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MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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If someone is from the UK (or any other part of the world) are US coins considered Darkside?
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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  • CIVITASCIVITAS Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭
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  • weresteveweresteve Posts: 1,224 ✭


    << <i>If someone is from the UK (or any other part of the world) are US coins considered Darkside? >>



    Of course not ... with such an illustrious luminary as George W Bush in the White House ... we are the light of the world ... image
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>If someone is from the UK (or any other part of the world) are US coins considered Darkside? >>



    Of course not ... with such an illustrious luminary as George W Bush in the White House ... we are the light of the world ... image >>



    If we are the light of the WORLD then US coins are Darkside and WORLD coins are Darkside. Or something like that!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    US is very boring darkside to the rest of the World. image
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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i> If someone is from the UK (or any other part of the world) are US coins considered Darkside? >>



    In the rest of the world US coins are not considered at all.
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In the rest of the world US coins are not considered at all >>


    But our $100 bills are.

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  • NeoNumismaniacNeoNumismaniac Posts: 335 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i> If someone is from the UK (or any other part of the world) are US coins considered Darkside? >>



    In the rest of the world US coins are not considered at all. >>



    Actually...I live and work in Kuwait City, Kuwait and US Coins are in High demand most of the time. I know many foreign collectors of Morgans, Peace Dollars, Commems, and other US Coinage. As a matter of fact, I just sold a roll of Morgans to a local dealer because his supplier can't keep up with demand.

    As far as the Darkside/Lightside question goes...I don't think they veiw it that way.

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  • sellsatansellsatan Posts: 663


    << <i>US is very boring darkside to the rest of the World. >>

    - spinaker2000



    << <i>In the rest of the world US coins are not considered at all. >>

    - the dead one

    C'mon folks, I understand the malaise inspired by modern American coinage, but how about more classic designs? Many folks here on the darkside admit a passing weakness for Mercury dimes or even Standing Liberty quarters. There are beautiful coins all over the world - even in the United States.
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>In the rest of the world US coins are not considered at all. >>



    T'was but a joke! There are some series that I would collect if I were interested in owning US coins myself. I like Bust Half Dollars, Half Cents, early Large Cents, I am also think Buffalo Nickels and Franklin Halfs are neat.
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    US Coin ratings from image to imageimageimageimageimage :

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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If "Darkside" means "foreign", then yes, collectors of "foreign" who live outside the US (like me) collect US coins as "just another foreign country". My best US coins are in my "T to Z" album in between United Arab Emirates and Upper Canada. But then, my best Australian coins are in between Assam and Austria. Guess I'm a darksider at heart.

    I'd never heard the adjectives "darkside" and "lightside" used in this context before discovering this forum, though. Being a bit of a "Star Wars" fan, I appreciate the analogy.

    I've always cosidered someone who used to collect coins once, but now only collects medals, tokens, badges and whatnot, as someone who's really fallen to the dark side.

    Do we collect US coins around here? Sure, if we can get them. Trouble is, they're so darned expensive. The shocking exchange rate ($1 AU = 75c US is better than it used to be) combined with the huge demand over there from "lightsiders" means US coins are easily 2 to 3 times the price of coins of similar age, condition and rarity from most other countries.
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  • BigAlanBigAlan Posts: 311 ✭
    "Darkside," as invented on this forum, refers to the "Darkside of the Moon" the knowledge of which exceeds what US collectors know about nonUS coinage.
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would Egypt's King Farouk be considered darkside when he bought the US 1933 Double Eagle?
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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Darkside," as invented on this forum, refers to the "Darkside of the Moon" the knowledge of which exceeds what US collectors know about nonUS coinage. >>



    Oh... image

    It's still a good analogy. image

    On that note, then, I would say collectors "down under" aren't quite as "in the dark" about non-Australian coins as American collectors are about non-US coins.

    Sure, every country has it's parochial colectors, but Aussie colectors don't have much choice. After all, Australian non-gold coinage only commenced in 1910. Before that, British coins were legal tender.

    There's also a list of foreign coins "proclaimed" as legal tender by one of our early governors back in 1800 - things like British cartwheels and shillings, Indian rupees, pagodas and mohurs, Spanish dollars, Portuguese johannas. These "Proclamation coins", as well as pre-1910 British coins, are considered a legitimate part of an "Australian" coin collection.

    BTW, if you've got any of the above coins dated around 1800 to sell, try sticking them on eBay Australia. Use the magic phrase "Proclamation coin" and you can easily double your money. image
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  • CruziCruzi Posts: 460
    Welcome Sap,

    Good to see you made it outside of the decimal mule forum (image)

    You forgot to add listing anything on Australian Ebay from 1788 will get you about 10 times normal price as well.

    As for lightside/darkside, anything non-US is darkside to me even though I'm an Australian.

    My lightside collection consists of pocket change from trips to the US and thats it.
  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    I don't own a single American coin, but the first one I will buy will be a Continental Dollar.

    One question though ...... since this coin was struck before the USA was the USA, is it lightside, darkside or no-side???

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't own a single American coin, but the first one I will buy will be a Continental Dollar.

    One question though ...... since this coin was struck before the USA was the USA, is it lightside, darkside or no-side???

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    Flipside, backside, hell I don't know!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • bosoxbosox Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Before I saw the dark (or grey), I completed a Buffalo collection in VF-AU (minus the suuuuuper expenseive varieties). Buffs are among the coolest US coins. Almost worthy of darkside consideration (except they are now waaaaaay overpriced). image

    P.S. I still have 'em. They are all raw in a cool Capital set holder.

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  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Funny how everyone is different, i've never liked Buffalo nickels. Or any of the incuse coinage. Not my cup of tea.

    In answer to the original question. Technically US coinage to me is in Pink Floyd terms the darkside of the moon however, perhaps i've hung around these forums too long and become indoctrinated into a US way of thinking, or maybe it's just i'm accustomed to it for the sake of clarity, but US to me is now liteside. However, lite doesn't neccesarily mean better, in Star Wars terminology dark/lite well i was always more of a Sith than a Jedi.


  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Darkside," as invented on this forum, refers to the "Darkside of the Moon" the knowledge of which exceeds what US collectors know about nonUS coinage. >>


    I miss Askari.

    As for liteside...there are some cool coins in my opinion (I like the flying eagle, draped bust design and the $10 Indian alot). I just can't get all excited about collecting every year, mint, VAM etc. I think if I ever take the liteside seriously, first I will start spelling it lightside instead of liteside image, and, second, it will have to be one of those 7070 albums. I took the first step a few months ago and bought the album. Haven't put anything in it yet though.

    As for the original question...I will always think US is liteside, Canada greyside, and the world as darkside (and maybe exonumia as farside). But that is probably my egocentric way of thinking image.

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