Question for a Summer Saturday...If Coin/Medal Collecting Never Existed...What Would You Collect?
RichR
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I'll go first...I guess stamp collecting.
Or maybe classic baseball cards???
Nothing else really ever floated my boat.
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Nascar racing cards and autographs. I collect them even though coin collecting exists.
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Snowboards (some of these are rare and very collectable including one that is pop 1/1)
Fortunately coins exist and I can do both, even at the same time!
Autographs, currency, 60's memorabilia (Apollo, Beatles, Kennedy, etc.), vintage posters. So much to collect and so little time.
Gemstones/precious stones.
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I already collect lots of other stuff.
The most beautiful lanterns ever made, the Petromax kerosene lantern made in Germany rated at 500 candle power. I like tinkering with these. I tear them down, polish and rebuilt them. That and I have a small collection of knives, ka-Barr dog head knives to be exact.
I wouldn't collect. I'd likely be doing my other hobbies more like astrophotography. Well, I take that back. I have collected a couple of things related to my hometown area. More sentimental than really collecting, though.
When I read the OP I thought why would that change anything and I would just do what I am currently doing. Looking at most of the responses that is what others are saying as they post other things that they collect.
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If it wasn't for coins I'm sure I'd have a much bigger collection of arrowheads........
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I cannot imagine that world.
78 rpm records (I did at one time collect them, but sold my 78rpm collection last year)
Funny that nobody said they'd collect paper money.
On thinking about this a bit more...I might actually go in that direction.
Cowboy boots
Firearms, marbles, old decks of cards.... Cheers, RickO
Well, you did ask.
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I repeat...so nobody collects paper money????
That's somewhat interesting. I don't either...but I thought the coin and bill collecting bug might go together?
fossils and paper money
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I also collect meteorites (have 3) anyone else?
I always feel one of them is going to start glowing and kill me at night!
Books
Rookwood pottery
Fountain pens
Fossils
I’m sure something else would have popped up.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
I have about a half dozen notes. It is an interesting area but it just doesn’t have the same draw for me as coins.
Pinball machines, juke boxes, I did collect these at one time but have sold them all, except for a Seeburg B jukebox.
Silver, gold, platinum, copper unless you meant "metal collecting" instead of "medal collecting" in the title.
Rec78...pinball?!?
MEC/ELE or digital?
Bally, Midway, Williams, Gottlieb???
First edition books. Hardcover of course as I'm a purist.
I have a few vintage ones.
They still make them - I recently picked up a Waterman at Staples with a 40% off coupon and a Cross on clearance.
I collect US Currency ... and I probably still would .... maybe more seriously.
I dabble in Fractional and Large-size notes, and particularly like Legal Tenders, especially Brown Seals
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60's or older Impala SS
Confederate money
Pursuitofliberty...
I've always liked $2 bills...that might be my focus if I became a serious bill collector.
Guns. Mostly double barrels.
In the Large-size issues, there are a lot of great $2. denominations. Floral Seals, Brown Seals, Battleships ...
Here's another of my favorite designs ... a Silver Certificate Deuce ... sometimes called the Mini-Porthole
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Definitely currency. The large size notes were truly works of art.
Fractional notes as well as obsolete and Confederate notes are a more affordable option as well as large size and Nationals can get pricey, and there are many gorgeous notes in those categories.
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Old electric, including baseball. Gottlieb always my favorite. Bally second. Other companies third.
EVERYTHING else.....
And you didn't say anything about tokens. Civil war tokens, Hard times tokens, Merchant tokens, bridge, tax, So Called dollars, etc.
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Well, there’s always tokens, all kinds. These are gaming tokens.they aren’t coin nor medals
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