My collection has no objective.

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I like to collect whatever strikes me at the moment. I personally enjoy coins that are from WWII. I think they have such a great story behind them as well as the collector value. But I personally get enjoyment out of the "story" a coin can tell.

 

As long as we are doing true confessions. sometime I watch the Ebay "lots and collections' at 3 in the AM and look for slamming good bargains. I've seen some amazing collections go for FACE. (may have been the guy on a couple of those : ) Still combing through 77+ pounds 2 large flat rate boxes, of wheeties I picked up at ridiculous. Amazing what you can get at that hour. aww golly gee wizz, if it looks good, buy it. Right? Where ever the wind blows.

 

Exactly my style

Buy big collections then resell what you dont want and keep the goods as profit


As for my crack about the weapons and firearms.

I personally would love to collect some nice samurai swords along with other hand to hand combat weapons like axes, broadswords, maces and such. Plus some nice old samurai armor and euro knights type armor. Originals of course, not replicas. But since I dont have hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars laying around, or own my own museum I shall just stick to coins and modern guns lol. Maybe a car here n there or a bike .

 

man Brooks your taste is always top notch.

Very versatile yet all very nice.

 

I am more like the OP. I have objectives, they just keep changing.

 

I'm starting to settle down with collecting coins and paper money. when I first started I would buy anything and everything. if I didn't own it I wanted it even in low grade or not so rare.

but now I take my time. if a coin is easy to find then I don't want it. I like the idea of wanting a certain coin and it taking weeks,months,or years to find in the quality and price I want.

to me most of the thrill is searching.(when I have time). In the back of my mind I'm thinking (rare) and (museum quality). but of course I fall short of that.

 

if you could only own 1 coin and 1 currency,what would it be ?

mine would be the obvious. a 1795 flowing hair dollar and a 1896 $5 silver certificate.

but yet I do not own either one. never have. even though I have spent tens of thousands on coins and currency. (meaning I buy stuff then sell then buy more)

thats why I'm trying to learn discipline when it comes to collecting.

 

Orginally when i started out buying pretty much any coin out there but last 5 years i have narrowed down my collection it is still quite vague but i focus on mainly modern rare gold coins.

 

My answer is this one! I become interested in Numismatist when I received this coin as a debt of gratitude on December 1995 before Christmas Day!
Certified and graded at Baltimore Coin Show in Maryland, March of 2000 by Mr. Alan Hager of Accugrade. I think this is one of the very first Doubled Denomination 1995 11 c certified in Public. Between 1996-to the end of 1999. I keep visiting Baltimore Coin Show Twice a year and asking all those bourse table peoples of Third Party Grading if they can certified my 11c but they were all FAILED to convinced for the SAFETY of the coin. NGC the man with a PONY TAIL talk to me that their grading services is not certifying error coins on the time that I visit their bourse table. A plus on this coin the original details of a cent and dime is all visible and legibly to read such as Two Full dates 1995 ( key date) obverse, IN GOD WE TRUST,P Mintmark, LIBERTY,VDB,ONE CENT,ONE DIME,UNITED STATES of AMERICA. FG initial, E Plu then you have to add another attribution such as SKULL BREAK and a CRACK DIE VARIETY and MIRROR LIKE in Some AREAS, a Dime reedeing and a Plain edge partial of a cent is VERY NEAT. - an AWESOME /BREATHTAKINGS COIN! No assigned Numerical Number MS++. Just grade as MINT with a special name as 1995 Penny On Dime-ACG-MINT.-
Most of double denomination I have ever seen is lack of details and they grade as MS 63 to 67 Cent ons trike Dime a common double denomination.

 

Watch it! 1995 Double Denomination 11c

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