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If you had more money what would you collect?

WildWestHalfDollarsWildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 2, 2025 3:01PM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

I collect US dimes and Latin American 1 reales (dime sized). But if I had deeper pockets I would collect US dollars and Latin American 4 reales and 8 reales (50 cents and dollars).

Liberty Seated Half Dollars (lower circulated grades)

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    element159element159 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭

    Large size $1000 notes.

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    threefiftythreefifty Posts: 179 ✭✭✭

    Straight-graded galanos, of course.

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    WildWestHalfDollarsWildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @threefifty said:
    Straight-graded galanos, of course.

    Galanos?

    Liberty Seated Half Dollars (lower circulated grades)

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    threefiftythreefifty Posts: 179 ✭✭✭
    edited February 27, 2025 6:42PM

    @TheGoonies1985 said:

    @threefifty said:
    Straight-graded galanos, of course.

    Galanos?

    Many refer to them as "royals", they are well-struck presentation cobs on special round planchets. They are beautiful, usually unique coins and incredibly historic, they seem to go for 5k-10k for holed/plugged ones (most are) and 20k and up for straight grades.

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    neildrobertsonneildrobertson Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd do what I do now, albeit more effectively. I'd work more gold into it as well.

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    Coinlover101Coinlover101 Posts: 202 ✭✭✭

    Regulated gold. :)

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    HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would look for more holed $20 dollar gold pieces.

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    Plus00VltraPlus00Vltra Posts: 116 ✭✭✭

    Pioneer gold.

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    ClioClio Posts: 644 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nobles :)

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    JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TwoKopeiki said:
    I'd collect the same thing i collect now, but the overall quality and progress of the collection would be higher.

    After seeing the Tyrants collection of Spanish Colonial coins (and he's a billionaire who made the choice to focus solely on the Mexico mint, which I'm assuming was in part due to there simply being more examples available of the various denominations overall than what can be found from other mints.) I'm not so sure that there is all that much more improvement that could actually be made to the collection you've assembled thus far.

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    KSorboKSorbo Posts: 172 ✭✭✭

    I would go for more and higher grade crown/thaler sized European coins, as well as some nice colonial Mexican pieces.

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    KiwiNumiKiwiNumi Posts: 210 ✭✭✭

    Victoria Gothic Crown proofs.

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    SimonWSimonW Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Houses and classic cars

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    tcollectstcollects Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭✭✭

    yeah more mopar

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    FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't believe no one wants more ex wives.

    I'd probably have a few more coins but a lot more land

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    GöttingerGöttinger Posts: 210 ✭✭✭

    Circulating gold coins from circa 1800 to 1950 with a focus on Sovereigns, German Mark, French 20 Francs and their foreign counterparts (Latin Monetary Union) and US gold coins.

    Right now I unfortunately only have my change from metal detecting and the deposit money from occasionally collecting empty cans to fund my coin collection, usually the equivalent of one gold coin and a few silvers per year.

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    WCCWCC Posts: 3,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd have to have a much bigger budget before I'd put any "meaningful" money into another primary interest. I could easily spend seven figures on my current one without buying condition census coins by expanding it to 8R from all mints. I'd start by attempting to buy plate coins privately where I'd almost certainly have to pay multiples to my estimate of market.

    I already have a few side collections.

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    atteiramatteiram Posts: 2 ✭

    Money paper or metal

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,786 ✭✭✭✭✭

    More British gold. On the U.S. side, I’d get a wire edge, periods, 1907 Indian $10 gold in MS-65.

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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it would be fun to own a Studebaker Avanti and a Lincoln Continental Mark II

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    NapNap Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same stuff, better grades

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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,999 ✭✭✭

    All British predecimal milled, instead of just the coppers and bronzes.

    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    24 year old blondes

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    BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,679 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Indian Mogul Zodiacs> @ambro51 said:

    24 year old blondes

    Ambro DiCaprio

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    WildWestHalfDollarsWildWestHalfDollars Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ambro51 said:
    24 year old blondes

    You would not remain rich for long they would drain you so fast (money and energy).

    Liberty Seated Half Dollars (lower circulated grades)

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    MrMonkeySwag96MrMonkeySwag96 Posts: 143 ✭✭✭

    Adding a problem free Draped Bust dollar to my type set or splurging on a Roman gold Aureus

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