Thought this was interesting because it places the value of the top U.S. coins within the backdrop of everything else in the numismatic world.
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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
Interesting, thanks for posting. I skipped ahead to the top 30 or so but will watch the rest of it later. I wasn't even aware of some of the US ones, let alone the rest.
What a great video. It really drives home how in the long history of coins, back thru ancient Rome, Greece, etc, this little upstart country US of A completely dominates the list.
Yeah I use the right and left arrow keys to skip forward and backward in 5 second increments quickly. It lets me scan through without sitting there for over an hour in a linear viewing of the video.
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
Not surprising the US is still at the top, but I wonder where the Chinese coins are? For sure, China has plenty of billionaires too that can afford multi-million dollar coins.
Coins with a mintage of more than (say) 100 in this company can be considered common, but make it into the listing only due to their exceptional condition - with some examples finest known.
US coins heavily represented in top 100 in this video in relation to coins from many other countries that are not even mentioned. Not surprising because the US collector market is by far the largest in the World.
Surprising that there are so many $1 million + coins now.
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
Quote: Not surprising the US is still at the top, but I wonder where the Chinese coins are? For sure, China has plenty of billionaires too that can afford multi-million dollar coins.
The 1849 $20 Liberty Gold should have made the top 5 since it is unique with a mintage of 1 and valued at almost $18 million. In fact it should have made # 1 on this list.
There are lots of unique coins out there - mainly in the area of trial dies or whatever, that result in pattern coins. Sometimes these coins escape the mint and wind up in the hands of collectors.
Because they happen to be unique, it does not necessarily mean that they should be $ million coins. Nevertheless if they are widely known amongst collectors and come up for public auction, it is a safe bet that they may well command more that $1 million at auction.
Quote: Surprising that there are so many $1 million + coins now.
And I remember when it was a really big deal when the first coin cracked the $100K level.
As for the 1849 double eagle it has never been sold so really impossible to say what its actual value would be. It would be up there but exactly where in the list is impossible to say.
I caught this back when it was first posted, amazing how many Russian coins are on the list. I don't agree with any bitcoin pricing (they aren't coin pricing, just "pie in the sky" pricing attached to a a bit of gold usually an ounce or less.
I've held about 6 or 7 of the coins on the list, and that's pretty cool to me, One of my friends owned several at once as well 2-1913 nickels and an 1804 dollar. (all finest known examples).
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I don't know. Seems like there is a small number of very wealthy Russians. Maybe less so than a few months ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the market for Russian coins has collapsed due to current events.
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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