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Luxembourg
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I prefer the French Hercules series.
They have first been minted in 1796 for 8 years then again in 1848, 1870, 1964, 1974 and finally in 1996 with virtually unchanged design.
This year again with a face lift.
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Canada
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I am Canadian but I love US coins. My dream is to finish a full collection of Buffalo nickels. I absolutely love them. |
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United States
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You guys need to get out more. There's a lot more out there than U.S. coins LOL.
My favourite are the 50 centavos from Portugal KM#577.. I didn't even know Portuagal had coins.  Actually I thought this post was for US coins only. If all coins are included, there would be a lot of coins mentioned from everywhere. With US coins though it is good that there are so many differences in opinions. Imagine if everyone wanted the same coins. |
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United States
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Walkers, hands down, for me. I must say that Portugese 50 centavos coin is a beautiful design. First time I have seen one. I guess I should get out more!
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3352 Posts |
Currently, I must admit that I only collect Canadian coins, but since joining this site I've been reading all of your posts and then I have gone searching to try and find out what the "heck" an Ike, and/or a Morgan actually look like! ... hopefully I'll catch-up, eventually.
My vote goes to => Canadian 25 cents (quarters) all the way!
1870-1901 (Queen Victoria)
1902-1910 (Edward VII)
1911-1936 (George V)
1937-1952 Caribou (George VI)
1953-2011 Caribou (Queen Elizabeth) => including my childhood favorite series, "1967 Centennial Series"
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 Canada
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Canadian silver dollars
Though I only have a type set,and no urge to have more,I believe it's the most attractive series of coins ever produced
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Australia
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Quote:Actually I thought this post was for US coins only. Strange that! I didn't think this was in the U.S. section. Steve |
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United States
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@Maudry - I had never seen the Hercules coins before - what a great design!
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United States
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hopping Rabbit said: Quote:I am Canadian but I love US coins. My dream is to finish a full collection of Buffalo nickels. I absolutely love them. Very interesting. I am in the US and love Canadian nickels (1922 and after)! I keep asking myself why my mind always goes back to these whenever I think of my coins. I think part of the answer is the amazing variety of metals/designs that were used. I cannot help but love the "We Win When We Work Willingly" Morse code message around the rim of the WWII era pieces. I think the cleverness of this design is amazing. I also like how this piece looks when lined up with the 1944 and 1945 of same design. Their blue-tint next to the brass-looking 1942 and 1943 makes them stand out.  |
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Quote:Actually I thought this post was for US coins only. If all coins are included, there would be a lot of coins mentioned from everywhere. Not necessarily. There are two reasons why most of the answers given so far have been American coin series. First, most of the forum membership is American, so you'd expect that to sway the voting. It's only natural to be interested in your own country's coinage, and Americans are no different in this regard. Second, collecting by "series" seems to me to be far stronger in America than elsewhere; I suppose its because American coins are generally so expensive, very few people can afford to collect "American coins" in general, so they narrow the field down to keep their goals realistic. But in my experience, non-American collectors rarely even think of which "series" they collect, or if they do, the definition of "series" is much broader, like "ancient Roman" or "English hammered" or "Australian predecimal". Most of the collectors I've met here in Australia are generalists. With one or two notable exceptions, the only serious "series" collectors I've encountered have been expatriate Americans. That's not to say the "American way" is wrong; it's just different. I don't collect by "series", but one of the most interesting for me at the moment is "Chinese cash". For a "series of all time", it's hard to beat: a history 2000 years long and issued by over a dozen countries.  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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Australia
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Here's a strange one:
World square coins.
I have been searching dealers' junk boxes for these for the last 30 years.
My World collection of
issued for circulation, machine made square coins
is complete, except for:
Aruba 5 Florin
Sri Lanka IYSH 10 Rupees
Muscat & Oman AH 1359 20 Baiza.
I have every other type, for the whole of the World.
Aside from these, I have also have a few NCLT square silver and gold coins, but I consider these 'non core' to the main collection.
I will bet anyone here in the CCF, London to a brick on, that it is the most comprehensive collection of machine struck, issued for circulation square coins anywhere in the World. That is my humble numismatic claim to fame!
It has cost me next to nothing to put this lot together, and I have had lots of fun doing so, over many years.
Value? Probably not very much more than the sum of the parts.
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08/22/2011 07:45 am
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Canada
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@ sel_691
Sounds interesting
How many square coins in your collection?
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United States
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Not necessarily. There are two reasons why most of the answers given so far have been American coin series.
First, most of the forum membership is American, so you'd expect that to sway the voting. It's only natural to be interested in your own country's coinage, and Americans are no different in this regard. I would think one of the biggest reasons is where this post was posted. Since on this forum there are separate forums for World, UK, Greek, Roman, Canadian, Autralian, etc., it is possible that many from those countries didn't even see this post. And those that did may not have had the larger ability to see many coins from other countries. Would be interesting to see what results would be obtained if this was posted in those other forums. |
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Australia
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DBM: 76 issued for circulation coins.
I am now starting to look at quasi coins, such as NCLT's German square Notgeld tokens, etc. Not quite so enthusiastic, they cost more, and one of my criteria was to keep the costs to minimal levels, to retain the fun factor.
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United States
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I like the large US copper cents. I found this sq cent the other day and it fits right in.   |
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