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Totally cool. First you post an 1895 and then follow up with an 1889CC! If you already have the photos taken, I'd really like to see a close up of the obverse & reverse of the 89CC.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

Wow! So many great looking coins:bigeyes:in these 8 page...

 

Sorry guys- I am so ridiculous. When Lehigh said "me thinks that's not circulated" I didn't even get it. I NEVER saw the word "Circulated" in the title of this thread. Read right past that one. :desk::desk::headbang:

 

Well these old hunks of gold have seen some circulation and some tales to tell. Piece of 8 and a doubloon.:hug:

 

Hmm....I don't have a photo of it, but I did pull a nice "Speared Buffalo" error out of a roll of nickels awhile back....so it does meet the "circulated" criteria without question.
And it cost 5 cents!

 

The 1895 was not circulated and i removed it

 

Since we're showing more than one now, let me present to you my next most valuable coin:

Ptolemy II Philadelphos
285-246 BC
Ptolemaic AE 40
Svoronos 788 B

O: Zeus Ammon, facing right

R: PTOLEMAIOY BASILEOS surrounding twin eagles standing on thunderbolts facing left, double cornucopia at shoulder of right eagle

After the death of Alexander the Great, his empire was divided amongst his generals, with Ptolemy taking Egypt. His son, Ptolemy II, introduced some gigantic bronze coins. This particular one is 40mm in diameter, which makes it a little wider than a Morgan dollar and about twice as thick as one, and if I remember correctly (I don't have a scale with me, and while the seller listed the weight when he sold it, he forgot to write it on the label), it weighs around 40 grams, making it the biggest and heaviest coin I have. This is hardly the largest coin produced during this reign, as I've heard of ones up to around 50 mm wide and nearly 100 grams!

 

wow!! i never had any idea there were so many diff coins!! and all so different and good lookin in their own right. Very impressed!!

 

Hello Ripley,

I know about many different coins but I know very (very) little about gold doubloons. (Where were they minted, where circulated, what was their value, how many exist in collections, etc). If these are real, then they certainly deserve better photographs so that we can all drool over them.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

Too bad you removed it, I hadn't gotten to see it yet.

 

Apologies for the late reply, I was on a short term mission trip last week.

That counterstamp makes it a Civil War token, id LA670A-1do. It is not listed in the 2nd edition of Fuld's store card reference, but it should be in the new book which is in the works (I did some proofreading work on it earlier this year). Kanzinger lists it in his 2002 Civil War Token Collector's Guide. It is an R8 token (5 - 10 known), New Orleans has a T9 town rating (there are no T10 towns), and this is the only variety of cwt for the entire state of Louisiana. I paid more than Kanzinger lists, but I wanted it and who knows if I would ever get a shot at another in my lifetime. I bought it a few years ago and have forgotten the exact price, but it was somewhere around $2500. Just goes to show that sometimes "damage" can greatly increase a coin's value.

 

My most expensive and I just got it today

 

Here's my most expensive circulated coin.....

 

Most Expensive Circulated Coin

Here's an 1831 O.120 R6 Capped Bust Half.

 

I got this for 25 dollars

 

MY MOST EXPENSIVE COIN UNCIRCULATED IS MY AVATAR, BUT I GO FOR NOW TO CIRCULATED 1992.

 

This Peace Dollar. Notice what I think looks like a finger print right around nose and the thin scratch at the base of the neck. Not sure what it is worth. It was a gift to my wife from her grandmother when my wife was a young girl.

 

s-2

 

Here's the ugliest Buffalo I have, but my most expensive.

1918/17-d, ngc f-15.