Best Coin

What Is your best or favorite coin you own?

 

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1937d Buffalo MS-66.....NGC of course!

 

This one! I just got it last week to complete my walkers!!

 

That's one of my last 3 holes.

 

I don't know...it would be a key date coin or one of my proof Franklin haves....

The_Cave_Troll...nice looking half there...is it still in the slab or is it in with the other coins?

My dealer told me about a guy that comes into his shops that rides the Motorcycle that has glued (I guess) Morgan dollars all over his cycle...I mean tons of them...I saw a photo...he has a vest that he wears that has Moragns on it too...and it beat it all he came in a wanted to buy a NGC MS63 CC Morgan dollar...my dealer pulled out one and the guy said...yep...I want it...now crack it out of that slab...I'm going to take it home (now this coin was over $1,000.00) and put some cleaner on it and then some lacker (Sp?)...my dealer made a really bad face and the guy laughed and said...everybody does that...but he paid for the coin so what could the dealer do...the guy also said his hat he was going to glue the coin too cost more than the coin!!!!!

Speedy

 

1911D St. Gaudins $20 Gold MS-64
1899P Liberty Head $20 Gold MS-64
2000 One Ounce Gold Bullion Coin BU

 

with the huge pile of "junk" morgans laying around every coin store i have ever been in...

WHY!

good lord! its a sin!

( by junk I mean 1921 and other common date morgans that have been circulated and are only worth silver value )

 

I think some are "Junk" coins but he likes the Keys and such...I don't think he has a 1895-P yet!!!!

Speedy

 

Heh. My "best" coin is the next one I've got my heart set on buying, whichever it may happen to be. That's the beauty of this hobby.

 

I agree

 

My current favorite is my 1880 S $5 Half Eagle. We'll see next week.

 

I've been looking forward to your entry in this thread. That coin is fantastic.

How does a coin stay uncirculated for 600+ years ? I don't doubt that it is, it's just interesting to speculate on its journey from the Fourteenth Century to the 21st Century, without getting spent or buried indefinitely or lost at sea or remelted - something ! How many different people owned it, what events were transpiring in history in its various resting places through the centuries.

Too bad a coin like this doesn't keep a diary.

 

1799 Dollar NGC VF-30.

Just need $$$ for more of those Early US coins...

 

Now I have to agree that the coin is a neat one...isn't that one the "Best" known by NGC??...I thought I remembed soemthing like that when you got it.

Speedy

PS---you can show as many photos as you want of this one because of 2 things...

#1 I doubt that there are amny known of these
#2 I know I don't have the money to buy one...

that way I won't feel tempted

 

There are a few coins i could post but if it's got to be my best coin then i'd have to root for the one below;


I started collecting coins around about 1990 and whilst browsing through my father's old coin catalogue i saw many coins i wanted, most of them i have to admit i have now owned here and there, however briefly.

But looking through the earlier coins issued in England in the 10th century AD, i noticed alot of strange and odd names. One name jumped out in particular, a guy called Athelstan (or Æthelstan) dunno why i just liked the look of it i guess, sounded very Arthurian. That and he was listed as the first true king of England (before him it had been all separate kingdoms and in some respects still was, Athelstan's kingdom, the Kingdom of Wessex was predominant by this period anyway so they had been laying claim to 'king of England' for a while). But Athelstan (ruled 924-939) is the first one who could really claim the title and prove it.

Thus i figured, or hoped may be one day i'd get one. Thus i kept any eye out... didn't see a thing! Until two months ago, i was casually browsing the internet feeling a little disillusioned with my sixpence set and wondering whether coin collecting was still worth the hastle. Suddenly what turned up?



Fifteen years after i first saw the guy and i though, "i'm having that", it wasn't cheap but it was a dream come true in more ways than one.

Firstly because i had wanted one anyhow, secondly because it rekindled my interest i coins and helped me sort out the one thing that had caused much of the doubt and discontent. The collection had been suffering from a lack of focus and unachievable goals. I had to sell all my sixpences off to buy that coin and i don't even regret it. Having now got one of these tenth century Anglo-Saxon pieces i had bitten off more than i could chew and i'm now so into them i'm trying to put together a whole set of these coins one from each 10th century English king (I've just bought another one for the set of a different monarch)... challenging indeed!

Anyhow that's why that coin is my personal favourite 'BEST'.

 

So far it's still in the plastic coffin, I can't decide where i want it to live long term, so I'm just waiting. I figure either I'll adjust to having an intact slab (Ive opened all the other slabs that I've owned), or I'll just have it bugging me so much that I cant help but to crack it.

Maybe I'll just have to find a way to "add" a "D" to that 21P that I found in the junk silver bin just to fill the whole in the album Maybe not

 

Why crack open a slabbed coin? seems like a gamble.

In my experience with coin dealers if you try to sell them a slabbed coin thats marked MS-65 they do not argue, they pay MS-65 prices, but if its raw you would have better luck getting blood out of a turnip then getting them to pay MS-65...

I could easily see a coin dealer arguing that your walking liberty is a good at best, and refuse to accept it as a VG...

just my 2c, your coins, you can do whatever you want...

 

There is only one reason (IMNSHO) to leave it in the slab and you've hit the nail on the head.

On the other hand, in the slab it doesn't fit into my album very well, meaning that I either have to get another one or have an empty hole. The empty holes bug me, thus my dilema.