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Russian Federation
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Like Sap, I am a numismatic generalist; thus, my search for 'Holy Grails' across the whole of numismatics, is similar.
Most of them are doable in terms of cost, ($ hundreds range), but not in terms of rarity. This, except $ tens rather than hundreds (with corresponding decreases in rarity - not that I would call something like a Zeno AE2 particularly common), was pretty much my case back in Russia... and, having finally started earning noticeable amounts of money, I was really looking forward to getting to experience larger coin shows. But then the political situation in there became too untenable and I had to leave. In a year or two I will hopefully get a better idea of what the accessible coin show/coin store situation in Israel is like; maybe this will let me develop my own holy grail options. As it is I'm mostly limited to local contemporary circulation coinage. |
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Canada
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A silver version of the medal in my avatar. Only 100 silver 1867 Canada Confederation medals were made and very rarely come up for sale. They made restrikes in 1967 and 2017, but I'm talking about an original.
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United States
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According to a book I have on the history of nuclear energy in West Germany, a commemorative medal (possibly only a single specimen) was struck from the first uranium mined in that country. That would definitely be a "Holy Grail", an essentially unattainable goal. Uranium is not used for coinage for very good reasons, its radioactivity being low on the list. For one thing it's pyrophoric — trimmings or shavings may ignite when exposed to air! This was the first one I thought of too, believe it or not. One came up about two years ago and I frustratingly had to step back as the underbidder at a price much higher than I would've liked to begin with. And no, there wasn't only one of these. I was told that there were 62 total made in two different designs. They were made out of tobernite ore, which is only a tiny fraction by weight in uranium. I've got a whole bunch of other holy grail items, of course -- and have in fact found a number of them too. |
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Australia
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I consider that there a few 'Holy Grails' in the American coin series.
for example:
- early silver coins of New England
- Brasher Doubloon
- 1933 Double Eagle
- extremely high relief Double Eagle
- 1913 Lib Head Nickel
- 1804 Silver Dollar.
- Pan Pac $50 Octagonal and Round
I would be happy to have fakes of these, because I will never to be able to own the real deal.
If I owned genuine, nobody would believe me, so having the fakes of these is OK.
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Canada
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Personally that I would be able to realistically do.
Finish my USA 1795 Year set
Currently have these
1795 1/2 Dime AU50 ANACS
1795 1/2 Dollar G6 NGC
1795 Dollar VF25 NGC
all straight grades .
Interestingly all three acquired on English Buying trips at various
London Dealers .
Would love a nice
1/2 cent , Cent , 5 and 10 Gold .
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08/17/2023 9:54 pm
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United States
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Finish my USA 1795 Year set That caught my eye, Pacificoin, as I also have been trying to complete a 1795 date set as a subset of my U.S. type set. However, I no longer collect gold, so the half-eagle and eagle are no longer on my want list which makes it a lot easier  . For a while now, I've had the 1795 plain edge 1/2 cent, plain edge cent, Half Dime, half dollar, flowing hair dollar and draped bust dollar. I still want to add the lettered edge 1/2 cent and cent, however. I've been looking for years for those two, but have had difficulty finding any examples with what I consider really good eye appeal in the grade I want (F15-VF20). One of these years I'll find those last two... Edited by hokiefan_82
08/17/2023 11:05 pm
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United States
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nautilator — oh wow!
Just the knowledge that they do, in fact, come up for sale occasionally is cheering. I have a number of other nuclear-energy-related numismatic or quasi-numismatic items, including a commemorative medal made of the British MAGNOX cladding alloy, but…
Do you by any chance have photos?
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  United States
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He shoots, he scores. . .   |
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United States
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He shoots, he scores. . . Outstanding!  |
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United States
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1893S Morgan ... soon to be graded :)
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United States
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1893S Morgan ... soon to be graded :)  |
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