What coin in your collection....

I suppose the coins with the most sentimental value would ironically by the ones in ym collection with the least monetary value... my Lincoln cent collection that was started when my grandmother got me Whitman coin folders to fill. That is how I got started in coin collecting.

Also quite attatched to a relatively recent purchase, fought harder on it on eBay than its actual value warranted, a 2000 silver proof 1 pound coin. Love the Welsh dragon on it.

 

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Wow thats neat!
I asked for and got a mental detector for Christmas one year when I was about 18, I think my mother got the best one radio shack carried. Never have found anything with it though.

 

All I ever found with the one I got were bottlecaps, tin cans, rusty nails, and recent pennies corroded nearly beyond recognition, lol. Maybe I should have found a better place to look.

 

Sometimes You Get Lucky

My favorite is a 1955 Franklin Proof Cameo. I bought the Proof set off e-bay for $90.00 in a capitol holder. This is the year my wife was born so I wanted a nice set to represent her birth year. The penny had some brush type mark on it so I replaced it with a beauty from my coin dealer. It wasn't until I was putting the set into 2X2's for my Silver Proof Set book that I noticed the Franklin was a Cameo. Which makes it the only Franklin Proof Cameo I have. I would not part with it for anything. :kewl:

 

The next one I'm about to get

 

You know, this has been bugging me all day. I have been thinking and thinking but I just can't come up with one that sticks out above the rest. Probably, if you based it on which coin I show to others the most, then I would have to say my rainbow toned ASE. No rare date and very inexpensive but by far the most visual and "looked at" of my entire collection.

 

The Event Horizon

My favorite is this 1/6 stater, a 2.5 gram electrum coin, from the town of Miletus,about 550 BC.

It represents many things to me. It is one of the earliest known coins. No other coin in any catalog is exactly like this one: it is unique. Also, it came to me by something of a fluke at a coin show and it was misidentified, though I recognized its time and place. Finally, I paid relatively little for it, about the same as you might for a somewhat better Morgan Dollar in a slab, say a '91-O or '04 in better Unc. Most of all, it was struck during the lifetime and in the town of Thales of Miletus, the father of geometry and the father of philosophy. He also is famous for demonstrating the value in philosophy by contracting all of the olive presses in town ahead of the harvest and then leasing them out on his own terms. This coin might have been part of that.

 

Indian

I have an Indian cent that my grandfather had given me, the date is worn off don't have any idea what it is, but it was the first coin in my collection

Tony

 

To pick just one (oh the pain!) it would have to be a worn redbrown 1888 indian head cent.

My grandmother had started me on coins, in cahoots with my dad and uncle (who also collect) and she got me a whitman lincoln cent book #2, and two steel cents to start it up. About a year later, all I had was still that wheat book, but I was having a ball filling it up. When at my uncles, I was going through a small glass jar he had that had all kinds of old foreign coins from the 18 and 19 hundreds, but there was only one us coin, this nicely worn indian head cent. When I showed it to him, thinking it was out of place, he told me "then theres only one place to put it". He took it from my hand and put it in my pocket "its yours". Wow....what a great memory.

 

Some touching sentiments here, enjoyed reading about them. Sometimes it does not take much to provide someone a lifelong interest.

For a single item, the one with the most sentimental value for me without question is a fractional currency 25 cent note from the Allentown Bank (Pa), dated October 1, 1862. It was signed by my great, great....great grandfather Nathan Shafer. I have serial number 318.

If I could expand a bit to include a few more, next in line would be my N.Mendal Shafer (no relation) (Cincinnati, Ohio) Civil War tokens, followed by the merchant tokens from my hometown.

 

Austria 1/2 Thaler 1819e Km 2151

Rare , No Price In Krause Catalog.

 

A pair of 1878-cc Morgan dollars I received from my grandfather.

 

I have a large size National Currency Note from the First National Bank of McHenry, North Dakota. My great-grandfather was the President of that bank, and as a result he hand-signed the note ex officio.

It's one of the most valuable pieces dollar-wise in my collection. But if I had to get rid of my entire collection, I would fight harder to keep that one than any other.

 

I forgot to mention my favorite currency, The Battles bank is in my town, and my neighbor was hired to clean it out, He gave me and his son a box of THOUSANDS of old battles bank checks, we played with them like play money, then he burned them all. Look at the price of one now. Crap.

 

A 2000 Walking Liberty Silver Dollar in the black case, never removed from my mother. Also My father gave me a bunch of kennedy & roosevelt halves, as well as some old ike dollars, that I really treasure sentimental to my family to pass them on to the next generation.

 

This gets asked on all forums, by friends, at coin shows, etc. For me it is really easy.Way, way, way back when I was a kid my Dad came home and showed me a Silver looking, brand new, shinney Lincoln Cent that just came out. It was the year 1943. He noticed I wanted it real bad so he gave me all the ones he just acquired. He then must have set out to find as many as he could afford and continued to give them to me. I carefull put each one away so they wouldn't get scratched or anything. Eventually someone invented plastic rolls so they all went into them. He also footed the bill for the plastic rolls. I eventually ended up with 26 rolls of these. Most are like they were in 1943. My dad is long gone now but when I look at those rolls I always think of him and I don't think any coin could be valuable enough to replace my Dad's memories. I can always replace other coins in my collection but I could never replace my Dad.
I also had an Aunt that must have tried to win my favor because she kept giving me these funny looking plastic coins called Missouri Mills. I still have a roll of them but I sure don't remember her as much as my Dad.

 

1964 proof set (gift from my grandfather)

 

An old Morgan. Got it from my parents when they died. Not in the best of shape but I remember seeing it as a young child in the housing projects in brooklyn and thinking we were rich. It is the small things that mean alot to a child. We lived in an apartment that had nothing of value and my parents let me hold this special coin for they loved me. Of course the coin is not worth much other then that it was my parents and so it means everything.

 

That would be a pair of 1879CC Morgan silver dollars I received from my grandfather. He brought them home with him after he finished serving in the US Cavalry out west.

 

Favorite coin, that is a tough one.
Probably the 1913 S Barber quarter in VG-8.
Could be the 1922 Plain Lincoln cent (VF-30) that I recently got to replace the one that I found in the early 1960's and then I spent to buy my father a birthday present. (I didn't know the value at the time).
Or the 1909 S, VDB that I cherry picked as a 1909 S. Now slabbed by NGC as a F-12.
Gotta think about that one.
Good question.