It's Happened Again...

It's Happened Again...

Recent posts here on Cointalk have had a hand in fate which has lead me to the following coins. I just walked in browsed the foreign bin and walked out a few minutes later with a hand full of coins for $5.00

 

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pretty cool finds, i dont know anything about them but still cool. i especially like the elephant hexagon coin.

 

gotta say love em all and the price is sure right

 

I love the Congo one.

Seriously, anyone who "only collects US coins" should pay attention. Look at all of those unusual, cool coins you can (luckily) get for $5. What the HECK can you buy in US coins for $5? A couple of buffalo nickels and another indian head cent?

While I stay mainly in ancients, its this kind of extreme bargain proposition that drew me away from US coins to begin with.

Heck of a find man! Cool coins!

 

It's getting kinda spooky. Whenever there is an interest in a country or time period here on Cointalk, I usually end up picking up a bunch of coins relating to those discussions.

Keep talkin' on Cointalk!

 

Or, just explore on your own! The dark, creepy geography and eras I collect I found mainly on my own, but I love it there. Sometimes I even wonder what it would be like to live in that era.

This is one of the magical properties of coins, being able to educate us, and to make us wish to further educate ourselves even further. I think world coin collecting is especially useful in the US, a country with typically the least amount of education of the world around us amongst other developed nations.

It doesn't matter either way. If you here about a geography and era first, then buy the coins, or vice versa. Either way you are a coin collector AND you gain valuable knowledge of the world around you. Win win if you ask me.

 

I find myself with a similar fate. Large cents and many random forein coins (got some interesting odd lots off ebay for a couple bucks)

 

I end up obtaining them by pure accident. I am a passive collector. I do not seek out specific coins as opposed to an active collector who seeks and finds the coins needed.

In other words, I'm a hunter-gatherer and I kill the first game I come across or collect the wild berries in front of me.
I'm not a cultivator who toils to achieve a design purpose and reaps the harvest or domesticator (not a true word) who raises the livestock.

 

+1

 

Since coming to this site, I have gained an incredible interest in ancients and foreign coins.

 

Ditto. The Koreas are up for me...then I find out there's a whole bunch of commemoratives that celebrate a sport I like...haven't even looked into Ancients yet.

 

Btw, there are some incredible wrestling scene ancient greeks. Kind of makes sense since that is where the sport is from I suppose. Just letting you know if you ever wished to branch out into ancients.

 

LOVE the Rhodesia 6 Pence!

 

Me too, love that 6 pence. Some serious history behind it.

 

Nice job. You're lucky that your local coin shop has such great selection. When I first started searching the value bins I was finding things like you do, but it seems like the selection is degrading lately. I need to find a new place to go. Nowadays most of my coins come from eBay and it's much harder to find a deal that way.

 

Interesting way of describing it lol... and actually pretty descriptive of the way I collect too. I usually have a purpose in mind when I seek out coins to collect... but that purpose is very variable and can change on a whim. Basically I collect whatever I happened to be interested in at the time. Sometimes an impulse item catches my eye and I'll collect something I wasn't intending on.