What are you working on?

Numismatics · May 26, 2005 6:07AM

I am working on Canadian George VI 25cents from 1937 to 1952 in MS64 or above.
I am sure this will takes me some year to complete the seris.

STLNATS · May 26, 2005 6:31AM

Primary collection is US NBNs of my 2 home towns....likely to be an open ended, unfinishable collection, even if I find the winning powerball ticket. I've always dabbled a little on the darkside, however, and have a few focussed, active interests (altho there is no rush to complete them):

1. Papal Medals:

- At least 1 medal of each pope, 1417 to date. Waiting on Benedicts 1st medal and then it'll be complete again.

- A silver annual medal for each year of the 20th century. After a purchase of 3 Pius XII medals last evening, I'm down to 2 JP II, 1 Leo XIII and a couple of Sede medals. Thinking about expanding this to the 19th century where I'm about 40% complete already

- An official gold medal of each pope of the 20th century. Have 3 of the 7. 2. Latvian currency 1918 to 1940 by serial number block letter. Missing a couple of keys, probably 75% there. Ought to be good for another 5-10 years

3. Roman folles of the tetrachy (roughly 293-313 AD). I'd like to finish my set of the Carthage mint (about 65% done) and have a handful of "gotta haves" to get the collection where I'd like to have it.

4. Finishing up my 1921-1923 Westphalia horse tokens. Missing 2 or 3 varieties and want to upgrade 4 or 5 more.

drjules · May 26, 2005 6:50AM

UK 20th century type set. I just need the two biggies 1902 and 1928 crown

Dr J

AuldFartte · May 26, 2005 7:19AM

I'm "working" on waaaayyyyy too much stuff ...

Canada Type Set
Australia Type Set
British Victoria Type Set
Papal/Vatican coins (might become a type set someday)
British pre-Victoria shillings by type
British florins by type
Darkside coins with ships
Darkside coins because I like the design including, of course, some BBL's

Oh ... and some liteside crap is way back on the "back burner" indefinitely.

Numismatics · May 26, 2005 7:31AM

<< <i>I'm "working" on waaaayyyyy too much stuff ...

Canada Type Set
Australia Type Set
British Victoria Type Set
Papal/Vatican coins (might become a type set someday)
British pre-Victoria shillings by type
British florins by type
Darkside coins with ships
Darkside coins because I like the design including, of course, some BBL's

Oh ... and some liteside crap is way back on the "back burner" indefinitely. >>

That is really alot of work. Good Luck!

Cladiator · May 26, 2005 7:40AM

My one and only Darkside collection is a "beautiful design" type set. Requirements to be in the set; 1. beautiful design (in my opinion lol), 2. Large coin, 3. From anywhere but U.S., 4. No clad coins, 5. Not modern. So far I have only selected 9 coins to be in the set but am always looking out for more qualified designs

So far I have:

1944 Switzerland 2 Francs
1939 Cuba 1 Peso (ABC)
1911 British Trade Dollar
1905 Phillipino 1 Peso
1932 Poland 10 Zlotych

Still need:

French 5 Francs (Sower)
Mexican 2 Peso (Libertad)
Mexican 1 Peso (Caballito)
Romanian 2 Lei

STLNATS · May 26, 2005 7:54AM

"beautiful design"

Interesting theme!

I'm not sure exactly when you define modern, but would you include the 1951 & after West German standard 5 mark coin? I always have thought that the obverse was an inspired design and have toyed (and so far resisted) with collecting it by date. A related piece is the German Oak Tree 5 mk. The other one that immediately comes to mind is the 1930s French 10/20 Fr. Very deco.....very impressive.

edited to add...and the San Marino 1930s Lire 10, and.......(so many pretty coins, such little time and money!)

ajaan · May 26, 2005 8:38AM

Date set of all Canadian circulating coins from 1858-1967

CoinAddict · May 26, 2005 8:48AM

A Franklin Half Set which can be saw in my sigline and a set of Liberty themed Darkside coins. Basically any foreign design that catches my eye with some type of form of liberty.

cosmicdebris · May 26, 2005 9:06AM

1 each Goetz pattern coins
Conder Tokens
and a few others

Someday I am going to sell the rest when I can get around to it.

