What does everyone collect???

Forgive my ignorance being fairly new... but is there somewhere where what our members collect is recorded......maybe an earlier thread or something?? Thanks in anticipation, Mike.

 

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I Collect:
-Canadian small cents
-Canadian large cents
-Canadian 5 cents
-Canadian halves
-Canadian Silver Dollars
-Lincolns (wheats)
and I have a very strong interest in tokens right now for some reason. They are very intriguing. LOL I also collect Spiderman comics and I do believe a belly button lint collection has been brought up before... Im done with that now.. actually, its gone, should've sold it on the bay though.

 

Oh, and Signed Pavel Bure hockey cards

 

I collect American half cents by variety and die state. Something of a specialized collection, and I'm enjoying it immensely.

 

Hmmm -

Primary sets:
Indian Head Cents
Large Cents

Secondary:
Bust Coinage
Liberty Nickels

"Pocket Change" fun sets include quarters, dimes, nickels, and cents.

 

Lets see....I collect

Celebrity, Sports and Political Autographs
Sports Memorabilia
Guitars

U.S. Large Cents
Indian Cents
Lincoln Cents (5 to go)
Half Dimes
Liberty "V" Nickels (5 to go)
Buffalo Nickels
Jefferson Nickels (complete)
Barber Dimes
Mercury Dimes (complete)
Roosevelt Dimes (complete)
Barber Quarters
Standing Liberty Quarters
Washington Quarters (complete to date)
Statehood Quarters (complete)
Barber Halves
Walking Liberty Halves
Franklin Halves (complete)
Kennedy Halves (complete)
Morgan Dollars
Peace Dollars (6 to go)
Ike Dollars (complete)
Prez Dollars (complete to date)
Canadian Silver Dollars (1935-1968)
Nazi Era 2 and 5 Mark coins

Old Coin Boards
Old Whitman Coin Albums
Red Books
Blue Books

I guess thats about it.

 

1. British provincial tokens otherwise known as Conder tokens (late 1700s), and

a distant 2. is U.S. type, but not as a series collector.

 

Lots of different things
coins (World)
Banknotes (World)
Comics
Batman figures n stuff
Dr Who figures n stuff
Lady Death figures n stuff
Witchblade figures n stuff
Medals
Stamps
Hockey cards (3 goal tenders)
Baseball cards (mainly 3 players)
Non sport cards (many many different sets)
Books
Cd's
Dvd's
Postcards (London and North Wales)
Miniture soldiers and Tanks

 

Lincoln Cents
Merc Dimes
Force FX Lightsabers
Comic books
Football Jerseys
Autographed sports memorabilia

 

I collect little round pieces of metal.

 

We can include non-coin stuff too? Neat!

I collect:

Standing Liberty Quarters in MSFH
Standing Liberty Quarters in F, XF for circulated sets
Standing Liberty Quarter Errors/Die Variations/Mint Mark Varieties, etc. And I hoard 28_S and 28-Ds
I'm putting together various circ sets of the following coins:
Walkers
Lincoln Cents
Liberty Nickels
Buffalo Nickels
Indian Cents
Washington Quarters

I also collect philatelic stuff.. I collect 19th century US Covers going to foreign destinations, I sort of specialize in the 24c 1861 Stamps, but I chase down rates, I am particularly into British Mail destinations.

I collect Porsche 356 Literature

I have some collector cars as well including a Vauxhall PA Velox.

I have no children or I wouldn't have any of this.

 

I use money 2 collect other money. I roll search to find coins for cents, nickels, quarters, halves for my whitmans. Also roll search errors. Commems I like. Silver 3 cents. Medals and tokens. Learning more everyday, so paper money is something I am looking into. Key date Roosevelt dimes in MS. Homemade piggy banks and other bank related things. Books. Silver. Basic metal from trash(going to turn into cash). Not in this particular order. I need to focus more!

 

Me? Ancient Greek Gorgon Medusa Coins. Why? The coin below gives you an idea of what gorgeous coins their are for this series. :

LINK

Can you say "Phoenix's Dream Coin"?

Phoenix

 

How about I just get you pictures of my ex-wife's mother, then you can glue them directly onto coins (A la the Obama coins) and save yourself a fortune?

 

I collect at a steady pace:

1. Ancient Romans (For eight months straght now with these)


On and off:

1. Gorgana Medusa (I really just learn about the coinage, rather than buy the coins)
2. Ancient Greeks
3. Franklin Halves
4. 20th century Type set
5. American Silver Eagles and junk silver



stainless

 

That is hilarious, and totally made my day!!!

 

Lincoln medals and plaques are my favorite.
Clash die Flying Eagle cents are a close second.
An early US type set in proof and business strike is third.
Lots of strange stuff as well.

 

Knowledge

When asked what he collected, numismatist Walter Breen replied, "Knowledge."

When I write, I acquire material in order to understand the subject. The new Whitman Red Book Guide to Peace Dollars has my Numismatist article cited in the bibliography. To write that, I got all the reading material, of course, but then I went out and looked at enough Peace Dollars to get to know the coin. I talked to dealers. Buying coins let me pay for their time, and gave me hands-on material to study.

The past autumn I wrote an article for The Celator about medieval Champagne. I had been buying those little medieval denars and pennies for a couple of years, then I got the standard reference set from John Burn at an MSNS show -- paid way more for the books than for the coins.

Personally, my passion is not so much for a complete set, but for a wide range. I want to know money in all of its forms. I have trade beads and trade dollars and tokens good for 5cents in trade and everything in between. I went through the Morgan Dollar phase like everyone does. How can you not like those big bright coins? But as I learned more about US Numismatics, I found out more about the Greek and Roman coins that ours were modeled on and so I got into ancients. The two sets I actually pursued with any dedication worthy of a true collector were Mercury Dimes in a Whitman Folder and another of my own invention: small silver coins worth a day's wages from the towns and times of famous philosophers. I had about 25 of them from Aristotle to Zeno. It started with Eratosthenes of Cyrene, the librarian of Alexandia -- and again it was for an article, my first for The Celator. I actually got pretty deep into Cyrene and even bought a couple of museum pieces.

What killed collecting for me was working for Coin World. Sort of like aversion therapy. I sold everything off in 2001.

I still collect books, but, again, mostly those I need for articles, as with the three-volume Poey d'Avant that I bought so that I could write about Champagne.

 

ancients
us and world bullion (mostly silver)
vatious u.s coins
some world (mostly europe)


I want to start on mercs, barbers quarters, franklen halves and/or peace dollars. and try to fill me wheat cent albums