Post your Favorite Coin and Why.

I've posted my few too many times. How about a favorite that I sold.

If coins could talk....

 

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nice coin and holder,i have one of these in my US coin bag,

 

My favorite coin is also my least favorite.
Favorite because it is the coin that nearly 60 years ago started a life-long obsession...least favorite because I've basically been broke ever since.

 

Haha love it, I need a nice example of a standing liberaty as well! That's what they are called right?

 

Probably a $4000 coin.

 

Love the detail

 

Common coin. Never was a collector, but I found this in my mother's safe after she passed about 10 years ago. I built the set around it and have been hooked on coins ever since! Wish I started when I was 5 not 35!

 

One of my favorites. Wish it wasn't "details-cleaned".

Was part of late uncle's collection. He passed 40 years ago and I got it about 20 years ago. It was still in his 2x2 cardboard before I sent it off to be graded last November. Wish I got the other 200 or so coins he had (instead of 5 or 6). My sister did my mother "a favor" and supposedly brought those to a dealer about 15 years ago. Had I known they were for sale, I would have bought them. Then again, shame on me for not asking.



I've shown it before, but here is my other favorite, also from my uncle's collection.
I wonder if this would be "details-cleaned" also.

 

Sorry to hear the loss, seems that a lot of us got into coin collecting this way!

 

Dosent look cleaned to me, the second one.

 

I was in graduate school, but still managed to piddle around with coins after a fashion. Got into something through "First Coinvestors" which offered coins by mail (pre-internet). They sent me this one and it was love at first sight:

 

It's not the nicest, oldest, most valuable or even coolest coin in my collection but it will always be my favorite. It was a gift from my grandad and I'll never forget how fascinated my 7 year old self was with this old piece of silver It was the first coin in my collection and the one that got me started in this hobby.

Great coins everyone!

 

The Buffalo is my favorite !

In the early 1960's I found a 37-D 3 Legged Buffalo in my Dad's pocket change. I don't think it was planted there for me to find, as he was just factory worker. It was a real one. About a year later, I traded it for a $ 20 Gold coin. Still have the gold. But later in my life I bought another 3 legger. It's not perfect. In a SEGS slab, VF-20, with a scratch on the reverse. But it will always remind me of the original find.

Then in 2001, the Mint came out with the 1oz, Silver Buffalo Commemorative.
I bought 30 sets of the Proof & Unc.

Does the Buffalo get any better ? Of course it does.
In 2006 the Mint makes 1 oz $50 Gold Buffalo coins !

What better way to spend your children & grand children's inheritance

 

The one that started it all... still have it. Purchased raw in 1991, and submitted to PCGS on 2003.

 

Party pooper.........

 

Damn you got quite the money collection there! I just bought my very first ms66 buffalo. Always wanted a nice example. Cant wait for it to arrive!

 

The 2006 proof is on my long-term wish list. Surprisingly few of them on the market, at least in the places I regularly scan.

 

That's quite a herd you got there. The one ounce proof Buffalo is one of the nicest numismatic pieces made imo.

 

My favorite coin is this 1795 dollar. I think of how hard it was to work at the first Mint with balky equipment, smoke and fumes, and the annual yellow fever epidemics that often caused work to cease. I like to think about who may have handled it; clearly it was well used. It also reminds me that coins don't have to be high grade to be aesthetically pleasing.

 

Japan has created some beautiful coins, but none quite so gorgeous as the 1 Yen Meiji-era Dragon. The complex yet harmonious elements of the design complemented by the Kanji and English characters make me want to stare at these coins for hours. They have physical heft as well, being roughly the size and weight of a Morgan dollar. This is the first example I ever purchased, complete with a round "銀" counter-stamp on the reverse. The date reads "明治二十八年" or "Meiji 28" or 1895.



Apart from its aesthetics, the coin also symbolizes Japan's Meiji Restoration and the further opening up and modernization of the then Empire of Japan ("大日本")　to the world. The modern coin design, fashioned after European and American coinage, as opposed to Japan's previous cast coins, and English on the obverse reflect this astounding transformation of a nation and its culture. The implications of this awakening ended up being, as we all know, rather ominous and disastrous, but since WWII the US and Japan have forged a fascinating, if not always amorous, relationship (though relations between Japan, Korea and China remain less than ideal). The coin reflects all of this to me, as well as modern globalization, economics, trade, the beauty of silver, Empires fallen, nationalism gone awry, war, peace and the overall predictable instability of encounters between cultures and peoples. Plus, dragons are just cool. Yes, I like this coin.