Do you dislike any particular coin series?

Oh my , Yes . That design would have pleased me and probably have been better received . Size was an issue with SBA dollars but this design would be noticeable . The U.S. Mint tried to save money by reducing the diameter but what were they thinking nearly matching the quarter dollar ?

 

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For me it's the Peace Dollar, not so much for the design but more so for the low relief and mushy details.

 

Interestingly, the ducat is referred to in the Dutch coinage act (muntwet) even today. The law states that it is a coin without legal tender status (munt zonder de hoedanigheid van wettig betaalmiddel), and lists all its specifications. And the new law, necessary partly because the Royal Dutch Mint is no longer a national (government) mint, is not going to change that ...

Christian

 

Barber stuff is...ugh

 

Regarding the American Innovators dollar, I like the reverse with the gears and the Washington Signature. The obverse is bland.

 

Actually the dollar coin was de rigueur in nearly all of the 19th century.

 

I agree, although I like the 2001 Buffalo and the 2006 SF Old Mint coins.

 

I don't dislike any coin. If I don't collect the ones I like, I still like the ones I spend!

 

The 2001 Buffalo is an exception. Fine looker!

 

ANYTHING IN A SLAB.

 

Yes indeed. I think what I despise most is the fact they are either worn and uglier and cheap, or in MS and expensive and slightly less ugly.

Also not a big fan of Charles Barber. Big baby.

 

+1

 

I, too, cannot get behind the Barbers. His Lady Liberty is a rather handsome fellow. They were the workhorses of our coinage (hence the difficulty in finding high grade examples) and they invoke, for me, a sense of "Americana" more than probably any other design with the possible exception of Morgans and Seated coinage. But I'm otherwise not a fan.

I could certainly have gotten behind this design, especially the reverse. Wow! Sacagawea is nice, but.....wow!

 

I'm not particularly fond of Morgan Dollars... for me, artistically not that attractive, and numerically speaking, too generic.

 

Which would include...which ? Saints ? MSDs ?

 

So the roadkill VF details coin is better than then MS67+CAC rainbow-toned example? You’re aware coins can be cracked out...? ;-)

 

That's sort of my gameplan, too.

I just went to the monthly Parsippany, NJ show and met a dealer whose client found (!) 2 proof 1907 HR Saints that his grandfather had from decades ago. The dealer will hopefully buy the higher-rated one in the future when the seller wants to part with it. In the meantime, he has the lower-rated one but his wife doesn't want him to part with it.

BEAUTIFUL coins...if I had the $$$, that is the kind of masterpiece I would buy.

 

On the contrary, a dollar coin was very seldom used anywhere other than the frontier during the 19th century. The dollar coin has never been popular with the American public and the government should not be trying to force it down the throat of an unwilling populace regardless of any so-called tax savings.

So-called because any savings would immediately be swallowed up by Congress anyway.