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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Spedward, you are in a great place to start right now. As eaglefoot mentioned, the Navigation bar on the left of this screen has a wealth of information for free. You have 50 posts now; So, you can start trading coins with other CCF members here. There are plenty of members that would love to trade US coins for Aussie coins, including myself! I've traded with other Aussies and have really enjoyed the experiences; Trading is a great way to acquire coins from another country. |
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United States
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I been collecting Proof + mint sets from 1950-1970. but manly 1965-67 Graded MS-66-68 Cameo
the SMS year find a cameo MS coin is 1 in 10,000 coins. I think in a few year they will be priceless?
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 United States
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I did not literally mean that no US coins could be found, just meaning that if a person in Australia wants to do more than just a little general collecting of US coins, they are going to have to look outside of the country because the pickings will be slim
Thanks! I figured that was your intent, but I wanted to be sure.  |
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Valued Member
United States
79 Posts |
Keep us up to date on what you decide to collect! I know I would enjoy some nice aust. coins and would be willing to watch at shows for coins your interested in and pass them on at cost or trade.
I was once in australia while in the military. Was an exchange program spent a month there with your military and saw the gold coast and sydney and another place up north of gold coast (don't remember the name). Still have my bottle opener that I was given from an aussie that goes on my keyring says Victoria Bitter :) Good memories Good times.
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Australia
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American coins are available here in small quantity, but you'll have to go to a coin dealer to find them, unless you've got friends or relatives who've come back from a trip to the US with some change. Modern circulating US coins have to be fished out of the "Mixed World Coins" scratchtrays. You'll sometimes see "classic" US coins for sale, but few dealers carry a broad selection and compared to other foreign coins, they're very expensive. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Hello spedward, While you are waiting on the Red Book you can try here; http://(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /countries/usa.html Most of the listing have pictures and it's fairly complete, plus there are now even ebay listings now! Who knew? Good luck to you on your new quest. |
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Valued Member
United States
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its pretty common to see Aussies trading on this forum. trading your modern coinage for ours
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
Spedward, once you decide what you might collect, I would be happy to do a trade. Shipments from here in Cali to Aus are pretty quick, so that's the easy part! |
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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Ok a lot to get through LOL. yes carl I'm in Australia, so I don't plan on making a trip to the USA to go to the banks to look for some coins. People telling me to get the ' RedBook' had an e-mail form someone saying theyd give me one, I didn't know what it was, so yeh. Errm theres an antique/coin dealer in Toowoomba (Aus), wouldn't have a clue if they have any USA coins, will check it out. So what I'm going to start off collecting... eagle has suggested Morgan silver dollars and Buffalo nickels, someone else suggested lincoln cents, I won't be collecting too much, but I think I might start with lincoln cents, once I get the RedBook, I will see what else there is. Yes getting the coins, Trading, once I learn to post mail internationally (Im 15 come on!) someone mentioned I have enough posts to start trading, yes but I've been a member for about 5 days, I just love posting. Might buy some off ebay too. May know some people that have some american coins, I have a $1 note? lol. Eddy |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
839 Posts |
mopar74 thanks for offering me your RedBook from last year, e-mail sent. |
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Valued Member
United States
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What grade coins are you going to look for? Seen a lot of ppl that sort rolls on the forums I bet they got all but the keys in low - mid grades just laying around hehe.
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Valued Member
United States
177 Posts |
If you want to just get your feet wet before deciding if you want to seriously pursue collecting US coinage, might I suggest the Eisenhower dollar series. It's a fairly short series with about two dozen coins in total, all fairly inexpensive and easy to come by (although I don't know if that last is true in Australia!) In any case, good luck whichever way you go. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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thanks jeremy, Hopefully arrives by Friday (Aus) if I'm lucky (It's sunday today)
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