Your Top 3 coins

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An idea originally by VieillePile on the French forum; choose your top 3 favourite coins currently in your collection! They don't necessarily have to be expensive, or rare, or anything; as long as they're your favourites, post away. :`

Original: https://fr.numista.com/forum/topic72850.html

I participated there as well, but I'm switching my choices up a little here:


1687 England Crown - James II

this one I also included in the original thread:

1899 S Australia (Colonial) 1 Sovereign - Victoria (AU 55 NGC)

and finally, my new acquisition:

1885 Switzerland 5 Francs "Shooting Thaler" (Bern Shooting Festival)
I have 5 coins that I love. I decided from
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22279.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces127305.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22679.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces105705.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37578.html

1st place:

This is my first gold coin, the 20 Markkaa from Finland.

2nd place:

My largest silver coin, the Swedish 1 riksdaler.

3rd place:

An used coin, but my largest coin. And of course, a rare coin.

Shared 4th place to the 3 euro and the 3 groschen.
1) Sikh Empire - 1 Rupee


2) Awadh - 1 Rupee


3) Bengal Sultanate - 1 Tanka
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#1 - 1846 Large Cent - I found when I was a 7 year old kid, in a hidden drawer in a piece of furniture my mom had just inherited from my great-great-aunt. I was already collecting coins at that age, but had nothing nearly as old or odd as this. This coin made the largest single impact on my interest in collecting. So yeah, a coin worth maybe $25 makes my #1.


#2 - 1795 Half Dollar, my only 1700's coin from the USA. I guess it makes the list simply because it's expensive and rare


#3 - 1750 2 Daler Plate from the Nicobar. Cause it's just cool. Tough competition for #3, but for now I'm going with this.
Absolutely lovely coins from everyone. :love:
Not the most expensive coins, But I love the designs of them

US Mercury dime



Panama Central America Games 5 Balboa



New Zealand Centennial half crown. I've had so many of these pass through my hands over the years that I've lost count.

What? Me Worry
Quote: "neilithicman"
​US Mercury dime

In my humble opinion, the designs on the generation of common, circulating US coins that came out in the first 20 or so years of the 20th century are aesthetically the most pleasing. That includes Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters, Walking Liberty halves, the Saint-Gaudens 20$, and the Peace dollar.

Funnily enough three of those coins first came out in the same year (1916), and recently centennial versions were issued in gold.
Quote: "CassTaylor"
Quote: "neilithicman"​​
​​US Mercury dime
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​ In my humble opinion, the designs on the generation of common, circulating US coins that came out in the first 20 or so years of the 20th century are aesthetically the most pleasing. That includes Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty quarters, Walking Liberty halves, the Saint-Gaudens 20$, and the Peace dollar.

​Funnily enough three of those coins first came out in the same year (1916), and recently centennial versions were issued in gold.
​The fact that those first three were first used in 1916 was no accident. This was a program by President Teddy Roosevelt to improve the designs of U. S. coins. He did a great job!
I will piece this together; will have to wait for some photos (the photographer is out for the week).

1. San Fernando de Bexar (now San Antonio, TX) 1/2 real (jola) 1818

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces57676.html

(Well, I am cheating a bit. I sold it last month, after owning it for 32 years. The photos are of my coin.)

2. Martinique 1 franc 1922

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5608.html

( I always thought that she was an elegant Victorian lady; later I learned that this is Napoleon's Josephine--the most famous person born on the island. The photo is not my coin.)

3. Sarine et Broye 42 kreuzer 1798

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces94695.html

(I need to submit photos of mine.)

