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Rest in Peace
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Temptation is an evil maid.
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United States
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Probably an area I can think of is foreign coins. I was going to stick to US but got a bag full of world coins from my dad in his navy days. I didn't want to get rid of them all so figured I would keep one of each and now I am collecting from every country different types.
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United States
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Never thought I would get into Canadian Large Cents but my secret santa may have started an addiction!
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Australia
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I do this all the time  Numismatics is such a vast and varied area I love to branch out into new and unexplored terrain, This is what keeps the juices flowing for me with my collecting  |
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United States
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Pre 1900s coins. Always thought the older the rarer, boy was I wrong!
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United States
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Never in my collecting career did I think I would amass such an extensive collection of ancient Chinese. I told myself to stay away due to the high numbers of fakes out there, but now I have many scarce to rare issues in my collection.
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United States
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I absolutely never thought I would get into collecting modern commemoratives. In fact, I have often posted my disdain for their designs, and sometimes still do post negative things about them. But other than the designs, which are starting to grow on me some, what isn't their to like? They are big silver dollars (and gold and clad halves, too)!
This thread is fun to read, but it also made me try to figure out why I shifted to collecting modern commemoratives, since I really never thought I would.
I think I have gained more respect for all modern/clad series, not just commemoratives.
But why? I think there are a lot of reasons for the shift...
The first is that I can collect these for years, if not decades. Between Unc. and Proof, there are well over a hundred silver dollars alone. Plus I could collect them raw in CAP, PCGS and OGP, if I wanted three different sets of the same thing. Same with the half dollars and gold. Not saying I will try that, just that it could be fun.
Collecting-- hunting, finding, filling-- is far more than owning the completed set afterwards. So anything that can take years is awesome.
Plus modern commemoratives are easy to unload. They are very recognizable, there isn't much debate about grades and things and it is easy to figure out the right price to buy or sell. Additionally, there are not as many worries about all the fakes out there, like with classic commemoratives.
I don't know-- I just never thought I would and here I am
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Foreign coins
Went to the local (annual) coin show and silver was $12/oz, so I couldn't bring myself to pay the premiums on bullion. I went to one seller of foreign coins and asked if he had any Canadian silver. He laughed in my face. I went to other tables and bought some Canadian dollars, Dutch 2 1/2 guilders, a Chinese dollar (I wish I had bought a half dozen -- it cost $13, and I got $70 trade for it a few years later), and other coins at or near spot. I bought a Swiss 5 Franc that was represented at .75 oz silver, but when I researched it online (before I bought my Krauses) it was only .4 oz.
Weeks later I was at the LCS, 3rd in line, killing time, and looked at the junk box. There I saw a 1950s Swiss 5 Franc. I knew it was .4 oz silver (because I had been cheated!) and asked how much it cost. It was 25 cents.
Hmm, I can get real cheap silver in the junkbox. I started researching other European silver coins -- and finding them. Soon I was hooked.
Best junkbox purchase was a 19th century Swedish coin (I thought it was silver, but it was nickel. However, it brought $110 on e-bay). The LCS sold it, I got store credit, and purchased a Dos y Medio Peso and ex-jewelry US $1 gold. Best 17 cents I've ever spent.
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United States
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Statehood Quarters...
Please help me! I hear that admitting there is a problem is the first step to a cure.
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Canada
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Well, in the beginning I was really only into anything Canadian or American that was silver, then I decided after I had such a good find of some silver dimes in CWR, I figured, let's give nickels a shot... first try I found someone's old collection in maybe $20 or $40 worth of CWR. It was darn near a complete pre 1963 date set! I was hooked... then I went on to varieties, errors... then American Nickels... and on and on. This hobby has brought me so much pleasure I can't articulate it!
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United States
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Right now, the thing I don't want to get into is key date coinage. I'll buy/sell/flip/invest them, but I won't collect them. I find myself so much happier just ignoring that hole in the album when I have dozens of nearly-identical brothers and sisters surrounding it. Or I just buy a replica and fill the hole that way.
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I started out exclusively collecting US coins but my "unintended" collections are currently US Currency and World Currency. I'm sure if you ask this again next year, I'll have another 3 or 4 unintended numismatic collections. |
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When I started collecting, I told myself to stay far away from world coins. I did a pretty good job of buying only US coins for about 3 years. Then, about 9 months ago, I started looking through a box of world coins that my coin club has for the YNs to pick through (don't worry, I'm a YN). I started finding the older issues of some countries very intriguing, so I started picking them out of this box, and I even got lucky and scored a few silver coins. Since the other YNs only care about silver, I am able to find plenty of interesting non-silver world coins for free. |
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United States
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Last year, I fell into the rabbit hole of ebay world coin lots. At first I was trying to stack silver, but then I started branching out into anything that caught my interest and was affordable. To date, this has included: - Older Canadian coins - Japan type coins 1870-present - Guernsey and Jersey - Panama |
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United States
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Just 3-4 months ago, I would've never thought I'd consider collecting the Indian Quarter Eagle series, but that changed over the last couple of months. I've always considered the Indian QE, HE and Eagle series a little too "contemporary" for my collecting tastes. I think the series is a bargain though, considering where prices where at several years ago, and as long as I stick to quality, original examples, it would be hard to go wrong. It's also a "short" series with no real "show-stoppers", so completing it with nice, eye-appealing coins is doable. Plus, it provides a nice distraction as I pursue my real passion - Early Half Eagles.
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