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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1466672, member: 68&quot;]I normally avoid threads like this because no matter what coin you like someone else will hate.&nbsp; I&#039;ve collected just about every coin made in the last 300 years anywhere in the world and a few ancients.&nbsp; I also collect all US 20th century tokens and medals as well as a few older and foreign ones.&nbsp; Of all these many tens of thousands of designs one of my top three favorites has always been the buffalo nickel.&nbsp; 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&#039;s penis.&nbsp; Ya&#039; just can&#039;t please anybody sometimes.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; They can be plain and beautiful like a 1890&#039;s silver shilling from South Africa.&nbsp; Most all designs have something going for them. </p><p><br /></p><p>To me the most horrid coin ever made was a Morgan silver dollar.&nbsp; The coin is ungainly in size.&nbsp; It is gaudy in design.&nbsp; It was made for silly and impractical reasons.&nbsp; It sat in bank vaults until modern times.&nbsp; Sure, now I&#039;m unpopular with half the collectors here but this is what happens when you mention the emperor is naked.&nbsp; The Barber coins aren&#039;t too bad except compared to other US coins, they don&#039;t measure up.&nbsp; The design comes off OK on the dime but less so on the larger coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To each his own but I&#039;d rather collect pogs than Morgan dollars but I have collected them in the past.&nbsp; I held my nose and collected them anyway because I&#039;m a coin collector first, foremost, and always.&nbsp; If Morgans ever get cheap I might collect them again.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Say what you will about the moderns but at least they aren&#039;t waiting in bank vaults for some time in the future when the government wants to get rid of them.&nbsp; At least they won&#039;t appear in a century is pristine condition by the bagful.&nbsp; And most of all they&#039;ll all be clad and never be naked.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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