Question To Our Non-Us Members

Hi ChristinaM
I collect Presidential dollars, b/c I've started collecting US coins since the last 6 months. The credit goes to Mila_cent, I won a P&D mint Washington coins at a quiz. She sent me the fliers and the cardboard holder with them.

I have also Eisenhower, Sacagawea and SB Anthony 1$ from a few trades with CCF members.

My problem is its so difficult for me to try to collect a series of any of these coins b/c Egyptian dealers don't have them at their shops and of course I cant get them from my bank b/c they neither sell or buy except US notes and not coins.

SO, the Presidential dollars series seems more easy to be collected since the US mint has started producing this series in 2007. Also, its quit interesting to me to know more about the US presidents.

I cant wait to complete the 2007 P&D mint set.

Since joining here, I have bought a couple of Morgan dollars slabbed and raw, a starnote and couple of counterfeit Morgans the rest of my US coins come from change or exchanges people have given me.
I don't have an extensive collection in US coins or alot of knowledge of them. A few errors that catch my eye.
That's why I'm here to look and learn and hopefully exchange info on our Aussie coins.

For me, America is "just another foreign country" and isn't treated any different, although I do have quite a lot of American coins simply because so many friends/relatives have been there and brought back their change for me to go through.

I don't actively collect any particular series, and the relatively high prices for older American coins is a put-off for trying to complete a type set, but since joining the forum I have bought a couple of the key types, including the Liberty Head and St Gaudens gold $20 pieces.

Storage-wise, the nicer examples go in 2x2s in the World A-Z albums, in between United Arab Emirates and Upper Canada. The shoddier specimens and most of the modern date sets get filed into a cheap 'n' nasty coin album labelled "North America", which they share with the Canadian coins.

ChristinaM, most interesting question.

quote Sap:"For me, America is "just another foreign country"

Thanks for your perspective Sap. I've always been of the mindset that the rest of the world revolves around America.

I collect American coins pretty exclusively. Their tangible connectivity to our history is probably the key driver to my collecting. I guess it stands to reason that folks from other countries aren't going to share that passion.

G'day, collecting is a compromise between -
- acquiring everything interesting, or pretty, or to complete a set or series;
and
- the narrow-minded, poorly-informed, and fundamentally prejudiced views of those we live with, those who provide us with income, and those who make demands on our income.

Which is why we join CCF, to be sustained in The Long Battle.

I've set myself a couple of themes, as targets in my collecting. If ever I knock any of them over, I'll find some other target.

To date, I've only found one thread that might interest me among the coins of the U.S.A. And, I haven't started researching it yet, but I would start with the coins minted in Philadelphia in 1853. My interest being that my Great-great-grandfather, George Robert HARTLEY (1829~1915) was born in Philadelphia, and migrated to Oz in 1853. So if I put a year set together, I will have some idea of what change may have been jingling in his pocket on the long voyage across the Pacific. I sometimes pause to wonder what Honolulu was like when he passed through. Any coins I acquire won't be slabbed, or won't stay that way. I will, as part of a family history lesson, let my sons handle the coins, to put them in touch with that era. That's the dream, anyway.

But, I haven't started the research yet. And until next year, I don't anticipate having any disposable sponduliks for the task.

Peter in Oz

Interesting. I wonder if you were in a country and they have a US Embassy, if they would acquire some coins for people as a collector. Might not hurt to ask. Not China for sure. If they want our money, they just make it themselves.
If anyone does want coins from our coutry, I wonder how difficult it would be to send them some from here? I wonder if they could just order them from a dealer web site? Is there a law prohibiting someone from here sending a few coins to someone in another country? Is there a limit if it is possible? Lots of questions on that subject.