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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 2599988, member: 28299&quot;]Best coin is a rather open ended statement... rarity, price, time to find a specific coin, personal favorite, etc. etc.&nbsp; I think you&#039;ll find that many people here have various coins that they consider are in their top category, but can&#039;t necessarily name one specific coin.&nbsp; On any given day I have 3 - 5 coins that I&#039;d consider as my favorite, and easily another half dozen that would be tough to choose amongst after those top 3 - 5.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given your name, and that you are a new member, I&#039;m guessing you are a young numismatist.&nbsp; Why don&#039;t you tell us a little bit about yourself (nothing too revealing, these are after all public forums), and what you like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For myself, I was born in 1958, I live in CA., and I&#039;m a sucker for naturally toned coins.&nbsp; Given that the largest coin minted during my birth year was a Franklin, that is the series I specialize in, both cameo proof coins and business strike.&nbsp; I&#039;ve reached the point that finding examples to upgrade my proof set is not worth the price performance difference, so I&#039;ve stopped collecting them.&nbsp; Finding upgrades to my business strike set is now few and far between... maybe once every two or three years.&nbsp; After Franklins, I&#039;m working on a proof cameo 1893 set (no gold), and a business strike 1858 set.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been collecting since 1988, so I&#039;ve CERTAINLY branched out into other areas of coin collecting, but those are the areas I&#039;m currently working on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given that you&#039;ve posted a Morgan, I assume you like them, so I&#039;ll post one.&nbsp; I am NOT a Morgan collector per se, but here is my 1893 Morgan for the Type set.&nbsp; It is the basis of my 1893 cameo proof set.&nbsp; I bought it circa 1990.&nbsp; It is in a PCGS PR65 rattler slab, and should rather comfortably upgrade to a PR66CAM slab under today&#039;s grading system.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had more than a few dealers say it could go PR67CAM, but as I have no interest in selling it, the slab doesn&#039;t matter to me, even though it would give me more Registry points.&nbsp; Most of the light white scratches you see are on the slab.&nbsp; FWIW, this coin would come under the heading of the next half dozen coins as expressed in my top paragraph.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>WELCOME to the Boards, and HAVE FUN coin collecting!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]567355[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]567356[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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