Collecting interests? What are they?

Rickc300

I know we had one of these topics here before, but it has been awhile and we have a number of new members since the last time this was done.

I collect the German Empire, Weimar Republic and Third Reich by date and mint. All of the German states by type from 1600-1873 and by date and mint 1873 on. I also collect the German state of Prussia by date and mint.

German Empire = .7527% complete 892 coins collected

Weimar Republic = .5358% complete 262 coins collected

Third Reich = .7789% complete 310 coins collected

States + Prussia = 565 coins collected

Merry Christmas everybody!

Rick

spoon

I collect too much!

Here's my wantlist for some of the more focused areas of my collection.

coinpictures

The only darkside I'm still actively collecting at the moment are British fractional farthings. Outside of those, my interests lie with toned U.S. morgan dollars (see sig) and with my stamp collection...

500Bay

For me: Roman Silver (Denarii or the later silver denominations).

Dawg144

In terms of darkside stuff, circulated half-sovereigns, especially Aussie ones. By the way, nice work on those sets, Rick. I find Weimar stuff pretty neat.

bosox

Primarily, Canadian, Newfoundland, and Maritime bronze decimal coinage. I collect them in mint state, circulated, and by variety.

Secondarily, WWII coinage of occupied countries, governments-in-exile, and defunct countries created or swallowed up by the war. A challenging, mostly mint state collection of iron, zinc, aluminum, and other metal bits. Trying to find them without corrosion is the key. Many of the common-as-dirt coins are condition rare in true mint state.

Bjorn

Too many...

Mostly Greek and Hellenistic successor states, Roman denarius and sestertii, Medieval French Gros and similar sized coins from other countries, German States (besides Prussia)... but I am always on the look out for appealing and nice coins (for a good price!)

Edit: Forgot to add French 19th century!

lordmarcovan

Collection #1: The world-famous Holey Coin Vest and Holey Gold Hat. All pre-1900 coins with contemporary post-mint holes.

Collection #2: The Victoria Hope Collection, for my daughter, whose name you can deduce. 1901 Victoria-portrait coinage of the British Empire.

Collection #3: Roman Imperial coins; a portrait set by ruler. Visible in my current sigline link.

Collection #4 (sort of on a back burner): holed US Capped Bust half dollars by date.




Others I've contemplated but not begun:

#1: US Seated dimes with love token reverses, by date.

#2: US Barber half dollars in VG10 to F15, raw in an album.

#3: I'm feeling a tug towards your beloved German States, Rick. Were I to attempt it, I suppose I would just try for one coin per state, initially. Not sure what century. 18th, probably. Or maybe one from every state listed in the various Krause volumes (17th-20th century). While I would love to collect thalers and gold, I would probably just go for interesting minors, with the occasional thaler thrown in for good measure. Don't tempt me- I could see myself heading down that path, now that the path upwards in the Roman stuff is getting ever steeper.

Ricke

I collect late 18th century to early 19th, mostly large copper and small silver at the moment. I have a little gold, but only a few.

I don't really know what I would call my focus area. It started with 2 reales from the Spanish colonies and then spread out to similar sized silver coins from around the world in the same time period.

Currently, I'm trying to limit down. In order to do that, I've set my goal at two collections of 100 each - one that's stable, and one that counts as fun swap material, sort of a 30 bucks and under. It's been a fun way to keep active in a leaner year.

Gazza

I collect Great Britain 1900 to 1970 with Crowns until 1981, they went to £5 after that so I don't consider to them as crowns. 95% complete so I've added maundy into mix although not strictly circulation pieces.
Gary

Daltonista

Dalton silver tokens, Davis 19th-century tokens, and D&H (Conders), in that order.
Back burner: British Colonial exonumia and indigenous/pre-Regal stuff, as in Andrews, Breton, Pridmore, etc.
Happy Holidaze!
Tom

The original Tasmanian Devil:

ASUtodd

German Coins (of any kind- not really into their modern stuff though). Old Thalers, Swiss coins, and Candian coins. I love the WIldman coins. (Still looking for a Basel City coin much like the one posted in this thread Link.
I mainly like the coins from the 1600's to the early 1900's... The only modern Dark,light, Grey stuff that I like is from Canada....
Todd

LouisCamp

I'm a bit wacked, I collect Palau multi-colored issues, modern Canada & Australia, and I'm just starting a collection of Great Britain Piedforts.


