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Valued Member
Canada
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I like 5 cents (1922 & after) and dimes.
I like the variety of materials used for 5 cent coins: pure nickel, tombac, chrome plated steel, nickel plated steel and cupronickel.
I also like the cool commertaives: 1943-45 "V", 1951, 1967 and 2005 "V".
I like dimes since it is possible to assemble a collection that covers the last 125 years on limited budeget. And it is still possible to find silver dimes in circulation, albeit with a lot of effort.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I use to go for quarters, but with all of the different commemorative and colored varieties, I found it was getting a little overwhelming as well as expensive.
I recently saw a very nice collection of the small silver 5 cent coins and I've always liked nickles so I guess that's where I would cast my vote.
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Canada
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I like the quarters, but I restrict myself to those that are actually money, which means none of the RCM colorized junk. |
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The 50 Cent pieces are nice too...
Edited by WpgLwr
06/16/2009 9:08 pm
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Canada
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Hi !
I think that each denomination have a positive and negative side. I like the small cent because it's a good way to start and it's not very expensive, The big cent are beautifull too, more old in general not very expensive and a lot of non collector have never see one of them, it's fun to show them. The nickel are good too with is variety, the 50¢ are like the big cent, not know of the public, a lot of people don't know that Canada produce them. The 1$ are more expensive but I think that it's the choice of more " serius" collector. For me the 10¢ and 25¢ come after all of them, they have nothing of special for me.
But I have a lot of difficulty to choise only one for the pool
THanks !
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 Hello Yves, I'm just the opposite, I favour dimes and quarters since I feel they were the "workhorse" of the 19th Century and early 20th Centuries they are very difficult to acquire in Mintstate grades. Currently I'm attempting to acquire as many Mintstate Vicky's (I.C.C.S. slabbed) as I can. I feel they are all KEY dates and highly underrated considering the mintages and survival rate of 1-2%. Anyhow my new found friend, I have not had a chance to say welcome to C.C.F., nice to have you onboard!  Glenn Edited by glenzy1
08/26/2009 4:22 pm
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Thought that was you r.t. :-) Torex this fall? Have you checked out your disc's? :-)
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Glenzy I like your "workhorse" analogy and I collect the smaller denominations for just that reason. Silver 50 cent pieces and silver dollars were not something I ever got a chance to use in circulation, so I don't relate to them in the same way I do smaller coins. The 50 cent in particular comes in dead last for me as it's pretty well an extinct coin in a circulating sense.
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WOWEEEEEEEEE Bosox, you sure know how to knock a guys socks off! Whata collection, I've never imagined anyone person could own a Large cent collection that nice. Congrats and if you have no one to will it to, just keep me in mind!  Glenn |
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I collect all Canadian coins.
I started out as a kid collecting large cent so they were my first coins collected, but my favorite coins are in this order 25 - 5 - 10 - 1 large then small cent coins. I'm not real big on 50 or dollar coins although I have several.
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I've only just begun collecting since august, but I pick up all the denominations possible. However, I do like the nickel denomination the best at this time. I've got quite a few from 1922 to present and will eventually fill those spaces up. My next objective will be to have the 1911-1920 5cent denominations in AU state and will look at maybe purchasing 2 per year until that is done. In the mean time I continue filling the empty spots from the other denominations while also purchasing some of the collector items from the mint.
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Loons and toons are not:
a - collectable
b - coins
c - Canadian
d - decimal
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looks like, Zonad :-)
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
... but it will not spoil my saturday: I am arranging a few non-decimal-collectable-Canadian-coins to take to a possible exhibit during TOREX. I hope that by showing them there will not distract people from the real thing
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