What do you collect?

What is your fave coins to collect. (I know we all have our side coins too, but what are your MOST fave -- and WHY?)

My faves are Peace Dollars, Liberty Walking, 1964 Silver Kennedy, Morgans, and Mercury Dimes in all varieties. I would also like to get a few Buffalo Nickels and Indian head pennies in good shape, just to have them. 8)

 

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Small copper circulating coins from 1400-18xx in high grades are irresistable! I used to own a 20 lepta 1828 in AU once but hey my job is to sell coins and that was sold relatively fast a couple of years ago... it still is my favourite coin though!

Have fun collecting!

 

I enjoy and collect almost all modern US coins, but my favorite are the eagle reverse clad quarters. I have the regular issues in high grade, bt still lack sevral varieties in unc and don't have a few of the rarities at all.

 

I enjoy Mercury dimes. I have them all in Fine or better condition except the 16-d don't have one of those yet. Franklin Halfs are nice in circ. condition because if you look around long enough you can put together a complete set for close to melt value. But my fav. set would have to be my type set I have over 60 different types of US coins and I'm still working on it. I also just started a holed type set so if you have any holed stuff please let me know.

 

Buffalo Nickels are my favorite. I also like Lincolns.

 

Capped Bust Half Dollars.

 

The first set of coins I ever "finished" is my proof Jefferson collection. Naturally they are some of my favorite coins.

But then I started on a type set. And guess what? I like all coins! I guess I'm partial to deep cameo proof examples but like lustrous, original mint state coins as well. Of course if the coins are really, really old I like them in circulated condition too! See? I like 'em all!

 

Here's a buffalo for you, Stujoe! (not my auction, mods. Don't I wish!)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1383777810

 

How did I know it was going to be Anaconda!

There ought to be a law against him listing stuff like that.

If I had the money, this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1383952799

would be mine, all mine.

 

whooooaaa 8O

 

How in the world did I miss that one!?! 8O :guns: Time to rob the bank!

Did you see this one? Loved looking at all the toned commems, although I will leave admiring his wife to you guys.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1383793566

I love to look at Anaconda's stuff. I have stolen photos without number from him to use as wallpaper, and just to drool over. And a nice guy too...I e-mailed him to ask if it was ok to put photos of his coins on my web site.

 

Yes, I have seen that one before too. Like you, I am always loking to see what he has up.

I am glad you posted about emailing him. I have been meaning to do that myself.

 

My favorite coin is the Merc dime. It was the first coin I collected, Thus its my favorite. However I collect any coin that has appeal to me.
AL

 

copperhead did you get lucky and start collecting from circulation or did you have to do it like me and pay a prem. for all your silver?

 

Mint State Morgans. MS & Proof Barbers. Toned & white. No dipped out retoned junk. I hate retoned junk.

 

Angels of the Centerfolds

I do not collect coins anymore. I always had an interest in hard money and 19th century US coins because I learned about capitalism from Ayn Rand when I was a teenager in the 1960s. It was not until 1993 that I started collecting.

I got into tokens because I wanted to show my employer then (Kawasaki Robotics) the advantage in making their own sales tokens.

This dealer had a clerk who was the YN coordinator for the state club, so they got my daughter a gig as a Page at an MSNS show. Dropping her off and picking her up, I walked the floor and I saw that ancients were affordable. I was blown away to see that I could buy coins from ancient Greece and Rome. But I did not know enough about them.

I drifted into an out of Barber Dimes (too many keys!) and then worked with a dealer on a set of Mercury Dimes. They let me sort through bags of circs and I filled a Whitman except for the 1916-D and the semi-keys of the 1920s that I wanted in higher collector grades.

From there, I got into ancients about 1994. By 1997, I had my fill of coins and coin collecting. And "coins" included world bank notes, civic scrip, coal mine tokens, just about everything numismatic. I probably spent $10,000 in three years. Then, all the fun went away at once.

Somewhere in 1999, working for Coin World, I saw numismatics from a very high and far away big picture panorama and I stopped caring whether or not I owned anything. I dumped everything I had a couple of times as I cleared it all out. (I had to get permission from CW to do that. Selling coins while working for them is the kiss of death. Amos had just fired a stamp guy for selling stamps.)

But, I never stopped writing. For me, being in the library is what it is all about. I used to work 60 ... 70... 80 hours a week at Coin World. (I was separated from my wife, so I had no life. Might as well work.) I could not get enough knowledge about the art and science of the forms and uses of money. I read US Mint Director Reports, Auction Catalogs, Club Newsletters, old magazines like Coin Collectors Journal and Numismatic Scrapbook, everything I could get my hands on. I had done that before joining CW and I continued after I left.

Someone once asked Walter Breen what he collected and he said: "Knowledge."

 

My favorite coins at present is high grade Ikes, sounds easy right, oh so wrong. Especially when you see all the variations, btw most are not listed in the red book. I have been purchasing mint and proof sets looking for these elusive coins. Anyone have a triple cratered Ike for sale?

 

I am sure I don't! but I would sure like to know what one is.

 

I've collected world coins, mostly 1800-plus minors and cheap world paper money since the late '60's. (msgs won't allow the plus sign!).

 

I am working on 19th century tokens from MASS right now. CHRIS