What Is Your Favorite Commemorative?

I can't really say what my favorite is because of my contest that I have going.

1925 Lexington-Concord and the Stone Mountain. Hope to pick up the 2010 Boy Scout one soon.

My favorites are the proof 1986 Statue of Liberty silver dollar and clad half dollar. The designs are beautiful and some of the money went to fixing the real statue!

I like bisons :)

For my modern commemorative this Mark Twain tops my list

while with hfjacinto, I also really like those 3 gold commems from 2016, the Mercury dime, Standing Liberty quarter & Walking Liberty half commems in tenth, quarter & half oz gold coins, resp. so far, those are my modern faves.

The Oregon Trail always caught my attention and I was happy to come across this one at a price I could afford.



Honorable mention and a close second place goes to Stone Mountain.

The 1994 POW Museum coin. I've been to that museum. I've seen the plaque outside that said how proceeds from the coin helped pay for it. It covers prisoners of war everywhere. But is built on the sight of Andersonville, GA prison. The most notorious of the Confederate Prison camps. Plenty of horrible prison camps by the North as well. But most have been built over. Andersonville sight was remote enough that it remains intact.

You hear stories of up to 12,000 men being held at one time in a small area. They have rebuilt a small section of the wall. And mapped out the rest of the wall in a rope fence. Including the "kill line" that prisoners couldn't cross. To walk that small area brought home the plight of the prisoners in a way statistics just can't. To see the SMALL stream that was the only source of water for much of the time. A stream that ran through the guard camp first, being used as their cesspool.

It is definitely worth a visit and cool to think that coin collectors helped pay for it.