Post Your Favorite Copper Coins , (Any Series or Token)

Oh smack! If we were voting, that coin would get my vote. I assume that incredibly attractive coin is an MPL?

 

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Yes it is Paul. I liked it so well, I traded a PR66RB for it. It also came in an OGH.

 

I like the detail on this one.

 

Nice coin RLM

 

robec you're my Lincoln hero man!

I've always wanted an MPL collection but I don't have a single one. Not only are they expensive, they are difficult to find. Every one you've shown pictures of is completely amazing! I've often given serious thought of selling my entire collection to finance a complete set of MPL's.....maybe some day.

 

I have many favorites, but this AJ coin is near the top of the list.

 

Thank you Thad.

There are a bunch of amazing MPL's still out there. Having sacrificed a set of CC Morgan's (1878-1893), CC gold short sets (1890-1893) in $5, $10 and $20 and a complete set of PCGS PR67 Buffalo's, I don't know if I could recommend a complete selloff. I still have some seller's remorse, especially when it comes to the Buffalo's. Just find one moose and keep your fabulous collection.

 

Yea, sellers remose sucks. LOL I've sold a lot of coins I've later regretted. Hey, but look at what you have now. The MPL mintages are disgustingly low. You have a collection that probably fewer than 1000 people in the world have......and that's pretty darn cool.

 

I hope this is an appropriate place to make a statement , pose a question and solicit opinions.

During my wheat searching I found a very light colored alloy 1917 Lincoln and the fields of the obv and rev look sort of like some other matte proofs I've seen pictures of. I was reading this thread and another thread in which RLM mentions that 1917 produced some of the most highly detailed Lincoln Wheats. I also stumbled across an article at: http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=5433&universeid=313
and this excerpt caught my eye:
... (See the photo of Mr. Blake, his representative Brian Wagner and other collectors celebrating). Mr. Blake's collection consists of the required nine coins, dated 1909 through 1916. A full collection of matte proofs consists of 9 coins, as the 1909 has both a "plain" and "VDB" reverse style. Rumors persist of a mysterious 1917 matte proof, but accounts have never been verified. After this final coin was added, Mr. Blake's collection was numerically rated Number 8 in the PCGS Set Registry, ...

So tell me if this is just a well struck 1917 or whether it may be worth having attributed despite the fact that it is well circulated.

 

Sheez this thread got pretty fast!
I like this one from PennyGuy. Why would you switch it PennyGuy?

 

LOL, This one competes with the Small Motto in MS and the 1873 Open and Closed 3's depending on the day.

 

If you are asking if it is a proof, no it is not. I you are asking if I was correct about the detail on a 1917, well...........

 

It's just a well struck 1917. More to the point, I've never seen an MPL with the edge weakness seen on the obverse to the left of LIBERTY (9 o'clock) -- on MPLs, this area is razor sharp, on your coin not so much.

Now submit it to NGC/PCGS and make a liar out of me. I'd be very happy for you, but don't think it's going to happen.

Good luck...Mike

 

Thanks RLM & Leadfoot for the feedback !

 

Bought my first two copper coins at the Philly show last month. This is my favorite...

 

My favorite copper coin doesn't actually exist. It was a penny made up for The Simpsons. Legend has it that in December 1917, a brief glimpse of a woman's ankle caused a riot at the Philadelphia Mint, so they struck a 1917 Double-Inverted "Kissing Lincolns" Penny, which Mr. Burns paid $10 million dollars for. Since nobody knows what a real coin would look like, I created a proof example in Microsoft Office Paint:

 

I just made this photo in Microsoft Office Paint also:

 

I LOVE the coins everyone has posted ... BEAUTIFUL!

I just posted this coin in another recent thread.
Just bought it on sunday for $234.
It's a PCGS AU-55.

 

These are two of my (current) favorites:

 

beautiful copper

heres one of my favs.


Constans AE 3
CONSTANS P F AVG, laureate & rosette-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers holding spears and shields with one standard between them, O on banner. Mintmark: A SIS star
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