I’m done pursuing US coins

Fixed so you can stop whining.

 

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Stop with the drama.

 

I am U.S. coins. It is in my very being! I shall miss you, fair Typecoin... fare thee well, friend.

 

I really like that hair detail on the 1820 largie.
And Doug I will double your money on that 1917-D no stars SLQ.

 

If you ever get tired of that 1820 cent, let me know...

 

Been there done that

 

Blunt

 

Thanks to Exonumia or Paranumismatica as the British call it, I don't get bored any more. And any U.S designs that I do like, I can have, in a different format and a different price. This one cost me $20.04.

 

I feel you. I occasionally fill up holes in the National Parks quarters album, but otherwise have not purchased a US coin in a long time.

Too expensive, too counterfeited, and too uninteresting.

These days I am heavily into international paper money (again, US paper costs too dang much).

I’ve amassed a great collection of visually interesting and affordable bills. I have way less than a $1000 (probably no more than $700) invested in all the paper; an equivalent amount of comparably aged and styled American bills would likely cost somewhere in the $50K+ range.

 

I've went back and forth from us to world to ancients. Sometimes sell some but always keep the favorites. As you age and burn out you could easily find your way back. I think every area has its up and downs and cool likes for everyone.

 

No one asked you to reply.

 

That wasn't necessary

 

get the real one .. Texas Commemorative instead of the generic round "duplicate" of it. The Texas one is far better.

 

I find it amusing that someone has to go on a public forum just to state that they are done with pursuing US coins and tries to justify their decision. It's a hobby! It's your life and follow the path that makes you happy!

You are still young and your likes and dislikes will most likely change as you get older. I've lived 3 times your lifetime as of now and I can honestly tell you, from my experiences, that it's highly likely that what you collect will change over time. As you get older you will probably have more resources available to purchase coins you couldn't when you were younger. So maybe at that time you will go back to collecting US coins.

 

For US coins, I am only doing early commems (1892-1954), which are in a slump right now and I believe a bargain. I buy MS63-66, depending on price breaks as per Q. David Bowers. Other than that, I collect world coins of historical or beauty of design significance. Good luck!

 

I disagree with OP. Most U.S. coinage is beautiful, diverse, historic, valuable, prolific, and so on. Why become disillusioned by it because the coins are worth a lot of money and are very popular? If certain series bore you or are prohibitively expensive, nobody says you have to partake in them.

Perhaps that post was just a rant about things that annoy you about U.S. coin collecting, so you could get it off your chest. Buy hey, fortunately you have other countries and eras to choose from right? What a cool hobby this is that gives you so many options to never grow tired of it.

 

Give it a few years, OP. If American Numismatics is truly a passion, you’ll fall back in like I did.

I have to agree with you here. American Numismatics and coins in general are my calling and have been for most of my life. Yet it never ceases to enrage me that us younger generation, the few that are actually serious about the hobby, run into the older folks who think they are superior to us, rude to us, or just automatically assume we don’t know what we are doing because we haven’t been at it as long. Instead of appreciating that we are excited about a hobby that has been replaced with video games, technology, and other mundane garbage of this era. This is one of the most frustrating aspects of American Numismatics in my opinion.

 

So... now you’re going to become what you most despise? I’m confused.

 

Pretty much agree, but the remedy may be different from what you are planning. I have always liked the study, or just reading of history and for me the coins and currency of the past are the tangible physical link to the period I am reading about. I acquired this interest quite early in my life, 1957 at the age of 13 when I purchased an 1865 three cent nickel. At the time I was reading a great deal about the US Civil War (Bruce Catton's books) and when I hit the end of the war I actually fingered the coin and imagined it was in the pocket of a soldier at Appomattox and I had a piece of Appomattox in my own pocket now. I majored in history and became a high school history teacher and the stamp and coin club advisor. It was in my classes, however, that the collecting of coins paid off. I put together, over the years, a collection of every period I taught from Ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantine and Medieval, Renaissance, Napoleonic right up the WW II. We never seemed to get much past that. In my US History courses I did the monetary system used in the 13 Colonies (every European coin of the 17th and 18th Centuries circulated in Colonial America), the Jeffersonian Period and the first US federal coinage (maybe that 50 cent piece helped pay for Louisiana), the Jacksonian period with its bewildering variety (and often dubious value) of private and state bank notes (maybe this 50 cent piece backed up a state bank note, before the panic of 1837 made it worthless). With the Civil war, all kinds of strange denomination coins were circulated, until after a few months after the start of the war they mostly disappeared from circulation and were replaced by Greenbacks and fractional paper currency. And of course I was rich in Confederate bonds and hundred dollar bills. All of this stuff was passed around the room for the kids to handle. A tetradrachma of Alexander the Great, a tribute penny of Tiberius, a solidus of Justinian , a penny of Edward the Confessor, a six pence of Charles II, a 1760 note of Colonial NJ, a note of one of Jackson's "pet banks", a Confederate $5 bill like the one found in Lincoln's pocket the day he died, an Hawaiian US dollar bill for "just in case" use. In 43 years of teaching I never lost a single piece of coin, currency or artifact that I passed around in my classes.I will never tire of collecting the money of the past as the physical link to that past and if you, and other collectors, thought about numismatics in this way, you, too, will never grow bored with collecting those tangible links and ties to those who came before us. As Thucydides put it, by preserving the past we give the past the, (and those who lived it) the honor of remembrance. Now go and take that denarius or silver dollar out of its folder, finger it, and wonder who spent this coin, what did it buy, how did it wind up in my hands so many years later. Still don't want to pursue and possess the past?