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What 10 Coins Must Be In Any Respectable Collection?

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 Posted 02/12/2008  3:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tomb to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What ever makes you the happiest.
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1. 1933 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle
2. 1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, Ultra High Relief, Plain Edge
3. 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar, Silver Plug
4. 1870S Liberty Seated half dime, Legend on Obverse
5. 1784 Washington Piece, Satirical Medal, Pewter Ugly Head
6. 1787 Brasher Doubloon, New York Gold Half-Doubloon
7. 1776 Massachusetts Copper, Pine Tree Copper
8. 1776 Massachusetts Copper, Indian Copper
9. 1670-A French New World, Copper Double
10. 1652 New England, NE Threepence

Just IMO.
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wonderful topic idea...I would have to go with....

10) 1964 Kennedy Halve Dollar Bu 1998 Robert Kennedy PF+...thanks to Biokemist, this coin is now a MUST have for any collection. I plan on picking one up ASAP
9) 1909S vdb any condition...expensive yes, in fact very expensive. But I think we should all aim to have one as this is the cream-of-the-crop of cents, and how many of us started with a nice brown Wheat cent?
8) Any Date Mercury dime Au with rainbow toning...20th century classic at an affordable price.
7) Any Date 3CN Au...classic coin with III on the reverse--im the third generation Gary so this coin has special meaning for me
6) 1950 Franklin Halve Dollar Bu...Nice, simply date to honor a beautiful, and underrated, coin as well as one of the greatest Americans, Benjamin Franklin
5) 1925S Peace dollar Bu...I my opinion, the most beautiful coin ever struck. Nice simple date, classy mint mark, and a wonderful name " Peace dollar" its just a shame that peace never came
4) 1987 ASE Bu...another beautiful design, great year (my brith!)
3) 1912S V nickel Au...nice design and key for the series
2) 1944 Jefferson nickel XF+....no mint mark conderfeit coin, i'd rather have this piece than any of the real silver War Nickels
1) 1938 Jefferson nickel Bu....first year of my favorite series, and I just pulled one roll searching today! yay!

edited for accuracy

there's my top ten for ya'll
--Gary
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Can I make it 12 instead of 10? Or maybe even 18?

I've always been interested in type coins and years ago I pored through the Red Book and realized that the in the 10 year period after the Civil War, Americans had the most variety of coins ever to carry around in their pockets:
1) IHC, 2) 2c piece, 3) 3c nickel, 4) 3c silver, 5) half-dime,6) 5c nickel, 7) dime, 8) 20c piece, 9) quarter, 10) half-dollar, 11) silver dollar, 12) Trade dollar
and if you really want to expand, you can include the gold coins:
13) $1, 14) $2 1/2 Quarter-Eagle, 15) $3, 16) $5 Half-Eagle, 17) $10 Eagle, 18) $20 Double Eagle
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I keep reading this, thinking I can come up with something, and I end up with a list that mirrors a complete Dansco 7070!

So, I will say that at some point, everyone that collects US coins should consider completing the 7070 or similar type set. One might even skip some of the more esoteric varieties (examples: LHC VDB, LHC Steel, Buffalo Type 1 vs 2, Jefferson " War Nickel", SLQ Type 1 vs 2, Seated "arrows", etc.). I lost count, but that shaves a good bit.

One more: the Gold page would be optional!
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quote:

1. 1864 2 Cent
2. 1865 2 Cent
3. 1866 2 Cent
4. 1867 2 Cent
5. 1868 2 Cent
6. 1869 2 Cent
7. 1870 2 Cent
8. 1871 2 Cent
9. 1872 2 Cent
10. 1864 small motto 2 Cent


Excuse me sir, but what gives you the right to throw your Two Cents in more than once?
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I'd rather have a Bobby Kennedy coin in my collection, but I don't think those are readily available



You might interested to know that there is a 1998 $1 commemorative of Robert Kennedy so about 200,000 are readily available
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no way?!?! heading to ebay....

thanks for the info!
--Gary

my list has now been edited
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I can't afford a 20 Cent coin so I have to throw in my Two Cents multiple times. One for each of the voices in my head....
Plus its one of the few circulation strikes you can complete in ten coins or less and have a major variety included.
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. 1) Australia - 1927 Parliament House Florin
. 2) Australia - 1951 Federation House Florin
. 3) Australia - 1954 Royal Visit Florin
. 4) Australia - 1937 George VI Crown
. 5) Australia - 1991 Ram's Head Proof 50c
. 6) U.S.A. - 1892 Columbian Exposition 50c
. 7) U.S.A. - 1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary 50c
. 8) U.S.A. - 1924 Huguenot-Walloon 50c
. 9) U.S.A. - 1926 Oregon Trail Memorial 50c
10) U.S.A. - 1936 Long Island Tercentenary 50c



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eagle said, " Does anyone think I should marry this girl ? (hee hee)"


Heard somewhere; Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?



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I would say get into collecting Morgans and Peace dollars now because for one they are going to become harder to locate and the cost of silver is going up.

My top ten coins in a coin collection:
1935 Washington quarter
1909-S Licoln
1909 VDB Wheat
1909 S VDB Wheat
1931-S Wheat
1954-D Wheat
1916-S Walking Liberty
1943-S Steel Wheat
1901-s Barber Qaurter
1916-s Mercury dime

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