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Rest in Peace
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There is an unending number of numismatic or exonumic fields you might explore. How about a 1930's sales tax token, minted for the state, that saved the state from bankruptcy after the great depression. Or a transportation token that may have been used in the city or a close city to you. Or a token used in a prison. Or an OPA token used during World War Two as change for a ration SCRIP.
All of those can be had for under $1 each and there is a plethora of other options. Eat one less fast food meal per week and you can order some historic tokens.
That's to say nothing of the possibility for world coins or tokens.
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I agree, a big pile of tokens can be had for cheap on ebay. put them in 2x2's and sort them. |
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Pillar of the Community
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You can work on photographing the coins you already have.
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Pillar of the Community
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Coin roll hunting is probably your best bet. Since you aren't technically "spending" any money, you can redeposit the coins whenever you want. I have gotten many ounces of silver for face over the years by doing this. It does get tedious if you have a dry streak, but one or two big scores can make it all worth it!
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Pillar of the Community
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Sometimes I reread old coin magazines When my family's internet went down for over a month, I just about memorized the beginning of my 2011 RedBook.  |
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Not sure about South Africa, but just about every coin show I have been to in Michigan has 1 or 2 dealers with a box of foreign coins at 12 or 15 for $1. My son like to get "interesting" coins. Usually the dealer just wants them gone, and he comes home with 40 for $2. Always finds coins in the 1800's and finds coins worth at least a $3 sold price on ebay. Edited by Buymyemu
06/27/2017 8:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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It's a tough thing. I'm always on my favorite dealer websites looking over their inventory. It gets really hard to not over-indulge sometimes.
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You can work on photographing the coins you already have. scstrawn 100% One of my pet peeves is bad pictures. A short trip to ebay should provide ample examples. Photography is cheap, and we have a world class forum just a click away here at CCF. If you are just starting out, I get it... I used to hold a magnifying glass in front of camera to get close ups. But after a while, bad photos are just another way of saying I don't respect you enough to bother making an effort.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Research into the history of a coin is a worthwhile expenditure of time. I have this coin in two different compositions and the story behind it is interesting.   In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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I know some dealers that are only selling coins because they love to buy coins but would run out of money otherwise. For a no dollar budget, its tough but there is always CRH. And you can go to local coin clubs and put together talks on things you like to learn about.
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I enjoy being on CCF to both learn about and admire others' coins, which scratches my itch most of the time. The education from CCF prepares me for when I finally do have money in my budget. I also love looking at my coins and, to a much lesser extent, undertaking the never-ending task of reorganizing, cataloging, and photographing my collection. As others have said, reading about coins is fun too. I hope to resubscribe to Coin World soon, but in the meantime, there's lots of articles online and some books I have now to keep me occupied. As a student, I can tell you that you can never spend too much time learning!  |
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Is CRH a viable option for South Africa? I know there is no silver to be had, but I assume there ought to be some reasonably valuable varieties that could be found? Numismatics is a field that is functionally infinite; no one person has ever become an expert in all numismatic fields. I have studied Jefferson nickels extensively; I know almost nothing about VAMs. I know just about the entire history of the Roman Empire and how my coins play into it; I know very little about the technical aspects of coin identification and RIC numbers. I have collected and studied the Indo-Sassanian imitative drachms extensively for over a year; I still periodically find new types that shatter what I thought I knew. Even without a budget, you can still learn a lot from "window shopping" online. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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The problem with roll searching is when you try taking them back to a bank, By me banks are getting to the point they really just don't want those rolls. Bank of America by me has a new policy that when you bring in any coins, rolled or loose, they are put into a plastic bag, shipped out for counting and there is now a fee for that. Also, what ever the total was, it is placed in an account of yours. NO account? Then they send you a check and there is another fee for that. So roll searching by me is becoming expensive. Some smaller banks will refuse any bulk coins from people without an account there.
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I can definitely relate to "no or low" budget for coin buying. My withdrawal routine is a combination of reading CCF, coin roll hunting, working on coin photography and pulling out an album to refresh my memory of what I have and don't have.
I'm fortunate to have a bank near me that will sell me rolls. Then I take them to my bank and deposit them.
herbaby
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