Very Interesting Question To Ponder

I'd keep my 95-w Silver eagle. Can't part with such a gorgeous coin like that.

 

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That's a really tough question because I love my Walkers and my 1878 Morgan CC but if I could just keep one. I would have to stay with my new 1915 Indian 2.5 gold!! Yeah that baby is one pretty coin!!

 

Don't know anything about seated coins, so I wouldn't notice, and I wouldn't do research or look it up to see if you were telling the truth about the coin you picked.
The only people who would have picked up on it are people who know seated coins.

 

Wow, I just noticed you have a lot of posts and you are so new here!! Just wanted to say, good luck

 

Good luck with what?

 

Good luck with your posting career

 

I'm still confused. What does that have to do with anything? This is a place for coins, I'm here to learn/teach as much about coins as possible, to become a great numismatist. I could care less about my posts, yes I admit some days I've gone overboard, but posts really aren't that important.

EDIT: I take that back, posts are important, but the quality not quantity. (Unless the posts are in the GUESS THE NEXT POSTER THREAD!)

 

Well, let me be the one to tell you, "Un-confuse yourself" and take that as a respectful comment

 

LOL, your probably right on both counts. Didn't mean no harm, just a little trickery. Maybe it was a bad idea...

 

Hey a few questions on that coin... May we see pictures of it, and know the grade of it? Or is it still raw?

 

It has a thread, it's a PF69 UCAM and it's on maybe page 2 or 3.

I just bumped the thread up for you.

 

Mine would be nothing fancy. It would be a 1909 VDB I pulled out of a roll of pennies when I was a kid. It was always my special coin. As a kid I did not have much coin spending money, it was just the stuff I could pull out of rolls I would bring back from the bank. I can remember, circa 1965, bringing rolls of pennies, dimes and nickles back to the house and pulling out the good stuff. Man o man, I wish I had that chance now with the few extra bucks I have.

 

1883 $5 Liberty Head

Mine would be my 1883 $5 Liberty Head that my dad gave to me. He was playing poker with a guy who was losing and out of money but still wanted in the game. This was back in the late 1970s, so the guy offered to sell my dad his gold coin for $40. My dad gave him the $40 and then proceeded to win the $40 back from the guy. As a little kid, I remember hearing this story and my dad showing me the coin. When I got older, my dad gave me the coin. I am not much of a poker player but considering how well my dad made out on this coin -- I think I should be learning to play poker! LOL!

I know we were supposed to only list our one coin -- but I do have one more. This one my mom gave me. She found a 1877 Seated Liberty dime in our back yard. Our property borders a set a railroad tracks that saw a lot of hobos traveling the rails back in the day and I like to imagine that one of those travelers had this in his pocket when he hopped off the rail and lost it in my parents yard. The best part of this story is that after my mom found the coin -- my dad bought a metal detector thinking there might be a hoard stashed in the yard somewhere. He never found a hoard but he did manage to break up the basement floor thinking he discovered a hidden cache of coins. My parents house dates to the 1840s so he was certain that someone had hid money. It was nothing but an old piece of iron pipe!! Gotta love the folks for being crazy but fun!:goofer::goofer:

 

Hah, we did the same thing at my in laws. Sorry OP, we are digressing, but we had some property in the North Georgia mountains and there was this old abandoned house down the road. We bought a metal detector took a shovel and went a hunting at the house. Gotta be old coins there. The metal detector went off and I did the digging. Guess what, they had sewer pipies way back when. The metal detector went back to Radio Shack.

 

It would have to be my Unc 1916d. I saved my paper route money for a year to buy it in 1973 ($800). I have an Unc Fugio cent ("states united" w/cinquefoils) that I'm mighty fond of, too...(historical significance).