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I collect silver coins.You?

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  • Welcome, I collect a little of everything ,but at the moment I am concentrating on gold coins.

    Walt
  • hookedoncoinshookedoncoins Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭
    Welcome to the boards! I collect pretty much whatever I find aestherically pleasing or historically interesting.

    My main sets are as follows:

    US

    -Complete type set
    -BU roosevelt set

    WORLD

    -Australian shillings
    -Australian florins
    -Australian Pennies
    -Third Reich complete set

    Although these are the sets I am going for, I own MANY other coins that don't fall into any particular collecting category. Basically, I collect what intrests me.
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Welcome! I'll give you 1 guess as to what I collect. image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Worldwidecoins- I take it from your handle that you collect silver coins from all over the world-welcome to the PCGS World Coin Forum!

    Most people here collect world coins in silver on a selective basis-I am a 1 to 6 or more from every country collector, including silver, copper, bronze, brass, gold, aluminum, nickel, and all alloys in-between. Some of our forum members specialize and don't move much outside of their specialty.

    Many people here have been collecting for over 20 to 30 years and have coins that will blow you away. The knowledge base of some forum members here is extraordinary-as good as anyone in the business.

    What do you like to specialize in?
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • i like old old stuff-- and i'm not too particular about condition if there is colorful history behind a coin. It never
    ceases to amaze me that you can get incredibly historic ancient and medieval coins for $1-$20!
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    DUSTimage Welcome to the Darkside
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Welcome, Worldwidecoins!! Where are you located?

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    P Mihail is from Romania.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • I could have sworn that we had a similar thread not too long ago, but a search of "what" & "collect" on this forum for the last few years didn't turn any up, except this one on gold and this one on tough countries.

    Maybe I'm thinking of another forum.image

    Besides Japanese milled coinage (from 1870 on), I'm into reptiles & dragons, birds, animals (with a Noah's Ark subset of twoseys), structures (bridges, buildings, etc.), transportation (ships and vehicles), aquatic lifeforms, shiny brass, and (dare I mention it here?) Walking Liberty halves.
    Roy


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  • Welcome, worldwidecoins.
    I collect world circulating coins, and mint sets.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Welcome aboard.image

    I collect THESE.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • Welcome, worldwidecoins!

    I collect coins with ships and boats on them and I like them also on Silver! image
    N. N.
  • One of each KM# 1900 to 2000

    Mark
  • Welcome!
    I collect all affordable world coins and paper money, 1800+ (mostly).
    Brad Swain

    World Coin & PM Collector
    My Coin Info Pages <> My All Experts Profile
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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    mihaiinforcoins? new name?? image


    I randomly collect coins from Portuguese, French, British and Dutch colonies (in that order). A few German states where I can afford to, and other medieval stuff. And recently I got into collecting things by date, going for 1914 right now, but also 1981--my birth year. Oh, and anything that just happens to catch my eye image
    Outside of coins, sometimes I pick up old maps to go with my colony collection, old books cuz I'm a geek, and I was thinking about collecting old newspapers but I don't even know where to start in that area.. a bunch of other random junk too.
  • Welcome to the forum, you'll have fun here! I collect Napoleonic era coins, medals, jetons, paper money, ephemera... you got it... image Pretty much anything from 1789 to 1815.
    Vern
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    You want how much?!!
    NapoleonicMedals.org
    (Last update 3/6/2007)
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713
    Welcome to the boards, worldwidecoins!! Where in Romania are you from, Mihail? Constanta, Bucharest, ...?
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Is this merely a coincidence?

    Let's be careful here.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • Copied directly from the Member Profile for Mihaiinforcoins:

    First Name: Mihai
    Last Name: Piersinaru
    Nickname: mihaiinforcoins
    City: Ratesti
    Province/State: Other
    Country: Romania

    Copied directly from the Member Profile for Worldwidecoins:

    First Name: P
    Last Name: Mihail
    Nickname: worldwidecoins
    Province/State: Other
    Country: Romania

    'Nuff saidimage
    Roy


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  • I collect Euros by nation/date/mint. I wanted a challenge that doesn't tax my wallet that much, and after working on my Liberty Nickel and Quarter Eagle Indians where the average coin cost me $230, the fact that I can buy sets of eight coins at a crack, for $10 to $30 on average, makes me giddy.

    Myriads
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,961 ✭✭✭
    Snap!!
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    I collect Pez, beer bottle caps and potato chips shaped like 1930s singers.
    If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:

    WNC Coins, LLC
    1987-C Hendersonville Road
    Asheville, NC 28803


    wnccoins.com
  • I collect just about anything that is flat, made of metal and has a value on it *S* But my main thrust which is becoming more difficult is my "one per country quest" I limit my collecting to stuff that has dates, no ancients for me.
    So many coins, so little money!
    Ebay name: bhil3
  • Finally! Been waiting three days for my password so that I could reply to this thread!!! Now the thread itself seems defunct... my luck is running.