XXX · May 26, 2005 9:13AM

Alittle modern US stuff and some recent canadian stuff I like. You know......A little of this, and a little of that.

WhiteTornado · May 26, 2005 9:16AM

Darkside...

Great Britain: Florins by type and also low-grade Half Cents by date from about 1900-1950 or so.
France: Not sure yet, but 1 Franc either by type or date. Probably will be by type.
Ireland: Really not sure yet!
Greece: Same as Ireland

Liteside...

Indian Head Cents by date
Liberty Nickels by date
Barber Dimes by date
Peace Dollars by date

I also like proofs, so I occasionally will just buy one for the heck of it.

wybrit · May 26, 2005 10:45AM

British minor coins by date 1838-1970 in as high a grade as possible, with priority placed on farthings, halfpennies, threepences, sixpences and shillings. My goal is to whup avarel in every British 3d auction he has his eye on.

farthing · May 26, 2005 10:53AM

Besides the Conder tokens I'm collecting..
Jacques and Leopold Wiener Cathedral medals
Complete date set of Iceland
High grade date set of GB farthings 1806-1956
Date set of GB non-gold coins 1806-1967
Commemorative 2, 5, and 10 Kroner coins from Denmark and Sweden (Sweden is almost complete)
1 from every country/political movement/issuing authority/monetary reform - 1800+

Cladiator · May 26, 2005 11:14AM

<< <i>Interesting theme!

I'm not sure exactly when you define modern, but would you include the 1951 & after West German standard 5 mark coin? I always have thought that the obverse was an inspired design and have toyed (and so far resisted) with collecting it by date. A related piece is the German Oak Tree 5 mk. The other one that immediately comes to mind is the 1930s French 10/20 Fr. Very deco.....very impressive.

edited to add...and the San Marino 1930s Lire 10, and.......(so many pretty coins, such little time and money!) >>

I have no hardset definition of "modern". So far the most modern coin in the collection will be the French 5 Franc Sower with the earliest year of 1960. Ideally I'm looking in early 20th Century. As for the German and San Marino coins.....I don't know as I can't offhand remember what they look like lol. I do know I love the art deco look on coinage and I am always looking for new additions

Got any pics of those coins?

coldcicle · May 26, 2005 11:34AM

I am not really a set kind of person.I just buy whatever floats my boat.However I am sure someday I may find a series so beautiful I will want to complete a set.

STLNATS · May 26, 2005 11:54AM

Got any pics of those coins?

Well Clad, most of my stuff is in the bank. I do have a small box with odds and ends - mostly interesting base medal and the odd silver circulated piece. In general I bought these simply because I liked them and they cost me between a dime and a few dollars apiece. After looking thru it I found a circulation stike 1968 5 mk and a circulated 1933 10 Fr. Here's the "good" sides.

I've had the German coin probably 25-30 years. The French coin was just a piece of "junk silver" I saved because I liked the design. Both are well designed and tell you a lot about their countries and their time. These aren't bad, but in high grade they really pop!

Maybe someone else has a nice Oak Tree and San Marino L10 to share.

Compa · May 26, 2005 12:09PM

For me, it's type sets

US Registry sets here on PCGS

My Mexican type set (about half of it currently in the hands of ANACS)

My Canadian type set

And a bunch of misc type coins from every country in the New World - (can't say I really work on these - they just happen)

There is also a quite large collection of Mexican currency - Pre-revolutionary to current issues

Edited to fix link

Kurt4 · May 26, 2005 12:32PM

Still just bummin' around buying stuff I like. I'll probably streamline my collecting in a few months. I'm having fun just picking up pieces I like. I might start on Peruvian sols. I just bought this one Peruvian Sol. Can't wait to get it in hand.

