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>>56667303
>I had 4 1972 double dies

Jesus man, how many bags of cents did you sort through? That's an extraordinary haul, I'm still looking and hoping to find one (1969-S DDO a better but unrealistic aspiration) My grandpa bought a mint bag of '72 cents and looked thorough them with my prepubescent dad but they didn't find shit. When I was little dad and I found a 1995 DDO though, not worth much but I thought it was really exciting.

And yeah, I'm biased but could tap out a long detailed thesis on why ancients are a sound long-term investment. A guy like you could afford some jawdropping rarities, or toss a few grand of play money around and get enormous ~100g Ptolemaic Egyptian bronze octobols or Republican Roman ~300g cast bronze (from back when they were on a Bronze monetary standard!) Aes Grave hockeypuck coins that would impress the hell outta anyone and cost less than an unremarkable circulated 1916-D merc.

>>54241884
>Yep, a Ptolemy II bronze Drachm from Egypt,
I thought so from the eagle on the back. I want an oktobol too but even the cheapest, beat up ones are in the mid hundreds on vcoins.
>with their gigantic "Aes Grave"
Another beautiful copper piece I will probably never get. Imagine having a chest full of those. Imagine the smell.
>>54243817
I like the dollar coin with the gears in the back and the Georgia one as well. The pong one is pretty kino too. If only they actually all circulated. The innovation dollar series is a much better idea than what the mint currently is doing.
They should release the brass dollars in silver like they do with quarters.
>Side note, I wonder what the sales numbers are going to be for the silver proof sets of this series. Even though the ATB series had incredible designs they sold a lot worse than the State quarters series.
My guess is the quarter ecosystem is over saturated with designs. As a lad I collected all the 50 state quarters and was so proud of it. Even then I didn't bother with the atb ones because they were of places I had never heard of most of the time. By the end of this and the next series, think of all the designs of quarters there will be. Probably 150-200.