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I'm from Melbourne, Australia I collect only Australian coins and I,ve inherited my father in law's world coin collection. He had all the coins (some 2000-3000 coins) all mixed randomly. I have since separated them into their individual countries. I intend on replacing them into the albums that they were in originally but in some kind of order. My question is, should world coins be categorized alphabetically by country or categorized alphabetically in Nations or is there another way? Regards MRJON   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Welcome Mrjon,  There is no right or wrong way to collect. It's your collection and you can do what you want. Personally though, I sort mine my country and then by denomination and then by year and then, if need be, by mint. Have fun Steve  |
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 Australia
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Thanks Triggersmob, that's the way I thought of doing it, I just wasn't sure if there was a specific way of doing it. Now starts the ominous task but I'm allowing 12 months to do it, as I need to find out if there are any coins there of value. My intentions are to organise the albums and then sell them. Thanks again. Mrjon.
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Canada
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Most collectors and all catalogues organize coins the way described by @triggersmob.
By the way, since you expect to spend a lot of time on this project, you might seriously consider if you will be spending a lot of time for little reward. The vast majority of world coins are worth 10-25 cents each. World coin collectors quickly find these common ones and are on the lookout for the better ones.
Someone very familiar with world coins could tell you in an hour which are the good ones. By all means look for the better ones but to put mostly common ones is special albums may not be wroth your effort.
Just a thought.
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Australia
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United States
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I have mine sorted alphabetically by country, then by KM# and year. If no KM number is assigned, they go after all the KM#s by year.
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Australia
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Thank you all, Triggersmob, Oriole, Dorado, and Fplagge, all very good points to take into account and I will use them. I am aware that most of the coins don't have any value but I feel that I need to do this for my Father in law because even though we collected differently, we spent a lot of time together talking and sorting coins out together which was the cement of our bond among other things to the dismay of my wife and Mother in Law not to mention the stories that came with a lot of the coins he had. Mrjon
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Australia
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Sorry guys, but I forgot to ask, what is KM#?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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KM #s are unique catalog numbers for world coins.
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@mrjon, I'm going to move your thread to a different part of CCF so that it gets more eyeballs on it. I hope that it continues to spur vigorous discussion.
Also, welcome to CCF!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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New Member
Australia
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thanks Spence that would be great and Calzonemanic, I'll have a look and see what I've got and get back to you. It may take a couple of days as my wife walked through the flywire door and I need to fix it pronto. thanks everyone, this forum is great, I never knew. Mrjon.
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United States
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KM# refers to the Krause-Mishler numbers found in Krause coin catalogs. If you don't have them, you may want to get hold of some Krause Standard Catalogs of World Coins to help you sort your collection.
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United States
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One way to handle these is to donate the low value items to a coin club with young numismatists. Let the kids sort them out!
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04/13/2020 01:11 am
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New Member
Australia
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I do have another question in regards to how to arrange my inherited world coins, I've got a bag full of euros. do these go in a separate section or with their country or as a 3rd choice, keep them until I go to Europe? regards Mrjon |
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Posted 04/12/2020 03:32 am
