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Canada
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When it comes to COINS, my "user name" says it all..Canadian,U.S.,world,mint products,love them all.  Edited by collectall
01/28/2013 2:15 pm
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Canada
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 This sums me up as well. But I do have an extra fondness for pennies and silver half dollars. And NCLT  |
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Canada
470 Posts |
1/4 of a million pennies and 150 boxes still unopened; pennies are my past time,the older the wiser.2012 sealed mint boxes ... don't mind if I do.
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Vicky Large Cents. I picked up an old Zoell's nearly 40 years ago and haven't stopped looking for varieties since. I haven't counted in years, but I probably have 7-8,000 Vickies and closing in on 1000 1859's alone. I use my coins for research (for me and friends) to educate others about the joys/challenges of an alternative (and increasingly popular) collecting niche. My coins and population numbers have been used in Charlton's variety sections, Rob Turner's books, CCN and CNJ articles and a few upcoming projects that will hit the street maybe this year. I don't write, except to 2-finger churn out posts on various coin sites .. to try to assist them in their collecting endeavors.
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United States
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Working on completing my collection of toonies and loonies. Those are the only two denominations I am trying to get all varieties.
I have good cross section of everything else with most types of the circulation coins of Canada and U.S.; a collection of banknotes from Canada and U.S.
Anything connected with Nova Scotia; wildlife SMLs; NCLT that either looks very good or has potential to rise in value.
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 Canada
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Anything connected with Nova Scotia Sooo, maybe you are the guy who outbids me on Nova Scotia exonumia? "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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SPP-Ottawa> Actually the first coins in my collection were bought about 10 years ago - the NS 1864/61 one cent and halfs. I have bid on a few tokens recently but haven't been the winning bidder.
Some of my other items with Nova Scotia connections are NCLT - Lismer, Shannon, Titanic, 1954 - $50 note; 1975 - $100 note; etc.
Didn't get the $300 gold coat of arms - maybe someday!
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Canada
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I collect Nova Scotia Trade dollars, milk tokens and various exonumia.... I grew up in Cape Breton. That said, the Cape Breton MacPuffin dollars struck in pure silver are being very elusive, I only have about 6 of them in a decade of hunting... I just bought this one, which has eluded me for a while: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181049140812"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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I grew up on the other end of the province in Yarmouth. Was just up there to visit my father this past October prior to his passing and he gave me his collection of coins he had pulled from circulation over the years. He had them all loose in a small wooden box so I took them and placed them in 2 x 2's and placed them in an album. Nothing particularly rare but around $700 worth of silver, mostly fifty cent pieces. Since he took the time to set them aside, I thought it would be nice to preserve them and keep them as separate part of my collection to keep in the family. I did note that he had included a regular 1976 MacPuffin Trade dollar in with the rest which he must have obtained during one of our family vacations when we drove around the Cabot Trail when I was 11. |
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Canada
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I have been collecting since 7 years old. Nobody in my family collect anything. It seems that I am the only odd person in the family. I would spend my pocket money buying useless world notes. I would ask my grandparents for their old notes, and any change they receive from travelling. I collect anything from badges from my elementary school, my own report cards and bus cards, old phone cards, just basically anything that you can keep and categorize. It seems that collecting is a hobby that is in you and nobody can make you develelop a collecting hobby.
Now, I collect mostly silver Canadian decimals. Especially love the Canadian dollars pre 1967. Really well struck and beautiful. Also collect bullion set coins (palladium, silver, gold, platinum), as someone that love things to be categorize, really bugs me when own something that is not complete.
CCF is one of my most favourite website. The people here enjoys the same hobby that I do.
omeone that
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United States
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SPP-Ottawa- You grew up in Cape Breton? So lucky! That's one of my dream vacations!! One of my other main interests is playing the fiddle... Mostly Blue Grass and Celtic.. I go see Natalie MacMaster perform yearly, she is AMAZING!! But would LOVE to go to Cape Breton! One of these days I'll make it up there!
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Valued Member
Canada
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Odd coins, because that's my username, and they're cheap. I love searching through junk bins for the weird tokens.
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Valued Member
Canada
286 Posts |
I collect modern errors and varieties mainly (1982-2012 pennies) because they seem to be a little more scarce than the older ones. A little more of a challenge.  Edited by change4thebetter
02/26/2013 01:47 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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U.S. type coins and ancients. Love the variety as a set of all the same design on coins gets a little boring.
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Canada
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See " About me ", in my profile.
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