Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Hi Uncle,Booker T Washington, GW Carver, Monroe and Stone Mtn are among the less expensive classic commems can pick them up for under $50- 1st two are less than columbian expo. Monroe not much more. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Not always so. Columbians are the cheapest and the ones most likely to turn up in circulated condition. Stoney's are hard to find for under $50 in MS and Monroes in MS are as well. Officially counterstamped stonies are worth hundreds in MS. I like the reverse on the Monroe doctrine half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 The only modern Commem's I bought were the 1986 Statue of Liberty Half and Dollar. I liked the designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I have the 1986 and 1987 Prestige Proof Sets and so have those commemorative coins. I started collecting last year so I purchased both of the commemorative coins from last year and will continue to collect them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 As a 6th generation Texan, I have a soft spot for the Texas Centennial halves; however, I like the Monroe Half a lot due to the innovative design on the reverse. The two women who form the North and South American continents is a fine design. Curiously, it is not original with that half. The same design was used on the reverse of the Pan American Fair of 1901's medal... The Pan American Fair where McKinnley was shot in in 1901... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Wow, 3 pages already. I bet you have all been waiting with bated breath for me to jump in and complain that commemoratives aren't coins. Well, they aren't. :wink: Now that that is over...I have a semi confession to make. Although I don't collect US commems my wife seems to think that I do. She bought me a Texas for Christmas one year and I made a fuss over it. Hey, small thing to do in order to keep the peace. WRONG!! Ever since every birthday, every aniversary, every Christmas I get a new commemorative. Actually, she has done a good job picking them out. I wish I knew her dealer. Anyway, here is the one that started it all...Leave it to a Texan to not know what side of the coin the eagle goes on. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 That is the one I hope to aquire someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 1915 S Pan-Pacific Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 1937 Antietam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 1925 Stone Mountain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Ok, that's just unfair! You don't like commems or don't think they're coins and you have the best ones! :boww: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 1922 Grant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 One last one...I think someone mentioned a Lexington? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Now, if I could just get her to spring for the Hawaii...Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I've just never had the nerve--errr heart (yeah that's better--heart) to tell her I don't collect them. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I have to say that the commemorative halves do seem to be the forgotten part of US numismatics. Well, except for the Columbians which seem dirtcommon and the relatively common BTWs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I don't think they're forgotten. Just most of them are really expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Yeah, but the're never really mentioned.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Got the rest of them imaged. Thought I would go ahead and share. 1936 Gettysburg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Do you have all of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 1936 Norfork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 No, Tif, not yet. I haven't been married long enough. :wink: But I do have several. 1928 Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 1920 Pilgrim...This was the second one she gave me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 My last one...(at least until my birthday in June) 1936 Rhode Island Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I like the Texas reverse but the obverse doesn't really do anything for me. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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