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United States
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Slabbed novelty bullion, including ASE's. Novelty bullion = beanie babies. Slabbed novelty bullion = beanie babies with tag protectors. |
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United States
156 Posts |
None of the current US coins. No Lincolns, no Jeffersons, no Rosie's, no Washingtons, no Kennedys and no dollars after the Peace dollar (with all respects, JBuck). To me they are uninspired. They almost have an industrial quality about them. I guess it's just the antiquarian in me... |
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Canada
5252 Posts |
Well, this is quite an educational thread-we all are interested and not interested in different things. No surprise, really, and I think that it is a good thing. Imagine if everyone wanted EXACTLY the same stuff? It would be very hard to find!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10044 Posts |
Almost everything non-US and Canada I would not avidly pursue. A few exceptions are made when things have a great design such as an older silver Florin from Oz, an older one Babloa from Panama, the 1947-48 MX Silver 5 Pesos, and the large Kangaroo cents from Oz. However, I would not go for a date set on any of these either - just one or two are enough. I have no interest in Presidential dollars, clad state (etc. quarters), and most modern clad. I stopped getting a date and MM in all denominations since about 2000 or so. The exception is I keep a running set of JFKs. Although I am not in the hobby for investment, I also don't care for putting away things that will depreciate in value over time. I don't want new cents either - even though I like the shield design. They can rot away. Although I did keep the Lincoln set going until 2009. I quit collecting Canadian by date when the RCM started making so many different quarter designs each year (before our States program started), and when they switched to the current (IMO) non-regal effigy of the Queen ("anyody's Grandmother design"). There are too many interesting older US and Canadian coins that hold my attention to consider other pieces. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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United States
2023 Posts |
None of the modern circulating coins or clad commemoratives. Gotta have at least some metal value to get my interest (though I do like the Native American dollars). Although I'm mainly going for "type" coins, I have no interest in Morgans (have one already, too common otherwise) or seated Liberty designs (just not appealing, though I may get one eventually). |
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United States
2130 Posts |
I have no interest in modern coins. Also, I may be the oddball here but I have never liked Barber coinage. I know there is a huge following of this series but the only Barber coins I have are the half, quarter, and dime in my 7070 set. |
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United States
354 Posts |
I collect everything! Every coin holds some kind of history and lesson behind it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
9395 Posts |
- Older Asian coins (I'm bad at foreign languages) - Most ancient coins (other than a denarius or two) - most exonumia - most error coins and RPMs - most non-US NCLTs, especially weird series (examples: World's Most Fearsome Ants or Most Dangerous Bacteria, Comic strip characters, etc.) - also, I don't usually collect series by date and mintmark (for example: one Barber dime or one 3 dollar gold piece is enough). |
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United States
6130 Posts |
I'm surprised to hear so many people say that they do not want to collect ancients. Not that I mind the lack of competition, but anyone want to chime in why? For me, it had always been a matter of perceived price. I just assumed that if a 100 year old dollar coin is worth $30, a 1,800 year old coin must be worth thousands. I got completely sucked in when I realized that was completely not the case.
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Slovenia
459 Posts |
I know way too little about ancients to start collecting them on any scale. They are a world on their own and I must confess, I'm a bit scared of them :D
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United States
634 Posts |
I like most coins, but could not put a set of shield cents together. When I found my first shield in 2010, I almost gagged. Design 4 of 2009 was my vote for a permanent reverse. Most of the official candidates were better too.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
There is no area of numismatics that suffers from a lack of interest.
Some areas that I would never collect? Most areas of numismatics!
I am only interested in COINS that actually circulated and used as MONEY, ancient to modern, up until about 1950.
I acquired my first ancient coin more than 50 years ago. (Silver denarius of Antoninus Pius good VF, for $4)
Way back in 1970, I made a special visit by written invitation to the Coins & Medals Department of the British Museum, to look specifically at Roman gold coins of the first 12 Emperors. I still remember that day as if it was yesterday!
My learning curve is still very steep.
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 Poland
3201 Posts |
As for Chinese cash coins, I didn't put them on my list. In this case, the problem for me would be all the counterfeits which are particularly difficult to distinguish from the real deal for a person who doesn't know what they actually should look like... So the problem for me is the learning curve, and high probability of throwing a lot of money away, rather than lack of interest.
But I've got another thing to add to my list:
- collecting banknotes by prefix.
Types, signatures, dates, that's the standard. Specimens and errors for the specialists. Fancy serials can be fun (even though it may be difficult to form a coherent collection of them). But with prefixes all you end up with is hundereds of the same note. The very definition of not interesting!
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Norway
1358 Posts |
Tokens and medals with the exception of ECU tokens. I'm in coin collecting, not in the military.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2843 Posts |
Quote:Also, I may be the oddball here but I have never liked Barber coinage. Same here. I think the design is very underwhelming. |
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