What's That One Coin You Have To Buy Whenever You See One?

I don't let myself hoard much due to the breadth of my collection focus, but I can never have enough of these:



These were one of the last coins made in ancient Rome before the West fell to Odoacer. The coins were tiny and the die engravers were unskilled, so the allegorical reverses were replaced by a cross in a wreath. Most of these were made under Theodosius II, but the type was also made unofficially in "barbarian" style, and was revived and used for another century by the Vandals and Goths.

This grouping includes at least four unpublished and probably unique barbarous coins. I haven't been able to identify most, so I always keep every one I get, and revisit them every few months.

I have a thing for Stone Mountain Half Dollars (see avatar). I have too many several of them. Most are raw, and 4 slabbed.

These

No one does flying naked ladies in the clouds quite like the Italians.

Wow, just jaw dropped as I saw those Italian Sally Fields!

I am drawn to Filipino-American coins, Emergency Filipino notes, and JIM. Then there's military scrip, Hawaiian money, and North African notes. Sigh, have to add German Notgeld and Canadian 1954 Devil's Face notes.

Extra hair 64's...mumble...mumble...mumble.

Every Venezuelan silver coin, since I usually find them at spot, or even a bit under, and I like so much the design and the portrait of Simon Bolivar

I must have a full roll of late silver bolivares (mostly 1960 and 1965)

New silver bullion coins, like this one.

My favorites....