4. Brazil (Casa de Misericordia) 5.00 reis (1920)

5. U. S. half cent 1793

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces30315.html

(Not my coin; mine is only Fine.)
Quote: "halfdisme"​( I always thought that she was an elegant Victorian lady; later I learned that this is Napoleon's Josephine--the most famous person born on the island. The photo is not my coin.)
Hmm, that's something new I've learned. I didn't know it was Josephine at all!
Quote: "sc.rednek"​#3 - 1750 2 Daler Plate from the Nicobar. Cause it's just cool. Tough competition for #3, but for now I'm going with this.
​Swedish plate money, seal of fredrik I (1720–1751)..what do you mean by "from the Nicobar"?
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Quote: "ngdawa"
Quote: "sc.rednek"​#3 - 1750 2 Daler Plate from the Nicobar. Cause it's just cool. Tough competition for #3, but for now I'm going with this.
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​​Swedish plate money, seal of fredrik I (1720–1751)..what do you mean by "from the Nicobar"?
​Nicobar was a ship that carried plate money. It sunk and thousands of plates were found there
Quote: "Monninen1"
Quote: "ngdawa"

Quote: "sc.rednek"​#3 - 1750 2 Daler Plate from the Nicobar. Cause it's just cool. Tough competition for #3, but for now I'm going with this.
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​​​Swedish plate money, seal of fredrik I (1720–1751)..what do you mean by "from the Nicobar"?
​​Nicobar was a ship that carried plate money. It sunk and thousands of plates were found there
​ah! i thought he meant the nicobar islands :P
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I'm actually wondering how on Earth collectors of plate money store them. There's no waythey can fit into a plastic flip or a 2x2, right?

Is there no protective sleeve used on anything, or are they usually already battered enough to not be worth bothering with?
Quote: "CassTaylor"​I'm actually wondering how on Earth collectors of plate money store them. There's no waythey can fit into a plastic flip or a 2x2, right?

​ Is there no protective sleeve used on anything, or are they usually already battered enough to not be worth bothering with?
​lol, no..the 1 daler plate is about 15×15 cm and weighs 750 grams.. ;)
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Quote: "CassTaylor"​I'm actually wondering how on Earth collectors of plate money store them. There's no waythey can fit into a plastic flip or a 2x2, right?

​ Is there no protective sleeve used on anything, or are they usually already battered enough to not be worth bothering with?
​I have seen them at the Finnish national museum. They are often kept in holders


I do not know how people keep them, but I have seen the local coin shop owner's plate money, a 1 daler from the 1710's, in a "museum holder".
Here are other examples I found, where museums often keep plate money

And then there is this one:

"lift the plate money"

Worst examples I have seen of keeping plate money are keeping them in a pile of coins.
My one has not yet arrived
Quote: "ngdawa"
Quote: "CassTaylor"​I'm actually wondering how on Earth collectors of plate money store them. There's no waythey can fit into a plastic flip or a 2x2, right?
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​​ Is there no protective sleeve used on anything, or are they usually already battered enough to not be worth bothering with?
​​lol, no..the 1 daler plate is about 15×15 cm and weighs 750 grams.. ;)
Okay, sure; but not the massive ones like that owned by @sc.rednek, right? :O

​And I don't know how many collectors have museum quality "holders" for big "coins" like those....
Quote: "CassTaylor"​Okay, sure; but not the massive ones like that owned by @sc.rednek, right? :O


he has a 2 daler, so yes, it shoukd be bigher..the 8 daler is enormous! :8D
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Quote: "ngdawa"
Quote: "CassTaylor"​Okay, sure; but not the massive ones like that owned by @sc.rednek, right? :O


​he has a 2 daler, so yes, it shoukd be bigher..the 8 daler is enormous! :8D
​The 8 daler is enormous, but not the largest. The largest is the 10 Daler, often also called the "Largest coin of classic numismatics". Its a few kilos bigger than the 8 daler, but sadly only 10 exist anymore from the 12000+ minted.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces145141.html
Now try cramming that into a 2x2! :8D
Quote: "Monninen1"
Quote: "ngdawa"

Quote: "CassTaylor"​Okay, sure; but not the massive ones like that owned by @sc.rednek, right? :O
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​​he has a 2 daler, so yes, it shoukd be bigher..the 8 daler is enormous! :8D
​​The 8 daler is enormous, but not the largest. The largest is the 10 Daler, often also called the "Largest coin of classic numismatics". Its a few kilos bigger than the 8 daler, but sadly only 10 exist anymore from the 12000+ minted.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces145141.html
​wah! i didn't even know about the 10 daler...coin?
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Quote: "Monninen1"​​​The 8 daler is enormous, but not the largest. The largest is the 10 Daler, often also called the "Largest coin of classic numismatics". Its a few kilos bigger than the 8 daler, but sadly only 10 exist anymore from the 12000+ minted.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces145141.html


