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Posted 01/31/2013 02:38 am
HOARD. I was born in the Year of the Dragon, you see 
In all seriousness, though, 99% of my collection that hasn't been obtained via trade on CCF has come to me straight through my cash drawer. The exceptions are my very old foreigns (purchased from my shiny coin man on the Bay) and some of my IHC/wheats, which I bought from a collection someone had in the 50s and abandoned (childhood collection though, so, y'know, still searched from change). As a result my collection has very little form. However, I like it that way--I like the idea that my nieces, when they are old enough, will be able to be handed my shoeboxes and told to "play, just make sure ALL of the coins are back in the box when you're done and please ask me before you pull out the bills" and then fantasize over Merc dimes, IHC, shiny pennies from the years their mom and dad were born, yuan notes from China, a $20 from 1950 (ANCIENT TIMES, THOSE!) all mixed together with State proofs and big, shiny Morgan and Peace dollars (thank you again, jfransch!) . . . and also silver coins with an actual queen on them that are all the way from England and come from a time when women wore big frilly ball gowns all the time, and coins in funny other languages, and . . . . you get the picture.
My collection can thus be roughly divided into five parts:
--Professor Peabody's Wayback Machine: The Cent Edition. This is a collection beginning in 1982 and going backward until I can't afford anymore or hit the beginning of the IHC (sorry, Flying Eagle lovers, they don't do it for me), all contained in a nice shiny binder as suggested by BadThad.
--Drink Up, Me Hearties, Yo Ho: This is an amalgamation of modern (read: post-1955) foreign coins and bills that will someday be tipped into a painted chest containing a map of the world with a big red X drawn over Texas, where my girls live. They will then be encouraged to hunt down the locations from which their "pirate treasure" came and to mark each new location on the map, and also to learn about what's on the coins (who is that person? Why is that building there? Why do you think the coin has a hole through it/is that light/has those funny bumps around the edge?).
--On An Island What You Can Only Find If You Already Know Where It Is: An amalgamation of older foreign coins (no bills yet). When the girls get a little older and want to know where the good coins are, they can come see me. The answer is, they're in a shiny blue box from a place called Whitman, in little cardboard holders.
--All That Other Stuff: junk I've pulled out of my drawer and found fascinating.
--Why Do You People Know My Phone Number: bills! Star notes and old stuff, and a few foreigns.
In all seriousness, though, 99% of my collection that hasn't been obtained via trade on CCF has come to me straight through my cash drawer. The exceptions are my very old foreigns (purchased from my shiny coin man on the Bay) and some of my IHC/wheats, which I bought from a collection someone had in the 50s and abandoned (childhood collection though, so, y'know, still searched from change). As a result my collection has very little form. However, I like it that way--I like the idea that my nieces, when they are old enough, will be able to be handed my shoeboxes and told to "play, just make sure ALL of the coins are back in the box when you're done and please ask me before you pull out the bills" and then fantasize over Merc dimes, IHC, shiny pennies from the years their mom and dad were born, yuan notes from China, a $20 from 1950 (ANCIENT TIMES, THOSE!) all mixed together with State proofs and big, shiny Morgan and Peace dollars (thank you again, jfransch!) . . . and also silver coins with an actual queen on them that are all the way from England and come from a time when women wore big frilly ball gowns all the time, and coins in funny other languages, and . . . . you get the picture.
My collection can thus be roughly divided into five parts:
--Professor Peabody's Wayback Machine: The Cent Edition. This is a collection beginning in 1982 and going backward until I can't afford anymore or hit the beginning of the IHC (sorry, Flying Eagle lovers, they don't do it for me), all contained in a nice shiny binder as suggested by BadThad.
--Drink Up, Me Hearties, Yo Ho: This is an amalgamation of modern (read: post-1955) foreign coins and bills that will someday be tipped into a painted chest containing a map of the world with a big red X drawn over Texas, where my girls live. They will then be encouraged to hunt down the locations from which their "pirate treasure" came and to mark each new location on the map, and also to learn about what's on the coins (who is that person? Why is that building there? Why do you think the coin has a hole through it/is that light/has those funny bumps around the edge?).
--On An Island What You Can Only Find If You Already Know Where It Is: An amalgamation of older foreign coins (no bills yet). When the girls get a little older and want to know where the good coins are, they can come see me. The answer is, they're in a shiny blue box from a place called Whitman, in little cardboard holders.
--All That Other Stuff: junk I've pulled out of my drawer and found fascinating.
--Why Do You People Know My Phone Number: bills! Star notes and old stuff, and a few foreigns.
