that I would love to pass down to my kids. Cost about $10k based on today's greysheet bid (in no particular order) #1- MS65 Buffalo nickel from the teens #2- MS64 Barber half. #3- MS64 Seated quart. #4- MS63 $5 Ind. #5- MS63 $10 Lib. #6- MS65 Standing Lib. quart from teens. #7- MS64 better date Morgan $ #8- MS64 better date Peace $ #9- MS63 $10 Ind. #10-MS64 $20 Saint..I'm not crazy about $20s, but IMO this is the most beautiful U.S. coin ever minted. What say you??
It's certainly a nice list, but I would hope your kids would have an appreciation of coins, history and their values prior to receiving them or else the gift may fall far short of expectations.
Very nice!! I haven't created a list yet. But I am starting to make some purchases to hand down to my kids. They are only 7 and 3 right now, So I have some time to make the purchases and to teach them about Numismatics. Both of them already have a fascination with money. My daughter who is 7 is a "Zoo" collector. She likes to dig through the LCS world coin boxes and buy all the animal coins.
I'd rather leave a whole bunch of more common but interesting things: lots of world coins in great conditions, some mint and proof sets, mint graded TPG coins, US type set, xf plus franklin halves set, etc. You seem like your more concerned with leaving your kids an investment or small gold mine; I would want to leave many coins and neat things that increase the probability they'll get hooked on numismatics. Maybe you'll do that too with other stuff as well, just throwing my 2 cents out there. I think your selections are good bets. However, I think the 64s would be better at 63 or even 62 or so. I'd imagine you'd save a lot by getting a lower mint state barber half, and any mint state one with decent eye appeal is great considering how rare mint examples are.
I am saving them a heap of obsolete 90% silver (Mercs, SLQs, Walkers, Barbers & even some seated coinage) that I buy out of collections. They can sell it for silver if they need to, or they can paw through it at their leisure, assembling low grade sets, and possibly turning into collectors.
Can never disagree with a classic type collector, however I feel that most better date Morgan and Peace $ should well in the future.
#1 for me is my Julich-Berg shiling from 1512, which my 15th-great grandfather may have held. He was born in 1515 in Julich-Berg. #2 is my 1851 large cent which my great-grandfather gave to my grandfather, who passed it to my dad, who passed it to me. #3-#10 are open to debate for various reasons.
Cool - I live in the city that used to be the capital of Jülich-Berg (and today is the capital of North Rhine Westphalia). Don't really collect "old" coins but had to get a few from Berg in its various incarnations ... Christian
I love 2.5 Ind too. The $5 Ind. on my list represents an Ind. type coin. Anyhow, either coin is fine with me.
Wow, Christian: my mother's family immigrated to the States from the area just south of you in Rheinland-Pfalz (near Bitburg). Beautiful part of Deutschland!
I found out , recently how easy it is to sell old type coins to coworkers at a good profit.. not many people know or have seen a 1/2 cent , large cent , two cent , three cent , give me a two and a half dollar .. I agree must have type coins .. four dollar ??
I'm in the process of selling a large world type set collection and kind of like some of the coins featuring prized animals from various countries. Does anyone else collect these? I suspect a collector would have to select a type of metal to keep the collection within their budget. The collector who's coins I'm selling purchased the cheapest one in a series so most of his collection consists of coins worth less than a dollar each with no precious metals. I'm researching how to group them to make them worth listing on eBay. I've noticed that searching on the word "animal" groups them on eBay with some groups of animal coins listed.
