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Valued Member
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Hello from the swampy southeastern USA! I've been collecting coins for over 30 years. I got into numismatics due to a lifelong love of world geography and history -- an obsession, I should say. I'm the kind of person who reads a historic map like a mystery novel.
My basic rule for coin collecting is "Every ruler and/or government of every coin-issuing country/state/province/city/entity". For me, numismatics is like virtual travel, spatial and temporal. A glance through a box of coins takes me across the world and hundres of years back in time. And yet I manage to do this as a budget collector, rarely going beyond a few bucks.
I revel in acquiring coins from obscure places and situations. One of my favorites (in front of me as I write) is a 15th-century cavallo from Aquila, from which I get my username. It was struck at the mint of a city with a long tradition of autonomy, during the Conspiracy of the Barons, a rebellion against King Ferrante of Naples, in the name of Pope Innocent VIII. It's a complex history with many layers to it.
There are infinite opportunites for research and learning through numismatics. I'd love to chat with people who share my excitement.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Welcome to the CCF, aquilacavallo! It sounds like you have much to contribute here!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Greetings! As Secretary of Numismatics International, I should be deeply remiss if I did not bring that organization to your attention. I myself am not quite so ambitious, but certainly a really obscure issuer gets my blood pumping far more than does a particularly high-priced high-grade date-and-mint combination of a familiar coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
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You are so right, aquilacavallo! Every coin has a history, sometimes a complex one. That is one of the things that make coin collection and numismatics so interesting. To me, finding out why a coin looks the way it does, who issued it and why, how it was used, is a satisfying exercise.
Welcome to the CCF!
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publius, I checked out your link and noticed it is not https certified. CCF uses https://letsencrypt.org You might want to look into getting it. John1  |
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 to the Community! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the forum! I look forward to what you have to share with the community; when I started collecting coins in the late 1960's, much of the interest was also related to the history. Quote:
I'm the kind of person who reads a historic map like a mystery novel. I have a very small collection of antique maps, including a couple woodcuts dating back to the 16th century, and I can study those endlessly even though I've owned them for years!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi, there aquilacavallo... we share the common interest of history & geography as related to coinage ... fascinating corollary ... looking forward to your contributions ... ... please notice my avatar, a Spanish 8 reales cob struck in the "New World" Mexico City mint (c.1630), traveled to China, where it was traded among merchants who tested it for purity by cutting into it's surface, then chop-marking the coin with their guarantee, while cutting it into smaller peices for exchange, then the coin makes it's way back to the Americas, resting now in my collection in Tennessee ... could tell a story ... ... please post some of your interesting pieces & their story ...  |
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