Jeff Garret:Ten Coins I'd Love to Own.

I found the list interesting, but most of us would probably appreciate a list where all the coins cost under $10,000. Maybe even $5,000.

 

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Okay, if your going to argue about it, I'll take them, gee-wiz.

 

+1 Money us "Normal" people might be able to afford. I'm at $5,000 or less

 

This never occurred to me. I'm not sure that reverse design is meant to be a crescent moon, but now I'll have a hard time seeing it as anything else!

 

No one asked, but here are my 10...

...which I would promptly sell all but one of, and use the proceeds to buy a few hundred exemplary ancient coins.

 

I actually have one!

Ruler: AL-ASHRAF NĀṢIR AL-DĪN SHA'BĀN II
Date: 764–778 AH = 1363–1377 AD
Obv.: al-Malik al-Ashraf
Rev.: Linear hexagram with central crescent, all within a dodekalobe with inward direction flowerets.
Attribution: Balog #472

 

Called a proofreader. That said, I appreciated his story and the interesting history, even if I don't agree with all of selections...but several of them for sure...and after all that you gotta give him a typo or two.

 

Well, I did put a few on there that fall into that category.

I'll try again later, with a slightly broader net of challenging but obtainable coins.

 

I am in full agreement with @GeorgeM on the 1792 Half Disme. This one should absolutely be in anyone's top ten...... I wonder why he chose to include the mythical 1964 Peace Dollar. That coin doesn't even exist that anyone knows of.