Lou

laurentyvan

I have been selling off my 1st collection for the last year and a half and am just a couple of months away from finishing.

The new collection will consist of coins/medals that feature only finely engraved allegorical scenes or figures,
with emphasis on the historical attributes of the scene or figure.

I figure that gives me plenty of wiggle room for diversity.

Dentuck

Portrait medals of the Kaiserreich (1871-1918), spilling over in either direction to the 1860s and 1920s.

jetblack740il

Here is mine...

TwoKopeiki

Tom - awesome token! What is it?

My collecting interests focus on Mexican War of Independence issues while encompassing everything that is 8-Reales related.

MrEureka

Gold Coins of the Central American Republic, very seriously.
Mexican War for Independence, less seriously.
Various other Latin American and Scandinavian coins, casually.

wybrit

British coins 1838-1970, with more emphasis on Vicky than other reigns. The "WY" part of my name does not mean that I am enamored with the Wyoming state quarter, however.

worldcoinguy

I generally suffer from a lack of focus, but I have a main interest in talers from Austrian/German states. In particular, I find the german sede vacante talers and medals to be fascinating, but scarcity and price make those purchases few and far between. I also have had an eye for the 19th century swiss shooting talers lately. My goal this year is to cut down on impulse buys and stick to my main collecting areas (I get trigger happy when I find a few dollars in my pocket).

Sapyx

Let's not forget we have our own Darksiders membership list, which gives what some of the regulars collect. My entry there is still pretty much accurate.



<< <i>Tom - awesome token! What is it? >>


It's an Australian tradesman's token, the Macintosh & Degraves shilling - one of the few silver Australian tokens and the only one from Tasmania. Listed in Krause as KM# Tn154. It's generally regarded that "1823" is the date the sawmill was founded, rather than the date the token was issued; Tasmania was called "Van Diemen's Land" until 1856.

TwoKopeiki

<< <i>Let's not forget we have our own Darksiders membership list, which gives what some of the regulars collect. My entry there is still pretty much accurate.



<< <i>Tom - awesome token! What is it? >>


It's an Australian tradesman's token, the Macintosh & Degraves shilling - one of the few silver Australian tokens and the only one from Tasmania. Listed in Krause as KM# Tn154. It's generally regarded that "1823" is the date the sawmill was founded, rather than the date the token was issued; Tasmania was called "Van Diemen's Land" until 1856. >>



Thank you, Sapyx!

Rickc300

<< <i>Let's not forget we have our own Darksiders membership list, which gives what some of the regulars collect. My entry there is still pretty much accurate. >>



Very cool! I never new such a list existed and have now spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get on it... Where does one sign up at? Does anyone have a link for this dummy who can't seem to find it?

Thanks,
Rick

ASUtodd

Goto the World & Ancient Coin forums and look at the bottom of the page. You will see two small blue items, they say, "View Member Listing | Add To Member Listing". Click on Add to Member Listing and then login to add your info!
Todd

Rickc300

Thank you! Boy do I feel like an idiot. It was hidden right in front of me

Gee, since you found that for me so easily could you also find me a 1933-E 2 Reichsmark in VF or better?

Anyway, thanks for telling me where to add to the list!

Rick

lordmarcovan

(oopsie- never mind)

ASUtodd

I will be down at the coin shop tomorrow. I'll look through the 2 marks and see if I can find you one. When I go home for lunch today I'll look through mine but I doubt I have a E mint.
Todd

samwyi

Here's my focus:

Ancient Chinese, larger than 30mm and EF, seriously
Ancient Greeks, lighter than 1 drachm, uncleaned with hoard patina and VF+, casually
Moden Chinese, 1840-1949 coppers, zodiac silvers, casually

Nice to meet you all!

orie

Philippines of course and some 20th century South & Central American and African coins. An African coin with some European on it doesn't interest me, it must be an African. To each his own, I reckon!

Meiji

All Spanish and Colonial Pillars & Portrait Reales.

Iosephus

I am currently focusing on collecting papal medals.

Daltonista

Thanks for covering for me, Sapyx, while I was out of town for Christmas!
Just to add a little more for Roman and anyone else who might be interested,
Andrews says that Macintosh and Degraves had a business called the Cascade Saw Mill.
It is widely believed that perhaps 500 of these were minted and that about 50 survive,
most in pretty good shape as they never really circulated in commerce.

