Any Ideas?

You mlst certainly dont need to have a large sum of money to collext classic coins.

Im kind of confused by your post, are you askimg what to collect?

I like Canadian coins a lot too. The challenge is there but I have been traveling there a lot and have even found a lot of good stuff in change. Nothing is so outrageously priced either. I came up with my own collection for Canadians too. All the commemorates and special coins since WWII. There are a whole bunch of quarters 1992 and around the Millennium + the Olympic ones were fabulous. There are a whole slew of special Loonies and Toonies too and special silver dollars going back to 1939. The most expensive coin I got was the 1939 silver dollar and that was like $27 on ebay.

and I agree with you with the exception of State Quarters (and I am done there) I hate the presidential series and the general look of what we have today.

Earle42: It is perhaps not surprising that there are some other folks outside Canada who find Canadian nickels interesting.

satwxd: I completed a silver and bronze pre decimal type set of Australian coins, with each type illustrated with the rarest date (except the 1930 penny). That was decades ago. I asked myself "where to from here?"

Took a couple of years to answer that question, and eventually came up with the idea of building a collection that would be impossible to complete. Since then, I have collected World coins all centuties, all cultures, ancient to modern.

There are one or two other individuals in the CCF that have collections similar in character to mine.

A lot of my collection is valued at less than $10 per item, a few very much more. In the market place, with such a huge scope to choose from, it is always easy to find bargains and underpriced coins.

Point is: You don't need a lot of money to build a very interesting collection.

Along the way, I acquired quite a few Canadian nickels, and was able to form a complete type set of them. Satisfying little achievement for me.


I have never stopped learning about numismatics.

A few people have said that my collection is just a large accumulation. Not so. Very often, a coin that sits in my collection is significant within it's own series, for a variety of different reasons. That makes the interest per coin quite high.

In a way, it ia analogus to a large crowd of people. Taken as a whole, it is just a crowd, but if you were to know each person in the crowd, you will find that they are all very interesting and valuable as individuals.

Roll search cents for errors and varieties.
John1

Wheat cents and Buffalo nickels are both rewarding and affordable.