​So only 10 exist in the world, but if you check its Numista page, someone added a "Rare" comment to year 1645. So if anyone has a spare common one from 1644, feel free to open a new swap.
Quote: "BSmith"
Quote: "Monninen1"​​​The 8 daler is enormous, but not the largest. The largest is the 10 Daler, often also called the "Largest coin of classic numismatics". Its a few kilos bigger than the 8 daler, but sadly only 10 exist anymore from the 12000+ minted.
​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces145141.html
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​​So only 10 exist in the world, but if you check its Numista page, someone added a "Rare" comment to year 1645. So if anyone has a spare common one from 1644, feel free to open a new swap.
​Maybe a bit rare. Eh nah. Quite common.

Maybe it should be changed...
Quote: CassTaylor
Quote: "halfdisme"​( I always thought that she was an elegant Victorian lady; later I learned that this is Napoleon's Josephine--the most famous person born on the island. The photo is not my coin.)
​Hmm, that's something new I've learned. I didn't know it was Josephine at all!

According to wikipedia, Josephine's first husband was a Marquis, who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.  Although she had no children by Napoleon, she had a son and a daughter by her first husband.  

Through her daughter, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoleon III.  

Through her son, she was the great-grandmother of the later kings and queens of Sweden and Denmark.  

The ruling houses of Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg are also descended from her.
And the moment mine's just laying on my bookshelf. I keep meaning to get a plate stand for it but forget every time I go shopping. It sure doesn't fit in a 2x2 sleeve! But I don't mind it displayed out in my living room, it's a good conversation piece. I figure it spent 200 years in salt water, it'll survive a little bit of humidity in the open air.

Monninen1, how are you keeping yours? It's even bigger than mine (Mine's only a 2 daler, about 7" square and 1/4" thick)
Quote: "halfdisme"
Quote: "CassTaylor"
Quote: "halfdisme"​( I always thought that she was an elegant Victorian lady; later I learned that this is Napoleon's Josephine--the most famous person born on the island. The photo is not my coin.)
​​Hmm, that's something new I've learned. I didn't know it was Josephine at all!
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​According to wikipedia, Josephine's first husband was a Marquis, who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Although she had no children by Napoleon, she had a son and a daughter by her first husband.

​Through her daughter, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoleon III.

​Through her son, she was the great-grandmother of the later kings and queens of Sweden and Denmark.

​The ruling houses of Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg are also descended from her.
​Yeah, the house of Bonaparte is one case where commoners (well, they certainly weren't royalty, but Napoleon's father became a noble after France's annexation of Corsica in 1769) rose to make history. Its even resulted in cases where one of his marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was elected as heir to the King of Sweden; and as a result all Swedish monarchs since have been descended from a French commander.
:8D

This thread is turning into one about plate money (not that I'm complaining though!)
Sorry I had to include that as my #3! yeah, only 5 of us have posted our top 3...
Quote: "sc.rednek"​Sorry I had to include that as my #3! yeah, only 5 of us have posted our top 3...
​Why apologize? They are unusual "coins".

If you think they are difficult to store, consider the collectors that own money bricks of tea, used in China/Tibet. A retail store in Houston had one when i lived there--you could easily smell it all over the coin and stamp department!
Quote: "halfdisme"
Quote: "sc.rednek"​Sorry I had to include that as my #3! yeah, only 5 of us have posted our top 3...
​​Why apologize? They are unusual "coins".

​If you think they are difficult to store, consider the collectors that own money bricks of tea, used in China/Tibet. A retail store in Houston had one when i lived there--you could easily smell it all over the coin and stamp department!
​Indeed, nothing to apologise for.

Do those tea bricks have their own Numista page yet? I recall we had a thread about them nearly a year ago.
Let's get back to the subject of the thread.
I'll show 3 different coins than on the French site.
https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces62049.html



Similar to this one: https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces65153.html


Iran, Civic Copper with two fishes - Rasht mint AH1267

Double strike on the reverse.
Ma collection de Révolutionnaires - My coins from the French Revolution
I post here three of my favourite cast chinese coins, different from the coins from the low countries I posted on the french side. I have a growing interest in this area of collecting.

