Post your Favorite Coin and Why.

great coin and nice writeup, Ed!

 

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My first and favorite coin is a 1940 walking liberty half dollar. This is the coin that really got me into coin collecting. I got this exact coin back in change as a young elementary school student after buying some food during lunch. I couldn't believe my eyes at the time and I don't think I let go of it until I got safely home. Since then I've always loved walking liberties and now this very same coin belongs to my daughter. She also favors the walking liberties too.

My second favorite coin and a very close runner up is a 1923 Peace Dollar. The coin was a gift from my Grandfather who got it from my Great Grandfather. My Great grandfather always carried a pile of silver dollars with him due to not believing in banks bc of the Great Depression. It doesn't get much cooler then holding and staring at a coin that's been held and gazed upon by your Grandfather and Great Grandfather so many years ago.

 

Very nice strike on that peace! Good detail on the reverse

 

Thanks!!! It actually looks even better in person, phone camera isn't the greatest.

 

IMO, Not rare,but the most beautiful U.S. coin ever minted.

 

That coin is awsome!

 

Wow thats cool!

 

Humble Lincoln cent but it is an uncommon one. I will have had it for just a year in March.

 

I would be the last to argue your point.

 

A coin like this doesn't come every day. It's scarce, it was minted for only a month or two before the death of Julius Caesar, and features the face of one of the most well known people from the ancient world, Julius Caesar himself!

Not only is the face on the coin world famous even after more than 2000 years, but it's also the first time in Roman history a living Roman's face appeared on the coinage.


Julius Caesar
AR Denarius (19mm, 3.9g, 9h)
Rome Mint (January - February, 44BCE)
L. Aemilius Buca, moneyer. Wreathed head of Caesar right; CAESAR • IM downwards before, large crescent dividing P M upwards behind / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory on extended right hand and holding scepter in left; L • AEMILIVS • BVCA around. Crawford 480/4; Alföldi Type IV, 141 (same dies).

 

Dont have a favorite yet. Just started this year BUT, I will be metal detecting this year back home in Ukraine in search for a Emporer Nicholas the 2nd 1Ruble Coin!, or any austrian-hungarian coin(Both used to rule over the Western side of Ukraine). Actually Roman coins have been found their too, but i doubt thatll happen for me. Anyway as the pictures below shows, those are what im searching for and I WANT TO FIND ONE, NOT BUY because thats even more special, and because im optimistic, ill just say its my favorite! What if i found the Gold 1Ruble Version Haha first i need to find the Silver one!

 

that's a hard one. 1 of these 3

I love a nice DDO

this was a piece I bought from the bay long ago and the pictures sucked so I bid on it as I thought even with bad pictures it looked nice. I was right as you can see from what it graded.

A nice high grade 1799 I bought raw.

 

Almost forgot WHY...I was born in Philadelphia, not in 1926 but I always was attracted to this coin.
I've had a few over the years, oh yes when I needed money I would sell my collection and start over when I could.

 

That's probably the oldest highest grade coin I've ever seen

 

When I was first researching Hungarian coinage, I came across the 1896 millennium commemorative korona and knew I had to have an uncirculated example. I love the reverse especially - no legends, just a beautiful relief of Prince Árpád leading the Magyars into the Carpathian Basin.



This is a very special coin to me. It's the first classic world coin I actively sought out an uncirculated example of, and the first world coin I submitted for grading. This coin is also the origin of many of my Hungarian collections.

I was already collecting circulated Hungarian types at the time I acquired this coin, but without much focus. I loved the design of this coin so much, that it inspired me to focus on uncirculated Franz Joseph I types; a collection which then grew into my Hungarian 1848-1948 uncirculated type set. This coin also got me interested in the Korona denomination, from which my Austro-Hungarian Korona date set emerged. Third, this coin also got me interested in learning about the Hungarian Millennium Expo of 1896 (the event this coin commemorates), which spawned a collection of the commemorative coins, presentation cases, medals, and Cinderella stamps from the expo.

I have other favorite coins from these collections and from my bust quarters set, but no other coin has been so influential in focusing the direction of my collecting, and as such, it will always have an honored place in my collections.