What is your least favorite series?

My least favorite coin series is the Obama sticker / coin series. The makers of those ripped off many people.

 

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My least favorite are the Presidential Dollars. Very uninspired designs.

 

Not a big fan of Peace Dollars and SBA dollars.

 

Goes to show ya, I guess. I think Peace dollars are the bee's knees.

 

Usually agree with the boss, but........

Your response really surprised me. Most of the modern dollars look good in one form or the other
(unc or proof) but not usually both. Admittedly the '96 Olympic coins are not the best designs, but to each his own.
Personally I think the presidential dollars look like gas station tokens from when I was a kid & get my vote.

 

stinkin' Lincolns

 

I normally avoid threads like this because no matter what coin you like someone else will hate. I've collected just about every coin made in the last 300 years anywhere in the world and a few ancients. I also collect all US 20th century tokens and medals as well as a few older and foreign ones. Of all these many tens of thousands of designs one of my top three favorites has always been the buffalo nickel. Despite the quality, wearability, and appropriateness of this splendid coin most people hated it when it was first issued and complained about everything from the indian to the bull's penis. Ya' just can't please anybody sometimes. Of all these designs there are many thousands that are stark but they can be beautiful in their starkness like an East German aluminum piece. They can be plain and beautiful like a 1890's silver shilling from South Africa. Most all designs have something going for them.

To me the most horrid coin ever made was a Morgan silver dollar. The coin is ungainly in size. It is gaudy in design. It was made for silly and impractical reasons. It sat in bank vaults until modern times. Sure, now I'm unpopular with half the collectors here but this is what happens when you mention the emperor is naked. The Barber coins aren't too bad except compared to other US coins, they don't measure up. The design comes off OK on the dime but less so on the larger coins.

To each his own but I'd rather collect pogs than Morgan dollars but I have collected them in the past. I held my nose and collected them anyway because I'm a coin collector first, foremost, and always. If Morgans ever get cheap I might collect them again.

Say what you will about the moderns but at least they aren't waiting in bank vaults for some time in the future when the government wants to get rid of them. At least they won't appear in a century is pristine condition by the bagful. And most of all they'll all be clad and never be naked.

 

Oh, as a Morgan lover, I am not at all offended. That means one less collector competing for my favorite coins. I believe to each his/her own--one person's meat is another's poison.

 

I like the Barber coins a lot and feel the design works best on the half dollar.
One of these days I'll have saved up enough pennies to buy a proof example.

 

As they say, there's no accounting for taste.

Interesting post. I couldn't agree with you more about the Barber coinage: what is graceful on the dime becomes gargantuan on the half-dollar. The Liberty Seated series suffers from the exact opposite problem: a somewhat-elegant Liberty on the dollar becomes a puny "iceberg with a head" on the dime.

And "beauty in starkness" is a rather sophisticated idea that's going to leave behind the nostalgic crowd.

 

I have to laugh at our timing!

 

I agree. However, I do like the Abraham Lincoln Presidential dollar. A very similar image of Lincoln was used on a 1970 proof coin from Equitorial Guinea that I own. TC

 

I forgot about that one. That Jeff where he'd looks
like grandma at Thanksgiving. I hate that design.

 

Jefferson Nickels

 

Yeah, we heard the first five times.

 

I didn't hear anyone say Draped Bust, Large Cent, or CBH.

 

Our modern stuff is not as bad as it could have
been. We could have gotten Carrie instead of
Susie.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

 

Presidential dollars... When searching through rolls, they give me a head ache trying to find the date and mintmark on the edge

 

I didn't think of them. People don't even want to use them and the mint is going to stop making them. None are made of any type of precious metal and don't go for more than a dollar.

 

Jefferson Nickels! :devil: