What's your favorite coin era.

spinaker2000

I'll start with mine. Got to be The 1790's. A great decade for copper lovers. All kinds of new coins popping up, including the US 1 and 1/2 cents. Tons of tokens too.

Aethelred

1760-1820, but you already know that!

Shipcoin

Young (Second Head) Elizabeth II for all British and Commonwealf coins

Sylvestius

Well i have two favourite eras, i can't decide which one i prefer the most but it's either

1135-1154 (King Stephen)

or 1674-1741 (Charles II sixpences - George II young head ones)

coinkat

I don't think I have a single favorite...

wybrit

By now everyone knows it's Victorian and post-Victorian predecimal.

python

The Tudor period

MacCrimmon

You can't tell??

Actually, over the next 20 years, God willing, my goal is to complete at least the tanner type set from Charles II through Victoria, maybe also Edw. VII.....hey, maybe even a date run of gEF or better tanners!! Hmmmm.? That might really bankrupt me.

cosmicdebris

The one door period.

Askari

About 1870-1940. That's when some of the greatest designs were produced.

satootoko

1870-1911, the Meiji Era during which Japanese modern coinage began, with all those beautiful dragons.

coachleonard

Age Of Exploration & Colonial Periods--- 'course I'm really into the
Ango-Saxon period too.

python

<< <i>The one door period. >>


That will be enough of that.

kuhli

For a poor boy like me, I gotta say the 1990's. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, and all of the Eastern Bloc countries dividing and re-organizing, there were a lot of opportunities to get in on the ground floor of collecting a country.

farthing

Given my current focus on Conder tokens I guess I'd better say the 1790's

PCBUM

1860-1900

cladking

1950 to 1999. There are huge numbers of great, underappreciated coins from this era. While
some more recent date coins might be included and there are certainly many great base metal
and silver coins dating back to the end of WW II that are included, it is during this era that coin
collectors quit bothering with the systematic collecting of current coin and what they most ignored
were the base metal coins. This especially applies to high denomination copper nickel coins which
replaced silver coins in circulation worldwide.

spinaker2000

I knew farthing would be with me on the 1790s.

Askari

<< <i>I knew farthing would be with me on the 1790s. >>

Oh, you mean back when men were men and coins were ... well, useful for cutting up for chump change?

MacCrimmon

<< <i>.....cutting up for chump change? >>

2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar; all for the Mustangs let's give a holler!!

Sylvestius

<< <i>You can't tell??

Actually, over the next 20 years, God willing, my goal is to complete at least the tanner type set from Charles II through Victoria, maybe also Edw. VII.....hey, maybe even a date run of gEF or better tanners!! Hmmmm.? That might really bankrupt me. >>




That would definately break the bank!

Good luck with James II and William and Mary!

In all honesty the sixpence is the hardest series to collect in high grades, because they being a lower denomination saw alot of circulation, and thus some dates just don't exist in grades of GEF.

And James II coins are a nightmare to get hold of anyway.

But good luck! (they is rare but underappreciated and thus affordable, plus there's alot less of them to get than there is of the higher denominatiobs like shillings)