Least Favorite Coin

Which numismatic material (coin) would you NOT allow into your collection?

You can be general or specific in your answer, but list only those items that you have absolutely no use for what-so-ever!

Question: Have you ever owned or had in your possession, one of the items in your above answer?

 

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I am not putting any of these so called errors in my set. The Wisconsin leaves, bison leg or spike errors, and any other hyped "new" discovery or oddball nutjob coin out there. I found 4 detatched leg coins in my pocket change and flipped em on ebay for better than $100 and bought a nice morgan with it. The only Morgan I know of that the owner has only 20 cents invested in it. If you find one of these and can take advantage of the demand for them then good for you, but I won't buy one.

 

I would say the copper-plted zinc pennies that started in 1982 are my least favorite. I mean, if they can't put three lousy grams of copper in a coin, they might as well discontinue the entire series. I think the mint intentionally makes an occasional double-die error to keep people from throwing them away. No, I don't and won't collect them.

 

I, personally, try not to allow any coins into my collection if I do not find them interesting or appealing any any way, shape or form.

Have I ever had one such coin in my collection? I have changed my mind on a few, but I have never purchased a coin that did not appeal to me in some way... sometimes that goes away, I guess.

 

Junk

I had some gold one's and got them out of my safe oh so fast so they would not contaminate my pretty silver one's .Eh

 

SBA dollars or what they were called at the time, "Carter-Quarters".

It took me years to recover from daily nightmares of "...and your little dog too!!" I recover and what happens????, they put the cause for my childhood nightmares on the dollar coin.

Where's my therapist?

 

now, lets be fair... there have been a lot of ugly mugs on coins - just because it was a woman, doesn't mean she had to be right out of Baywatch.

Look at Franklin! Sure we respect him, but someone wore out the ugly stick...

 

I've never had any use for the Washington Quarter... I've always considered it to be one of the ugliest, plainest coins ever issued. I'd like to see it gone after the state quarter series is done. I've also never really had any use for the early commemoratives.

 

I am partial to Lady Liberty...flowing hair, long legs, (use your imagination).

It is the reason why they are collected and revered whereas there is only so much lipstick that can go on SBA. As for Franklin, he was an old man (the oldest to sign the Declaration of Independence) and that is the obverse we use for the half dollar.

Still, there a 1,000 times more Franklin Collectors than SBA's.

 

I cannot think of a single legal tender coin that I would not allow into my collection, or acquire for resale. What I cannot stand personally are all of the medals marketed to the collector community by companies as "legal tender." I lump in with them collector issues minted by private companies with a "stamp of approval" from an "issuing country" somewhere in the world.

 

It appears that some good thought has gone into this thread so far, and I have been thinking of what my answer would be. Here it is;

In no way, shape or form, would I have a counterfiet or copy coin be in or around any of my sets of coins. This has got ot be the most dasterdly thing they could come up with and sell to anyone. Don't want any of these any where in sight!

 

Dan, does that apply to counterfeits that were made for commerce, as well as counterfeits that were made for fooling collectors? I ask because I agree with you in concern to the latter - but some counterfeits, in my opinion, that were made for commerce have a historical legitimacy... Doug made a very insightful post on this very subject in the darkside forum, where counterfeits were introduced as commercial warfare on enemy nations. I wouldn't mind have a piece or two like that in my collection, just to recount the subject matter of his post!

 

Had not thought of this type of counterfeits, but if it's a good as to fool the enemy, then isn't it likely to be good enough to fool a person who is collecting just such coins. by this I mean, if you are collecting German coinage, or paper; how do you know if you may already have some of the phoney money already and not know it. I guess I would come down to saying any type of copy would not be welcome around here.

 

I have to go with almost every modern commemorative coin (those after 1982). Some of these are the worst designs which were slam dunked to meet the schedule.

Besides those, I also have to go with Washington Quarters. They are as interesting as a recital of Beowolf...

 

dimedude, check out this link...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3968715499&category=39462

My personal opinion, more interesting than a recital of Beowolf ;-)

 

OK, that was nice, but the Washington quarter design is pretty bland and uninspiring, sort of like watching the Chicago Bears on offense...

 

if they ever put Michael Jackson on a coin, then theres my least favorite

 

The eagle

The eagle on the rev. of eisenhower and susan b. is soooo ugly that if a bird flew around here that looked like the local eagles would beat the tar out of it just for being an insult to the species. If that eagle landed in one of my trees I'd shot it. We have better looking buzzards around here. That eagle could not have been done by a pro.engraver, no way. I draw and sell eagle pics. and I know what they look like. Just compare the Susan B. eagle with the one on the back of a 50.c half. Sorry but I've always thought that bird was an insult to U.S. coinage.

 

The World Cup and Atlanta Olympic coins are pretty lame too -- mint them out per schedule and rake in the cash. ABout as pathetic as Al Trautwig commentating on the Tour de France ...

 

I'm not saying I don't have this in my collection, but the golden dollar isn't a favourite of mine. The reverse of the coin I like, just don't care much for the obverse and that golden colour that discolours. Would much rather have had a clad dollar like the SBA.

David