What are the top 5 World Nations most folks collect?

Paula
Tuvia
Fiji
andora

Sounds like you are naming off former girlfriends.

 

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Their full names are Paula Palau, Tuvia Tuvalu, and Andora Andorra, I suppose. Fiji has no last name.

Christian

 

Or callin' the pups........

 

Britain
France
Italy
Spain

The USA has no history.That is why collectors of 100 years ago concentrated on the British currency

 

But not Margie or Sally?

 

Interesting you talk about the UK having "history" when your list doesn't include China and India which had made coins for centuries while Brits were still chasing marsh deer in blue paint and loincloths.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Btw, the US does have history, the history of the people who came here from all over the world. A brit who came to the US did not lose his history, he just became an American.

 

Yes and no, perhaps, maybe, kinda sorta, possibly, to some extant. It's complicated I guess.

At this point, I have a heart full of neutrality.

 

I'm not sure, but I would guess U.K., Mexico, Canada, China, Ancient Rome/Greece...

 

Every person will have a different answer.

 

Yeah

For me, this could be a reasonable rank, excluding Italy, of course

Germany
France
UK
Russia
Austria

I excluded USA too, as requested by thread, but I think that US coins in Italy are the first or second place.

petronius

 

These are just my own collecting principles outside the U.S., and yes I admit they are U.S.-centric since I don't read any language that uses any other alphabet, save Russian, so Chinese, Indian etc. are out for me.

1. Canadian
2. Australian
3. Great Britain (although I include its various fomer colonies which extended far and wide)
4. France
5. Germany

Best Regards,

George

 

Fair enough sir. I guess I was just explaining that your answer of Mexico was really the same as my answer of Spain, same thought but different reasoning.

 

Thanks for the Italian perspective:hail:

 

USA is my darkside. My usuals are Scotland, Russia, England, Ireland, Portugal and Poland with a lesser amount of Germany.

 

What dates did Scotland make coins? any Silver coins?

 

i do believe it started in the 9th century, and continued until scotland joined great britain in 1707. many of the coins are silver. david i is credited with coining the first silver penny in scotland. he reigned from 1124 to 1153.

 

For anyone interested, Bob Reis just did Scotland the last two issues of World Coin News. Pretty interesting articles. What I liek is how he goes over market availability of the coins he talks about fro each ruler.

 

I read that Indian coins are good to buy because of Indian interest in them but people buy English Halfpennies to get an example from the colonial era. I have been looking at them myself.

 

:secret:
Shhhhh! Wait till I get the ones I want. British halfpennies are still relatively inexpensive:



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