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Canada
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Poll Question
 We all collect something, or You wouldn't be reading this! Of all the coinage you collect, let us know what the bulk of your collection consists of? If that's not applicable, then what is your favourite series or type of coin to collect? Glenn 
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Canada
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Elizabethan. It's just my timeframe. Most of it is nickel to be checked for future unknown varieties.
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Canada
456 Posts |
The majority of my collection is George VI Fifty Cent Varieties. Also collect silver Elizabeth II Fifty Cent Varieties.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
677 Posts |
My biggest collections are the one cent series then the 50 cent series. Varieties are the best.
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Canada
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Valued Member
Canada
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1971 to date I have most denominations in circulation, specimen, proof grades
Pre 1971 is all circulation issue
Do have complete year set of pennies with many varieties left to fill.
Dimes, 50 cents, dollars not much pre 1967 but want to get there sometime. Silver prices now make it expensive.
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Valued Member
United States
493 Posts |
Vicky, Vicky and more Vicky
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1064 Posts |
I selected pre-1967 business strikes as best category, as majority of my collection is old U.S. silver; couple SLQ's, some Morgan and earlier dollars, but also have a couple gold examples, and some modern commems.
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 United States
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I am a U.S. type collector of pre-1964 coinage.
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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let us know what the bulk of your collection consists of? By volume- eight 2 1/2" binders of world coins in 2x2s By weight- 76 lbs. of '53-2010 rolls of quarters(one of my grandsons was curious and weighed them) By value -my collection of silver 25cents |
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Canada
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By volume it is definitely original Mint Packaging.
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Australia
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World coins, ancient to modern, all centuries, all cultures.
One of the main reasons that I am in the CCF is that my collection covers so much and therefore makes it impossible to be an expert. Better to seek the opinions of those who specialise. Learning never stops.
The keyboard has become an essential part of my collection, despite the fact that I have extensive book references.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Canadian 1 cent from 1858 to today in Mint State.Also have PL from 1954 to today and Proof from 1981 to today.All certified CCCS and ICCS with a few of the 1800's by PCGS.
All Numismatic 50 cents from the start in 1995.I might stop as the latest issues are scrap compared to the original silver and gold plated.
Look like I will have to move to the $3 coin round and square
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United Kingdom
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I voted "Provincial" meaning Roman Provincial - but that may not have been your intention. That's my main area - though I do have a sizable amount of Indian Native states, Ancient China and Modern European silver, probably in excess of 6,000 items.
I did manage to pick up a date run of Canadian cents somewhere - from about 1945 - data - in UNC.
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05/31/2011 08:28 am
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Canada
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My decimal collection to 1960 is complete but the vast majority of my own collectible coins have been concentrated from 1908-1960 - Made in Canada for Canada. I have no great fascination with all the Vicky Cent varieties, the engineer in me just winces every time I see a coin made with what they knew was a really bad die. I think the colonies got the poopy end of the stick from The Royal Mint. Thankfully, there's room for all kinds of collectors of all kinds of materials within the framework of this one hobby so there's room for everyone. A small group of us spent years recreating melt and die scenarios using Victorian era knowledge and it didn't take long to realize they could have done a lot better job even on the scale of Empire we're talking about. Several failure points were identified but we think the biggest problem was just one inherent to society at the time - slow communication of new ideas which were popping up all over the place in terms of metallurgy. Oh they had good publishing capabilities but it all came down to the slow pace of economic reform in that it didn't really mandate process improvements and thus no one cared ... typical government thinking. The whole topic of coins and history they span is fascinating... |
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United States
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The majority of my collection is coins that are not really don't have much numismatic value for instance all the rolls of circulated pennies and nickels that I have from 1922 to 1948. I have lots of misc. coins in 2x2's that I bought at the time because they were a good deal and still are yet have limited value. My best coins are in the minority of what I own. 85% Canadian 14% USA and 1% misc.
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