Show me a coin, that isn't worth much more then face that you keep just because you like it, or it has sentimental value. Here is mine. It is my FIRST Franklin half, it's from the year I was born, and I Like the way the obverse looks.
The color might not be market acceptable, but I liked it and it was in the junk bin at the coin store (if I recall I probably paid 4-5 times face value).
Very cool coins! Meow I love the quarter! ddddd Love the coloring on yours too! we have 13 rescue cats, so cat coins really set me atwitter!
I will forever keep this horrifically mangled Lincoln cent because I love it. Someone in my wife's family, perhaps her late father, just mutilated this poor thing and kept it. I found it in a hoard of other coins, some others of which also had "alterations." But this one topped them all. I think I could get art funding for it. It's almost abstract expressionist.
180° rotated reverse, and multiple die clashes in this position. 4 separate die clashes at different rotations of the die Both cost less than $20 I kept them instead of selling them simply because they cost me little and I thought they were cool.
Here are two that I picked up together. They aren't really much to look at condition wise. But the secondary image transfer from the Whitman folder is fun. 1904 and 1904O Barber quarters.
It would be this one. Nothing special about the coin other than it was the first graded coin I purchased back in the 1980’s when graded coins was all the buzz. It’s unruly, impossible to store and overgraded, but it was my introduction to TPG’s.
Really? Okay. I guess it could have been cleaned at some point. The Obv. and Rev. just don't match up to me. Looks like a lot of wear on the Rev. I'm wondering about the Obv. "STATES OF". Looks like a weak die strike or some type of struck thur. The breast feathers (actually all the feathers) on that eagle are stunning!! Have you posted it here for opinions on grade?
The first one is a change find in 2001. The second my dad gave me, it's a penny he mashed for me when he worked on the railroad for wheeling pittsburgh steel.
