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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1731 Posts |
Im just wondering on what type of coins you are trying to get a set of. I'm trying to get a silver dollar collection. I have 5 so far.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pretty much have all the Canadian coins I want. The odd time I find something I like better than what I have but I don't look very hard any more. At one point I was going to pull the trigger and try and buy the 21's but my Mrs had a wildly different point of view on the matter. Oh well. I'm more into the perfectly struck coin than the perfect error coin (die breaks do nothing for me personally) so I don't do much outside the major die varieties.
I've actually started making a collection of my first foreign coins... Aussie Florins. They are very interesting coins to look at. I bought a book recommended by our Australian members and I've been plugging away at acquiring them here and there since I got home. Like always I learned a pile of history by studying coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
If we are talking Canadian coins here, then I personally like the pre81 nickels and would love to try to get a set of them. But I know nothing about them either.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1610 Posts |
Like you I'm trying a dollar set. Also a half, quarter and dime set but it's quite hard.
BTW, my new avatar is my own 1935 dollar.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1731 Posts |
nice! 10xloupe the 1911 silver dollar is actually my coin.  (I wish it was) |
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United States
163 Posts |
On the coin side, I'm working on a set of dollars voyageurs through to loonies. Been at it since the spring and I've covered off '61 to '87 with the odd one here or there outside of that range.
On the currency side, working on the 1937 series, made some good progress- complete set of $1's, including a narrow panel. Thought I had a line on a 1937 $2 Osborne...but not to be.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
Yeah Osborne can be a tough signature in a better grade. You have to stick with it, the deals will come. I'm working on the French notes at the moment, prices are steeper than I like, but I like the notes, so it's all fair :)
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Valued Member
Canada
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I am collecting all the silver dollars from 1935-present...yep breaking open the sets just missing 47 dot and 47 ML....I don't worry about the double HP A complete PL set...to date missing the 53, 54's, 55's, and Berlin and Chinese one... complete set of loonies..missing the parks one cause the mint sent mine in a plyo film and I can't bring myself to cut it open...  that is unusual for me so I have to fine another one A complete set of nickel dollars.... I do have a year set of paper money from 37-present avarge grade AU so much to buy so little time and money hoarders rule  |
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 Canada
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Nickel dollars and small cents for me. I too am eyeing up some foreign coins, I particularly like the 1, 2 and 5 Ore coins from Sweden (1952-1971 series). Something about those incuse designs in mint state condition, that draws me in...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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 All 6 decimals from 1858-1967 inc. Lifetime goal! Glenn  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1002 Posts |
For Canadian, I have a little bit of everything going on.....as far as sets I have ongoing:
Loonies (complete except for some of the NCLT)
Toonies (complete except for some NCLT - but do have piedfort)
Silver $ (type set with a few extras - no major rarities)
Nickel $ (type set)
Quarters (type set but only from George V onward)
Dimes (type set but only from George V onward)
Nickels (type set)
Cents (type set)
Banknotes:
$1 from 1917 - 1973
Series: 1954DF - current
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
862 Posts |
silver dollar 1970-2010
silver maple leaf 1988-2012
all privy silver maple leaf except the tulip and hanover
silver britannia 1998-2011
silver panda 2003-2011
silver kookabarra 1990-2012
if silver drops to below 25 I may start a set of silver american eagle...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
3692 Posts |
No offense to your collecting, SilverBug, but I would never consider bullion rounds to be "coins". They are a store of value in my eyes with very definite prices that are not truly controlled by supply and demand, and in this sense they seem artificial to me. Would you ever send them in to be graded? No, only placed on the scale to determine value.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1051 Posts |
A complete set of small cents, a complete set of 5c (post-1921). A set of the four 1858 coins with the requirement that all coins have outstanding toning. A complete set of mule coins. A complete set of PL ultra cameo coins, all denominations 1961-1975, with coins earlier than 1961 being added at will but with no real goal of completion. I also like to cherry pick key dates from each series to make a quasi-type set that is not so daunting to complete as a full all denomination set with every single date.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
862 Posts |
ok, the most complete modern coin set I have is canada 50c 1968-2010, hopefully it counts:). oh, and I have all the circulated loonies and toonies
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
I have a short type set of large Canadian silver dollars '36 to '67. Quite interesting. I am after the '35.
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