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Message:: [QUOTE="Paul M., post: 2600850, member: 73165"]Just to complicate things further... the coin I paid the most money for is not my rarest coin, but it is "a" favorite.  I can't really pick out any single favorite, but I do have a few coins that I come back to over and over. Examples:[ATTACH=full]567712[/ATTACH]As much "wow" factor as this coin has on screen, it's even more impressive in hand.  Definitely a favorite.  But, this is a common coin with a mintage of 334,948,380.  To put that in perspective, the total number minted for the entire series of Morgan dollars is 656,977,299, so about 2 Morgans were minted for every 1962-D dime. Here is my rarest coin (I think):[ATTACH=full]567715[/ATTACH]Antoninus Pius, AR denariusDiameter: 18mmWeight: 3.01gObv: IMP CAES AEL ANTONINVS AVG, laureate head rightRev: PONT MAX TR POT COS, Diana standing right, holding bow and arrow.Ref: RIC III 1b; BMCRE 3 note; RSC 665a. Near EF.Seller notes: Very rare early issue without PIVS in the title. Only two specimens in Reka Devnia hoard. From the second of the two short initial issues of Antoninus' reign that do not yet call him Pius, before he returned to Rome and forced Hadrian's consecration through the unwilling Senate, thereby earning that title.--- This coin also has some beautiful, golden iridescent toning that simply does not show up in the photograph. Mint records not being what they are today, we have no idea how many of these coins were struck in ancient Rome.  But, we do know it was struck in July 138 AD.  How?  It has a date. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I'll leave it at that.  Neither of these coins are anywhere close to my most valuable coins, but I would say they are both, indeed, favorites.[/QUOTE]

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