(LordM) Image drop: my ENTIRE World (1601-present) collection as of February 2026

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lordmarcovan
lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited February 8, 2026 6:07AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum

Here's a quick image drop of my World coin collection as of early February, 2026.

I am an eclectic collector and do a little bit of everything: Ancient, Medieval, World, and US. As such, this is only the World Coins (1601-present) portion of my collection. The earlier (Ancient & Medieval) and the United States coins have their own categories.


Here are the four main categories of my (certified) primary collection:
Ancient & Medieval Coins (to 1600 AD)
The Twelve Caesars of Rome
World Coins (1601-present)
United States Coins

My holed coin collection and my old metal detector finds album are currently not imaged.


One challenge that I have is that my Ancients & World coins compete with the US side for my limited budget. (There are so many nice coins and so few dollars to spend on them, right?) But I have fun being a "jack of all trades" and will continue walking that path.


Here we go. The coins are listed chronologically, by date.


Thanks for looking! I hope to hear what some of your favorites are. :)




















































Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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  • MEJ7070
    MEJ7070 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice coins!

    Big fan of the 1703 Mariengroschen for eye appeal and the 1924 Soviet rouble for “coolness” (I taught social studies for 15 years and enjoy coins issued by governments/political systems that absolutely did not work).

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @MEJ7070 said:
    Big fan of the 1703 Mariengroschen for eye appeal

    Thanks. I had to have at least one "Wildman" type. I had another almost identical 1703 that I submitted to NGC and it came back "UNC details/cleaned". So since I am twitchy about "details" grades, I sold that piece and "downgraded" to the straight-graded AU55 example you see above. The two coins were very similar.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • MEJ7070
    MEJ7070 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Also dig the Burmuda $60. I’m unfamiliar with that design but it’s shaped exactly like the Dunlop guitar picks I’ve been using for 30+ years.

    Never seen a guitar pick coin before! That coin took my brain straight to my Takamine B)

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 8, 2026 6:09AM
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    @MEJ7070 said:
    Also dig the Burmuda $60. I’m unfamiliar with that design but it’s shaped exactly like the Dunlop guitar picks I’ve been using for 30+ years.

    Never seen a guitar pick coin before! That coin took my brain straight to my Takamine B)

    Ha! I have called that my "Guitar Pick Coin" for years!

    More than an ounce of gold in it. Would be a pretty fancy guitar pick.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • MEJ7070
    MEJ7070 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The “Bermuda Triangles”

    Makes sense.

  • Bob13
    Bob13 Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Always a treat to see your collection!

    My current "Box of 20"

  • syl
    syl Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭✭
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    What great visuals from the 2 posts!

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited February 8, 2026 12:26PM
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    Lordmarcovan, do you have some certain principles for collecting or you collect various coins just liked?

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 8, 2026 1:07PM
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    @Sergey74 said:
    Lordmarcovan, do you have some certain principles for collecting or you collect various coins just liked?

    It’s pretty much as simple as “if I like it, I buy it”.

    But the underlying reasons I like certain stuff are a tiny bit more complex. Sometimes it’s the history- a place or time I’m interested in.

    Sometimes it’s purely aesthetic- a design I like, or a pretty example.

    Usually it’s some combination of those factors.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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