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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Occasionally, when I start getting more of those elusive world coins, I sometimes set up a "Best and Worst" of a coin series. I typically focus on wear and patina. That reminds me - I'm working on a set of circulation-tarnished Russian 10 ruble "Cities of Military Glory" commemoratives. i think I only have one or two of those with any actual wear - they're steel, so they don't wear quickly, and they just don't usually circulate much before being noticed. Even getting a plain circulation-only set is slow going (just got a Feodosia, still missing 17 others - though that's partly because I mostly lost my pre-2015 finds, and there's probably only 5-6 types that I really never got), and they're often still the shiny yellow color - visibly tarnished examples are rarer. I guess that many others would also consider my Russian one kopek type set rather weird; I'm currently up to nearly 30 types, including a scarce Moscow kopek from 1728, an uncommon silver kopek of Ivan V, and all four major kopek varieties of Ivan IV as Grand Prince (1535-1547). Should really upgrade some of those - my Catherine II kopek is downright ugly. I don't think OFEC is weird, incidentally (except for the "one" part - I usually can't stop at just one coin). Currently at 262 by the Numista count, but that's missing a few that I haven't entered there yet (such as Georgia) and a few that they don't disambiguate (such as British Guiana). I'm also working on a "set" of at least one coin from every century (missing, I believe, 10th, 11th, 13th and 14th, plus everything before the 3rd century BC), and of at least one coin from every year since 1500 or so (I have every year from 2016 back to the 1890s, but past that it quickly gets scarcer, and I only have about a dozen dates in the 16th century). |
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 United States
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at least one coin from every year since 1500 or so I am another misguided soul working on this project, but have a requirement that the selection be limited to silver coins. Although I do not consider it a 'weird' pursuit in any sense of that word, it certainly is 'challenging'. Initially I thought it would be possible to acquire every dated year back to 1500 in 'thaler' or crown size coins of at least 35mm. But reality soon intruded as I learned more about the pre-1700's realm and the cost involved. So I moved the size requirement down to 30mm. That only helped a little bit when it came to filling in the many gaps from the 16th century. So now for the earliest, scarcest dates it is 'whatever I can find in nice condition that is affordable to a limited budget' but still no base metal coins. At this point I am just about complete back to the 1790's in the larger size, but very scattered before that time period. This, to me, is a *much* more interesting way of collecting, rather than following the crowd pursuing constant upgrades of date runs of overly familiar U.S. coinage. To each his own.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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@just carl, you should post them in the World section! Make it a fun weekend project to go through and organize them all. I would but most are in languages that I have no idea what they are. Couldn't post them since I have no idea what they are. And I have thousands of them. |
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Norway
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I would but most are in languages that I have no idea what they are. Couldn't post them since I have no idea what they are. And I have thousands of them. To me, that is actually one of the most fun parts of coin collecting. Trying to find out what it is, the feeling of a small victory when you succeed, then reading more into what you found, learning more about world history (including loads of facts to lighten up a boring birthday party) and then the feeling of satisfaction the next time you see a similar coin and you instantly get that gut feeling of where to look - and again that satisfactory feeling when you indeed succeed to grossly identify a coin (type or country) just by looking at it. I actually still sometimes buy a lot of unsorted coins, just for the fun of it. I use some books and some sites, and you can ask your friends where they got the coins for you, too. And we have the world coin and identify a coin fora...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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I have a number of fun sidelines, including 18th-century tokens from the area where I live, and squashed pennies from places I've visited.
I heard of someone who collected stamps and coins showing dictators - there's certainly scope for an interesting collection there!
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United States
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My collection is focused on coins dated to the year of '82 of any particular century. I''ve now covered 282, 782, and 1182-1982. Hoping this year I can fill in some more of the first millennium AD, but pickings are rather thin, but I think the Persians will help me out.
I'm now having an internal debate about what to do when I bounce into the BC. Do I go with 82 BC or 18 BC. 82 is the theme, but 18 keeps everything at100 year intervals. Hmmmm... might have to enjoy both while I procrastinate making a choice.
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Rest in Peace
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No special " coin" collectable oddities, but as a kid in the late 50's along w/ baseball cards, coins, and comic books had a gum wrapper collection, had over 100 different brands...used to collect the brand new invention, the pop top tabs, made long chains with them. Was working on going around my room at the ceiling, had about 3' to go when told to take it down!  |
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United States
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at least one coin from every year since 1500 or so I have at least one dated coin from 1600-2017 at present. There are many gaps before 1600. Most coins are silver, some are copper (etc.), and a few are gold. I have been working on and off on my collection of "gimmick" coins - just one with each class of gimmick (an example being the incuse design $5.00 and $2.50 US gold coins from 1908 to 1930). Another collection I'm thinking about is getting coins from German principalities with the most complex-sounding names. A good example is Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel -- the icing on the cake is the umlaut over the "u". Others I like are: Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Herzberg-Osterode and Ottingen-Ottingen. |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would but most are in languages that I have no idea what they are. Couldn't post them since I have no idea what they are. And I have thousands of them. That is too bad. I for one love going through all manner of foreign coins and figuring out what they are, checking the types off in my world coin catalog, and putting them all in labeled 2x2's in folders. So far I have nearly a whole shelf of a World Coin Typeset, though it is really only a drop in the bucket of what it is out there. A couple weeks ago I brought my kids to a coin show where every kid under 12 gets a free handful of foreign coins from a big bin near the door. We came home with about 150 new foreign coins, with some dating back to the 1870's. Really cool stuff. I am now in the process of cataloging all of them and putting them in my kid's albums. They always get really excited about them and look on a map to see where they are from. One of my kids is really excited to find any coins with boats on them. Incidently, for Ultra Rant, there are a LOT of Norway coins in this bin  Anyway, if your miscellaneous foreign coins need a new home, PM me and maybe we can work out a deal. January1May, thanks for the update on some of your collecting. I should be in Moscow in a couple months, so I will try to bring some things to help you out. I may have duplicates of some of the 10 Ruble military glory city coins you are seeking. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12477 Posts |
My collection was essentially someone else's collection until they passed and the "proprietors" decided to forget about it and mistreat it. What was left of that collection was primarily Wheat cents (some errors) and world coins - mostly Canada, Australia, Mexico and British India. It's odd because I'm having to work my way into a U.S. coin collection. I definitely enjoy researching all the world coins I have. The oddest thing about what I've done is that when put in a flip, none are labeled at all. It's probably because I'm lazy but, maybe I do it to test myself and create the potential for rediscovery? I'll go with the latter. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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03/15/2017 03:04 am
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Moderator
 United States
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The oddest thing about what I've done is that when put in a flip, none are labeled at all. I have more than a few not labeled. After all, the coin is already labeled, right?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1949 Posts |
There is a well known world coin dealer who personally collects 'One of each monarch', going back to Ancients...
I know KM type collectors, uncommon material collectors, 'One of each German State', and even one collector who only collects on particular year of Newfoundland halves- Nothing else...
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CCF Advertiser
United States
1533 Posts |
I collect stamps from the inflationary period in Germany between WWI and WWII. Its kind of neat to have a 2 million mark stamp. I guess someone needed to mail a letter really bad, lol.
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Valued Member
United States
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My wife is big on the squashed pennies. I gave her a full BU roll of cents at our last trip to Disney and she had used them all up by the second day! as a fellow Disney penny collector I know that those are .51 per penny. so that means your wife spent 25 dollars on them in 2 days? holy buckets lol |
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