Messages: Ancients to Overcome World Soon

Dry cool to see it happen.

I post often in world too. Too many cool coins in medieval and modern to ignore.

 

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It's gonna be tough to pass the Post Mint Damage Error forum.

 

Stevex6 said

Oh well, I'm still fairly interested in my sweet ol' Canadian coins, so I always pop-over to the world coin threads anyway ... you guys are awesome "coin-fellas" as well!!

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Deacon Ray replied

When I was a kid I helped my brother collect the beautiful Canadian Centennial coins with the wildlife images. I'd find them and give them to him. My parents took us to Expo 67 where I would ask people to check their pocket change for the Centennial coins.

 

Yeah, I was 4 years old when my sweet ol' Granny started showing me this awesome Canadian set of animal coins .... hmmm, animal coins ...

=> yes, I'm fairly sure that Granny got me started loving animal-coins from Day-1

Here is the cool proof set ... 1967



Oh, and here is a neat example of a coin stamped on a foreign planchet (hey, maybe I could post this on the error-coin site, just to keep the game even, eh?)

 

ha - next thing you know people will be discussing world coins in the ancient forum.

 

Almost done with my 1914 intial WW1 combatant coin set, just need to nail down a coin from Montenegro.
Here is the second to last coin for the set.


AH 1327 Year 6 (1914) Turkey 20 Para

 

Ancients ftw.

That is all.

Erin

 

Well, I discuss any medieval coin I get here, and so does anyone else for that matter. Being ancient collectors, it's almost completely natural for most of us to wander into medievals...and judging by the number of them I see here, most of us have already done this.

 

I sometimes feel like I am doing this with my medieval coins... But I think medieval belongs closer to ancients in terms of production. (That and I'd prefere to look at ancients rather than modern world coins). Perhaps one day more will join me in the medieval realm and we'll get our own forum... But then that means more competition for me and my limited budget... Dilemmas dilemmas...

 

Man @Sallent - we hit the same theme at the same time there...

 

Double post. Oops!

 

ahaha => I'm fairly sure that Noob was merely being sarcastic & cheeky? => for three or four years ago, the world coin dudes were saying that the ancient-folks were cluttering-up their world and they wanted/demanded that we make separate coin-sites ...

... but apparently, now we're the popular dance-club!! (Ancients ROCK!!)

 

No my Canadian coin friend, I have to disagree with your choice of pic. The staged and organized Miami Club scene you posted above is so World Coins Forum. After all, many of them are crazy about the plastic and 70 point grading scale, and profit and investment over collecting, like the rest of the coin community. They may not be as infected by it as say the US Coins Room, but they are infected enough.

We tend to be more free spirits in this forum. Us ancients folks are the last hippies of the numismatics world. We are more like Woodstock.

 

Ahaha, very wise, lawyer ... I seldom/never go to dance clubs anymore

=> this is actually what ancients (me) seem to be drawn towards:

 

Such a prefix makes sense whenever you want to show that there is some interest in some particular topic. Same thing with exonumia of example - some specialized collectors want to have their own forum on Coin Talk, and using such tags helps to find out whether it would actually makes sense.

I do not collect ancients, but since many of you guys seem to have very flexible concepts of ancient and medieval ("I got this coin, so it must be ancient" ), I have a closer look at some of your topics.

Also keep in mind that a lot depends on how many "fellow" collectors you have in a forum or elsewhere. For me it is always a difficult issue - should I post about 20c/21c European coins (particularly euro pieces) where there are several others who discuss them, or at a site where most people are not interested in them?

And this is not necessarily a European vs North American issue. In Germany for example you find euro coins at many shows, but on Saturday I went to the Salon Numismatique in Paris (we had a meeting of another forum site there) and was disappointed to find hardly anything beyond ancient Roman and old French coins. For others that was a feast, hehe.

Christian

 

We all have different ways of collecting and definitions of what is of interest. Perhaps someday CT software will be able to read our minds and suggest threads from other sections that would be of interest and flag things posted in one place that might be out of place. My personal opinion is that I am interested in coins that were made to be circulated as money and not those that were made to be collected. As well, coins for me should be made with more hand work than machines. I make exceptions allowing the restoration coins of Trajan which were more a commemorative than a circulation group and the Russian wire money that used mechanically duplicated dies. I probably ignore other gray area coins not knowing their full story.

The above means there would be coins on world posts that I would find interesting but I have to sort them out from the coins made special by their date and condition more than the part they played in history. I still am glad that we got the separate section although I probably would have made the title Ancient/Medieval. I know there are people out there that consider the coins struck the year I was born to be 'ancient' but that is 'their' opinion and they can have it.

 

Wow, nailed it Doug! Well done.