as much of U.S. coin history using one coin of each circulating denomination. For example:
1909/6 Half Cent
1943-S Cent
1864 Two Cent
1853-O 3 Cent Piece
1883 No Cents Nickel
1996-W Dime
15 Cent Fractional Currency Note
Type 1 Liberty Standing Quarter
1861-O Half Dollar
1880 Trade Dollar
1925-D $2.5 Gold
1854-D $3 Gold
1861-C $5 Gold
1892-CC $10 Gold
1907 High Relief $20 Gold

Without it, I have to fudge and count the trade dollar as a different denomination from a $1 gold coin.

 

About the Ferdinand and Isabella Excellente....man I missed a great coin. Cayon Auction had a Double Excellente from Sevilla Mint in SC-, I also had eye on a Carlos III 1773 8 Escudos Colombia (Popayan Mint) in SC (mintstate)which I got.
Probably should have gotten the other. My problem, I ran out of $ ....AGAIN.

 

The only MS-68 FH 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter.

 

Double Excellente are neat and that sucks.

 

1902 Russia 37.5 Rouble, straight graded without impairment. (Bitkin 315, Uzdenikov 4212, Friedberg 170, KM YB65)

About 150 grand in MS-61.

 

Holy Roman Empire AV 10 Dukaten Ferdinand III Prague Mint FDC /Transylvania AV 20 Dukaten Georg Rakozcki II 1657 Klausenberg Mint FDC/ Basel AV 20 Dukaten 1741 (City View) FDC/ Chur AV 7 Dukaten 1613 FDC/ Rome AV Aureus Posthumus Colonia Mint FDC/ Rome AV Aureus Volusian FDC/etc., depends on lottery. Last powerball....1.6 Billion.....every perfect Roman Aureus FDC to come up in auctions/ plus throw in some magnificent multiple AV Dukaten coinage. Sure beats investing in stock market.

 

1933 double eagle

 

ALL of them from @AncientJoe
I like how he captures on an HISTORICAL approach to collecting...

 

1796 $2.5 quarter eagle with stars.

 

1913 Liberty Nickel.

 

One coin? I guess this 1799 MS67 Draped Bust Dollar or 1795 $1 Flowing Hair, Three Leaves MS65 NGC.

If more than one, I would of course do a complete U.S. Type Set; gold, patterns, and varieties included.

 

Yeah, multiple Dukaten coinage, I could go in for that. If we split a powerball we could likely dump a good portion of it competing against each other at auction on those kind of coins!

 

I would be happy to split. I always find it amazing when lottery winners make stupid statements like, "My God! I wish I had never won...the pressure of all this money....
or....its so much, I could never be able to spend it in ten lifetimes! Oh, yeah really? I could win it in less then a year....www.sixbid.com=heaven.

 

MS 1921 50 cent piece Canadian

 

If I won the lottery:

 

You beat me to it! This would be at the top of my list followed closely by a huge multiple taler such as this:
https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-2DF8H

 

And to be honest, I would probably raid the @TIF collection also! I love her quiet thunder!

 

I'd buy a sweet mansion, somewhere south of where I currently live (oh, and I'd also buy myself a cool puppy-monkey-baby ancient coin)