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United States
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Poll Question
As a long time collector I'm nearing the end of the somewhat easy to assemble modern era U.S. coinage series. Complete in all denominations back to 1909, with exception to the elusive 1916 Standing Liberty, and a few going back into the mid-1800's. As I stated, this has been forty-two years in the making. So now, not looking to stop even if I wanted to, I began collecting world coins. The remaining U.S. coins are becoming tough on my budget, and not wanting to buy just one coin every six months or so I shifted my collecting to world coins based on the design factor. Thus far, a complete PCGS MS/PF70 set of Australian Wedge-tailed Silver Eagles and now the start of Irish Free State coinage, 1928-1969.
With that, I wonder how many others find themselves at a cross-roads so to speak in their collecting. Or do you simply collect any coin?
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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United States
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I also collect Asia countries coins with kanji characters like Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, French Indochina...currently trying to get my Dansco Japan album filled.
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 United States
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I collect both, but I am doing a really poor job on the world coin front. I really need to get that inventory more organized and see what else interests me.
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United States
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I chose US only, though I'd love to get into more early world/colonial issues from England, Scotland, Portugal, Spain and France, if they were more affordable from the era I'm interested in. So far I am at around 70% Two Cent Pieces, 20% Morgan dollars and the rest (10%) misc. US coins. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Another very limited and pointless poll, such limited answers give almost no scope into the world of numismatics.
Hence as a collector of British, New Zealand and Australian coins I refuse to answer such a childish and limiting poll. Its basically a "Do you collect American coins, yes or no and do you also collect world as a side dish"
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I actually have the American coin section collapsed!
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Australia
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@Princetane, you make me laugh.
I collect Aussie coins and any other coins that come my way.
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United States
561 Posts |
I started and focus most on American coinage, it's my home after all, but I collect anything that is interesting to me. I like the history with world coinage, and the US just isn't that old in comparison. In my collection currently I have a US type set, a Canada type set, and a set of the British monarchy that reaches Queen Anne currently. The next step for me is a world crowns collection, every country had them and they're all so interesting. Old US coinage is beautiful but I'd feel too limited if I only collected US. |
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I'm a both type. Though my preference is non-US coins.
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United States
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Not even sure I'd know where to buy World Coins.
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Not even sure I'd know where to buy World Coins. My LCS has a nice bin of them for 20cents apiece and I've seen a few for sale on ebay.  The last U.S. coins I purchased were in the early 2000s for a couple of genealogical year sets (1907, the date my grandfather arrived in America, and 1923, the year of my dad's birth). So, for 15 years more or less, I have only acquired world coins. So I checked World, even though I do have some U.S. Edited by tdziemia
02/11/2021 1:54 pm
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My apologies Princetane. You are also correct beyond our borders. The Canadian Large Cent, Mexican Libertad, Irish "gun money" and the rectangular silver of the Shoguns to name a few of the many. As to an album for the Irish coinage I'm starting, I have yet to find any still being produced. An outdated one, Dansco, is listed at $189 on ebay still wrapped in plastic. Blank pages may be my only option. ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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United States
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Not even sure I'd know where to buy World Coins. Coins shows, Carl. Coin shows. I know you like them. I know you have been to them. I really miss coin shows.  For what it is worth, many of my foreign coins came from friends who emptied their pockets for me when they repatriated. So, ask your friends.  |
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United States
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I wonder how many others find themselves at a cross-roads so to speak in their collecting. Or do you simply collect any coin? Raises hand and says me too in the same boat. Love to collect the cheaper and lower end versions of old US coins. Skipped the entire Barbers coinage series from the turn of the century because the worn out coins I came across made lady Liberty look like a hermaphrodite and the pretty mint examples cost big monies. Have a few dimes, quarters and half dollars, but not going to complete those sets. Tried to diverify and picked up a few farthings, East Indian rupees and even the newer 2014 MS 70 Australian wedge tailed eagle etc., but it somehow did not spark the same enthusiasm that the US coins did. Thought that maybe it was just me and perhaps because of my ignorance about foreign coins. Even tried to shift focus to my other love - philately - for a while but that too went nowhere. Definitely at crossroads now and not knowing where to head next. Neither my kids nor wife share my numismatic enthusiasm. So..... |
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Australia
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As I'm from Australia, America is "just another foreign country" to me. So, as a "world coin collector", American coins are of course included.
They take up more than their fair share of space in my "Countries beginning with U" album, where they're wedged in between "United Arab Emirates" and "Upper Canada".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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I collect both, primarily US coinage. I have been purchasing 19th century crowns from Europe which are fun. Basically, I collect anything that catches my eye. |
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Canada
999 Posts |
95% of my collection is Canadian and US. There's still enough there to keep me busy for a while.
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