Now for the reverse/ what do you really love collecting!

My favorites are....
Holy Roman Empire
German States
Burgundy
Swiss Kantons
Roman Empire
Archaic Electrum coinage
Medieval Hammered gold
Papal States
Byzantium
Transylvania

 

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Strictly US coins. The one thing I have never allowed myself to do is take off collecting coins in a different direction. There are still so many great (to me) American coins I would like to have. As always to each their own.

You posted some great looking coins on this thread, but just not for me to desire to collect. That certainly doesn't mean I don't enjoy looking at them, and I did enjoy looking at these.

 

I also like US gold esp. the 1795-1840. But the St. Gaudens design in magnificent 1907-33. Too bad they never struck Unions and Half Unions ($50/ $100 gold)

 

Error coins and notes. From any country.

 

Errors and Varieties any country, my newest interest has become Roman Republic coinage.

 

I collect everything but what gets me most excited is coins from unusual places. Bonus points if the area only ever made a few coins or didn't exist long. I also collect animal coins, especially bears and turtles. I probably have the largest bear coin collection around.

 

I also collect coin club tokens (metal, not wooden), spinner tokens, and casino tokens. But those are all "coin" adjacent.

 

It's always been a little hard to answer that, although I've been pretty much limited to US coinage as well. But I think what I really like collecting is surprises. Unexpected finds or opportunities. I don't really have a "wish list" of things I hope to buy someday -- "I know it when I see it", but generally not beforehand!

 

Annual proof and mint sets. Classical and modern commemorative coins (US). Silver (ASE) eagles and presidential medals.

 

US circulation grade coins and any ancient that I have to clean.

 

I like the reverses on Walking Liberty Halves
and Mercury Dimes.

 

Isle of Man stuff. I'm not even entirely sure why, although I think this had a lot to do with it.

 

Mostly British Empire and mainland Europe.

 

I have severe coin ADHD and have collected just about everything including exonumia. It was just a couple years ago I settled into the Holy Roman Empire and German States minor coinage. I'm currently collecting as many different States as I can. I'm up to 88.

 

I also collect coin club tokens and nearly any other kind if exonumia related to numismatics.

Bruce (another Jersey guy)

 

British coins back to Alfred the Great.
Imperial Roman coins
Selected 18th and 19th century U.S. coins.
19th century presidential campaign tokens
Selected 19th century U.S. merchant tokens
Selected U.S. medals struck in the 19th century with the mahogany finish (not the modern “yellow bronze” finish.

 

Opinions.
Keeps the thought process sharp.

 

Official badges with unusual job titles

 

Hangovers.

 

I am a numismatic vagabond. My excel file has 16 tabs representing the subsets within my collection: Bullion, US Coins, Colonial Coins, Ancient Coins (Greek), World Coins, Classic Commemoratives, Patterns, Currency, Exonumia (Civil War and Hard Times Tokens), US Type Set (18th-20th Centuries), Century Set, Error Coins (denomination planchet errors), US Gold Type Set (Classic Head Gold to St. Gaudens), California Gold (Period One), Beehive Topical Collection and British Trade Tokens. Most of the subsets are open ended but a few subsets are complete or nearly so. I do have a complete set of Mercury Dimes.

There are lots of ways to stay busy within the subsets of the collection. This year I hope to complete the Classic Commemorative and Fractional Currency type sets and the Century Set.