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South Africa
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At this stage I only collect coins from the U.S try to get slabbed coins
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United States
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I'm at the same point as teslacoil -- primarily slabbed US coins (working on a type set, including early and modern commemoratives that are personally interesting). But I also pick up the occasional silver round as the mood strikes me -- have a few Norfed and SBSS pieces, and a couple from Daniel Carr. Oh, and a Green Lantern silver round from the Cartoon Celebrities series (that's my avatar). |
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United States
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I picked 'must be' as my choice because it must be something I want at that particular time. I buy what I like when I like it. doesn't matter what and I might not like it one day and might like it the next day. I change my mind more often than my underwear.
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United States
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I'll buy anything and everything that catches my eye that I like the look of and is being offered at a reasonable price.
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United States
666 Posts |
It's a great question and a fun poll.  Btw, I love, "Oooh! Shiny!" ;-) You might want to change: what is welcome into our coin collections to: what is welcome into our coin collections since one's collection may not be limited to coins (and that's a primary point of your poll). ~ Mark Edited by dd27
09/09/2016 12:48 am
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Russian Federation
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I picked 'must be' as my choice because it must be something I want at that particular time. I buy what I like when I like it. doesn't matter what and I might not like it one day and might like it the next day. I change my mind more often than my underwear. This basically, except that I try to stay within $5 per coin (unless it's ancient, then $10). I don't buy much NCLT, but only because it's usually quite expensive. I pretty much jump on it if I can get any cheaply. (Though I doubt I could bring myself to buy modern fantasies.) I don't think I've ever been in a shop that sold historical commodity money. (And I don't really trust myself to recognize the more exotic types as money.) But if I ever saw any for sale, it probably wouldn't have been within my budget either. And half a year ago I'd have said I'm not collecting tokens. Then I find a dozen nice shiny old tokens in a 50 cent bargain bin. How fickle my interests are! |
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United States
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From the CCF Glossary: NCLT - Acronym for Non Circulating Legal Tender.For those folks, like yours truly, who might not be familiar with the acronym. Quote:
Then I find a dozen nice shiny old tokens in a 50 cent bargain bin. How fickle my interests are! 'fickle' = an enlightened, sophisticated collector  Edited by dd27
09/09/2016 09:11 am
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United States
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I'll buy anything and everything that catches my eye that I like the look of and is being offered at a reasonable price. Same with me |
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Norway
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I don't fit in, really. I collect 'anything that is of interest to me'. Which is both exonumia and coins, but not all coins or exonumia: far from, in fact. I am pretty selective nowadays.  |
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United States
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I went with the specific countries choice, but with an asterisk. I'm pretty strongly focused on US coins. I have nothing against world coins, but I'm an American in the US so it is a natural starting point. There are far more US coins that I want than I could ever afford, so it doesn't make sense for me to expand my horizons too far. That being said, I could see myself getting into Ancient coins. Whenever I go to a museum I always spend the most time in the early civilizations section (Roman Empire or older). Something just fascinates me about man made objects that aren't just a couple hundred years old but a couple thousand years or older. |
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United States
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That being said, I could see myself getting into Ancient coins. Whenever I go to a museum I always spend the most time in the early civilizations section (Roman Empire or older). Something just fascinates me about man made objects that aren't just a couple hundred years old but a couple thousand years or older. I feel almost the same. I doubt I will ever collect ancients -- but I would like to buy one someday. I don't want anything too precious -- I want to hold it in my hand and not worry about it. |
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Russian Federation
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Something just fascinates me about man made objects that aren't just a couple hundred years old but a couple thousand years or older. I can imagine! The more common ancient coin types (such as LRBs - that's Late Roman Bronzes, for dd27's record) are literally orders of magnitude cheaper than any non-coin objects of anywhere near comparable age. Even the 16th-18th century coins are, when not very rare, a good deal cheaper than any non-monetary object from the same century. (Sure, that's because so many of them were made, but that doesn't make them any newer.) |
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United States
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(such as LRBs - that's Late Roman Bronzes, for dd27's record) Thank you kindly.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Ancients are easy to get sucked into. You can go onto ebay and buy nice (collectable) Constantine the Great bronzes, problem-free for less than $10 each. Heck, you can buy an XF/AU denarius from each of the five "good emperors" (Nerva, Trajan, Pius, Hadrian, Aurelius) for the price of a semi-key Morgan. |
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 United States
3058 Posts |
I like collecting US coins and currency. Very rarely do I collect foreign coins. |
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