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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm really into my wheat collection obsession and it looks like it's gonna be a long haul for sure but while hanging out on this forum, I've really starting to feel the itch to start branching out... Jeffersons, Rosies, ATBs and Presidentials...
My 8 year old son and I went to the bank and picked up $250 in quarters and in one afternoon filled a States album save for five coins! We had a blast and I think I've got him hooked too...
So anyhow, where did your collections branch? What was your first passion and how did it change over the years? I mention modern coins only in the interest of fitting this area of the forum but it doesn't mean I haven't been spying the calssics! mercs, Buffalos, etc...
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United States
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Great question! After I finished my Lincolns, I moved on to IHCs. Now I'm moving on to large cents because my IHC set is almost complete. The goal is to have a full series of US cents... maybe in a few decades I can afford an 1856 FEC and the chain cents. |
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United States
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My collections have been full of tragedy. Lost 2 before I have ever finshed a set. This is my 3rd time around. Franklins have always been my favorite and my main goal atm. Also working on lincolns and jeffersons. And morgans. Well love one coin, love them all. Eventually I want one of every coin. Life long goal but I believe its worth it. I've also branched to currency this time around and love it evere so deeply. Such a great hobby.
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United States
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I have always been branched. LOL I simply collect coins. Mainly U.S., but world too. I do manage to make an effort to devote more effort to one set than the others at any given time, but never to the exclusion of others. Right now I am almost done with my Lincoln set, but it's not as if I am not working on other coins as well. I just can't manage to ignore the others. Coin ADD I guess. LOL
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United States
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It started for me with IHC's. I still need 5 to complete that. Right now I'm on a Lincoln and Washington quarters kick. Need about 9 coins to finish them to 1995. My LWC and LMC are down to needing 3 coins. My Franklin halves is complete as well as my Mercury dimes. Need about 15 Roosevelt's to be finished with them to date. Also need 2 Standing Liberties to finish that book. I own no Barbers. And looking at the price of them I may only do a 7070. Racing season is about to start and I still have two heads to get done so I prob won't have any money to spend on coins til fall :p Edited by Luvpennys
03/12/2013 03:41 am
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Australia
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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After collecting a type set of Australian pre decimals, I branched out into ancient coins. That was more than 30 years ago.
These days it's all World coins ancient to modern, all cultures. You can't branch out much more than that!
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United States
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As hard as I resisted, right from the beginning. I started working on a type set, but became enthralled w/ the Indian Head series. Worked on that for a while, then found Civil War tokens and the history they represent quite interesting. I've found myself over the few years I've been collecting buying toned coins, and also whatever caught my attention at the time. In all that though, I tend to find the IHC & CWT my favorites. |
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United States
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I started with a bulk accumulation of any variety of US coins I could get my Hands on. Then it was circulation sets of modern coins, then walking liberties, now I'm seriously collecting Proof Three Cent Nickels with a casual IHC/Lincoln Cent collection. Oh, the places you'll go! |
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United States
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I tried to complete my lincoln cents folders (still didn't). I ended up buying tons of different folders and only completed the dime one. I only need 2 zinc 1982's to complete.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Been collecting coins for well over 60 years and I know I started with pennies but spread out to anything and everything soon after.
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United States
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I started collecting as a kid over 30 years ago, let the hobby drop through college and now that I'm older and more stable have picked it up again. I started with cents and nickels when I was younger. When I got back into it six years ago, I added a bunch of LWCs (still need several in the teens) and finished off the Jeffersons. I also expanded into other modern sets and finished them off. I'm slowly working my way into some of the older US coin sets (Buffalos, IHCs and Mercs) but it's going slowly. I've also branched into Mexican coins (centavos and reales) and am getting interested in Colonials.
I sometimes feel unfocused but I'm learning a lot and all the branching keeps me from getting bored so I guess it's all good.
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United States
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I guess I kinda started on a branch, and now have a bushy shrub! When I was young, I started collecting wheats, IHC's and world coins that my grandparents brought me from their travels, but when my gramps passed in '92 and my gram moved to Florida (from Mass) I lost touch with it. Then about a year and a half ago my fiancé gave me an ASE, MS 1863 IHC, Morgan and Peace dollar in a bag with a few other coins that she found in the trash of all places! She worked at a nursing home and while throwing something in the dumpster one day saw a little leather bag on top that was zipped closed, curiosity got the best of her and she looked and that is what was in it. She brought it inside and asked one of the bosses and was told that they had cleaned all the unclaimed boxes from the basement that nobody wanted or was nobody to leave them to.. And that they had been unclaimed for years and years so she could keep the bag! It's sad how people's loved items can just end up in the trash, wanted by nobody.. Or that they had nobody.. So I like to think that whoever had owned them would be happy that they were appreciated and got me collecting again! I hope at least... So that got me off and running.. I bought a few more Morgan's and was talking about it with my mother while we were there for dinner and she brought out and gave me my grandpa and father's combined collection that ranged from IHC's and Morgan's to the full SBA set and half of the State Quarters and almost everything inbetween. Almost a year later she found the first 3 Washington folders, Roosevelt's and a second Kennedy album as well as a box of rolled Kennedy's, a barber half, a few walkers and 3 Franklin's some random silver and other coins, their world collection and surprisingly.. my old bag of coins from when I collected with my grandpa Thankfully she had been holding off on giving them to me until she thought (hoped) I'd start collecting again and not sell it off.. And I'm 30 now so I'm glad she waited as earlier in my life I very may well have done just that. Now I couldn't imagine it! So my main focus has been Morgan's... As I absolutly love them, but I've been working on quite a few different sets as well as some oddballs thrown in now and again for a type set. And I've still been picking away at all the origional collections and upgrading when ever I find a coin I like more. I've recently reall been attracted to the Seated dollar, half and quarter (the 1853 arrows and rays especially) I love the eagle design on those! But have also recently gotten a taste for gold! I picked up my first gold coin (1911 $5 Indian), and am looking at a MS 1882 $5... We will see.. Lol. So basaclly every time I buy some coins I get at least a few Morgan's but there's always something else thrown into the mix too... Often quit randomly. I love variety, branch out! Grow!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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While I collect all U.S. Coin Types I'm heavily concentrated on Morgans right now. Can't get enough of them. It's truly become an obsession but in a good way. I've got 34 Morgan dollars of which roughly 20 of them are certified MS63 or better. I have about 8 that I want to send off for certification at some point as I believe they warrant it. With all that being said my Lincoln collection is at about 95% through 1958. Not really into the memorials but probably will be in time. Pretty much anything else that catches my eye and my fancy I try to pick up finances allowing of course. |
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Posted 03/12/2013 02:16 am
I find branching out is the way to go 
