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Thank you for accepting me! I started to collect coins at a young age, when I got a tin with Dutch coins from my Granddad. As I lived in The UK, Germany and The Netherlands and Australia, they are the main coins I have! But also coins from countries where my family has been! I love the older ones, but don't mind the new ones! At the moment I don't have any Euros, and prefer pre-Euros coins. Also commemorative coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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hi and  , nice to meet a fellow Aussie. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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to CCF! BTW, we allow any fool with an email account to join. And we hope they ask ?s and share. Then they get excited by their 10th post and then #25 and they're hooked and we've got another member of the community. So get posting! -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Australia
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Dolphins-01: to the CCF! With World coins, I adopted a philosophy - to collect the coins that my grandfather would have collected. That turned out to be World coins before about 1950, when silver began to be withdrawn form the World's circulating coinage systems. You have made a good start, thanks to your grand dad! Krause World coins 1601- 2000, (4 volumes) helps. They don't have to be current, and can be bought from 2nd tier public auctions. For current pricing, I consult NGC World coin values on line. Learning how to grade them is essential, especially when almost all of what you buy is not slabbed, especially in Australia. If you learn to grade and authenticate for yourself, slabbing is then not needed, leading to display / storage problems, and extra expense being avoided. |
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To the Forum. |
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to the Community! |
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to the CCF! |
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We look forward to your participation. |
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Welcome aboard
Have a seat and enjoy the ride.
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United States
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to CCF Yes enjoy the ride: There is much knowledge and experience in the community and every one adds to that in many areas.  |
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United States
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to the forum, Dolphins! |
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Welcome to the Forum!
Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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I would like to thank everyone for making me welcome. To Sel_691 I would like to thank you for the advice you gave me. I would love to be able to stick to a certain time limit, like before 1950.
However, when we lived in the different countries I also collected the currency being used at the time. So, all my coins from Europe are all pre-Euros. Among them commemorative coins! Now I live here in Australia, I do try to get as many uncirculated coins as I can afford! But I see the history evolve here with coins and notes, so I try to collect that history. I cannot always afford what I want.
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Australia
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Now that you live in a new country it is well that you are in a position to get examples of Australian coinage history, even if they are in lower grades.
British coins before 1910 were the official and current coinage in Australia, and so form an important part of Australian coinage history.
I never try to get top condition coins in this category; I am far more interested in the coins themselves - condition is a secondary consideration for me.
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I have pre decimal coinage of Australia, forgetting that everything was British prior 1910.
It is only in the last years when everything changes so quick, and a lot of commemorative coins come out. I do try to stick to those, like I did in Europe! Some get circulated and I try to have both!
Unfortunately, I cannot do what some family did for my children, 3, get them each one of the last printed Pound notes! I have 8, which would make it expensive!
I am trying to look for the older coins and notes! I have the paper notes up to $10. I am trying to find somewhere I can find older coins.
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