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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1751 Posts |
Putting away stamps from the coins I've really started enjoying certain images. All very rewarding !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Coin collecting spurred an interest in metal detecting, with great success in finds including hundreds of silvers and many from the mid-1800's. At about the same time, roll hunting, which has given up thousands of silvers. Bottle collecting through excavation has given up hundreds of old-tyme medicines, bitter, beers and sodas.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
102 Posts |
After years of claiming how disinterested I was in history, coin collecting has turned this around completely. Evidently I was just disinterested in the manner in which history was taught, not the content itself.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2824 Posts |
Slight of hand and coin tricks with my pocket pieces
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Quote:
Slight of hand and coin tricks with my pocket pieces I like! When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
4227 Posts |
As a writer, coin collecting has enabled me to get different coin writing assignments and interested me in editing the local (currently) and regional (past) clubs' newsletter.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Chemistry. When I was a kid I used to try to see how far I could make a coin fly using my own home made explosives. Eventually became a chem teacher. Not really a hobby, but coins started it.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2850 Posts |
Started collecting coins and now I'm mainly into US Paper Money, obsoletes, etc. Really enjoy the art and history of these pieces of paper.
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New Member
United States
34 Posts |
Stamp collecting (since 1967) came before coin collecting (since 1969), in my case. Regardless, both generated a tremendous interest in political history, archontology and constitutional government for which I received a graduate degree in political science in 1984. The philatelic, numismatic and political history library I own numbers in the thousands of books.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1192 Posts |
I guess my love of history as a kid did make me like coins more. I was never into currency or stamps, they just seemed so easily destroyed that I was afraid of them. The hobby has made me want to do metal detecting but I haven't dove into that yet.
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12/07/2014 10:22 pm
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Moderator
 United States
188770 Posts |
I started stamp collecting for a few years. I no longer consider myself a stamp collector, but I still have my Harris album and will keep interesting stamps that come my way. I was an avid MOD file collector. I probably just as much time aquiring, sorting, and cataloging MOD files. For what it is worth, I have a player on my phone. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
506 Posts |
I collect coins most actively but I pull paper money out of circulation if it catches my eye. I also collect rocks and minerals (less actively).
These hobbies did not originate together (maybe paper money stemmed off a little from coins) but they have now become connected.
Rocks and minerals connect to coins and paper money in an interesting way. I went to a rocks and minerals (and gemstone) show expecting to pick up some cool specimans when I was hooked by this booth that had mostly silver jewelry and the like. He had some trays of world paper money and world coins/tokens from which I pulled a "few" out. He asked me if I was interested in coins and paper money and I obviously responded "yes!" He showed me some of his coin inventory. The connection: [some] coins = silver = a mineral = rocks and minerals! I never expected to find a coin dealer at a rocks and minerals show. I was pleasantly surprised! (although severely under prepared with money)
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Valued Member
Australia
51 Posts |
Yes like others have said Metal detecting, but I don't go too often.
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Valued Member
New Zealand
72 Posts |
coin collecting led me to pursue metal detecting, as a young country the better finds tend to be old British coins, but I don't complain, I still love digging up a penny. The history side of collecting is interesting too, I'm doing a degree in history at university with emphasis on military aspects, so the occupation coins I am fascinated with
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
526 Posts |
In my travels and searches I also started looking at postcards with coins at the topic. Example   |
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