What do you think is the most beautiful US coin?

I don't like a lot of clutter either. The best state quarters and national park quarters have good examples.

 

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I’m sorry to hear about your father’s passing.

That’s cool that your father left something behind that inspired your curiosity and passion.

It’s like when you’re collecting you’re carrying on your father’s legacy and adding your own twist to that legacy.

You are now the new custodian of those coins with your father’s passing. Take good care of them! That is what all coin collectors are in the end: Caretakers.

Hopefully many coins around today will still be around for future generations.

 

The obverse or reverse of the St. Gaudens?

I never really liked the obverse but I love the reverse enough to make up for that.

 

I’m guessing when it comes to those coins it’s the details in the Eagle’s feathers that determines most of the grade. Plus marks/scratches/cleaning of course.

 

I think you forgot the attachment. xD

 

This one certainly deserves a beautiful designation. Especially coming during an era of really ugly US coins.

 

It's really hard to choose just one. I think Barber's Double Eagle was quite nice, although it didn't make it of course. I only have a replica. Dies are in the Smithsonian I think. It would've been the first coin wherein Lady Liberty appears on both sides.

 

I just love these classic designs that the baby boomers just missed out on. By the mid 1960’s these were all worn out if you found them in circulation. Yet there was an era where all your pocket change was stunning!

 

Because of this dime, I learned what a Fasces is. LOL.

 

I appreciate the kind words. I am so thankful for all the help here and other sites have given me. A sad note... My brother got an equal share of my father's coin collection, however, he has placed them in a box and stuck in his closet. I've tried to buy them, but when I bring it up, he ignores any offer or mention.

 

I appreciate the kind words. I am so thankful for all the help here and other sites have given me. A sad note... My brother got an equal share of my father's coin collection, however, he has placed them in a box and stuck in his closet. I've tried to buy them, but when I bring it up, he ignores any offer or mention.

 

Whoops! Sorry for the repeat.

 

They are pretty, but they can't beat this...

 

Not very well, apparently... that would have been an MS-60 on the Doug scale. j/k of course.

I agree 100%. Overall, the golden age of US coinage was definitely from 1916-1930. Besides the circulating designs, there were a number of excellent commemoratives produced, some of the standouts being the Pan Pac half, Stone Mountain, Lincoln, and, last but not least, the Oregon Trail.

When the ugliest coin produced by the Mint in most of those years was a Lincoln wheat cent, you know they were doing something right.

 

I wouldn't press him sir. It was his father too. Many people keep their father's coin collection, not with any desire to be a collector themselves, but to keep a key memory of their father alive.

He knows you are interested, if he ever wishes to sell he will let you know. Just concentrate on sharing your hobby with your family, and adding to your father's heritage.

 

The 2.50 Dollar Indian Head. Mention the words Indian, eagle or buffalo and most likely the first thoughts are America. The design of the quarter eagle captures that, not only in the design elements, but that it's incuse as well.

 

I like the $2.50 Indian as well. To me, I appreciate it a lot more to put it under magnifying glass. There are certain coins where what you see when you hold it is what you get, not a lot more to appreciate if you look more closely. This coin is small but has amazing detail when you really look into it. I'd be interested to know if others think there are coins where your view of it changed depending on the scale you use to look at it.

 

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J.T.