Any like-minded collectors?

Since it is the "coin" that I collect, No, I cannot say that I've ever entertained that thought or feeling.

I wish I'd had the foresight to stick a couple of rolls of BU 1965 Quarters away or perhaps assembled some rolls of 1982-P, 1982-D, 1983-P, and 1983-D Quarters away. 1965 would have been an economic challenge but I could have afforded a bank box or 2 in 1982-1983.

THAT was a totally flubbed opportunity.

 

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LOL!

I LUUUUVE the metallic content which also stimulates me to no end.

Like......like that recent Kennedy Gold Coin!

Damn! I have never ever wanted to kick my own ass soooo many times over any coin!! The exercise I'm getting is, well, life altering!

 

Depends on how you define real money. Technically speaking, clad coins are fiat money, just like paper notes, intrinsically of very little worth. Their value is derived from the backing of government.

I happen to share, at least in a broad sense, the OP's view. For years I worked on a 19th & 20th century U.S. type set. Got close to completing it. Then one day, I'm looking at the clad dimes, quarters and halves, the clad Ikes and SBAs, and asked myself, "why do I have these?" They're not real money, they're not particularly attractive, and they have relatively little value.

That's when I had the rather obvious revelation that I owned those coins solely for the purpose of completing a set . . . and that my focus had become more about sets than about coins themselves. So I dumped the clads and started to reprogram my thinking.

Now I just collect coins I like, which, the for the most part, are PM coins and old coppers.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

 

that's the beauty of coin collecting. In my early years of collecting coins I might have thought as you do now, but after collecting world coins for about 16+ years now I love copper coins as well. look at my avatar...the design is breath taking to me and it is copper. I see the value in the design and grade. metal wise not worth much...but what I take away from it...priceless($30.00). you might see yourself changing to copper after looking at coins for 16+ years.

 

I like gold and silver coins too, especially when I can make a nice hefty profit, who doesn't. So said, hopefully as the years pass you will truly get to appreciate the artistic side of medals and tokens. If not, it will be your loss. Currently I collect tokens mostly, they remind me of a better time when my Grandfather was alive and I was just a kid. Excuse me, pics got juxtaposed, for some reason. Must of been that hiccup. Cheers!

 

It wasn't intended to be, that's why it was rendered in copper. But it was intended to have at least some value, hence the typically large size of old coppers.

I've become a huge fan of old coppers. Many of them are beautifully designed, and, like PM coins, they were actually worth something in their time (just not a lot!)

Just had an 1872 French 10 centimes arrive in the mail yesterday. Gorgeous design, XF+ to AU condition, and cost me next to nothing.

 

post your new coin here please.

 

All I have are the seller's pics. I was pleasantly surprised when I got it in hand. Under a magnifying glass it looks much better than depicted in these shots.

Sadly, they just don't make circulating coins like this any more. 30 mm, btw.

 

If you disregard old copper because it has practally no melt value I think you're selling the hobby short.
I personally don't feel these are unsubstantial and fake.

 

I have a whole jar of copper pennies; I always sort out my pocket change. I just don't keep them as part of my collection. Copper definitely has its own beauty. I bought a lot of coins besides silver and gold coins (US and foreign), and I love the design of many of them, but I've just found they don't hold the same energy for me. I got on a big kick for a while collecting European coins, particularly from Denmark. I still have them, but I'm no longer actively collecting them.

I'm fascinated by the fact that a 1930 silver quarter has held its buying power and endured the way it has, growing in intrinsic value while modern currency is degraded. Copper pennies are much the same.

 

I know I'm in the minority, but I lost interest in Lincolns when I was in high school. It's certainly an elegant design; I think my issue is the small size. I've just always preferred larger coins. US large cents are da bomb.

 

The only modern coins I have that I like are errors. I think we see eye to eye on this issue.

 

Here an example of my favorite coin that just happens to be made of copper. This here is my favorite coin. it is a hard grade to come by too. I have 1 other gold coin that is worth twice the value of this 1837 Belgium 5 centimes coin. I still prefer this Belgium coin more than the gold coin.


I have no problem saying this is the king of my collection.

 

Amazing generalization. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they are not worth collecting. This hobby has room for all.

 

They have no business in this hobby plain and simple.

 

(facepalm)

 

My favorite is not just collecting moderns but the graded 70 modern collectors. I feel like the registry modern collectors are trying to see who can be listed on the website so everyone knows who is going to lose the most money.

I like being a coin bigot.

 

I won't parse your words to find points of disagreement, but rather accept your invitation for agreement: I like mostly PM coins as well, but do enjoy coppers (cents prior to 83) and even old nickles (when they minted them in the millions, not hundreds of millions and billions). The modern clad coins are at times artistically beautiful in their design and detail, but like you, they don't hold my attention.

I also agree with another poster about modern proofs - the are beautiful, but the "money grab" by the mint, versus the limited manufacture for collectors, changed the intent, the cost, and therefore the interest level for me.

 

Are you saying the US Mint is targeting the public at large, rather than the collectors? Or that the numbers minted are too high now? Just curious, because until I started collecting (as a result of my stepdad leaving me a couple of Morgan dollars, among other things), I didn't know anything about the US Mint and what they were doing, and when I did see any info like that it kind of fell into the same category for me as the Presidential collector plates you'd see advertised in Parade magazine. I don't feel like many people, especially young people, even have the US Mint releases on their radar. I didn't realize there's been a shift.

 

A coins metal content has never held much value for me when collecting. Silver and gold are on par with copper and nickel to me. I collect to collect, for the enjoyment of the hobby, not to accumulate a sense of value.