Which is your favorite coin?

I inherited this coin, a 1921 Soviet ruble, from my grandfather, so it is my favorite coin. I know it's not an expensive coin at all, but it's important to me as a memory. There is a well-known story of how the new silver coins were delivered to Lenin's office. Despite the fact that the Bolsheviks had plans to do away with money after building communism, Lenin was very happy to see products from the Petrograd Mint. He proudly said he would keep the first Soviet ruble as a memento. The enthusiasm of the leader of the world proletariat is easy to understand: full-fledged money is (along with the presence of public authority, the territorial division of the population, and sovereignty) a necessary sign of a full-fledged established state, which the post-revolutionary Soviet Russia aspired to become as soon as possible. I also have tsarist (pre-revolutionary) coins and Soviet coins of the second half of the 20th century in my collection, but this is my favorite.

michael_moreno

 

I inherited this coin, a 1921 Soviet ruble, from my grandfather, so it is my favorite coin. 

Hello and welcome to Numista!

Beautiful coin and nice historical story.

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My favorite circulating Australian coin…

A coin about honey bees…

All of them, it's like with children, don't make preferences!

It's probably the Wadokaichin (it's my avatar). It's got such a simple but iconic look, I think. It may look like all the other cash coins out there but it feels unique to me. I don't have one (yet?) but it's such a fascinating piece of history as well as, in my opinion, a beautiful piece of art and craftsmanship.

I also feel that Peace dollars have a particularly beautiful design, and I like them much more than Morgans. It's a shame they only made them for a few years. I've heard a lot of people who are displeased with the Mint's new program for Peace and Morgan dollars but I personally am excited for them since I missed them the first time around.

The Columbian Exposition coins also have really fun designs. I will say that the profile of Queen Isabella is not fantastic but I still like it. The design with the ship and the atlas always draws my attention.

Here's the quarter.

And the last one for now is the Athenian tetradrachm. I saw a pair at a show last year that were graded extremely well and looked fantastic. I love the classical Greek look since… well they were made by classical Greeks!

All images taken from Wikipedia.

liumin

It's probably the Wadokaichin (it's my avatar). It's got such a simple but iconic look, I think. It may look like all the other cash coins out there but it feels unique to me. I don't have one (yet?) but it's such a fascinating piece of history as well as, in my opinion, a beautiful piece of art and craftsmanship.

I also feel that Peace dollars have a particularly beautiful design, and I like them much more than Morgans. It's a shame they only made them for a few years. I've heard a lot of people who are displeased with the Mint's new program for Peace and Morgan dollars but I personally am excited for them since I missed them the first time around.

The Columbian Exposition coins also have really fun designs. I will say that the profile of Queen Isabella is not fantastic but I still like it. The design with the ship and the atlas always draws my attention.

Here's the quarter.

And the last one for now is the Athenian tetradrachm. I saw a pair at a show last year that were graded extremely well and looked fantastic. I love the classical Greek look since… well they were made by classical Greeks!

All images taken from Wikipedia.

 

 

 

 

 

I've always liked the cash coins, even before I was a coin collector. There's so much fakes though 😭

NN.Ben

liumin

It's probably the Wadokaichin (it's my avatar). It's got such a simple but iconic look, I think. It may look like all the other cash coins out there but it feels unique to me. I don't have one (yet?) but it's such a fascinating piece of history as well as, in my opinion, a beautiful piece of art and craftsmanship.

I also feel that Peace dollars have a particularly beautiful design, and I like them much more than Morgans. It's a shame they only made them for a few years. I've heard a lot of people who are displeased with the Mint's new program for Peace and Morgan dollars but I personally am excited for them since I missed them the first time around.

The Columbian Exposition coins also have really fun designs. I will say that the profile of Queen Isabella is not fantastic but I still like it. The design with the ship and the atlas always draws my attention.

Here's the quarter.

And the last one for now is the Athenian tetradrachm. I saw a pair at a show last year that were graded extremely well and looked fantastic. I love the classical Greek look since… well they were made by classical Greeks!

All images taken from Wikipedia.

 

 

 

 

 

I've always liked the cash coins, even before I was a coin collector. There's so much fakes though 😭

It's a shame that people make fakes and that there's practically nothing anyone can do to stop them since it's not illegal to do so. What's that old phrase they say about counterfeiters…? I think cash coins were also some of my first experiences with coin collecting since I thought it was so cool that a coin had a square hole in it for some reason.

I've always been partial the the 1957 Ceylon 5 rupees. Dunno why, I just like it. 

liumin

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The Columbian Exposition coins also have really fun designs. I will say that the profile of Queen Isabella is not fantastic but I still like it. The design with the ship and the atlas always draws my attention.

 

That is a portrait of Christopher Columbus…

redsmithstudios

liumin

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The Columbian Exposition coins also have really fun designs. I will say that the profile of Queen Isabella is not fantastic but I still like it. The design with the ship and the atlas always draws my attention.

 

That is a portrait of Christopher Columbus…

Right, I included the quarter with Queen Isabella on it underneath. Sorry, perhaps my wording was not clear.

That makes so much sense when I read it again…

 I was thinking, yea, if that’s supposed to be a queen, she’s hideous! 

Here are some nice colourful circulating coins from Papua New Guinea. These are some of my bucket list coins that I want to get eventually.

didi83My favourite: Slovakia - 500 korun - 2001

That is a lovely coin! or is it a guitar pick?

This is one of my favorite coin designs.