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Pillar of the Community
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For me Collecting coins is akin to treasure hunting. I can't go bush bashing in South America or hunting for wrecks at the bottom of the sea. But I can search out unique coins with equally unique stories
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Moderator
 United States
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 with austrokiwi, In my "Visited the Darkside" album, I have coins from 8 countries I have visited. In my "Birth Year Set" album, I have coins from 77 countries.  |
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United Kingdom
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Every coin collector is different and every coin collection is different and there are a lot of us I think. In a rather pretentious way I could say I don't collect coins, I collect toutchstones to history - but really I get as giddy as the next person about a shiney discs of silver or copper. I try not buy anything that people wouldn't have used for actual transactions - so no proofs, NCLT, things in sets or plastic, though inevitatibly I have a few, and I don't really buy anything more modern than WWII.
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Australia
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For me Collecting coins is akin to treasure hunting. I can't go bush bashing in South America or hunting for wrecks at the bottom of the sea. But I can search out unique coins with equally unique stories I like this explanation, I look at it much the same. I also like the connection between coins and art, this aspect is underplayed I think. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Interesting question. I have no idea why I collect coins. I just have a habit of collecting things. I also collect lots of other things and at times wish I didn't. I enjoy going to coin shows, flea markets, garage/yard sales looking for coins, guns, knives, swords and/or anything. Many times I look around and say get rid of everything. Live like the people with very little and do nothing. Then I go to another coin show and buy, buy, buy. And it never, ever stops. I suspect this is a mental problem.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
856 Posts |
Not so much with the collection, but I spend an awful lot of time trawling the internet for coins to compare condition, details and prices. I research, looking through old auction catalogues and records to spot coins I've seen (or better, own). And I spend a fair amount of time discussing coins with my on-line contacts.
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Valued Member
Austria
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the same to me: I like staring at my collection - to see and find all the special properties of each coin.
the material, the inscriptions and the design.
and then there is one thing, I regret: the day I die, it is not possible for me to carry them with me...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
624 Posts |
I love collecting coins, because there is a story behind every coin. I can't help but imagine the hands that have touched circulated coins. I find it amazing to look at coins from particuar eras and wonder the people who had that coin in their pocket change. Also, coins have a beauty to them. Although modern coins have been more interested in making cheap tokens of political icons, older coins have a beauty that approaches art.
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Hong Kong
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I love collecting coins, because there is a story behind every coin. This is my purpose also. I dig out the stories behind the coins and tell the others who like to listen. I am also a mediator of this hobby, to tell what I know, to share the knowledge to the next generation. So I will write books about coins. |
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United States
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Let me address everyone's posts: Agree, Agree, Yes, Uh huh, Agree, Agree, Spot on, Agree, Ditto, Agree.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Most of my collection is either a Dansco album or one of many Capital Plastics type set holders. I can see both sides of the coins this way and when looking at a particular coin it would bring back the memory of who I bought it from and where I acquired it. Some of the more expensive pieces the excitement of receiving the coin after a short term lay-a-way is relived. Of the 19th century coins and from periods of time of war or hardship makes me think of what the mindset of the country would have been like when these pieces of money circulated. Yes, I collect coins but more importantly I am a custodian of pieces of history for a future generation of collectors when I pass on. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sometimes I think coin collecting as well as many other types of collecting STUFF of value is a waste of time. By me there are no people I can share this hobby of coins with. I live in a higher than normal crime rate area so even mentioning collecting anything of value is dangerous. Going to coin shows and worrying about being followed home too is something aroumd this area to think about. Attempting to discuss coin or anything of value with people on line is also dangersous since you have no idea who can also read such messages. And discussing coins with people you don't know anywhere is just dangerous. Placing the more valuable coins in safe deposit boxes makes them sort of safe but then too, in order to just see them, have to go to the banks. Then sign in, take them home, take them back, all takes time and sort of maybe not worth it all.
It's still a fun hobby and a feeling of satisfaction when an Album is finally full.
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United States
197 Posts |
Most of my coins are in holders of various kinds, but I also have a pile of raw, worn, common-date Walking Liberty halves and silver Washington quarters I like to play with, clattering them against each other and from hand to hand for that satisfying silver jingle. Does this make me weird? My wife calls me "Fagin." |
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Brazil
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the same to me: I like staring at my collection - to see and find all the special properties of each coin.
the material, the inscriptions and the design.
and then there is one thing, I regret: the day I die, it is not possible for me to carry them with me...
as a friend of mine always use to say about living the life and seizing the day: "Coffins don´t have drawers" |
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