    Anyway, I got bored out of my skull with my US coin collection a couple of years ago, and have since focused on Roman silver denarii of the early-to mid-Empire, and German Imperial and Prussian silver issues. Here lately I've been thinking of delving into ancient Greek drachms and tetradrachms, but I'm trying to stay focused on the existing lines.

    I also pick up the odd old book now and again.
    They are getting in the thin end of the wedge by a sort of side wind.

    -- Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett


  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    Welcome Oldfossil.image
    If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:

    WNC Coins, LLC
    1987-C Hendersonville Road
    Asheville, NC 28803


    wnccoins.com
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,961 ✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum OldFossil! Love your handleimage
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    That is also a neat icon you picked!
    If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:

    WNC Coins, LLC
    1987-C Hendersonville Road
    Asheville, NC 28803


    wnccoins.com
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I collect Pez, beer bottle caps and potato chips shaped like 1930s singers.

    Cool! I just so happen to have a friend in Romania that wants to trade some of these items for other coins. What do you have to trade?
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I collect Pez, beer bottle caps and potato chips shaped like 1930s singers.

    Cool! I just so happen to have a friend in Romania that wants to trade some of these items for other coins. What do you have to trade? >>



    Given what I have read, I might take issue with that!image
    If you are in the Western North Carolina area, please consider visiting our coin shop:

    WNC Coins, LLC
    1987-C Hendersonville Road
    Asheville, NC 28803


    wnccoins.com
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713


    << <i>Anyway, I got bored out of my skull with my US coin collection a couple of years ago, and have since focused on Roman silver denarii of the early-to mid-Empire, and German Imperial and Prussian silver issues. >>

    Gosh, I didn't know I had an alternate ID!imageimage Welcome to the boards, Oldfossil -- that sounds like me a few years back.image
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Welcome, Old Fossil! Now we have at least two of you around (thinking of the Dead King...).

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • Jeez, I just said that in a thread a few minutes ago, welcome old fossil...... image
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Now the thread itself seems defunct... my luck is running. >>



    Welcome OldFossil. As you can see, the thread's been rescued, thanks to you and not the member who started it. image

    I basically collect nice items that carry some history on them. I could be collecting old books, unofficial first day covers, newspapers ,some specific magazines, movies, postcards, comics, and more ,much more, but my budget and a certain need to stay focused , have turned me into a devoted coin collector. Nineteeenth and twentieth century Greek coins basically, but also world gold, British, Japanese, some US ,and lately, inexpensive world red copper or toned silver coins. From time to time, I won't be able to resist a neat little old item that has nothing to do with my coins, so I'll sell other stuff to make room (and $$) for the newcomer , a process that adds some dynamics to an otherwise very static hobby.

    Then , there are times that I feel that I waste valuable time for a very materialistic occupation. Times that I would like to live in a place with only the absolutely necessary.I try to comfort myself by thinking that nothing really belongs to me, I just make sure that these "collectables" will reach the next generation in the best possible way , but mainly that's when I log into this forum, before I get depressed. image
    Dimitri



    myEbay



    DPOTD 3
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Coins as therapy......YES!!! It works for me. What a noble undertaking....image

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    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • I collect everything - it's as simple as that. But I do have some special areas of focus - they are mentioned in my signature line below.

    Lately I have felt a terrible urge to buy papermoney as well... actually bought two of them last month... but I just cannot afford all those areas of collecting image

    Marcel
    Ebay user name: 00MadMuffin00
  • Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone!



    << <i>Welcome Oldfossil.image >>



    Thanks, O King. Wassail!
    They are getting in the thin end of the wedge by a sort of side wind.

    -- Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett




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    << <i>Anyway, I got bored out of my skull with my US coin collection a couple of years ago, and have since focused on Roman silver denarii of the early-to mid-Empire, and German Imperial and Prussian silver issues. >>

    Gosh, I didn't know I had an alternate ID!imageimage Welcome to the boards, Oldfossil -- that sounds like me a few years back.image >>



    LOL... so what do I have to look forward to, Askari?
    They are getting in the thin end of the wedge by a sort of side wind.

    -- Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett


  • Well, I'm still into the German imperial coinage and banknotes -- especially the colonial -- but I've also expanded into paper Notgeld, POW scrip, and Art Nouveau/Art Deco medals. Mostly I've delved ever deeper into the Dark Side of numismatics that is terra incognita to the US coins-only collectors (whom we call "Litesiders"), enticing along any daring souls that are undaunted by a newer, darker challenge. imageimage
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome aboard OldFossil.

    I collect just about everything and dabble in ancients. I specialize in US and world
    coins from the latter half of the 20th century and various tokens and medals. I also
    collect some older world coins by date including Brittish pennys.
    Tempus fugit.
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