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United Kingdom
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Lets get the darkside kickstarted into a thriving community.
I suppose the best way to start is to get to know what other people are working on.
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I collect just about everything U.S. but currently turning my attention to anything and everything pre-1964. I am working on a Canadian type set and actively pursuing silver commemorative euros after filling my album with circulating euros from each country. Also have begun a world wide crown or half crown sized silver collection (preferably in 1800's) so I am always busy and always looking for a trade! I buy just about anything I can afford, in modern world releases, that is a limited issue. Basically I am in a coin crazy household and love every minute of it!
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 United Kingdom
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I currently only collect coins from three areas; (I've narrowed things down considerably lately) 1) English Anglo-Saxon pennies one from each monarch from Alfred the Great in 871 to Æthelred II's demise in 1016, I might take this further to 1066 with the Norman conquest but the earlier period is more of interest to me at the minute. 2) Henry VI Annulet issue (1422-1427) Type set, eight denominations were issued during this reign and I want one of each. Three gold and five silver. 3) Nazi Germany 5 reichspfennigs by date, 1937-1944 in UNC/BU. Just need 1937, 38, 41, 43 and 44 for the full set. Some people may remember me from other forums where I went under the name of Sylvester, the one that used to collect the 17th/18th century sixpences and the Washington quarters. The quarters are on the back burner for now, the sixpence set has been sold off to fund my move into coinage of 10th century England. |
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Netherlands
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I collect world coins by type and date, so in one part we collect the same, I also have lots of WW-2 coins in my stock :-)
crystalk64; what is or are Bobwhite Quail?
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CarlTromp, Bobwhite quail is a game bird native to Indiana. It gets it's name from it's call which sounds like it is calling Bob White! They are used for food, hunting dog training, breeding, hunting, egg production and for release to increase native populations. The BobWhite Quail is a small bird, similar to a cornish hen, but smaller, and is a very tasty meal. Have raised the quail since 1988 and in all that time only used 8 for personal consumption. Would rather spend a day in the wild hunting with the dog! Hope this helps you understand what I am doing. Only have around 500 4 week old birds now but have 750 more due to hatch in the near future! Perhaps I will find a photo to down load! Now, if I can only get the BobWhite Quail on a coin!!!
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Aetheling, Darn I got 4 really nice quarters lying here with your name on them!!! I wondered where you went my friend!!!
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United Kingdom
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Aetheling, Darn I got 4 really nice quarters lying here with your name on them!!! I wondered where you went my friend!!!
I'll still take them my friend. I owe you a Cartwheel two pence! I've seen a few I've nearly actually bought for you. Yes I've been missing a while, alot of work on and all. I'll try and pick you that two pence up in a week's time, actually probably two weeks I'm waiting some cash coming through from the last of my sixpences. I've been trying to find you a nice one for the money we agreed, there's alot of really beaten up ones and alot of way out of the price ones but a nice one will come along, I've just got to keep my eyes peeled! One last thing to note which is back on topic for this thread, coins of Louis XVI of France are also a side interest of mine, I don't really go much in depth knowledge wise with these but I always see what low grade ones are available. (Only cos high grade ones are not available!) |
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Terry, thank you for the info
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What period were the French Louis XVI coins struck? I can keep an eye out over here! Don't mind finding things for collecting friends as long as I know they are needed somewhere!
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AEtheling, The quarters are here and NOT going anywhere until we can get together. For what it is worth they are 1964, 1962, 1961, and 1954. Will keep them until we can work something up.
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United Kingdom
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What period were the French Louis XVI coins struck? I can keep an eye out over here! Don't mind finding things for collecting friends as long as I know they are needed somewhere!
Louis XVI 1774-1793 he was the one that lost his head in the French Revolution, he was the last real king of France (in the old style), although in the 19th century Charles X comes closer if not going beyond the style of Old Regime absolutism. The handful of kings that came with the restoration of the monarchy in the 1820s, Louis XVIII, Charles X (Technically but he got out of control) and Louis Phillipe, were constitutional. They were 'King's of the French' that being a new nation with an identity rather than the property of the king, the French owned France not some guy in a wig by the name of Louis (more often than not). |
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Belgium
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Of course Napoleon came out of exile in 1815 Lost the battle of Waterloo in Belgium and went back in exile all in 100 days timespan I do not think France belonged to the French under Napoleon I Intresting read on this link http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/..._a_franc.htm |
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United Kingdom
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Stop complicating things! ;-)
I'd forgotten about Napoleon, I've never really studied him. I don't know why but all of the teachers I've had over the years usually just passed over him very quickly. I'm guessing it's because it's such a interesting period and deserves alot of time and since we didn't have the time we skipped it.
