So How Do You Enjoy Your Collection?

One of my teller girls asked me what I did with all the nickels I take out. I told her I roll around in them naked and bring them back. Don't worry, I then went on to tell her about roll hunting and tried to get her into this lovely hobby too.

Right now I collect Atlantic Canadian coins and Sassanian drachms. A huge thing with me is the souvenir trade tokens municipalities issue as, well, souvenirs. When coins are brought back from vacation as a souvenir (Sap's Turkey adventure for example)they are no longer coins in a way but souvenirs. AS souvenirs you want your coins to say something about where they are from (a huge drive for us collectors).

Now since my souvenir tokens are exspliciently meant for that purpose you can see how Atlantic Canadians think other people see us. We like rap music and hit TV shows like any big city but I love how we play up our folklife and culture for the tourists. I enjoy catalogue these tokens, preserving these tokens and looking up and sourcing why these tokens have things like the L.P. Fisher Library or Don Messer on them. Why do we put folk musicians and old buildings on them rather then the lead singer of April Whine or Classified?

For me examining why Maritimers like to make a caricature of themselves on our tokens and what these symbols mean is what I enjoy.

The bigger majority of my 7070 Type Collection has been TrueViewed by Phil at PCGS. This way I can show my coins off to whoever will listen and can zoom in on some of the different details which make the varieties.

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Phil and Christina are rock stars as far as I'm concerned.