Trading Common Circulating Coins

As always, you guys are so great

triggersmob: That would be great! Thank you so much! I'm half Australian so I already have most basic Australian coins, but I'm sure we will be able to work something out.

augsburger: Once I have PM privileges, let me know the best way to send you something. I'd be happy to send you a lot if you sent some coins and a banknote.

svslav: lol!

babar: That is certainly something I've considered, but for me, I'm just happy to see coins from other parts of the world. Even if by the exchange rate the trade isn't equal, there is purchase power parity (PPP) to consider. If you're already familiar with PPP, please don't think I'm being condescending, but for anyone who is unfamiliar, PPP is a way of adjusting the value of currency against the local economy it operates in. For example, US$1 can buy a cheeseburger or a cup of rice, but if I got US$1 worth of Jamaican dollars (about JM$87 by the way), how many cheeseburgers or how much rice would I be able to buy. And of course, there is the intangible quality of having money from a different part of the world as well.

january1may: At least they were honest about them being replicas! I'd probably buy a few myself, especially if they were fake gold ones. As long as everyone is happy with a trade, that's really all that matters.

Babar: You got it! If you know which states you'd like, let me know, so I can find you a good one. The rule is that you need 50 posts, which neither of us have yet. Perhaps we should start our own topic and chat about our trade and to get our post amount up.

Yeah, I have half dollars I'd be happy to send too, but those are pretty much all the same except for the bicentennial, which I don't have, and older ones like Franklin (which I don't have) and Walking Liberty (which one of my absolute favorites, and wouldn't want to trade). I was just asking about the quarters because there are lots of different ones, and some are trickier to find. I went through some rolls of quarters yesterday and pulled out Alaska and Hawaii, which are about as west as you can get. Oregon and Washington have nice ones too in my opinion. There is also the new America the Beautiful national park quarters which are what renewed my interest in coin collecting.

By the way, I was looking at your big post on your Pakistani coins, and I really enjoyed it, especially the coin with the clouds on it.

That'd be great EgCollector! I hope I have stuff you'd like because I'd love to have Egyptian, African, and Middle Eastern coins.

Another website is Numista. You can create an account and catalog your collection online, including wantlists and duplicates. Then they have tools to generate potential trading partners. I've never traded on numista but thought I'd throw it out there as it answers your original question.

I keep track of my coins on Don's World Coin Gallery where they give you an option of listing your duplicates available that you can send to others.

The downside as always is if you trust putting your coins in the mail.

The only people I've traded with have been from CCF, so far problem free.

-wheatiefan

I like the trading idea. I just reached my 50 posts recently. I would be willing to do some trading with those from other countries. I am new to coin collecting. Let me know if you are interested in trading and what you are looking for.

WVUcoins... what do you have that you would like to trade? I am currently trying to obtain a coin from each country that I can find.