Do You Favor A Particular Coin?

I completed a collection of Australian pre decimal coinage in silver and bronze, each design represented by the rarest date.
I then completed an Australian gold type set of sovereigns and half sovereigns. That was way back in 1971!
I HAD to sell them to help raise money for our first house.

I thought to myself:
'Where to from here?'
Answer:
'How about building a collection, that would be impossible to complete?'
The idea formed in my mind to collect at least one coin from every World culture from the inception of coinage circa 600 BC, with at least one coin from every century.

My approach to coin collecting is NOT unique.
There are a small number of collectors here in the CCF, that have a similar approach to the studying and collecting of World coinage, over the centuries.

Needless to say, there is a heavy bias to coins struck in the 19th and 20th centuries, simply because they are MUCH more available. There is some bias within the modern coins in my collection, to British and U.S. issues.

Nevertheless, I am highly active in taking current issued for circulation from pocket change, just as kid might be.
Perhaps I have never quite grown up in some ways, when it comes to coin collecting.

The question posed by this thread:
"Do you favor a particular coin?"
No, not really.
I like ALL coins!

Dave, I was not the one who started the name calling, and in all honesty, people can state what they think a coin should be worth all they want, but selling on ebay is the true test of value.

I've been sampling larger world silvers; very cool at an affordable price (for me): Spain 5 pesetas, Peru sol, and France 5 francs: mostly from the late 1800s. I like circulated coins with toning and/or dirt. I like to think my coins have been around. That's a big part of the attraction for me.

It's also a challenge to find honestly worn examples without major issues. And that makes the reward of a new purchase better.

Large coppers from the 1800s are also of interest, both US and world.

My favorite series is the US Two Cent Piece.

My favorite is Capped Bust Coinage. Once I finish my type set and graduate from college I hope to make a Capped Bust Half set.

I like making year sets of the same grade. Example, a 1958 Canadian year set in AU toned. When all coins in the set look about the same it gives me the most enjoyment because I have to track them down and compare them to each other and finding that perfect coin is a good feeling. I don't like only one coin, it's the collection that counts for me. I think if you're doing Peace dollars, you should collect one year only but have one coin in each grade to have a kind of "master" set for grading - that's just how I would do it - you're free to do as you want. Peace!

scott





Mostly Ikes, from $1,000 bags

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You overpaid for a cleaned coin.. Didn't believe us... Then tried to brag to us that you ripped someone else off with the same mistake you made. It doesn't make that coin worth a cent more than we origionally said.. It's not. It just means you took advantage of someone... Which is pretty frowned upon around here. How did you feel when you found out the coin was junk? Well congrats.. You just made some newbie feel the same way..... Awesome. That's not "calling us out"... That's blatantly ripping someone off when you knew the coin wasn't worth that.

And I don't want to hear that it's worth what someone was willing to pay.. Unless it was fully disclosed it was a cleaned coin.. Otherwise it's false advertising. I'd like to see the pics you listed it with. You knew it was polished, so unless advertised as such that's just taking advantage of a newbie.
And also... If you sold it on ebay for what you paid... Then you did take a loss after the ebay and paypal fees. . Just saying.

But to answer the question. Mainly MS Morgans, more specifically toners and PL's/DMPL's. But I do have a love for most pre 1900 coins, aside of Morgans mostly Seated dollars, halfs and quarters... As well as gold.