Favorite metals

[SilverStacker]

Favorite gold coins ? What are your favorite silver bullion coins and bars ? Your favorite poured rounds and bar designs ? We'll keep it at 1 oz and 10 oz. What are your favorite numismatics ? For instance I love silver bullion 1 oz coins. For that matter what are your favorite gold bullion types ?

I'm not just talking money here, tho thats a part of it. But what just makes you go ga-ga and makes your hands move on that keyboard even when cash is tight ?

I'll add I dont keep much loose cash around anymore like I have in years past. Most decisions I make now are pretty smart because its hard to be stupid in todays market, the exception being numismatics.

 

[Bottom Feeder]

This ain't my collection but it's the bars I like —

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[pmbug]

I really like the color of .999 fine gold (Maples, Buffalos), but they are too soft. Eagles and 22K gold coins are better for handling.

I like most silver just about the same. I don't really care about the design. I just want the silver content.

 

[Ttazzman]

not a sticker ....facet cut face to create colors with varrying lighting these are intresting but



but my favorite coin design of all time is the 20$ st gaudens eagle (love the eagle on the back design)

 

[SilverStacker]

I love the silver RCM 10 oz bars. They make up the majority of my 10 oz collection. I really like the silver Britannias the most but I love the silver Libertads, they are just so hard to get ahold of for a decent price. When I fist started I preened about how I'd like to build a complete Libertad collection until reality brought me down to earth. Silver-wise I find the Philharmonics very elegant. The ASE's and AGE's, despite making up the bulk of my bullion collections are not my favorites despite the fact I'm fond of them.

I like the Maples a lot and really like the Koo-koo's. I like the gold Krugerrands but mostly buy them for the price and the hardness. 24 kt gold is gorgeous but soft. I'll be taking delivery of my first 24 kt Britannia so and will be handling it gently. Its a 2026 and looks gorgeous. Every time I buy a Britannia, and I have bought a lot, that song "Britannia rules the waves" comes to mind.

I'm a "coinoholic". I hold a fair amount of silver bars/rounds but most of my silver and all of my gold are in 1oz bullion coins. I love the artsy-fartsy coins and bars because the wife is an artist, an accomplished one, and she likes the silver artsy coins that I put on display stands on the fireplace mantle. If a coin can survive a day on our mantle then it says something about the coin. I'm a madman for the Germania and Perth mints Newer mint state MSD's and Libertads survive on our mantle and Germanias despite the premiums. Theres something about the silver on the MSD's and Libs that make them special when all that natural light hits them in the afternoon. Often I'll just sit and watch them for an hour at peak times.

For bars I'm easy but I prefer the 10 oz ones and the RCM's are standouts. I'm fond of the Prospector bars, The Asahi's, frosted Frontiers, Red Rivers, Aztecs and Mattheys, Sunshines, Englehards, Argor-Heraeus Cast, 10 oz Britannia bars, PAMP Suisse 10 oz Silver Year of the Snake. If its silver and 10 oz odds are I'll probably love it.

Numismatic-wise its MSD's hands down my favorite. The only numis gold I own is Samurai era small gold bars. I own a fair amount of 1880-1950 Euro-and Asian silver, nickle, and gold, numismatic coinage and currency's that link the Axis and communist Nations , along with their lickspittles, to their atrocities. This collection has grown and is still growing and cuts the collaborator Nations little slack.

 

[Viking]

I failed to take any photos before my boating accident.

 

[Ttazzman]

I failed to take any photos before my boating accident.

lol....i took a few pictures many years ago at coin shows......and the internet has plenty you can reuse ...also used to have a 69 camero in highschool not sure where it is now....also really liked the first series of perth mint lunar coins

 

[nickndfl]

$10 Indian designed by St. Gaudens.

 

[nickndfl]

Kilo bars

 

[SilverStacker]

Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a brilliant coin designer and sculptor whose work is honored here in Chicago where several of his statues reside. I agree about the $20 piece and always wanted one, eventually I'll get one. I had a friend who was going to sell me a very nice, gradable, example but I refused to take advantage of him and his lack of coin knowledge, eventually talking him into keeping the coin within his family and passing it on to his grandkids. But I can't say I wasn't tempted. The coin was a beaut.

On that matter if I had the cash, which I dont, I'd love to have a collection of gold Euro-Sovs. I almost chose a Libertad my last gold choice and have always like the French "rooster" series of gold coinage. Even fat assed Queen Victoria looks good on a late 20 'th century Sov.

Instead with gold I have to pick value, liquidity, price, so Mine are entirely Krugerrands, AGE's, and Britannias, Libertys.

 

[nickndfl]

Victoria was late 19th early 20th century amigo.

 

[KnowWhy]

Coins with high relief from real coinage metal are my favorite. I don’t like flat details. Look at a nice cent from the 1970’s and you’ll see.

Those, and piedfort-style coins. So 1/4 oz Armenian arks, 2oz silver, and sovereigns are nice proportions, but ducats are not.