And Discuss.... Mine is the avatar with my handle, no big deal, but purty! 1883 CC Just love this one. Post your pics, and give some description to help some of the folks here that may learn from your experience! Steve
Obviously, this has become my favorite coin in my collection. I can think of 264,000 reasons why but mostly because it was a gift from my wife.
In a round about way I got into collecting because of I, Claudius...I wanted a Claudius coin after reading the book..the book also set me on a lifelong love of Roman history...I love this coin not just because its a great portrait and reverse but also because of the fact that in antiquity someone thought so highly of it to wear it as jewelry...
I don't have it in hand yet, but here are the Heritage auction pictures: Krause uses Craig numbers for pre-Meiji coins and Yeoman numbers for most of the modern coinage. This 2.5g .800 silver10 sen from Meiji 3 (1870), the first year of Japanese milled coinage, is the more common shallow scale variety of Y#2! I have yet to find an acceptable example of Y#1 (1.25g silver 5 sen, same year and varieties) at an acceptable price.
My favorite coin is in my avatar also, and its also a Morgan. It is an 1899-O with some nice luster. It was the second coin my dad ever gave me, and the beauty and history of it is what got me hooked.
my favorite coin 1982 mexico 50 pesos the story of thes moon goddes is grate and another pair of reasons....LOL....
