I decided to go both ways.

I have begun to appreciate Foreign coins, to go along with my U.S. collection. I found these at an antique mall junk bin. All were price from .25 cent to 1.50.
I dont know anything about foreign coins yet, but I thought these looked cool.



1851 Kreuzer Austria
1870 Spanish
1902 Belgium
1926 Phillipines Centavo
1961 Austria Schilling

 

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Nice centavo

 

Nice coins!

 

Dare I say thats what she said? :devil:

 

The 1882 is Spanish not Swed.

 

whoops.. Thanks

 

That is very brave of you, congratulations on your life choice. And nice coins too.

 

Glad I am not the only one who thought that

Neat coins.

 

Nice selection.

Btw, i was thinking the same thing as you guys. All i could think of was Seinfeld, " Not that there is anything wrong with that......"

 

Saw the title and I was like, what?

Nice coins, can't go wrong with those prices.

 

+1

 

I decided to go both ways.


You're on the wrong site.

 

Nice coins, especially the Belgian one, and practically free at those prices. Once you go world you never go back

 

Ah AC/DC, well everyone is entitled to their choices. j/k Great looking coins, I especially like the Philippines and the Belgium.

 

Austria, 3 kreuzer 1851. It is the single release only. Gunzburg Mint. Rather rare coin.

 

What do you mean by single release? What would you say its worth?

 

You done good!

 

In all seriousness OP, I believe you will find your attitude to US coins changing slightly. I collected US coins only for about 15 years. Then I found some ancients, were swayed by their beauty, and started to collect them. After a while, I started buying what would be considered world coins, (since there is no difference between "ancient" and "world" except an arbitrary date).

After buying some world coins I liked, and still collecting ancients, my view towards US coins was altered. Now, US coins to me are no different than Cuba, Russia, Thailand, etc. Its just another country's coins, they are not "special" like I used to think them to be.

In that light, I still believe there are great, worthwhile US coins, and I do still occasionally buy them. I thing early commemoratives, and things like CBH's are terrific values for the most part, but things like 20th century "keys" look more and more ridiculous.

I was just warning you that most likely your outlook on US coins will probably start to change. Not saying its good or bad, (though I would say good if I had to choose), just saying it will gradually change most likely.

Chris

 

I've been chewing on the idea of a Canadian Large Cent album. It seems most of the dates are readily available and far less expensive than their US counterparts.

 

Beautiful 3 Kreuzer.
I believe you will come to quite enjoy the world of world coins. France is my favorite, though I have coins from a ton of other countries as well. There are a lot of coins out there. So many coins, so little time.