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KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭

I enjoy buying a variety of items for my collection, but I would say that I have three main collecting specialties:

-Numismatic Literature
-Sample Slabs
-Coinage from 1943

Admittedly, these are relatively unusual specialties, but I enjoy it. But thinking about what I collect made me wonder: What are some of your less common collecting specialties?

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  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mine are as follows...

    -Peace Dollars
    -Old, odd, or unique numismatic holders

  • CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 3, 2017 11:31AM

    Any type of beautifully toned coin.

    I still have a sweet spot for early commems.

    Silver/silver clad Kennedys.

    I end up with a lot of widgets.

  • AmazonXAmazonX Posts: 680 ✭✭✭✭

    -Shield Nickels
    -Counterfeits
    -PL coins

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mine are too many to list :smile:
    Quirks that is

    Successful transactions with : MICHAELDIXON, Manorcourtman, Bochiman, bolivarshagnasty, AUandAG, onlyroosies, chumley, Weiss, jdimmick, BAJJERFAN, gene1978, TJM965, Smittys, GRANDAM, JTHawaii, mainejoe, softparade, derryb

    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • hutze1nmhutze1nm Posts: 235 ✭✭✭
    edited May 3, 2017 11:43AM

    PL Coins Morgans or Business Strikes of non-Morgans graded as PL
    Weird Pop 1 Coins

    Recently acquired an NGC 1881-P Morgan AU58PL in one of the oldest NGC holders - Fits both Categories above

    A 1903 Morgan In PL still eludes me at a reasonable price :(

    Things I like to do: Collect PL Morgans. That’s is all.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A type set of different "types" of error coins all from one date in all denominations, going on 400 + examples

    In Life way too many to count, currently gold mining in the desert .........

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

    -Renaissance coinage
    -Esp. Early Walkers
    -Choice or better
    -Vintage slabs
    -Numismatic literature
    -Keeping fastidious records
    -Having everything in chronological order
    -Must have precious metal content

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • UnclePennyBagsUnclePennyBags Posts: 327 ✭✭✭

    Type set collector... Coins that end in 8 wherever possible

    Successful trades.... MichaelDixon,

  • neildrobertsonneildrobertson Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Off-subject interests:
    Coins without rims. I just like how they look whether it's modern or 18th century.
    I'll periodically purchase on zinc and iron coins. The basest of the base metals.

    Quirks:
    My toning needs to be earth toned and radially symmetrical.

    IG: DeCourcyCoinsEbay: neilrobertson
    "Numismatic categorizations, if left unconstrained, will increase spontaneously over time." -me

  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerfan said:
    -Renaissance coinage
    -Esp. Early Walkers
    -Choice or better
    -Vintage slabs
    -Numismatic literature
    -Keeping fastidious records
    -Having everything in chronological order
    -Must have precious metal content

    What kind of literature do you have? DM

    CCAC Representative of the General Public
    Columnist for The Numismatist
    2021 Young Numismatist of the Year

  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "U.S. Strange Denominations"

    Working on both 2-cent and 3-cent nickel sets, would love to get another 20-cent. Don't know why....But the history is just so well defined, I guess. "They started making them on this date....and ended at this date.....and we'll never see them made again." ;)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KellenCoin said:

    @Walkerfan said:
    -Renaissance coinage
    -Esp. Early Walkers
    -Choice or better
    -Vintage slabs
    -Numismatic literature
    -Keeping fastidious records
    -Having everything in chronological order
    -Must have precious metal content

    What kind of literature do you have? DM

    Walker books by Ambio, Fox & Swiatek. Redbooks, some of QDB and RWB's books. I also like the Coin Collector's Survival Manual by Scott A. Travers. Last year I bought Pleasure and Profit a book by Robert W. Shipee--a retired banker who made money building and selling a type set......I really enjoyed it. I like Magazines, too. I have saved magazines most of my adult life. Coinage, Coin World, Coins, etc, I have FAR tooo many....

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • BustDMsBustDMs Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Autographed numismatic literature as well as numismatic books with embossed tinted plates. Some of these are truly amazing as the inks used were infused with copper, silver and gold and the plates tone just like the real coins. Most were made in Germany and England in the mid to late 1800's.

    Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?



    A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.



    A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Over time, I guess my collecting has been quirky. I've gotten into Three Cent Nickel proofs, Close AM and Wide AM Memorial cents, plain-edge Presidential dollars and Sacs in the past...