SYRACUSIAN · May 26, 2005 6:16PM

With the unavailability of nice affordable 19th and early 20th century Greek coins, I've undertaken Switzerland for a while, and I even bought a (Confederation) Dansco type set album for this from lordmarcovan. However, I keep being tempted by super high grade examples in slabs,or raw but too nice to stay like this

,and so the album stays eternally half empty.

sellsatan · May 26, 2005 6:49PM

Thanks to some recent help from you folks I've already taken a large bite out of the one from every country collection. I'm thinking now that I want to use silver or gold coins whenever possible. We'll see how that shapes up.

bohica268 · May 26, 2005 8:06PM

Circulation Strike type set of Canadian coins from KM1 to date including gold sovereigns, gold $5 and $10 coins.

hyperizer · May 26, 2005 9:56PM

I'm working on a set of Walkers. On the darkside, I'm accumulating a type set of my favorite European designs (including ancients), a collection of Roman Republic denarii by god, and I buy commemorative Euros with painters on them.

ccrdragon · May 26, 2005 11:01PM

Darkside:
1. South African Copper Circ Strikes - 1923-1960
2. 20th Century African Copper Type Set
3. British 1/2 Pennys 1937-1970 (ships - complete except for upgrades)
4. ZAR Copper (complete except for upgrades)
5. ZAR Typeset (only need the crown!)
6. South African Crown Proofs 1940-1960
7. South African Proof Copper 1940-Present (prefer toned!)
8. Jersey pre-decimal copper (complete except for upgrades)
9. Guernsey pre-decimal copper
10. Any world copper that catches my eye!!!

Liteside:
1. Indian Head Cents - circ strikes
2. Buffalo Nickels - circ strikes

Future Sets:
1. Australia, New Zealand and Oceania copper type Set (20th Century)
2. European copper type set (20th Century)

Sylvestius · May 27, 2005 3:20AM

Not a great deal at the moment, i've narrowed the focus down considerably lately;

1) English Anglo-Saxon pennies one of each monarch from 871-1066

Still to get; (i can never remember the dates, here without looking)

Alfred the Great (871-899)
Edward the Elder (899-924)
Edmund (939-???)
Eadred (940s)
Eadwig (???-959)
Eadgar (959-975)
Edward the Martyr (975-978)
Æthelred II (978-1016)
Harold I (1035-1040)
Harthacnut (1040-1042)
Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)
Harold II (1066)

2) One penny of the monarchs from 1066-1399

Still to get;

William I (1066-1087)
William II (1087-1100)
Henry I (1100-1135)
Richard I (1189-1199)
Edward II (1307-1327)
Edward III (1327-1377)
Richard II (1377-1399)

3) Henry VI Annulet issue (1422-27) type set Noble to Farthing.

Half Noble, Quarter Noble, Groat, Halfgroat, Penny, Halfpenny, Farthing.

4) Nazi Germany 5 reichspfennigs in UNC/BU.

1938, 1939, 1941, 1943 & 1944.

That's it, quite a bit but i hope to deal with the Anglo-Saxon and the Henry VI stuff first.

Sylvestius · May 27, 2005 3:22AM

<< <i>I'm working on a set of Walkers. On the darkside, I'm accumulating a type set of my favorite European designs (including ancients), a collection of Roman Republic denarii by god, and I buy commemorative Euros with painters on them. >>

Roman coins by deity is indeed an approach i had considered, hopefully one day i'll get chance to persue that route.

bosox · May 27, 2005 3:48AM

Canada large cents. Click the link in my sigline to see.

laurentyvan · May 27, 2005 5:00AM

Date set of all Canadian circulating coins from 1858-1967 Very ambitious Ajaan-I'll check on your progress in about 50 years, god willing...

Type set from France, 18th cent through 20th century. The same from Germany and Great Britain and Italy although with slightly less enthusiasm and interest.

Over 350 countries at last count in my OFEC collection (where are some of those obscure countries?-tough to find sometimes, even with large mintages).

Lightside commem. coins in UNC and Proof, whatever interests me, US type set-Dansko album (almost complete).

Darkhorse · May 27, 2005 5:06AM

I'm working on a 'Whatever Coin/Medal/Plaque Strikes My Fancy' set. It's pretty incomplete.

ajaan · May 27, 2005 5:40AM

<< <i>Date set of all Canadian circulating coins from 1858-1967 Very ambitious Ajaan-I'll check on your progress in about 50 years, god willing... >>

I only need about a dozen or so more coins.

laurentyvan · May 27, 2005 7:04AM

I only need about a dozen or so more coins.

Only a dozen or so? Outstanding for a date set-when did you start? I thought this was something of a recent effort on your part...

ajaan · May 27, 2005 7:26AM

I've had the large and small cents, along with the 5c nickels for years. I've having trouble locating some of the key dates though.

What are you working on?

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