MissSasha

HI everyone!

I'm pretty new around here, have bee lurking for a day just reading some threads and decided I should join as I have the urge to comment and people seem like a friendly bunch!

About me: I'm a 21 year old female from Long Island, NY. I have been collecting since I was 14, when I wondered into a coin store in my town of garden city and fell in love with jars of cheap foreign and u.s. coins for cheap. The people that worked there were probably amused at a teenage goth girl that wanted to buy bags of Wheaties and albums to put them in. I totally fell in love with all forms of coinage and paper money. I would ask for old and foreign coins from relatives that had them in jars and from trips and I build up a decent pile of stuff by the time I was 17.

At that point, I had to to take a break from collecting or any other fun activity pretty much. My mom passed away from cancer, my dad suffered from mental problems and my house got foreclosed. I was able to rescue a box of Indian and wheat cents and silver dimes and one jar of foreign coins before seeing the rest of my possessions get thrown in the trash.

A few years ago, I started up again, as I managed to build myself a bit of stability in college and have a couple of extra bucks a week that I didn't have to spend on food.

Since then I've been steadily picking up foreign coins, banknotes, U.S. coins and notes, old Whitman albums (love they way they look and smell) and various catalogs and magazines. I can't afford high-grade stuff, so I end up going through every jar and box at every coin store, antique shop or flea market, fishing out and adopting coins that no one else wants or cares about. I've got over 4 large full binders of foreign coins and about 30 Whitman U.S./World albums that I am filling up right now.

I like world silver, world copper before ww2, colonies, U.K. and related areas, Europe before ww2 and obsolete paper money, especially the really large "horse blanket" ones!

Working on putting together my complete England 1880 to 1957 collection farthings to crowns (minus gold of course lol).

I'm not too up on terminology so sometimes I am at a loss, but I'm always learning.

Never been to a coin show, but decided that I am going to go this year to the one in Connecticut in October as it's close to New York.

I go to any coin store I can find, however most places seem to be just glorified pawn shops and always ask me what I am selling. One place out here on long island flat out refused to sell me what pennies by the bag as they said they didn't have time to go get them from the back and another store told me they don't "care" about foreign coin collectors as foreign coins don't make them money.

Kind of tough for a girl to get recognized as a collector, especially when I don't have 1000's to spend, but I always think a dollar is a dollar and if I'm spending just a few it's still profit for the seller!

I'm always on a lookout for cool coin stores in NY that have large stock of cheap foreign "junk boxes" and don't mind a girl sitting there for a while picking through it, or shops selling large lots of coin stuff no one wants so let me know of any places!

Hope to learn a lot here and make new friends!

- Sasha

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