What's your favorite Coin? Silver, Gold and Platinum Giveaway

I've only been interested in collecting coins for about three years. All it took was an unknowing bank teller gave me 6 wheat pennies when I cashed a check. I figured they obviously came from the same source and asked if she had more and ended up leaving with 38, and pennies very quickly became an addiction. But my favorite coin I have isn't a penny. My grandfather didn't have meny possessions to leave behind because he had liquidated and put everything into stocks and bonds. Even my dad only inherited cash for the most part. Even though he left me cash as well mine was special. I was born and raised in Aurora just outside of Denver and my grandparents lived several hours away in Grand Junction. When I was about 15 my grandfather pulled me aside and said "Nick, I want to show you something. A few years before you were born I was in Denver visiting your parents. I had an afternoon to myself and decided to go see an old friend who worked at the mint where they make money. When I got there he told me that they had just struck the last sheet of Eisenhower silver dollars that would ever be minted and he handed me a dollar from that final sheet. Unfortunately after that afternoon the next time I saw him he was in a casket later that year. Since that day I've kept this silver dollar in my pocket. Now since I don't know how much longer I have left I figured I'd let you hold onto it." He ended up living for another 12 years and would occasionally ask me how it was doing. Even though there's no way for me to know if it really did come from the last sheet to be stuck I believe the story and no one can argue with it. It's pretty worn from all the time it spent in his pocket but it's still the favorite coin I am lucky to have. Now if we're counting coins I've never owned I gotta go with a Spanish Doubloon. Not only are they cool pirate gold worth a fortune, but everyone loves to say the word Doubloon, or even better yet, quadruple pistol Doubloon!

 

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Wow, I wrote this before reading anyone else's posts hoping to win the contest. I figured I'd read other people's posts as soon as I finished writing. But it took so damn long to write it on my phone that i didn't have time to read any others. Now i come back to see how I'm doing and read some of my competition to find out that o can't follow directions and apparently like to waste time.

 

A brief and exciting update longarm (and all). One of the gifts was a roll of 2017 cents...as it turns out, our third grandchild will be born this year. I am going to start that little one's coin collection with the roll of Lincolns! Thanks again longarm

 

I'm still going round with the post office about the missing items, doesn't look like they're going to do much of anything about it.

 

If your giving away Gold I will take a roll of 2017 1 OZ Krugerrands

 

What's your favorite Coin?

 

awesome doubling of which year is this cent ?

 

this is the King of my collection... Belgium 1832, 10 centimes, NGC MS-65 RB...

 

See, that's the thing about coins. I have a hundred 1922's and no attachment. You have one and could write a book about it. I envy you.

 

1983. Just found it roll hunting recently and some people on here helped me confirm it.

 

My favorite is the gold centennial standing liberty quarter. Timeless a good coin to pass down!

 

My favorite coin is not a coin worth any real money value its worth centimental value it's my fathers old boyscout token it reminds me that he was a kid like me one day and he had held on to that thing for 40 some years and then I started collecting coins a few months ago after finding two mercury dimes in the bottom of a coin star and he decided to show me his old stuff which included coins from his day and his old boys out patches and medals and souvenirs it even has things from my parents honeymoon. That was some cool stuff to see it made my day.

Thanks,
Jacob

 

Attached is a photo of my favorite coin the 1885 nickel my aunt gave me in 1948. I was 5 years old. In a blue book I saw that it was worth $5 and I was hooked on collecting and have been committed to it for 69 years now.

 

Here's my latest purchase and my new favorite coin:

I've also got the 2016-W Standing Liberty Quarter and Mercury Dime. Awesome 24K Gold coins!

 

Wow, it was a $5 coin back then? Certainly not anymore, that's for sure.

 

Yes, but $5 was very close to a day's pay.

 

mine is the Spanish 2 reale

 

My favorite is actually a collection. These were given to me by my grandfather who died when I was around five years old. These are the coins that got me interested in collecting when I was a child.