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Virgin Islands (U.S.)
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I had been roped into this hobby by a pair of USA Morgan dollars that came from an old aunt when I was a kid. Many many years later as an adult, I ca,e across an illustrated Krause catalog book on World Coins, and I was hooked, because of the depth and artistry of a lot of World Coins, particularly those around the turn of the 20th Century. But there was one that grabbed me right off like no other. It was this one that I now own ... and it led me down a road that I'm still wandering down. Which was yours?   Edited by STTScott
01/09/2021 01:16 am
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Singapore
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This was mine, crap I hate what this coin has done.  |
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Valued Member
 Virgin Islands (U.S.)
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@numister: I hear ya about those Caribbean coins. They're shiny and pretty, especially the reverse side. I live in the Caribbean, where the've alway taken USA coinage and currency, which makes ones like yours just plain nice.
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01/09/2021 01:58 am
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 United States
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Interesting question! I will have to give it some thought.  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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United Kingdom
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With me it was probably this - I got it in change as a kid!  I was very excited to get a penny with a kangaroo on it instead of the usual Britannia. This prompted me to start talking to my parents about coins and my dad gave me a tobacco tin full of assorted foreign coins left over from overseas trips. That was the genesis of my World coin collection... |
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Sweden
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So, from my perspective, a world coin has to be anything non-Swedish ... I started out collecting Swedish 19th century gold coins (yes, I began collecting coins at a mature age, not as a kid  ). I decided I wanted a "gold Napoleon" to go with those and found this one. It is not a high grade coin, and not a particularly elaborate design, but there is something about the portrait that appeals to me ... pure and stylish, elegant in its simplicity. Then I was caught and shifted my focus to French coins .  |
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Australia
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The coin that probably started my interest in collecting was the Athenian Owl / Athena Tetradrachm. There was a beautiful image of this in my High School Ancient History book. And Ancient History was one of my favourite subjects at school.
Ironically this is one of the coins still missing from my collection.
That is because those Tetradrachm that I have seen in the coin shops did not appeal to me.
On the other hand 1 year ago I held in my hand a gorgeous Athenian Tetradrachm. The coin dealer even gave me a generous discount. But it was still expensive for me. It was either buy the coin or with the monies visit my parents for Christmas. Of course I chose the latter option.
This was the correct choice though the appeal of this beautiful coin "tugged at the heartstrings" nonetheless...
I console myself with the thought that sometime in the future there will be another opportunity to buy such a coin...
Something to look forward to...
Squire
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01/09/2021 08:02 am
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United States
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As a kid in the 1960s, my father gave me a small vinyl pouch containing coins that told the story of his World War II deployment: Italy(probably from a stop in Libya), Egypt, Iran, India, Dutch East Indies, Philippines, Japan.
By chance, this lot contained an amazing range of compositions (silver, cupronickel, stainless steel, bronze, even tin), denominations, and language/alphabets.
...and I was already interested in geography.
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Australia
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@ STT Scott:-
I agree, it is a handsome design, both sides.
One of my favorite coin designs - I have about a dozen of them. .925 stg silver.
The reverse design was George Kruger Gray's (K.G. either side of the scroll below the date oval) first design, and arguably the best of many dozens of designs done for British Commonwealth coinages over the next 30 years.
An example with three steps in front of the Australian Parliament Building is very scarce coin, because they are normally poorly struck up in this tiny area.
@ NumisRob
The most common coin in pocket change for me for 15 years as a schoolkid.
Kangaroo also a Kruger Gray design and makes this Penny a very obviously an Australian coin. Minted from 1938 to 1964.
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The coin that started my collection was an 1826 English Shilling of George 1V. My father gave it to me after cracking his employer's safe open - they had lost the keys. That was more than 50 years ago. I still have the coin.
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United Kingdom
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This was mine - I'd been buying UK coins from the local antique shop, but they never had all that much new in stock and being a schoolboy I never had much money - so one day I looked through a pot of foreign coins (priced at five pence) - this one I found just looked so unusual, square and in an odd dark scruffy metal so it caught my eye... The start of a learning curve, one I'm still on :)  Edited by andyg
01/09/2021 09:57 am
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Australia
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Scarcest date for this type 1943.
Extremely rare in untoned condition for all dates.
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