What Do You Guys Collect The Most?

My late husband left me a few gold coins I sold them and I am trying to put a collection of small pennies together. I collect raw coins only the graded ones are to expensive for me.

Silver, any silver really

Canadian small cents and Japanese 1 Sens

My unrealistic goal is to collect one of everything in the world. I collect Canadian raw decimal series, American raw decimal series, World mint decimal series, Mint rolls from all over the world, various types of bullion (silver,copper,titanium,nickel, etc.), Mint bundles of all world paper money, Canadian bills, old Canadian tire money, and that's just the coin/paper money part. I also collect baseball cards, glass telephone insulators, Canadian and world stamps, semiprecious gemstones(with my daughter), rocks/mineral specimens.

I've been collecting for 21 years now...the 1992 provincial quarter series is what got me started. My wife says I have a disease

well having collected all the Canadian decimals and the Maritime coins, I decided to focus on the 50 cent series..Been collecting for 35 years ..

It's Canadian coins for me with a special emphasis on quarters. I've been collecting for about 15 years since I took possession of a collection of my fathers.

I have a long and interesting story to tell, but you asked for it!

I've been collecting circulated coins from all over the world since I was a kid. My uncle was a doctor in the UN, and so he had to travel to the remotest places on earth for UN missions, and consequently he often brought me interesting coins. I kept them in an uncleaned Pond's cream jar! really! I was also given a George V silver Indian rupee by my grandma; it was a little dirty, so me and my mom gave it a good scrub! And we also dipped the ten or so Good to Very Fine condition 1 Anna, 1/4 Anna, 1 Pice, and 1/2 Pice coins that my mom gave me in all sorts of "baths" and scrubbed them well until they looked "pretty". In our defense, that was all before the Internet age.

Then for my wedding, I received a Victorian and an Edwardian sovereign, both well circulated, as a gift from one of my aunts; I quickly sold them for around US$150 and US$100 in 2003 on ebay... ouch! The money went directly to my hobby of that time: Collecting rare Leica and Zeiss lenses. I recently sold my lens collection and made a hefty profit; apparently, old lenses are as desirable as precious metals!

After that, I started collecting (or rather dumping in a tin can) any interesting Canadian coins I could find in my pocket. Also, once they discontinued the penny, I collected loads of them, all in some zip-lock bags (tell me about PVC )!

Then just at the beginning of this year, I thought I should get serious about this hobby (I still have all my "previous sins" in a box, along with my newly acquired uni-safe quarter albums -- I just had too many quarters). As a start, I've decided to collect at least MS-63 or better (mostly) business-strike coins from Canada. So far, here is a list that I own (bar my early sins):

1) 1913 RCM BoC Hoard $5 gold (soon to be PCGS'ed)
2) 1913 RCM BoC Hoard $10 gold (soon to be PCGS'ed)
3) 1914 RCM BoC Hoard $5 gold (soon to be PCGS'ed)
4) 1962 BU 50-cent piece (not sure why I bought this; if it proves to be of having no numismatic premium, I might have to throw it in my bullion bin)

Rolls:

1) special wrap (last million circulated pennies)
2) 2013 special wrap half-dollars circulation roll (2013 is a special year for me)

I also have a few RCM/Perth Mint NCLT singles (most interesting being those $20-for-$20s, selectively gold-plated penny, and the Brass Miss Canada coin), some bullion (GML,SML,Pandas, ASE, Phil., Wildlife series, 1.5 Polar bear), and some small international gold coins (Swiss miss Vreneli, Mexican two and a half pesos, a 1925 Sov, etc.). Phew! Did I had to list it all?

In the near future, I plan to reverse my sins by buying back some of those old British Indian coins/Sovs in desirable grades.

Coins! Mostly Canadian....

Seriously though, our criteria are everything issued by the RCM with a face value of $30 or less and struck in silver or cheaper metal. Including all varieties listed in Charleton for circulation coinage. Plus all the 'official' coinage issued prior to that by The Royal Mint. Also all the Maritime pre-Confederation coins. Then a binder of paper money, a few of the small gold coins and 5oz silver that have been recently issued, a smattering of pre-coinage tokens, a couple of 'new' France coins, another binder of British coins, a couple of smaller binders for Australian and German, and a big binder for the rest of the world.

Started almost 40yrs ago putting aside silver coins and old pennies I got from my paper route.