Your most sentimental coin and why?

I've touched on this before so figured I'd ask all of you?
Which of your coins holds the highest sentimental value in your collection?

I've been collecting for nearly 40 years now and have a special place in my heart for an 1866 Two Cent Piece that might go VG. It's still in the original 2X2 after all of these years.

You see my dad bought me that coin when I was a child. He's gone but that coin remains along with the 1865 Three Cent Nickel, 1872 Shield Nickel and my 1851 Large Cent that was horribly cleaned (by me I'm afraid as a child).

Not rare coins but dad would buy them when he was away on business. He knew NOTHING about coins but I always looked forward to getting a new one. I STILL love my type coins because of this and after YEARS of buying anything that struck my fancy and was priced right I decided to complete the Two Cent business strike series.

Started off as a VF-XF set and eventually ended up all unc. Now I have 5 sets. What can I say? Those are my babies and I think of my dad every time I look at one.

Some day I'll be buried with the first four coins I listed in this ramble.

So what about y'all?

 

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I've got a 1914-D penny which my father got in a pack of cigarettes from one of those pull handle cigarette machine at 29 Palms California. You see a pack used to cost 23 cents and your change would be slipped into the plastic around the pack, this was in early 1942.

He was a brand-new (Prior Enlisted) USMC 2nd Lt. then.

 

an 1852 large cent that wuold be a vg-10 except for the hole punched through the middle. My father found it nailed to the inside doorway of a barn when he was a child. I still wear it around my neck after all these years.

 

A $5 national currency note from a bank of which my great-grandfather was the President. So his signature is on it - by his hand, too, as his daughter (my grandmother) saw him sign the note and he gave it to her as a souvenir.

 

KLJ,can you please post some photos?

Aidan.

 

Mine has to be my 09 S vdb. I picked it up at a coin shop for my grandfather about 20 years ago. When I got his collection the coin was still there, pressed in a whitman folder.:smile

 

a Morgan dollar that is worn so smooth that you can't make out hardly any thing but a faint out line of the bust my father carried it every day in his pants pocket till his death. wouldn't take a million dollars for it . it is the only coin that i ended up with that was his.

 

Mine would have to be a 1966 nickel I purchased for my dad when I was six or seven. My mom was buying dad a fathers day present and I wanted to get him something just from me. It cost $2 and has a die break over Monticello. The dealer called it an allegator nickel cause of the shape of the break/cud. Dad passed 2 years ago and I sometimes take this coin out to hold.

 

Similar story about coins from my Dad. Only they were the brand new, shinny, silver colored pennies that just came out and he would find as many as possible for me. That was back in 1943 and I ended up with 31 rolls of them. Still have them all in plastic rolls and still look as new as when he handed them to me.

 

Mine is an Indian Head cent my grandfather gave me from his collection. After his death, my uncle now has the collection. He's not a coin collector (or at least he wasn't), so I'm hoping to still be able to get the rest of the collection at some point.

 

Mine is a common date BU 1923 Peace dollar that my Grandfather gave me. It sits in an Airtite in the center of my coin cabinet.He got me started in coin collecting & this was my 1st "big" coin when I was 8 years old.

 

Mine is the BU Morgan, the reverse of which is my avatar. It was the first older coin may dad gave me, and it got me addicted to coins.

 

My 1882 CC PCGS MS65 - just bought it for my birthday. My first CC .. my first kinda valuable coin.

 

I've got a 1797 (UK) 2d which has been passed down the family since I don't know when....still a presentable fine.

 

An 1880 Indian Head Cent (grade = good). When I was a little kid, I bought it for my great-grandfather Daddy Oscar for his 90th birthday. He was born in 1880. It was returned to me after he passed. He was the sweetest natured person I ever knew.

I remember feeling a little sad that I couldn't afford something nicer... it looked "worn out", and I felt like that sent a bad message... but he was so happy to have it.

 

Mine is a 1921 peace Dollar that I cherry-picked from a dealers inventory. He had one at a show that I liked and when I went to pick it up at his shop that week, one of his newer guys told me "here... hold on a sec..." and when he came back, he had dipped the coin. On first look, I was disappointed, but since I was in his shop, I decided to look thru his box of Unc Peace dollars to try to find another. When I found one that I liked, he told me that he'd give me a break for my trouble. I paid $160 for it as a solid MS-63. Truth is... the coin is a borderline 65 but PCGS bodybagged it for questionable cleaning. (Probably dipped at some point...) It remains my favorite series and this one is my sentimental favorite coin.

 

My grandfather gave me a 1985 Rs 100 Coin (Commemorating the death of Indira Gandhi) on my 12th birthday... and I loved that coin, every now and then I would take it out of the case and hold it in my hand and admire it (largest coin I had seen till then) The result is that I possess a very very beat up coin, but it is still my favorite!
Spocks recent postings of his attempts to find a 1918-India (Bombay) minted sovereign have inspired a return gift, grandfather was born in Bombay in 1918 ironically... a nice 90th birthday gift for next year!

 

Well, here's two of the coins that I found in my Great Uncles cigar box. He brought these back from France when he served in WW1 along with another coin I have that I couldnt get to download. The first one is a 1918 1 Franc coin and the second is one that I've posted in here before. Its an 1855 BB ? Centimes (cant really make out the first word although some of you in here have told me what it was, I now forget.). The third coin that I couldnt get to download is a 1911 5 cent coin from France, there's a profile of a woman on the obverse with the words "Republique Francaise" then on the reverse there appears to be a woman with a child on her lap with the words "Liberte Egalite Fraternite" from what I can make out. Anyhow, these along with a 1878 7tf Morgan were in the cigar box when I found it. My Great Uncle was like a Grandfather to me and my brother therefore we called him Pap. He passed in 1972 when I was only 7 yrs. old and these are what I have to remember him by.

 

Mine has to be some BU Franklin halfs that my brother started collecting in grammar school. In those days (about 1960) school lunch was 50 cents. That included milk. Without milk it was 35 cents for a hot lunch.
My Dad gave us each 50 cents every morning. Sometimes we would get a nice bright Franklin but mostly beat up Walkers. My brother saved a few of the nice Franklins. So I have a FBL 1951 Franklin that my brother stashed away. He passed in 1980 at the age of 30. My Dad passed in 1961 at the age of 42. He was hit by schrapnel in the Battle of the Bulge on Christmas eve when he ran out from cover to drag a wounded buddy back. He recovered but only lived until 42 years old.
So after my step-father passed last year my Mom said she had some old Kennedys to give me.
I opened the box and there were no Kennedys. But there were 4 or 5 Franklins and I knew they were my brother's.
I took those coins and bought a Dansco, and have completed the whole set in one year.
Now I just have to upgrade 3 or 4 of them to BU and I'm done. Many have FBL.
I contemplated selling the set, but there is too much family history associated.

 

now that is what this thread was all about, Victor... nice story