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't generally like coins that were made for collectors. This includes proofs, mint sets, "widgety" modern bullion issues, etc.

    Some classic commems are OK though......

  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    18th-19th century British coin scales
    19th century mechanical counterfeit coin detectors (for U.S. gold, or silver quarters and halves)
    Numismatic literature (ca. 90% U.S.-related)
    Antique electrotypes

    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

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    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I collect only modern US error coins. If I own an off-metal/wrong planchet error it must be combined with another error such as double struck or off center, or it must be a proof, or struck on aluminum.

  • dogwooddogwood Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭✭

    For all the choice XF and AU barber halves and quarters I've owned I still get more aesthetic enjoyment out of holding a filthy old tobacco toned saddle-smooth VG10. It's just a quirk.

    We're all born MS70. I'm about a Fine 15 right now.
  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lincolns, Whitman Bookshelf Albums.

    ~HABE FIDUCIAM IN DOMINO III V VI / III XVI~
    POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
    Love for Music / Collector of Dreck
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,150 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are a few times when I have specifics for coins. When I bought an NJ copper, it had to be 1787 because I was born in 1987. For a bust dollar, the 17** was important, so I didn't consider anything 1800 or later.

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  • stevepkstevepk Posts: 238 ✭✭✭

    Old world coins with a clear date

    I am primarily a collector of US coins and I am fascinated by world coins that date further back than US coins. They are often inexpensive as there are fewer world coin collectors than collectors of US coins and consequently lower demand. I bought an old Hungarian coin at a recent show dated 1678 for only $25. It's worn, but the date and basic details are there. I suppose that's a weird quirk of mine.

  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gold error coins, toned gold coins, gold in old holder. Maybe one day I will find a coin that meets all 3 criteria? Doubtful, as toned gold and gold error coins are both pretty rare.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Generally when I receive a coin on approval I give it the nightstand test. I leave in on the nightstand and when I wake up if I look at it first thing I generally buy it

    mark

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In recent years (the last dozen or so) my collecting has been mainly quirky... A love token or two, some silver items, any coin that for some reason intrigues me...and coin literature. Cheers, RickO

  • CyndieChildressCyndieChildress Posts: 429 ✭✭✭

    @stevepk said:
    Old world coins with a clear date

    I am primarily a collector of US coins and I am fascinated by world coins that date further back than US coins. They are often inexpensive as there are fewer world coin collectors than collectors of US coins and consequently lower demand. I bought an old Hungarian coin at a recent show dated 1678 for only $25. It's worn, but the date and basic details are there. I suppose that's a weird quirk of mine.

    That's cool, I like it :)

  • CyndieChildressCyndieChildress Posts: 429 ✭✭✭

    I haven't figured out exactly what I want to collect or focus on.

    My husband said that ever since I received my grandpa's coins that "All it has done is cost us more money", lol (only because I went to the Sacramento Coin Show and picked up a few things)

  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,693 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Over-dates, over-assayer, die variations and other varieties of Mexico 8 Reales from 1791 to 1821.

    Quirky, I know :)

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,189 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Old slabs
    Love tokens
    Unusual scarce bullion
    Spoons
    etc. :)

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think 200 year old coins are more historically interesting in grades good to fine than they are uncirculated.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I accumulate/collect non-Numismatic Errors.

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors
    for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭

    Tear drop SLQs, shooting star SLQ. Do they count?

    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Baley said:
    I think 200 year old coins are more historically interesting in grades good to fine than they are uncirculated.

    That's what I tell myself when I look at my checking account balance. ;)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Exactly! The fact that well-travelled coins cost less than boring 'saved' ones is an incredible and surprising bonus.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I tend to pick up any unusual numismatic oddities... Often they're cheap and crude. I can't seem to not purchase stuff like this when I see it.



  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a few coins from my childhood -- mostly from pocket change. Athenian Tetradrachm and Rhodian eagle-head statrs from merchant receipts. These were commonplace in markets along the coastal provinces in Asia Minor where my Dad was the Administrator.

  • ElmhurstElmhurst Posts: 784 ✭✭✭

    East German aluminum

  • ElmhurstElmhurst Posts: 784 ✭✭✭

    @Elmhurst said:
    East German aluminum

    Not trolling here...I buy if can get it for almost nothing

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