How many of you out there cross-collect?

dmaybee · April 25, 2015 8:14AM

Hello, hello,

I always wanted to know how many of you out there cross-collect?
Meaning you collect multiple things across the hobbies like:
coins and baseball cards, coins and paper currency, coins and sports memorabilia, coins and historical autographs, coins and comics, etc.

If so how do you divide your time, attention, and money?
Sometimes I can't decide and get stuck in the middle.

Well I appreciate any responses you have.

Thanks fellow collectors!

hchcoin · April 25, 2015 8:36AM

I mainly collect coins but have a lot of other hobbies that don't really involve collecting something.

lunytune2 · April 25, 2015 8:43AM

My main hobbies are coins and Pittsburgh Pirate game used memorabilia. During winter months I am a die hard coin collector , Spring is my transition , summer is pirates , then fall is the transition to coins for the winter

mirabela · April 25, 2015 8:51AM

I'm a fisherman, which implies a certain amount of hoarded and organized materials, particularly tying ingredients and flies, that in some ways start to resemble a collection. While I don't think about my fly boxes just the same way as I do an album set or other coin "project," I'll admit I do sometimes admire them for their aesthetic properties and/or to think about the stories and memories associated with them. I think a coin collector can see the overlap there. There's also a somewhat similar rhythm involving a regular dribble of small outlays and the occasional big check (new rod! new reel! new boat!).

I think the most significant area of commonality, though, is how both hobbies reward patient study, close attention, and quick situational random-access recall to a huge and fine-grained body of information.

Basically, I do coins when the weather is crappy and below freezing, which it generally is around here from late October through early May.

DeepCoin · April 25, 2015 8:52AM

Golf is my other passion, thus attracting some of the disposable income from my "fun" money

bosco5041 · April 25, 2015 9:30AM

Coins is it but I always thought about collecting fossils. I don't think fossils are counterfeited and you can't say they don't have some history behind them.

Jinx86 · April 25, 2015 9:41AM

My other hobby has been watch collecting/repair during the winter months. Now that it is starting to warm up a bit Ive started working on my 1951 Chevy Fleetline.

silverpop · April 25, 2015 10:07AM

I collect fossils and banknotes

it's easy to go and look for fossils

banknotes-none have caught my notice so I have not bothered with that area ( yes I look online)

Icollecteverything · April 25, 2015 10:20AM

I have collected coins and old bottles since I was a kid. I dug most of the bottles, only bought a few, I have about 10 boxes of bottles but they don't add up to much money. I don't buy coins, tokens or paper money anymore but still enjoy coming here, looking at them and selling.

Also used to buy baseball cards when I was a kid and some later in the 80's. Wouldn't count as a real collection but I still have them except for one Pete Rose I sold at a coin show.

I also have collected music for a long time (mostly vinyl and CD's) which I still spend a lot of time listening to.

Dabbled in comics, old mags and other paper, 5 old cameras, ceramic, matchbooks, Hot Wheels, stamps, rocks, shells, books...........and just about anything old.

Regulated · April 25, 2015 11:29AM

I've given up most of my coin collecting, since it constitutes a conflict of interest, so now I collect vintage guitars (mostly) with a side of books and LPs.

coindeuce · April 25, 2015 11:33AM

I used to collect vintage "church keys" - you know, the kind that opened up the 12 oz. tabernacles. But I was too tempted to use them often, so I quit buying them.

Nap · April 25, 2015 11:49AM

Coins are my main collection but I have other collectible interests.

I collect rigid airship themed postcards and photographs, fossils, and old maps.

AnkurJ · April 25, 2015 11:59AM

Comics, art, autographs, medals

Sonorandesertrat · April 25, 2015 12:23PM

" I don't think fossils are counterfeited..."

They most certainly are. I also collect fossils and live in Tucson. The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show is here every year (and is the nation's largest such show), and one can routinely see fake fossils and fake minerals at the show.

I also collect U. S. numismatic literature (books, auction catalogs, ephemera,...).

mrearlygold · April 25, 2015 12:30PM

Right now I'm off to the races with HO Scale slot cars! Having a custom track built, the whole bit. Here's a couple of wild 55 Chevy's

Metal Gears, 2.4 seconds on 65 ft track:

3+ seconds on same track:

Shamika · April 25, 2015 2:33PM

I suspect most serious collectors have several types of collections going at once.

Lucanus · April 25, 2015 3:28PM

Coins and beetles.

Doug

karma32 · April 25, 2015 3:51PM

Coins, ceramics, numismatic and history literature ("non-fiction"), notice the quotations. And a small collection of chess and backgammon sets. I need to collect more space.

howards · April 25, 2015 4:04PM

I think it would be rare for the collector gene to exclusively focus on collecting one thing. Certainly doesn't for me.

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD · April 25, 2015 5:15PM

coffeyce · April 25, 2015 7:00PM

Coins Gems and Antiques Basically anything with history im interested in

rec78 · April 25, 2015 9:16PM

The coin market has outpriced me. My coin collecting is stalled and has been for a while and maybe for a long while. I collect old radios and 78rpm records and items related to the Mickley family. You can get a good old radio for under $100.00. The coins I need for my collection now are more expensive than that.

lordmarcovan · April 25, 2015 9:22PM

I have a large"collection" of dug relics and fossils, but none of it is bought. It's stuff I personally found.