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Belgium
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Stop complicating things! ;-)
I'd forgotten about Napoleon, I've never really studied him. I don't know why but all of the teachers I've had over the years usually just passed over him very quickly. I'm guessing it's because it's such a interesting period and deserves alot of time and since we didn't have the time we skipped it.
Schools are strange places I learned about the ancient egyptians: greek; romans ; phenicians etc The battle of Hastings 1066 The battle of the golden spurs were the french lost in belgium 1302 Nothing about Nelson Nothing about the first or second worldwar A lot about the french since they were so friendly to loose a second time in Waterloo 1815 and all schoolchildren had to visit the battlefield museum at least once |
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United Kingdom
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British history I've covered alot of it in a shallow broad sweep but I've studied some in some real depth over the years. I'm sick to death of the Tudors, way, way over studied... that and I really don't like Henry VIII (Greatest English king of all time? Not likely! Worst of them all in my opinion, except maybe for Richard the Lionheart and Charles I).
I've never done much on the Egyptians although I watch alot of documentaries on them! I've read bits and bats on Egypt here and there, I really would like to know more about it and thus I've been buying more books on this area.
I've studied Ancient Greece, Rome (i love the Romans), mesolithic/neolithic to Iron Age Europe and such wonderful things as the beaker culture (i absolutely hated that!) the Stone Age really ain't my thing.
Done Roman Britian from a religion perspective (wonderful, I enjoyed that), I've also studied most English history from the dark ages to 1660 in some depth. Moved onto the Industrial revolution (boring!) although I do like watching documentaries on this topic (steam driven engines and stuff great stuff), farming techniques and enclosure though bored me stiff.
Luckily I managed to avoid most British history from 1750-1900 as it's the dullest most boring thing ever, Gladstone/Disraeli who cares? It's all politics and bills getting turned down, and passed and such. It's basically parliamentary in focus which is tedious.
20th century Britain and World War 1 bored me to tears too. World War II interested me far, far more as did post 1950 history upto present.
As for other countries, I've studied The German Reformation of Martin Luther, Nazi Germany, Tsarist Russia, The French Revolution(s), Europe (Italy, Germany, France, Russia) and China + America in the Interwar Period. Now whilst Italy and France intrigued me, the teacher made Germany more boring that it should have ever been. Russia in this period I never cared much for, Tsarist Russia I could study, communist Russia eewwww no thanks. China was tediously dull also, medieval China like Ghengis Khan I have no doubt would have been scintillating, but yet again it was Communist China, and I have no time for Communism. I like Royal history so as you can imagine I really felt very sorry for Nicholas II. And Louis XVI.
Also studied the American West and A history of medicine through time from pre-historic to 1970. Now the latter had me totally gripped! Science and history my two favourite subjects together, wonderful.
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United Kingdom
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Oh and topics missed which I think was rather criminal to miss;
The American War of Independence, The British Empire and the Colonies and the Napoleonic Wars.
Why I've never been taught those is something that is beyond me. Well I say that but I can see why we perhaps weren't taught about the latter as Napoleonic history is generally taught from a military perspective and most history teaching institutions here usually teach from political and or social directions. Luckily Economic slant on history (i.e Marxist history) is no long taught much, if at all in the main stream. Which makes me rather glad because I like the old school of elitist history rather than the new trend of 'what did the ordinary people do?', well not a great deal... got on with life mostly, mundane tasks like ploughing fields, catching plague, torches and pitchforks to the nearest old woman with a cat's house to accuse her of witchcraft. Whilst fascinating to watch such material on TV programmes, have you ever tried to read academic texts on this kind of stuff? It's usually left written in the rather indechiperable English of the original source, almost Chaucerish.
Although why the other two were not taught is beyond me, some say the American Independence is not taught to us because we lost it! Ha! I doubt that very much because we're taught about everything else we lost... Bannockburn, Hastings, Calais... most of France, the list is endless.
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