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    100 Greatest Modern World Coins

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    Posted · Edited by mumu

    5 hours ago, MAULEMALL said:

    Your "Coin" Is a commemorative/Bullion but you can't admit it.. What country makes 60 coins for commerce? 60 "coins" minted ... For what purpose?  Your disdain and anger is misplaced.. Maybe you should just learn to enjoy it for what it is... A Stamped Metal disc you find attractive..

    If it needs to be in a book for you to enjoy it and satiate your ego then write one.

    lol

     

    I asked a simple yes or no question. Whether any coins from a certain country made it. You demanded that I present this coin that you have since deemed unsuitable for your superior intellect to even discuss. You trashed on the greatest city in the world in the processs, while pushing chinese silver bullion rounds as great and significant. Ask yourself, who really is the nutjob here?

    100 Greatest Modern World Coins

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    23 hours ago, Zebo said:

    The term greatest always is open to subjectivity.  Scarcity or rarity without demand is meaningless. To be considered great - some if not many of the criteria above should apply. There will never be 100% consensus on the list, but there can be a logical discussion.  

    Please make a case for your omitted contenders and we can discuss how they may or may not meet  the criteria.

    Well demand will be the debate against any coin I post. For which I would argue then we should just put the 1955 US double die on every set.
    What is an example of a great coin on the list? Let me get an idea of what makes a coin great. I dont collect too many Uruguay coins. I dont think they are great. I would say there are less than 10 I would collect and my bias isnt tremendous towards them. But I can already see the dozens of coins with boring pictures of Queen Elizabeth's mug all over the list. To me this coin belongs on any modern beautiful coin based list. Greatest? Again, its not going to do your taxes or save a drowning cat from a pool so I dont know what makes a coin great.

     

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    100 Greatest Modern World Coins

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    14 hours ago, Zebo said:

    Why would these coins deserve to be on such a list? Are they significant on the world stage? Are they extremely Rare and if so, is there a collector base for them of significant size? Are the innovated? Is there a great story associated with them? Do they have an unbelievably impressive design? Are they associated with an historic event? Have they sold at auction or by private treaty for an incredible amount? (disclaimer - while these are my criteria - they may not be the authors)

     And to have up to three of them in the top 100...

    I suppose the choice of the word "greatest" opens enough ambiguity that any criteria could be chosen in lieu of what most people consider the most important characteristic when liking a coin, beauty. Though I'm sure there are outliers in many subcategories, namely key date collectors.
    Not sure what other reason greatest would be chosen here. No coins are winning the Super Bowl or curing cancer. What makes an inanimate object "great". Am I great man because of my scarcity?

    The forum merger is a death knell - Just IMO

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    10 hours ago, Just Bob said:

    I don't know. People have been tolling the death knell for this forum for years, and it is still here.

    Nice to see you back on here, mumu. You may as well stick around. It isn't quite as slow here as it once was. And, we could always use some more colorful Peace dollar pics :)

    I enjoyed this forum more than ATS when the forums were split. I know the traffic was dead but at least the topics were separate. I do like World topics but I like to "go to" the world topic rather than comb thu it personally. But if this is working to pick up the pace then so be it.

    I have not comb across any really nice toned peace dollars worth posting. I reached for a few that dont quite match what im looking for. And it seems the really nice ones end up on Legend and sell for $5000(they arent even that nice). Made me consider selling my set but I'd probably get a fraction of what some plain toners seem to go for, just my luck and then I'd regret it forever. So the collection still sits tight for now looking for the occasional candidate. Ive shifted to world coins more than anything recently and enjoying that.

    Seems pretty dumb

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    On 12/18/2020 at 4:39 PM, S3R3NDIPITY said:

    I loved your comment and felt inspired enough to order a beautiful Athenian Owl silver tetradrachm. I paid £750 British pounds for it which is the equivalent of $1,012.23 US dollars. It’s my very first ancient coin. It is said that President Teddy Roosevelt carried an Athenian Owl as a lucky piece and that it inspired him to redesign US coinage. I’m still waiting for my Athenian Owl to arrive in the mail. However, I can show you the website photos of the Athenian Owl I ordered. The tetradrachm incidentally is 23mm, 17.25g, and not as huge as it looks.

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    is that slabbed?

    The forum merger is a death knell - Just IMO

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    As someone who collects all 3 US, World and Ancients, the combination of the 3 topics makes me lose all interest in posting here. I prefer 3 under utilized but seperate topic sub forums than 1 half dead mixed up mess of a forum. Might as well throw everything else in here too. I think most forums have to many subs, but to take the main 3 and make them into 1 is not going to pick up the overall traffic IMO

    "Branch Mint Proof" Morgan dollars

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    Posted · Edited by mumu

    Not to mention the joys of finding undergraded coins if that's your thing. I just scored a peace dollar in a 64 holder that is a slam dunk 65 or 65+ for 48$. Its not a windfall but if I sold it one day it might pay for the grading of another coin or something like that. It is very rare that submitting a coin under $200(some may argue $500 even) yourself is worth it. If you really feel the need to do it just to test your raw grading skills, do it once. Otherwise there are so many graded cons out there under $50 that it doesn't make sense to do it yourself.

    "Branch Mint Proof" Morgan dollars

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    3 hours ago, Mason254 said:

    Not at all! I mean no matter what at the end of the day bud I will have slabbed a very nice piece of America Coinage so that our future numismatic enthusiast will be able to enjoy it is not about wishing or hoping to gain a profit just a beautiful coin that deserves to be slabbed 

    Even that is debatable. Its good to have some raw examples to really get into them with the loupe. For not much more than the cost and hassle of grading this one you can probably get an MS63 already graded maybe a 64.

    What are the thoughts of fellow members regarding Platinum ?

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    4 hours ago, thebeav said:

    As a former jeweler,I remember when platinum was the hot jewelry material 12 or 13 years ago. This trend lasted for some years. Given that such a large percentage of marriages end in divorce, that puts a glut of recyclable platinum back into the market, what with weddings bands and such. This, along with electric cars, having no catalytic converters. Even so, these prices are a little surprising.......

    Side note question to your former jeweler side if you dont mind. What would be the best way to acquire some platinum jewelry at spot? I specifically want a usable cuban link chain for myself. But additionally I'd like to acquire some bullion in the form of jewelry because it seems any platinum coin bullion is still being offered at high prices. Would a pawn shop be the route or some sort of smelting place? 

    This also answers the OPs question. I love platinum I would own a few coins if they werent being offered at higher premiums. I know platinum is harder to work with than say silver so im sure thats a part