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Poland
3201 Posts |
Which collecting area (be it coins or banknotes) are you unlikely to pursue,
not due to the price of the items,
not due to their low availability,
not due to the vast amount of items to collect,
not due to your lack of knowledge or experience in said area,
but simply because they wouldn't be able to hold your interest? Are there such series (or ways of collecting) which would give you no satisfaction from getting another specimen?
Example: do you think collecting West German pfennigs by date and mintmark is a tiring pursuit? Lots of dates, 4 then 5 mintmarks per date, and even if you do complete them, all you have is a bunch of pre-euro small change, all looking the same...
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Slovenia
459 Posts |
Yugoslavian dinar. I just find those coins very boring, uninteresting etc.
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Moderator
 United States
14463 Posts |
I currently have no interest in collecting all the US Presidential dollars. I have a few that interest me, but I don't see me trying to build a full set of them. EDIT - Also, I feel a set of Standing Liberty quarters would be too hard, due to rarity, quality, and those would affect price. |
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Australia
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I like all coins   |
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Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
I have no interest in U.S. Peace dollars . I find them boring probably because most of them have crappy strikes especially the reverse . So this is why I don't have a single Peace dollar in my collection .  |
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United States
6370 Posts |
Collecting anything by date and mintmark is a bore for me, as is modern US coinage and many designs on foreign coinage. German pfennigs fall in that cetegory. |
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United States
5855 Posts |
In general, I am not interested in pursuing any complete sets (years and mint marks) of any single coin. I do actually have a complete Lincoln Cent album, but I purchased that one already completed because I thought it was a good deal at the time. I just don't have the patience or desire to try to assemble such a set one coin at a time. [Edited to add: Or, in other words, what TypeCoin971793 just posted a few minutes before me...] Edited by barryg
08/11/2016 08:30 am
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United States
2850 Posts |
Anything modern, which includes all those silver rounds. (i.e. year of the _______ coins)
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1911 Posts |
I am of the TypeCoin opinion. :)
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United States
6326 Posts |
It's hard for me to invest much interest in non-U.S. coinage, for 2 simple reasons. Near zero budget --  And the fact that a whole lifetime can be spent JUST trying to collect US coins...there's just so much to get, it's an impossible task with no endgame, imo. All the Barbers. IHC's Morgans Lincolns Shields 3CN's Large Cents Jeffersons Washingtons Roosevelts Mercury's VAM's Errors/Varieties I mean, Good Lord ! -- How &/or why would you need or want to increase that list if you're a US collector ? -- Boredom is impossible for me within my country's coinage... I have a decent amount of foreign coinage,, but nothing very organized or sought after....they just sort of fell onto my lap over the years. The one exception to my future plans with all that, is Canadian Cents....I have a nice pile and would like to make a set with these someday. Also, I like the old Australian pennies....a complete set of those would please me greatly. British coins are another interest for me....but I'm scattered all over with those, and won't ever be able to go after complete sets. Edited by eaglefoot
08/11/2016 09:29 am
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United States
513 Posts |
Ancients.
Many foreign coins/series are uninteresting. Many foreign coins/series are interesting.
The sheer volume of a year set of Euro countries/denominations wouldn't hold my interest, even though some of those designs are interesting, but most are boring. Although maybe I'd do a country set (OFEC of a selected denomination, say 1 Euro, of a selected year).
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United States
73 Posts |
I not into foreign coins. I keep all that I find, but they just get put in a jar. Not even sure why I do that now that I am writing this...
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CCF Advertiser
United States
1533 Posts |
Modern coinage
Foreign coinage, except for Ancients
tokens of any kind
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United States
513 Posts |
oh yeah, tokens and other exonumia.
Except for Conder tokens. And Colonial tokens. And the cool Civil War tokens (not the boring ones). And . . . [/best Gilda Radner voice] never mind
Edited by Garoyn
08/11/2016 09:55 am
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United States
280 Posts |
I'm least interested in the coins that I haven't learned to read; Greek, Arabic, Chinese & Japanese. I am able to struggle through Cyrillic with many letters being the same & I have a deciphering sheet I printed from online. On the Presidential dollars & moderns, I mostly only like the proofs. |
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Posted 08/11/2016 03:19 am
