Do Any Other Other Aussies Collect US And Canadian Coins?

Coinwise, my comments are the same as Sap's, but a smaller collection in each area. Not extensive enough yet to go down the type set route. I have coins in all three metals, in the countries (and a few others), that Sap has mentioned.

I do have more than 200 coins (in all three metals), that are over 1,000 years old, from all over the World as well.

I few American and a handful of Canadian coins, but I don't actively collect them as they're not easy enough for me to get my hands on (and my Australian collection is far from complete too).

I collect all the world coins and notes I can get my hands on, as well as stamps. And BTW, my Albino Bristle nose catfish have just hatched so I've got fry swimming all over my tank....

Jamie: in some ways, we seem to be opposites.
I built a pre decimal type set of Austrlain coins a very long time ago in all three metals, Adelaide Pound included. 17 sovereigns and halves with the silver and bronze types represented by the rarest date for type. (except the '30 penny, which was represented by a '25). Sold that collection, along with about 50 nice ancients including two gold, to raise deposit for a house.

Now, my U.S. collection is bigger than my current Australian collection! It includes a couple of nice early commemorative half dollars, a St-Gaudens Double Eagle and a gold dollar of 1853. I picked up a complete set of circulation States Quarters out of a bikkie barrel of change, when I visited the 'States recently. Cost? Face value, $12.50! That was fun!

The Canadian part of my collection, which includes a 1913 $10 gold, is about the same size as my Australian collection. It includes a type set of silver dollars to 1967, and a type set of nickels, including a tombac beaver, in Unc.

My current collection of ancients (which is my first love), is bigger than these. It numbers around 200, and includes a Macedonian gold Stater of Philip 11, aureii of Augustus and Vespasian, solidii of Leo and Phocas (Byzantine), and a tetradrachm of Athens, about 430 BC. Quite a few other nice tetradrachms as well. Ancient coins of Southern Asia, China and India are represented.

Such a collection needs decent library backup, and includes a copy R.I.C., all volumes, Krause for the last 400 years, books on forgery (a must), and a complete set of David Sear's books.



Oh! I probably have the biggest collection of square coins by type in the World. Easy to do, because I have NEVER heard of anybody else collecting square coins by type! 84 machine struck types, and counting!

The square coin collection was put together for fun, mostly out of dealers' junk boxes for not much money, and with most of them, for less than a dollar. Even now, most of the coins have little value. Probably explains why nobody else has put such a collection together. I am a rather obtuse collector.

Suggestion: Why not put together a fun collection of low value modern circulating coins which have :
1.) various metals
2.) various shapes
3.) various languages or scripts.

With a World collection, instead of collecting one from every country,
how about one from every century, from the invention of coinage?

Such a collection would give you an overall history of the development of coinage, expressed in actual metal. Folks who have no knowledge of numismatics would find such a collection interesting. Would make a good show and tell item.

With such a collection, you can pick up a Byzantine coin, a Chinese coin, or an ancient Indian coin for not much money, at a time when coinage during the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, when European coinage was almost non existant.

You would certainly learn a whole lot about the development of coinage in general, against a background of World history across the centuries. A good quality collection in total would not cost you a huge amount of money. Most of the coins could be had in the $10 to $50 price range.

Hi !

If someoe are interrested to collect canadian coin for fun, contact me

Canadian coin can be fun to collect, it don't have a lot of print like USA ( USA can be fun too ) Probably like other country it have some commemorative issue.

Thanks !

Hi !

You collecet my favorite (50¢), It's not easy to find them at cheaper price, depending what you want too. You can not collect them in circulated condition because it don'T have 50¢ in circulation.

My pleasure for foreign coin it's just to have for fun, I collect them in circulated condition, I don't care with value. Anyway recent circulated coin have about no value.

I only have a duplicate of 2010 but it's not interresting to trade only 1 coin..

Why not start penny or nickel ? lol

THanks 1