Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

Bailiwick of Jersey -- 1/13 shilling, 1870:

+1 -- Jersey
+1 -- 1/13 shilling
+1 -- 1870
+1 -- Victoria
+1 -- Queen of UK
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5 points

Seeing how I cant win with this coin. I will take participation points

Proof, specimen, or other specifically numismatic strike
Depicts a military leader (officer)
Depicts a Head of State
Image of a building associated with person depicted

Jbuck never said it had to be 2 different images

In order of appearance:

bd251           5
january1may     4
pepactonius     5
keith12         4

I meant non-business strike. I was not clear, so I will allow it.

Going into the fourth day, so I will declare bd251 winner for being first to post a five point coin.

No one qualified for the tiebreaker I had in mind, so I will keep that to myself in case I need it for a later round.

This will be a popular vote round.

Share your story (with picture, please) of your coin with high sentimental value.



Here is my 1909 VDB Lincoln Cent. It's story comes from my early days of collecting.

My maternal grandparents were the ones who introduced me to coin collecting when I was seven or eight years old with a birth year proof set and one from the current year (that would become a traditional Christmas gift). They would also let me look through their silver stash and copper cents that they saved from circulation, in order to fill my folders. At the time, this was my main goal as a young collector.

My mom was very enthusiastic about my coin collecting, and, sometime in the following couple years, she took me to the LCS and we were looking through the "wheat cents by weight" cauldron for hole fillers. That is where she spotted the faint VDB on this coin (She was known for easily noticing things like this. She would always find four-leaf clovers, for example). At the time I was fascinated by the story of the 1909 VDB, and was very excited to have one. It was also my oldest coin at the time.

My mom passed away from cancer not long after I turned 10. Finding this coin is one of the few specific memories I have of her. Even though I have become almost exclusively a world coin collector and have little interest in completing any of my US sets, this coin is one of, if not the most, valuable coin I own. It resides in my safe deposit box alongside my gold, as well as next to my user name on this site.

Please start voting in this thread on November 10 at 12pm forum time. Voting will end at 11:59pm on November 11. The winner need not wait for official announcement to post a new challenge.

I look forward to hearing your stories

Sorry but I really dont have any coins with sentimental value. I guess you may have to think of a better idea

I got these from the tooth fairy I am quite fond of the design.





There was no error, It did list the site as unsecure so I just changed the settings to allow all content. What did works was opening it in firefox, chrome must have some security setting that does not like it.