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Poll: Coin collectors/dealers, do you collect/sell currency?
RYK
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Like love and marriage, salt and pepper, BatMan and Robin, and Russ and MadMarty, coins and currency go together in out daily lives. But what about our coin collections? Who amongst us has anything remotely resembling a currency collection--or--which coin dealers also deal in currency?
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But I had to go with the milkshake option.
Sounds good about right now.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Large size type, and first issue fractional (postage) currency.
TorinoCobra71
I do have a fractional currency note... I will be selling my uncut sheets of 1s and 2s... I do have a Wild Flower stamp book... I do have a $20 State Bank note from my college town (New Brunswick NJ)...
Hmmm... Maybe I do have the collectors mentality. Perhaps I should have voted yes?
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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I prefer ice cream to beer. If you do not like it, make your own stinkin' poll.
I've only owned (but sold) one piece of currency. It was an 1882 $20 Gold note graded a CGA VF30. I liked it but decided to concentrate solely on coins.
Beyond that I’ve dabbled with colonial currency and some Confederate currency. I just never gotten bitten by the bug for U.S. currency, and given the prices, I’d do well to stay away from it. And like most collectibles, there is a learned period where one can get ripped just like you can and will get ripped in coins. Paper money is a real minefield with washed and starched notes, repairs and other stuff I don’t even know about.
Because of the expense and the learning period, I’ll never be a serious paper money collector.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
A witty saying proves nothing- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor
does the truth become error because nobody will see it. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Last friday night, I took a 1857, Omaha City, "Western Exchange Fire & Marine Insurance Co." $1 bank note to our coin club meeting and it got a lot of interest.
The artwork is wonderful as well as the stories behind these "wildcat" banks.
Come... come over the the dark side. Paper is good for you!
You may have heard, we even have a forum here!
I specialize in Wisconsin currency! Looking for information on WI national banknotes. Census stands at 12,318 notes.
**"Wisconsin National Bank Notes - 2nd Edition" is out!!!" Only $20PPd!!!
Two guys are out in the woods, and one of them has to use the bathroom, but sais " I don't have nothing to wipe with."
The second guy sais well "Just use a dollar. " The guy heads off into the woods and comes back a few minutes later, and he has
"it" all over him. The stunned second guy sais " How could you make that big a mess with a dollar bill?".
The first guy sais " OH , all I had was coins".
What I collect depends on, mood, time of day,
the weather, available funds, what is in front of me,
and other factors which is beyond my scope.
<< <i>Two guys are out in the woods, and one of them has to use the bathroom, but sais " I don't have nothing to wipe with."
The second guy sais well "Just use a dollar. " The guy heads off into the woods and comes back a few minutes later, and he has
"it" all over him. The stunned second guy sais " How could you make that big a mess with a dollar bill?".
The first guy sais " OH , all I had was coins".
I guess those coins are AT now. This is one time I support the cleaning of coins.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire