The New Orleans Ten Dollar Libertys

Which is the only Branch Mint Gold I can afford...Greetings Collectors,It has been a while since my last post but I have been keeping myself quite busy trying to single out beautiful examples of my my latest favorite coin series. The $10 Liberty Gold from New Orleans.With the four examples pictured below, I now have all the O-Mint tens for the 20th century and all but two of the New Orleans tens from the 1890s. I have found through a great dealer friend of mine the last two coins from 1890 through the last O-Minted ten from the 20th century which is the 1906-O. I have an absolutely gorgeous 1892-O and 1894-O that my dealer friend and I are trying to come to terms on. He would like to do a trade for these two coins, for one of my other gold $20 Libertys. I may have to do it that way since my funds for coins, have taken a huge hit with the procurement of the four coins pictured below.I have some Saint Gaudens $20 gold that are not one of my favorite series in pre-1933 gold, which include the 1908 No Motto in MS-63, a 1909-S in MS-64, a 1914-D in MS-64 and lastly a 1915-S in MS-62. These four coins, along with my other Indian Gold would be pieces I would definitely trade for scarce date $10 Liberty Gold. Like I have said, the O-Mint Tens are my favorite, but there are a bunch of P-Mint and S-Mint Tens I would like to own also.Anyway I am going to try for an award for best presented $10 Liberty Gold coins for maybe this year or possibly next year. These $10 gold coins minted up until 1907 are now my most favorite coin series on the planet. They have replaced my other most favorite coin series which was the Franklin Half Dollar series. And even though these gold tens are more important now than any other coins that I collect, I still love my Franklin Half Dollars in Mint State and Proof. But with gold being much cheaper now by $500 or so, and silver is still one of my stalwart acquisitions when I can pick up a mint roll of Franklins that I do not currently have, due to the hit silver has taken. So maybe in the next ten years, I will have one roll of 20-Uncirculated Franklin Halves in the years I do not have at present. Right now I only have 16 dates in Unc. Mint rolls of the total of 35 rolls needed to complete the entire set. And there are several dates that are well north of $1,000 each. Needless to say this is a task I may or may not ever complete. But I will continue to try as on some occasions one can snag a deal on a pristine roll for a half-way decent price.But that silver series is one that will always take a back seat to these 1/2 OZ Gold $Tens that I have fallen in love with. But having said that, I still love the Franklin Half and I feel that the series in general is a very Under-Valued group of coins.I am trying to keep up with all the great journals all of you have been writing. I think back when I would write sometimes 3-5 a week. Due to time constraints, those days are over. But I will try to pick up my pace of writing of late. That is if something interesting crosses my mind. I think of all of you often and wish the very best to each and every one of you. And I also pray that you are successful in getting that certain coin that has thus far eluded you. All the best to you and yours in the coming Holiday Season and beyond.Happy Collecting!WKF