Types Of Collectors?

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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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.