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So I've decided my side project to my US Type set will be a Mexico Type set. I just love hoe artistic and beautiful Mexico's coins are and think this will be a fun set.
i need help though. I have almost no good resources to help me compile a list. Any help or websites I can get would be great. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
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ha! unless you're a gold collector already, this will be tough!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bah.. looks like Google isn't showing the cached pages anymore  |
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unless you're a gold collector already, this will be tough! Why does being a gold collector have anything to do with it? Most gold mexican coins I see go for melt anyway. well, ones that I would use as a type example. not counting rarities and varieties. |
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I would definitely recommend you to buy the KM catalogues.
They are certainly not perfect but give a very good overview for each and every country and the 19th and 20th century editions are not too expensive.
For a type collection they are OK and if you decide later you want to specialize you will find lots of interesting stuff.
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United States
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As the founder of the Mexican Coin Club, I've got to say that collecting Mexican IS incredibly exciting. So many types, and varieties in any denomination of any period of Mexican numismatics. I used to collect U.S. but then almost everyone else did and it was always the say talk, 1909 S VDB or 55 double die and so on. Information is easily available. Mexican though is more chalenging in availability of coin and information. Send me a line since I make available newsletters from the mexican and of the Alamo Coin Club in San Antonio.
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Mexican Coin Magic was taken off my its creator Ralph P. He was an aggressive collector of the Mexican Republic 8 Reales. Currently his new undertaking is Central and South American 8 Escudos. Just about a month and a half ago we were talking and was showing me some of his new works. He did mention that he still has all the information and is willing to sell the web site and its property. I wish I had the money for it though,
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I had offered to host the pages if he was unable to do so, in a prior thread here. It was a few months ago. Sent you a pm, fcrazo.
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Fcrazo, Do you have any kind of list in electronic format that I would be able to get from you?
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Does the Mexican Coin Club have a newsletter? Some guy (Jim?) sent me a PDF a couple computers ago that was interesting,. I think it was from TX. I'm not sure where Corey is going to take the USMEXNA puplication, and with Ponterios in OC, Don Bailey retiring, I need some current Mexican Numismatic News. Mexican Coin Magic had some good articles. |
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I would send you the latest Mexican Coin Club Newsletter, but you had no contact info. You can also see a portion on Texas Numismatic Assoc. web site.
Edited by fcrazo
10/15/2010 7:42 pm
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fcrazo ~ Did you get my email?
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I kick myself for never copying the 8R mintage info they had on the mexicancoinmagic site, I thought it would be there forever. That was the only place that I could see mintage figures for some early date cap & rays. The Krause books don't have anything for the early dates.
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