There have been other collections for me over the decades, but none have had much permanence or inspired me quite as passionately as numismatics.

BillJones · April 25, 2015 11:41PM

I collect coins, tokens and medals, and I also collect small political items, like 19th century tokens and medalets and 20th century presidential campaign buttons. The 19th century tokens are, of course, a part of my coin collection, but the buttons are something more.

By in large the buttons are much less expensive than the coins so I can pick and choose among a lot of them. I am drawn toward jugates, buttons that have pictures of the presidential and vice presidential candidates side by side, and buttons with slogans that covered the major issues of each campaign.

The jugates can be very pricey. The most expensive pieces are the varieties of Cox - Roosevelt buttons that were issued for the 1920 campaign, which can range in price, in nice condition, from $20,000 to $40,000. I don't have one of those buttons and probably will never own one. The reason why those buttons are so expensive is that the "Roosevelt" is Franklin D. Roosevelt who ran for vice president with James Cox.

The Cox - Roosevelt campaign was very unfunded and did not issue very many buttons. It also had little chance of winning because America was ready "to return to normalcy" as Republican candidate, Warren G. Harding, put it from the internationalist days of Woodrow Wilson.

I have run on here, but I think you can see that the two hobbies can be pursued side by side, and can complement each other in very interesting ways.

RichieURich · April 26, 2015 1:03AM

I never cross-collect. I only HAPPY collect!

TwoSides2aCoin · April 26, 2015 2:31AM

Every picture tells a story about life in the Brick & Mortar.
Second Hand Goods make up "Cross-Collectibles", right ?

ricko · April 26, 2015 2:51AM

Coins, firearms, marbles, old decks of playing cards, poker chips with silver inserts from old casino's.....Cheers, RickO

BillJones · April 26, 2015 2:52AM

Here are some examples of some "cross collecting" from the 1896 presidential campaign.

A "Bryan comparative dollar" by Tiffany & Company

Raufus · April 26, 2015 3:05AM

Cool topic. Enjoy reading the thread.

I collect firearms - primarily Class III, Colt factory ARs, unusual Glocks and some FNs.

My passion is shooting. I spend far more time and money on firearms. I was fortunate enough to acquire most of my select fire Class III firearms years ago before the prices went stratospheric. My CIII select fire stuff has appreciated over the years far more than any other collectables or investments.

I assembled one really oddball collection... Our agency, and many others, assisted MPD w/inaugural security for Obama's '09 inauguration. MPD and Capital Police gave us Obama inaugural badges. Despite that I just deplore Obama's politics I somehow started collecting '09 inaugural badges. I ended up assembling what is to mine and others' knowledge the only complete federal, military and D.C. collection of '09 inaugural badges.

DIMEMAN · April 26, 2015 3:20AM

Just coins and woodworking.

asheland · April 28, 2015 2:11AM

Antique silver is my primary collecting.

asheland · April 28, 2015 2:16AM

okiedude · April 28, 2015 2:31AM

Coins, cars, toy race cars, real race cars, Japanese tin toys, vinyl records, vintage stereo equipment, still have my antique bottle collection I put together when I was 10-12 yo. My wife is very understanding

GeorgeKellogg · April 28, 2015 3:06AM

Although coins are the main area, I also participate in several other collectible fields -- and have a number of non-collecting hobbies. Interestingly, these various hobby activities intersect at times.

ctf_error_coins · April 28, 2015 3:13AM

I grow "collect" Bonsai Plants for the the last 30 years. When I started some of my original stock was probably 20 years old making some of my plants around 50 years old. They can live for a couple hundred years. Very little cost to do it yourself except for the water bill, and yes I live in CA home of the 1200 year drought.

WhiteTornado · April 28, 2015 3:26AM

In addition to coins, I collect football and baseball cards, and I also like to go metal detecting. You can find me on those related CU forums, too.

SmallTownCoins · April 28, 2015 3:38AM

I'm a PEZ head, 25 years, this use to be one of the top 10 collections in the USA,
but I have not added any new pieces since 2010 so I'm sure someone has passed me :-)
The collection is pretty much complete from 1948 to 2010..Ran out of room, and money LOL

BillJones · April 28, 2015 4:08AM

Here are two political buttons, one for William Allison and the other for Richard Bland. How are they related to coins? They got together to write the Bland - Allison Act which authorized the Morgan Dollar.

Klif50 · April 28, 2015 5:40AM

I collect coins (already graded) and a few baseball cards and a lot of guns and ammo. I have some old comics but I seldom look at them (they are all graded and in plastic so not too much to read). I collect miles on my 23 Ford T Bucket, as many a year as I can going to as many car shows as I can. I go to one coin show and that is when the Money Show is in Atlanta and there are enough dealers with enough varied stuff for me to look through.

luckybucks · April 28, 2015 5:42AM

I am a cross collector and I admit it.

I collect coin, paper money, some postcards, and crystals (and other geology related material).

clarkbar04 · April 28, 2015 5:44AM

My collections constantly ebb and flow, usually one grows at the expense of another. I like to restore cars, but that is an expensive hobby I am currently taking a break on.

okracer · April 28, 2015 6:05AM

I proudly admit I am a part of the CGMAA community.

Coins, Guns, Maps, Arrowheads, and Ancient Artifacts.

How many of you out there cross-collect?

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