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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sorry, but the "box of 20" concept would never work for me. There are too many things that I enjoy about this hobby to be limited to 20 items.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1911 Posts |
If I had only 20 items they would be dollar/crown-sized silver coins from around the world. Seated, Trade, Morgan, Peace dollars at least and then 16 other countries' large coins. |
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Moderator
 United States
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I thought this wasn't supposed to be a fantasy box of 20...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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United States
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Sorry, but the "box of 20" concept would never work for me. There are too many things that I enjoy about this hobby to be limited to 20 items. Same here.  But, for the sake of trying, I would like have two of each 40% silver IKE. Perhaps one NGC, the other PCGS. There are ten silver Ikes, so it made the choice easy, if not cheesy. Of course, reality says what I need is a box of 32.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Lydian Croesus gold stater
Persia Darius gold daric
Alexander the Great gold stater
Alexander the Great tetradrachm
Julius Caesar gold aureus
Augustus Caesar gold aureus
Constantine gold solidus
Spain gold 8 escudos
France 2 Louis XIV d'or
France Napoleon gold 40 francs
British Victoria gold double sovereign
Italy Cosimo de Medici gold Pezza de la Rosa
Germany gold ducat
Netherlands gold ducat
Holy Roman Empire gold 2 ducat
Russia Catherine the Great gold 10 roubles
China 10 tael gold sycee
St Gaudens double eagle
PanPac gold $50 octogonal
PanPac gold $50 round
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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CCF Advertiser
United States
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The 1st 11 coins would be my dollar set 1795 FH 1795 Dr Bust 1796 1797 1798 sm eagle 1798 lg eagle 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 Then for the remaining 9, I suppose I would keep type as no date set would work. Gem Proof 3c Nickel Gem Proof Seated Half Gem Proof 1936 Walker Gem Proof Merc Gem Proof Indian Head centGem Saint 1806 Dr. Bust Half 1807 Capped Bust Half Nice AU-58 Seated dollar (don't have one yet) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
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I would want a proof set, 1873 1c; 2c, 3c nickel, 3c silver, nickel, Half Dime, 10c, quarter, half, Trade dollar, Seated dollar, $1 gold, $2.5 gold, $3 gold, $10 gold, $20 gold, And a full pan pac set |
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Valued Member
United States
404 Posts |
It's realistic, but unlikely that ill ever be able to afford it
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5241 Posts |
As a first crack, here is my box of 20. Of course, like many others I truly would not want to be limited to 20, but the point of the exercise is to select 20 (suppose this was a display of some sort). 1. Athenian Owl tetradrachm 2. Roman Denarius (not sure which one) 3. Byzantine Gold Solidus 4. Spanish American Pillar Dollar (Piece of 8) 5. Spanish American Cob 8 Reales 6. Swedish Plate Money 7. Russia 5 Kopek (large copper version) 8. Great Britain 2 Penny Copper 9. US double Eagle 10. US Morgan dollar11. Canada 1949 silver dollar 12. France 20 franc Gold 13. Great Britain Victoria sovereign 14. Japan oval 100 mon (oval, C#7) 15. China 1 cash (not sure which one) 16. India Nazarana Rupee (Jaipur, K#73) 17. Maria Theresa Thaler 18. Germany Prussia 5 mark K523 19. Thailand 4 Baht silver C139 (bullet money) 20. South Peru 8 reales K170 The rationale for selection is as follows: 1. An iconic, historically significant or widely used coin, or 2. A very large silver or copper coin, or 3. A coin with a design I like very much or that resonates me (like my favorite, the Canada $1 1949), or 4. An interesting shape (like the oval coin) |
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New Member
 United States
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Edited by ParkCityBranch
01/15/2017 10:12 pm
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Valued Member
United States
404 Posts |
Quick qu; why a '17-d instead of a '16-d for the Mercury dime? |
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New Member
United States
32 Posts |
I can't afford a 16d Mercury dime in MS. The challenge was to put together a set that you could actually accomplish if you had to pick 20. I think I could afford this set over a long period of time and I would enjoy putting it together. |
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