What is your rarest modern US coin

Iv got a 2017 nickel in perfect condition. It's greyish black and has no scratches. Its the same color as the black beauty

 

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That sounds like environmental damage or something similar.Black beauty nickels were really only referred to those that date 1958-59.I think they were some kind of error had nothing to do with just color.Start your own thread and provide clear pictures of the coin in question.

 

A black beauty is an improperly annealed planchet. The black Beauty name was given to those nickels of the late 50's.
Improperly annealed planchets have been found in many years of clad and mixed alloys even to this day.

 

Got itcan't remember everything precisely.

 

Don't have a photo, but mine is the 2008-W 1/2-ounce Eagle, platinum. Mintage 2,253. I think it still holds the title for lowest mintage in the platinum series.

 

Haven't seen this one yet.
1997 P Matte Jefferson from Botanical Gardens set Mintage 25000

 

I like your '72 LMC. Tell me you found it CRH?!

 

Yup.
Back in ~April 2013. I'd only been CRH'ing for a few months. Definitely peaked early hahaha.

 

I've only been doing for a few years now wish I started this quite awhile ago.

 

Me too. I started in early 2013. Missed out on so many years of good stuff. Especially the run up of silver.

 

Just confirmed my first Doubled diefrom CRH.Its a 1972 BU nice mostly red you've probably seen the thread about it.Now i have to look through the rest when there's one certainly at least a few more.

 

And then there is the 1994 P Jefferson from the Coin and Currency set. Two Jefferson's that are necessary for a complete set. Not a very good photo as it is still in the OMP. I have both sets to complete my Jefferson collection.

 

Probably my two clashed Silver Eagles. Not sure how many examples of each there are but I have not seen that many.

 

Okay, you got it by fluke?

Story?

We need the story

 

Yes, I want to know how?

 

I only made mention of that so as to indicate that I never could/would have spent that kind of money on a coin...way out of my league. Some guy advertised it as MS66RD and I got it for less than $10...when the coin arrived it was a 68RD, not a 66. I contacted him and he either was inexperienced or maybe too busy and not understanding what I was trying to convey...he said "forget it," so I did. This was a year ago or more...never heard from him again.

 

Anyone here read the book or see the movie, "The Right Stuff"? In it Gus Grissom, the second American in space, takes some dimes with him in space. In reality this was 100 dimes, all of which that I have seen have been 1961-D (I own one of these). The flight was in July 1961.

When the spacecraft landed the hatch blew out, and the spacecraft sank. Gus was still thought of very highly by the other astronauts and he was given the privilege and distinction to command the first Gemini mission, GT-3 (T stands for Titan, the launch rocket). Grissom named the capsule the Molly Brown and NASA management had a fit. Thereafter they clamped down on astronauts naming spacecraft until Apollo 9 in 1969 (when there were two spacecraft flying, so they needed to distinguish between them).

GT-3 launched in March 1965. During the mission it became the first spacecraft in human history to change it's orbit.

Anyhow, on GT-3 Grissom brought only one dime with him, a 1964. After the flight, he took out the coin and the mission survival knife and scratched GT-3 into the dime with the knife. He then gave the coin to Guenter Wendt, who was in charge of spacecraft close-out just before the spacecraft launched. I was lucky enough to buy it. I now own the only dime that Grissom flew on GT-3, so I now am the only person to own a complete set of Grissom flown dimes, one from the second American spaceflight, on the Mercury capsule Liberty Bell 7, and the only one from the first Gemini mission, GT-3.

 

Would love to see the 61D @Skyman
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