OMG!! I'm turning into a darksider!
Tootawl
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Well kinda. I bought the 2004 and 2005 2 pound silver Britannia coins at the San Francisco ANA. I liked the designs. I just ordered a bunch more from the series from Silver Eagle Coins. I now collect US coins, US currency, and British Britannia silver. What is next for me?
PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
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They're gorgeous.
<< <i> What is next for me? >>
You'll start dabbling in Brit proof sets. You'll really like the 1953 set and decide to pick up a Krause catalog. While browsing the book you'll have an OMG moment when you realize that you can pick up early 20th Brit century proofs for under $100. You may even notice that cameos don't really bring a strong premium. Before long you'll branch out into countries of your ancestry and maybe where you took an enjoyable vacation or two. next you'll pick up something really special, I'm guessing a cartwheel 2 pence of George III. the thought will cross your ming that you can buy lots of really great stuff if you sell of your US collection. By then its all over - I see it coming a mile away.
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<< <i> What is next for me? >>
You'll start dabbling in Brit proof sets. You'll really like the 1953 set and decide to pick up a Krause catalog. While browsing the book you'll have an OMG moment when you realize that you can pick up early 20th Brit century proofs for under $100. You may even notice that cameos don't really bring a strong premium. Before long you'll branch out into countries of your ancestry and maybe where you took an enjoyable vacation or two. next you'll pick up something really special, I'm guessing a cartwheel 2 pence of George III. the thought will cross your ming that you can buy lots of really great stuff if you sell of your US collection. By then its all over - I see it coming a mile away.
Either that or I will wake up and ask WTF am I doing???
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<< <i> What is next for me? >>
You'll start dabbling in Brit proof sets. You'll really like the 1953 set and decide to pick up a Krause catalog. While browsing the book you'll have an OMG moment when you realize that you can pick up early 20th Brit century proofs for under $100. You may even notice that cameos don't really bring a strong premium. Before long you'll branch out into countries of your ancestry and maybe where you took an enjoyable vacation or two. next you'll pick up something really special, I'm guessing a cartwheel 2 pence of George III. the thought will cross your ming that you can buy lots of really great stuff if you sell of your US collection. By then its all over - I see it coming a mile away.
Either that or I will wake up and ask WTF am I doing???
You'll be hooked. World coins are much better than dirty torn pieces of currency.
My latest purchase.
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<< <i> What is next for me? >>
You'll start dabbling in Brit proof sets. You'll really like the 1953 set and decide to pick up a Krause catalog. While browsing the book you'll have an OMG moment when you realize that you can pick up early 20th Brit century proofs for under $100. You may even notice that cameos don't really bring a strong premium. Before long you'll branch out into countries of your ancestry and maybe where you took an enjoyable vacation or two. next you'll pick up something really special, I'm guessing a cartwheel 2 pence of George III. the thought will cross your ming that you can buy lots of really great stuff if you sell of your US collection. By then its all over - I see it coming a mile away.
Yes, this is a highly probable scenario. Don't try to fight it...
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Not a nice "Russian" coin but minted in Warsaw. I bought it at a deadly battered price
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<< <i>A polish coin for a polish one
Not a nice "Russian" coin but minted in Warsaw. I bought it at a deadly battered price
Nice! Those Polish coins under Russian occupation are not exactly common.
"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
Here is another Russo-Polish one though. I know it's horrible in the pictures, but it's about UNC.
I am trying to assemble a whole set of such, but it seems a lot harder than what I like it to be.
<< <i>You'll start dabbling in Brit proof sets. You'll really like the 1953 set and decide to pick up a Krause catalog. While browsing the book you'll have an OMG moment when you realize that you can pick up early 20th Brit century proofs for under $100. You may even notice that cameos don't really bring a strong premium. Before long you'll branch out into countries of your ancestry and maybe where you took an enjoyable vacation or two. next you'll pick up something really special, I'm guessing a cartwheel 2 pence of George III. the thought will cross your ming that you can buy lots of really great stuff if you sell of your US collection. By then its all over - I see it coming a mile away. >>
Either that or I will wake up and ask WTF am I doing??? >>
That is quite possible too, in which case you'll dump the US immediately and not waste time slowly sliding into it.
09/07/2006
<< <i>Cliff it is all over for you now, just go buy a Krause and you'll feel much better. >>
First DAMMIT BOY! 25/9/05 (Finally!)
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Ah the Britannias they seem to bring quite a few people over (i don't rate them much myself as i prefer the classics but hey they do their job so you can't knock them).
May i suggest you go to google and type in 'Gothic Florin' and click search.
Here's a few others to try;
Gothic Crown
Una and the Lion five pounds
1826 five pounds
In fact if you want to see British coinage over the years, look no further;
Tony Clayton's Picture index
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<< <i> What is next for me? >>
You'll start dabbling in Brit proof sets. You'll really like the 1953 set and decide to pick up a Krause catalog. While browsing the book you'll have an OMG moment when you realize that you can pick up early 20th Brit century proofs for under $100. You may even notice that cameos don't really bring a strong premium. Before long you'll branch out into countries of your ancestry and maybe where you took an enjoyable vacation or two. next you'll pick up something really special, I'm guessing a cartwheel 2 pence of George III. the thought will cross your ming that you can buy lots of really great stuff if you sell of your US collection. By then its all over - I see it coming a mile away.
It's happening to me. (Except I'm not all that focused on area. I did US type, knowing I'd always be most of the 18th century away from completion. It's now starting to occur to me that world type may be a choice substitute...
1) Will you regret selling them?
2) Do US coins give your more enjoyment?
If you answer 'no' to both then sell them, if you answer 'yes' to both then don't.
If you come to a 'yes/no' scenario or a 'don't know' then i'd fence sit a bit, come back to it later. You won't lose anything with patience, i doubt the US coins will go down in value. Prices seem to be getting more and more crazy on the liteside.
Then after all that everyone has mentioned................then comes the GOLD !!!!!!!
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Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
<< <i>Here's a few others to try;
Gothic Crown
Una and the Lion five pounds
1826 five pounds >>
Yeah, you should try those.
If you have reeeeallly fargin' deep pockets!
Edit: oh. I see he was talkin' about Googlin', not buyin'. By all means, Google those. They are awesome coins. But not for the casual collector.
<< <i>I do own one of these:
That's a £5 yeah?
I nearly had one of those too, when i was doing the 1887 year set thing. I think i bought a sixpence instead. Me and sixpences... never a good combination.