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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2176410, member: 66&quot;]A list of ten coins EVERY collector should own is worthless without an explanation of why they are on the list.&nbsp; (And I am keeping this all US related.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A half cent, the smallest denomination the US as made for domestic use.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Large cent, this and the half cent were the coins of the people in early America.&nbsp; To the average man these were these were not trinkets but real money and the average person probably seldom had much need for larger coins in everyday commerce. </p><p><br /></p><p>A two cent pieces</p><p>a nickel three cent</p><p>a Shield nickel, these three coins&nbsp; represent the civil war era when the nation tore itself apart and the uncertainty resulted in the economic hardship that required these no coins of base metal that wouldn&#039;t be hoarded to replace the precious metal coins that had disappeared.</p><p><br /></p><p>A buffalo nickel</p><p>A Pratt Indian head gold piece (either denomination)&nbsp; These coins are distinctly American in design and depict the Native Americans who were here first and yet who were eventually pushed out.&nbsp; Something we should remember and be somewhat ashamed of.&nbsp; A remembrance that Might does not always make &quot;Right&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A double eagle, preferably a Liberty head.&nbsp; Born of the great California gold strikes that drew our people west and made the &quot;Manifest Destiny&quot; of a country stretching from ocean to ocean likely, and most likely possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>A silver dollar, preferably a Morgan.&nbsp; The large silver coin has traditionally been the status symbol that a country was a serious country.&nbsp; A matter of prestige and in the case of the Morgan also a symbol of the vast mineral riches of the Comstock.</p><p><br /></p><p>A steel cent, a symbol that once again as we went to war we economized and substituted to provide for the war effort to help eliminate a truly horrible foe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think a pretty fair list.&nbsp; For the most part one everyone could afford (With the possible exception of the double eagle) and ones with meaning that were actually a part of the history of this country and used by everyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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