Wang Mang (9-23 AD) - 50 cash - 大泉五十 (Da Quan Wu Shi)
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18833.html


It's the biggest of the coins of the "six coins" series issued by Wang Mang, the only ruler of the Xin dynasty. Also the most common and affordable, with the 1 cash.


Tang dynasty - 1 cash - 開元通寶 (Kai Yuan Tong Bao) - late type (793-907)
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces46041.html

This one is an important coin in chinese coinage. First issued in 7th century, the Kai Yuan Tong Bao coins (which means Inaugural currency) were the first to introduce the "Tong Bao" writing on coins, that was used till the end of the Chinese empire, almost 1300 years later.

HuiZong (1100-1126 AD) - 1 cash - 政和通寶 (Zheng He Tong Bao, seal script)
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces61311.html


One of the many coins I like from the Northern Song dynasty. Northern Song coins have such good quality and beautiful kind of writing... If I'd were to choose only one dynasty in chinese coinage, I'd choose the Northern Song. This one was issued during HuiZong reign, the 8th emperor of the Song dynasty. He was the 11th son of ShenZong but became emperor nonetheless after the death of his elder brother. He was also a well-known artist.
Nothing crazy but theses three:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22754.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces66827.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1898.html
What I collect: US, 3rd Reich Germany, Philippines, Ancients, Vatican City, North Korea.
Quote: "gridironshowcase"​Nothing crazy but theses three:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22754.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces66827.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1898.html
​No photos? :.
@Choucas
I'm afraid to take anything more than baby steps outside of Qing dynasty cash; I only have one cash coin from before the Qing, and it's also a Northern Song coin. The script makes it hard to decipher sometimes, but I agree there's a certain appeal to them.
Quote: "CassTaylor"​gridironshowcasen
Quote​Nothing crazy but theses three:
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​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22754.html
​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces66827.html
​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1898.html
​​No photos? :.
​I wish I could! I brought the collection to my parents house since they took up a bit too much space in my college apartment. Will try to grab pictures next time I'm back!
What I collect: US, 3rd Reich Germany, Philippines, Ancients, Vatican City, North Korea.
hmm a tough one since I've drastically cut down. the gold coast lackey would have been no1

without any pics to hand, id have to say

British Honduras 6S 1D (This is half heartedly for sale but i would prefer to keep it)

Brunswick- Wolfenbuttel 24 Mariengroschen 1817 (George Prince regent)

Gibraltar 1 quart token 1802
difficult to choose


BOINC
Quote: "CREPOSUC"​difficult to choose


​Are these brokerage errors, or are the photos mirrored??
#1 has to be the 1797 2d very thick, heavy copper coin, ( Britain's heaviest ever circulated coin )
probably in quite a few collectors of British coins top 10
cost me decent amount of money to purchase in this condition,without the usual edge knocks




# 2 - Charles I 1644 Crown
This is a 9.25 silver restrike, the original a bit out of my price range ( maybe one day)
oxford crown very aesthetically pleasing coin from the last king to be executed in Britain, Charles the 1st probably Britain's most recognised king from history , part of the Stuart dynasty ( 1603 - 1714) of Scottish descent, and probably the most interesting time in British history with Oliver Cromwell in the middle of this time frame




#3 - The humble British 3d, always liked the simple design of this coin with it's almost alien looking plant and unusual shape, and it's a memory of when this was pocket money for a child of the 1960's, a coin close to the heart

people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening
Quote: "Iainmac"

​ #3 - The humble British 3d, always liked the simple design of this coin with it's almost alien looking plant and unusual shape, and it's a memory of when this was pocket money for a child of the 1960's, a coin close to the heart

​I always did wonder what plant exactly that was supposed to be. Finally got around to looking it up when I saw your post, turns out it's a "thrift plant", or this:

Not that alien in person, so I'm putting this one on the engraver. :O
It was known as the thrift 3d back in the day, not a plant I had ever come across but then again I lived in a more industrial landscape than a flower garden,most plants where a bit alien T.T.
people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening

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