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Valued Member
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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Valued Member
Canada
160 Posts |
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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Pillar of the Community
United States
6370 Posts |
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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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12869 Posts |
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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Pillar of the Community
United States
8137 Posts |
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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Valued Member
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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