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United States
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I'm an old time collector of U.S. coins. I have a bunch of Canadian & Great Britain coins as well. first started with Lincoln wheats and Jefferson nickels. At this point in the hobby, I'm collecting just about everything U.S. |
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United States
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There are many, many different types of coin collectors. 1. Just US coins in general 2. All modern US coins. 3. All really old US coins4. old Foreign coins 5. Modern Foreign coins 6. Error coins 7. Toned coins 8. Counterfeit coins 9. Album to fill collectors 10. Bulk coin collectors. 11. Silver coins 12. Gold Coins 13. All coins in general 14. This list could go on and on and on and on an....... There are just to many different types of coin collectors to list. Your original question was just how many different types of collectors are here. Yet what is here is only a fraction of what is out there as coin collectors. When it comes to collectors, each type of collector of each type of item gets somewhat excessive. Look at a car show. Notice how many different types of car collectors are there. And with an item like a coin that has been in existence for zillions of years, maybe not really, just to many different types. However, that would be a good topic for you to investigate. Let us know what you may come up with for a list. |
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 United States
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That would be why I asked about the folks here at CCF. I obviously understand that there are millions of different types. Sorry if you got confused. I may be new to this forum but I am not new to collecting as a hobby. I just never moved out of the beginner stages in all these years.
Also, very interesting guys! I love knowing and learning who collects what and why they might collect those.
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Canada
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started out with one of everything (world type set). trimmed 3500 coins down to one from each country (300 thank you very much!).
now working mainly on canadian colonial tokens, 1800-1850ish. don't care for much if it isn't 100 years old. (will dive into ancients eventually)
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United States
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In the handy list posted above, I guess I'm type 3, 4, and 12, for the most part.
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Canada
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I started out some years ago looking through change and putting away a few interesting coins. I just started seriously collecting a few months ago. I have a small collection of Canadian NCLT coins and I add a few coins a month. However, my main focus is ancient coins and in particular coins of the 12 Caesars. I have coins from 6 of these rulers so I have 6 left to go. I have added several other interesting ancient coins outside of the 12 Caesars but I have a total of 11 ancient coins. I cannot see myself getting above 20 or 30 ancients until I finish the 12 Caesars and start another focus. Who knows, maybe the Greek coins of Alexander will be next. I collect only what I am interested in and those interests tend to be rather narrowly defined. I know that there are many ancients collectors that have more than 1000 coins and those who collect NCLT coinage who own several hundred coins but I do not see myself walking that path. I like my focussed collections.
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United States
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I buy and sell bulk stuff that I already have to buy more quality and rarer pieces. I started off doing coins and got kinda burned out on them and drifted into U.S. paper money and haven't looked back. I sold off a lot of coins to fund that new focus. I still enjoy uncirculated early wheat cents, as well as nice wood grain wheat cents. I have always enjoyed wheats, hence my username here.
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Slovenia
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I collect MS € commemorative coins, I'm also putting together type sets of € form circulation. That was my start at the hobby. Now, among others, I found much joy in silver coins; mainly Austro-Hungarian (Franz Joseph I) and Latvia's first republic (it is a small set I hope I'll finish this week with 'key date' 5 lati 1932 :) ). In mid-near future, I'm thinking about expanding also to US coins, but for now I'm still mainly reading and learning about those. Edit: Oh, and also Euro error coins I find in circulation. Fascinating how much you learn from researching errors Edited by Dagaz
08/14/2015 02:06 am
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United States
606 Posts |
I enjoy type sets more than date or MM. I am also getting interested in the strange denominations such as the various coins with fractions on them or weird names like ANNA. LOL
I am also working on a euro type set from each country while I am still in Spain.
EDIT: Dagaz, I tried to send you an E-mail. If you are interested; perhaps we could work out a Euro trade. I have been unable to get very many Euros from your part of the zone.
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08/14/2015 09:23 am
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Belgium
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I began collecting coins seriously in my last year at the university 1969/70.In that time , I only collected Greek and Roman coins .In the 80 and 90 , I switsched to antiquities to antiquities , to come back ten years ago to coins.The last years , I am collecting mostly silver , roman and especially greek from Magna Graecia .As it is very difficult to find at good price/quality , I buy now also gold , late Roman AE (very cheap for the moment , and started also a collection of Medieval and premonetairy coins.Beside my ancient collection , I have also a very big collection starting about 1600 , coins that in received in bulk from my wife's grandmother .albert
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 United States
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In the handy list posted above, I guess I'm type 3, 4, and 12, for the most part. A nice way to do it. On the just carl list I am a one, a nine, and a touch of a five.  |
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Slovenia
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@ Half: I sent you an e-mail, and I also activated that option at my profile (it was turned off).
@ all: Sorry for off-topic bump.
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United Kingdom
856 Posts |
I started my current collection in 2004. I only collect one denomination, from one mint, from one reign. I currently have 68 coins, all shillings of Charles I of England dating from between 1625 and 1648. Probably another 100 or so coins have passed through my hands as I have added and upgraded those I own. I sell coins to buy better ones, so it's never going to be huge collection. I don't buy that many coins. Last year it was 9 (though I sold one and swapped another) but it's been as few as three and I'm getting fussier about what I will put up with in terms of quality! Some of my coins are very rare, with only one or two others known. Several have been handed down from one collector to another (I have one coin that can be traced back through four earlier collections to one that was sold in 1913). So it's a very different sort of collecting from the OP's. But then, if we weren't all different (albeit united by our enthusiasm for coins!) life would be pretty boring, wouldn't it? Edited by Tom Goodheart
08/18/2015 10:17 am
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United Kingdom
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I started collecting as a child, holiday money and any odd coins from circulation. I inherited my grandfathers collection of coins from his World War II army travels and I also bought a friends collection for £5 birthday money (an old tin full of coins) From there I started putting together a date collection for English coins and a general collection of foreign coins. This developed the interest and when I started working I started buying silver proof sets etc. I myself travelled extensively and in every country I tried to get a date collection and all the types of banknotes. I diversified into Greek and Roman ancients (made a nice type collection) and have come back to banknotes. I still try to collect all signatures and dates from circulation but I am very general in my collection which is big since I never sell anything (if I have multiples of something I might swap them but I never get rid of anything unusual) I therefore have a few thousand coins of relatively little value (in folders for each country and in date/denomination order) a few folders of low value banknotes and a couple of high value albums (all the British signature types/denominations, all the American denominations/types by seal colour and design variations) A folder of ancient coins, 3 boxes of bullion coins (1 ounce silver types) some unusual bits (boxed items like Maundy sets, soveriegns etc) Not sure what type of collector that makes me, but I have phases but seem to come back to it regularly. |
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United States
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I started out (age 5-12 or so) just collecting opportunistically; my family has a long standing tradition of taking an extra $5-10 every time they leave the country just to come back with a handful of foreign pocket change. That was most of my collection until I was a teenager. Around age 18, I started searching the till at my work for wheat pennies and silver; that rapidly escalated into a CRH obsession that led to a hoard so large that I pity my children who have to sort through it when I finally kick the bucket. My primary areas of focus included: 1. 1959-2008 LMC set (done 6 times over) 2. 1938-Present nickels (still a few to go) 3. BU set of halves (a handful left to go) 4. Hoard wheat cents 5. Hoard silver 6. Hoard copper cents (nearly 100 lbs) 7. Hoard 2009s 8. Hoard BU zincolns Now that space is more of a concern than getting everything at face value, I've been starting my foray into actually paying for my collection. Still disorganized, but I have been trying to work on a type set of 19th century US issues. |
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