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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1081 Posts |
Poll Question
I'm interested in getting a rough approximation of interest in specific areas of Canadian coins. If I've left something out please feel free to let me know....
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I'm almost exclusively Vicky large cents, but also most 19th century stuff.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
867 Posts |
Canadian & Morgan silver dollarsAt my age, I need the largest font possible, that's why 1, 5 & 10 cent coins don't interest me.... |
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 Canada
10456 Posts |
Canadian small cents and nickel dollars; all strikes, errors and varieties, I also collect Nova Scotia Trade dollars, milk tokens and exonumia. Plus, I have a couple "thematic" collections... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have Canadian Colonial Tokens, Pre Confederation, Large and small cents up to 2012. I have what I consider a pretty complete 5 cent collection (about 225 different ones). A few pages of different date Silver Dollars and some modern multi dollar proof silver.
I think I am a dummy for the 5 cents collection. I'll never get my money out of it but I guess that reassures me that I am a coin collector. I can't stop now.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1373 Posts |
I voted with the "2-8" group, which covered my collection of 1858-current cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars, and twonies. Also, I also collect all the RCM commemorative cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and silver dollars; as long as they fit into 2x2's (the 'big' coins and 5oz silvers don't count). I also save ALL specimen coins from 1967-to-current, and ALL proof coins from 1981-to-current on all coins from 1c to $2 denominations. Anything else (tokens, errors, Newf's) I avoid, as I think what I'm already buying is already too much. I did, however, pick up two complete sets of Prince Edward Island cents!  Add these Canadian coins with my USA sets and I've got plenty to keep me busy (and broke). |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Australian based (Sydney) I am a typesetter from waaaaay back - for Canadian up to 1967. I have amongst others: 1914 $10 gold. I still use my 1970 edn of Charlton !  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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In more than 55 years of collecting I've tried some of everything except NCLT.
The only constant has been 25 cents.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I am going for a full set of Canadian coins. 1858+ and starting NS/NB/PEI, maybe will start on NF.
Only 31 coins to go for Canada, will be about a 1000 coin set (includes some varieties), but it is starting to get more expensive the closer I get. I will probably never complete due to 1921's and not really interested in the 1948 SD, but who knows.
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11/19/2020 10:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
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Canada large cents-small cents-5 cents-10 cents
NFL-NB-etc copper and smalls- some tokens
mainly pre 1920
Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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Valued Member
Canada
402 Posts |
I seem to have a penchant for small 5 cents and large 1 cent coins, and some silver dollars from when I was young.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
851 Posts |
As far as coins go, I only collect Newfoundland (excluding the gold ones, which are just way too pricey for me).
I do have a small collection of Newfoundland postcards (posted) displaying various icebergs, but it's rare to find them. I haven't added to that collection in years.
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New Member
Canada
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Basically I am focused on pre-68 CDN coinage with a sub focus in Proof Like and Specimen coins.
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Valued Member
United States
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Started out with Large Cents, as I'm sure many do, but once I got bit by the Colonial Token bug it was over!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1081 Posts |
@Blargish - I'm just starting to get into those - they're fascinating! So much character. Though they're a little harder to grade and my expertise in copper and bronze is even more limited than it is in silver where I do most of my collecting.
I'm still 95% immersed in NFLD silver - mostly focused on the key dates. I make occasional off-the-wall purchases....things that catch my fancy for whatever reason. I bought an 1839 Isle of Man 1 penny a few weeks ago...just liked it.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Small cents, nickels 1922 on, dimes and quarters 1937 on, fifty cents 1906 on but still missing 1932 and the 1921 for some reason. Silver dollars and the $1 and $2 coins.
I only have two year sets and maybe three or four "fun" silver coins from the mint.
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