Choosing Canadian Coin/Currency Series: In Need Of Your Opinion

I myself am a token guy. You can pick up tokens dirt cheap and the hunt can last for years.

If you find a token for 50 cents, put it in a 2x2 and attribute it, you can increase it's value 4-10xs.

I suppose a complete set of Ontario dairy tokens isn't what you mean by a set worth a certain financial amount.

Newfoundland small cents in MS+? CTC (Canadian Tire Coupons)lend to your currency collection, it has it's own collector society and the bills do get pricey.

It is a hard question because it is so personal. I hope I gave you something to think about.

Thanks for the awesome replies guys! These all sound awesome and I will definitely look into it! Except I have no idea where to start in the newfoundland banknotes or the tokens... Any suggestions?

I am more of a Maritime collector that collects NFLD/Atlantic by chance. AuCoinAg would be a better guy to answer that particuler part of a question.

As for tokens there are many avenues you can take. I focus on New Brunswick and sub specialize in Carelton County.

You can either go for a book or write your own pseduo-book by copying and pasting from all over the web, searching ebay, asking C.C.F. members and coin show dealers.

Serge Pelletier wrote a few books on municipal trade tokens. They are far from complete but give you a good base to work with.

Atwood and Coffee wrote the book on transportation tokens
Melvin Reiter wrote the book on Milk tokens.
If you want to go Maritimes there was a book written called "Wood Money of Atlantic Canada"

Then Dr. Byrd wrote a book on New Brunswick numismatics, that covers the pre confederate Frigite tokens.

Search ebay for a combination of "vintage" "antique" "dog" "pet" "animal" "tag" and "licence" and you could spend all your life trying to document all the different shapes and sizes of the dog tags of local counties.

Look up Freemason lodges across your home province and search for "Masonic Pennies" from them all.

Charleton put out a book on communion tokens.

I say find a type of token or a geographical place you like and go wild. The sum is worth waaaay more then the individual pieces as, if you are collecting right, you are telling a story.

Depends. If I was a new younger collector I would begin with a MS/PL toonie or loonie collection of all the years and special edition/commemorative varieties, while biding my time in deciding what next to collect that involves far greater cost. If numismatics is to flourish in future years, coins that are of greatest appeal to future generations will most likely be something they're directly familiar with.

For older folks like me, likely older silver coins are most popular because we can relate to that era. So for you, collecting something that you can relate to in some way is also a good place to start.

Awesome! I will definitely look up your thread and always willing to post pictures of em. The 1954 series is also a great idea! I would love to get my coins graded but I don't trust shipping them and risking damage :(