Please post your favorite coin but more importantly tell us why for me the reason that this is my favorite coin is because of the backstory. In the 1970s they were employees of the San Francisco men who would screw around at night this queen is a proof nickel on Cent planchette the issue with that is that in the 1970s they would have to put one coin at a time on the die. That’s it would be basically impossible to make this mistake it would be right there in your hand. These have been called intentional errors. Because it’s almost impossible to get these things out of the mint the employees would put them in the oil pan of the forklifts and then when the forklifts went for maintenance the guy doing the maintenance Was in on it he grab the coins and get them sold for cash. What’s the story behind your favorite coin please show us the coin and tell us a story
Right now it has to be a recent raw purchase that just came back from PCGS as PR64DCAM. Maybe my luck is finally changing It came from a LCS which purchased a collection from the grandson of the collector who passed away in 1946. Nah, just a fluke.
Too many to count. Personal importance? I have two 1921 S Morgans my pappy found in his closet a few years ago to give to me. they were/are terminally toned and rather hideous, but I never plan to replace them.
Favorite because it brings back memories of collecting on my paper route when I was about 11 or 12 years old. Kept it all these years, not because of the date, which I had no knowledge of until recently, but because I liked the design.
Posted a few times on similar themed threads, this coin was chosen for my Birthday by my Father in a Vancouver LCS. Unfortunately he passed before he could post it so my Mother did. As much as I love the coin I wish he could have seen the joy his gift brought.
It only cost me a cent not what I can tell but the stories it can tell.A soldier who survived D-day and designed this coin as his savior for the war.
Love these threads! For me, it always changes, but picture being a very young kid whose already developed a collecting interest... You're at an old YMCA summer camp where swimming is taken very seriously. One morning, off the floating wood dock, you dive down and grab a handful of muck. It's something you always do in your endless quest for treasure lol! You get to the surface, sift through the muck, and actually discover an Indian cent mixed in with it... Every camper around is now wanting to dive the area... even the counselors are considering possibilities of old hoards lol. What a needle in a hay stack. I only have a few of these coins so I know that one of these is the one I actually brought to the surface. Man, that had to have kicked my interest into high gear and here I am today, all these years later.