Here's a little more background on it, pasted in from the well-illustrated February 2004 edition of "Tasmanian Numismatist," which is available in its entirety here:


<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Dated 1823, the first tradesmen's token prepared in England for Australian use appeared in Van Diemen's Land. A silver shilling piece, which had been prepared for partners Macintosh and Degraves, who operated the Cascade Saw Mill near Hobart, appeared in very small numbers and even today there is some controversy about when and how many were actually released. Some numismatists believe it was issued basically as an advertising piece and later research indicates that they may not have been actually distributed until 1824 - 25 due to an argument, then a legal case, that had involved the partners, Major Hugh Macintoish (or Macintosh) and Peter Degraves, and some of the paying passengers on the ship that they had hired to transport themselves and their equipment to the colony. Because of their necessary appearances in a London court to fight the case, the partners and their ship were delayed somewhat, and newspaper records of the time suggest that they did not arrive in the colony until late 1824.
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">With the word ‘TASMANIA’ on the reverse (plus a contemporary idea of a kangaroo), the token prophetically predated the actual official name-change for Van Diemen’s Land by about 20 years. Only a few of these rare tokens survive, and there is no record of them being extensively used by the general public, so it is considered that most were probably held by the partners for their own use - or as mementoes issued to celebrate the establishment of their business venture.

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">No mintage details, whatsoever, seem to be available, but, as most examples of the 22mm. (66.5 gram) pure silver token that have been found are in excellent condition, it seems to bear out the latter theory.

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Researchers also believe that the spelling of Macintosh on the token was incorrect, and it should have been spelt Macintoish. Peter Degraves later went on to establish the famous Cascade Breweries in the idyllic surrounds of the area with its pure water supply straight off the slopes of Mt. Wellington.

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The following few years saw the start of early entrepreneurial efforts to produce tokens locally in Australia with varying degrees of expertise from terrible to worse but, eventually, the private English token-makers produced quality half-penny and penny sized pieces with Australian motifs which were imported and became established in all colonies until a few competent die-makers and manufacturers arrived and set up their businesses.

<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania as it was becoming known, had 20 other issuers of copper or bronze tokens, as well as the Macintosh and Degraves silver Shilling. Some tokens were manufactured in England and shipped out by the barrel full and some were made in the new Victorian establishment of Thomas Stokes.

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Photos or scans of many other Tasmanian tradesman's tokens are featured in this newsletter as well. Again, you can find it here.

Okay, that's enough exonumical missionary work for today!
Best to all for a great '08!
Tom

Oops...almost forgot the REST of the story:





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Daltonista

Sorry...I couldn't figure out how to get all the HTML out of that text.
This must be what they call a teachable moment, huh?

coinkat

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I thought it would be refreshing to be short and concise for one thread...

sumnom

I collect:

1) Korean cast and early milled coinage.

2) Qing coinage.

3) Japanese coinage, 1870-1945.

4) US large cents and small dollars.

5) Whatever else I like.

pendragon1998

As far as darkside stuff goes, I collect silver britannias in MS/PF69 (much more difficult to locate than you'd ever think). I've also got a casual collection of world coins with birds on them which I add to as the mood strikes me (my master's work concerns birds).

I'm contemplating a move away from US stuff into British coins from Victoria on up (probably crowns). LordM just traded me a Charles II groat that I got a big kick out of, and which has only muddied the waters (now I want to collect everything). I'm trying to be good and educate myself and look at my budget before choosing my path to the darkside.

On the US front, I'm always looking to polish up a twentieth century type set and I'm working to complete my Danscos of business strike Lincolns and Jefferson Nickels from circulation.

weresteve

Just about anything that catches my eye and is within my budget at the moment ... which currently happens to be German Republic in nice AU and whatever small denomination British happens to catch my eye ... mostly farthings from Queen Vicky on to King George VI with the occasional piece up thru one shilling for good measure. Still hoping to one day find a nice Gothic Florin in person that I can afford, but all I have seen lately have been pretty craptacular aVGs at best.

Only other items that comes to mind on my want list would be:

1903 France 25 Centimes Nice Unc
1905 France 25 Centimes Nice Unc
1964 Greece 30Dr in Choice BU that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Will have to check back in Krause again to see what Czech pieces I am also contemplating ... mostly the late 40s to early 50s Liberation from Nazi(?) designs as I already have one, but I think there are three or four others in the series.