Well I've been working a lot of OT and my son and me have this SLQ collection - I like early quarters and halves in general, so I finally pulled the trigger on two big wants (at low prices for the pieces, but a LOT of money to me!). It came down to this VF20 with a green bean (my first CAC!) or a VF25 in an NGC slab that had some weird gunk on the 9 and 2 and was more expensive. This is an upgrade from the current 1921 VF25 Details that I bought raw and sent to ICG. 1921 Standing Liberty Quarter mintage - 1,916,000, it's the third or fourth hardest to get piece after the 1916, the 18-S/17 overdate, and maybe the 1923-S. They didn't redesign the date until 1925, so the earlier SLQs tend to have a lot of wear on the dates, sometimes they are completely worn off. (From NGC) The 1893 Isabella Quarter was the second commemorative coin issued by the United States and was also created for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The coin was produced at the insistence of a prominent woman of the Chicago social scene, Mrs. Potter Palmer, who was also on the Board of Lady Managers for the Exposition. This Board, which was formed with help from Susan B. Anthony, was formed to ensure there would be female voices in the planning of the fair. Mrs. Palmer suggested that $10,000 of the funds appropriated to this board be issued in the form of commemorative quarters containing a female motif. After much back and forth between the Treasury Department and the board, the designs were finally chosen; a young Queen Isabella on the obverse and a woman kneeling while holding a distaff on the reverse. This coin was to be the first issued by the United States to depict a foreign Monarch. Unfortunately for the ladies, the Columbian Exposition Half Dollar featuring Christopher Columbus on the obverse and the Santa Maria on the reverse, took much of the wind out of the sales of the Isabella quarter. The price undoubtedly didn’t help, as the quarter cost a dollar, the same as the Columbian half dollar. While the maximum mintage of 40,000 was struck, 15,809 were melted, for a total mintage of 24,191 not including assay pieces. This low mintage (only 1.6% of the number of commemorative halves distributed) accounts for the coins’ scarcity today. So what have you got? What are the crown jewels of your collection and / or what do you aspire to get? These are sellers pics, lol, I'm bragging before I even have them in hand.
My only gold coin and large Spanish reale not sure what's next.The three I have in mind are a pillar dollar,trade dollar or a flowing hair large cent specifically 1794.
Crown Jewels?? Well, I have several that I greatly enjoy. The one piece that pleases me the most is this seated half. The Bar Copper is my lifelong bucket list coin. So these two would be my Crown Jewels.
I collect both US coins and ancient coins. So I have different “crown jewels” for both categories: US coins: 1860-O Seated Liberty dollar PCGS VF35 1876-O Trade dollar NGC AU58 1928 Peace dollar PCGS AU58 1921 Peace dollar PCGS MS62 1884 Seated Liberty proof quarter PCGS PR62 1835 Classic Head quarter eagle NGC VF35 1878 Indian Princess $3 NGC AU58 1927 Vermont half dollar PCGS MS63
Roman coins: Silver denarius of Julius Caesar (48-47 BC) Silver denarius of Marc Antony (32-31 BC) Silver denarius of Lucius Roscius Fabatus (64 BC) Silver denarius of Lucius Marcius Philippus (56 BC) Silver denarius of Antonius Balbus (83-82 BC) Silver denarius of Titus Carisius (46 BC) Silver denarius of emperor Vitellius (69 AD) Silver denarius of emperor Galba (69 AD) Silver denarius of emperor Titus (79-81 AD) Silver denarius of emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) Silver denarius of emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD) Silver denarius of emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) Greek coins: Silver stater from Thasos, Thrace (550-463 BC) Silver drachm of king Philip III of Macedon (323-319 BC) Silver drachm from Pamphylia, Aspendos (420-360 BC) Silver drachm from Istros, Thrace (256-240 BC) Sorry for the long posts, I have too many “favorites”.......
