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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2655008, member: 46237&quot;]When I was first researching Hungarian coinage, I came across the 1896 millennium commemorative korona and knew I had to have an uncirculated example. I love the reverse especially - no legends, just a beautiful relief of Prince Árpád leading the Magyars into the Carpathian Basin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]588020[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a very special coin to me. It&#039;s the first classic world coin I actively sought out an uncirculated example of, and the first world coin I submitted for grading. This coin is also the origin of many of my Hungarian collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was already collecting circulated Hungarian types at the time I acquired this coin, but without much focus. I loved the design of this coin so much, that it inspired me to focus on uncirculated Franz Joseph I types; a collection which then grew into my Hungarian 1848-1948 uncirculated type set. This coin also got me interested in the Korona denomination, from which my Austro-Hungarian Korona date set emerged. Third, this coin also got me interested in learning about the Hungarian Millennium Expo of 1896 (the event this coin commemorates), which spawned a collection of the commemorative coins, presentation cases, medals, and Cinderella stamps from the expo.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have other favorite coins from these collections and from my bust quarters set, but no other coin has been so influential in focusing the direction of my collecting, and as such, it will always have an honored place in my collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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