How has your taste in coins changed/evolved?

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by iPen, Jan 15, 2015.

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  1. hcmusicguy

    hcmusicguy Member

    This has kind of always been my philosophy in regards to classic vs. modern series.
     
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  3. okbustchaser

    okbustchaser I may be old but I still appreciate a pretty bust Supporter

    Funny, this is exactly why I've never had any interest at all in moderns. This is simply the stuff I spend in order to acquire interesting coins.
     
    okbustchaser, Jan 15, 2015
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  4. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    Never liked moderns either started with wheat cents then discovered large cents. Early copper was my main focus as well as a type set for years then started picking up a couple early dollars then discovered trade dollars. Always been a toned and original coin fan now I really focus on it. I can't stop buying nice original stuff as it's the hunt that thrills me I'll probably end up a dealer not a collector. And just stick with the type set and trades maybe early dollars toob
     
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  5. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    I can attest she's cute and very nice!
     
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  6. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    Every day but now I fine I like circulated coins if they could only tell their story maybe carried in a soldiers pocket during the civil war WW1,WW2, Korea, the Nam. Perhaps one of the founding fathers. a president the list goes on and on
     
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  7. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    Same tho rev war war 1812 civil war etc
     
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  8. iPen

    iPen Well-Known Member

    That would be really neat! I'd imagine though that sufficient provenance for that would be hard to obtain.
     
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  9. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Not so much for tokens and paper chits used in those theaters as well as MPC or AAFES pogs.

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  10. Agilmore01

    Agilmore01 Well-Known Member

    I started, like many people, trying to make whole sets of each denomination. Now that I have completed them, I am selling off the sets and buying nicely graded key date coins with the proceeds.
     
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  11. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Boy, don't know where to start with this. As a child I did what most probably do, I filled holes in the old blue Whitman folders. That lasted a few years, but before I reached my teens it was coins of higher quality that held my interest. And it was US coins of course. I had exposure to world coins even at the very beginning as my grandfather, who was my teacher, collected world coins. But I had no interest in them back then. That period lasted about 40 years.

    But when I saw that the US coin market was about to explode and that prices which were already high in my opinion would be much higher, thus making more difficult for me to acquire more high quality coins, I began to explore other areas. And my interest quickly changed to world coinage, much older coinage that predated the founding of the US. And I quickly immersed myself into the study of it.

    Ending up selling my entire US collection and focusing only on world coinage. And I was doomed from the beginning because the thing that caught my eye was world gold. But when you compare coins like this with designs like this -

    1346%20Cavalier%20D'Or%20obv.jpg 1346%20Cavalier%20D'Or%20rev.jpg 1346%20Cavalier%20D'Or%20slab.jpg


    Or this -

    1581 Rose Noble obv.jpg 1581 Rose Noble rev.jpg

    to US coins - especially when they held 10, 100 times the history, stories that made the stories of US coins pale by comparison, and yet a fraction of the cost of US coins - well, how could anyone help but be doomed !

    Now that's what I call evolution ;)
     
    GDJMSP, Jan 16, 2015
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  12. imrich

    imrich Supporter! Supporter

    BEAUTIFUL!! Smart Man!!

    I also have been fortunate in finding wonderful long term companions,who I always let know their importance.

    We are blessed, as I believe a good companion has more value than any tangible asset. But I share my coins.

    I have gone through virtually every series of U.S. coins from the early eighties forward to modern Silver proofs. I advancing my education of each series, while evolving my collections from common circulated to Gem state+, DMPL, Proof.

    Current collectibles are all TPG certified, generally only pre-1933 Gold U.S. coins.

    I love both beautiful women and coins, which are sooo nice to view/handle.

    JMHO
     
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  13. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    I don't think that I have really ever changed my focus, but now I can afford the nicer coins that I've always wanted. Maybe in another 35 years I can go to the auctions with the big boys and get some of the really nice coins. Either that or maybe I will loose interest in coins altogether. Who knows.
     
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  14. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    I can say the same
     
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  15. Colonialjohn

    Colonialjohn Active Member

    I evolved with collecting information First - then the coin.

    I think Foreign Coins now like Mexican Coins gives you much more for your buck.

    Consider an MS65 Cap and Ray at $400?

    JPL
     
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  16. Colonialjohn

    Colonialjohn Active Member

    I agree GD - World Coins. U.S> Market is too crazy. Its all numbers and $$$ - on slabs. Even U.S. Colonials have hit the WALL ... watch these Newman and Partrick prices five years from now on their profit margins ... OK ... I am wrong ... coin values never go down ... LOL.
     
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  17. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    What?

    :eek:

    No...no...not here. Haha!:cigar::cool:

    I haven't yet really got into non-US coins...but it could happen!
     
    Jwt708, Jan 19, 2015
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  18. iPen

    iPen Well-Known Member

    I categorized my collecting habits better after reading what others have posted here.

    Present self: I am a type collector (don't really see the point in filling holes, and I never started that way so I feel like I skipped a grade or two :) based on how some of you evolved, not that filling holes is for less tenured folks at all - I'm just glad I didn't go through that phase because I wouldn't have liked that in hindsight), only legal tender coins, no paper, XF/AU minimum but preferably higher grade while trying to avoid problem coins, and I'm in the commemorative coin phase at the moment.

    Future self: Same as present self, but I think I'm headed towards stricter, higher grade coins but not necessarily MS/PR-70 on modern coins (I can't personally justify paying a premium on "perfect" coins when MS/PR-69 seems just as "perfect" for up to 10+ times less), I'll add more world silver coins, I may add gold... eventually, and there's still a ton I'll learn about numismatics!
     
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  19. Colonialjohn

    Colonialjohn Active Member

    Yes - JWT - I can tell from the locked-in 20thC Type collector responses here on this channel ... as Dave Bowers once said: The average collector spends only 20 minutes/week on his coins. Its important to realize this when selling and buying. So few say advance or branch out to ancients,Foreign, contemporary counterfeits or even U.S. Exonumia ... I think as long as a collector specializes and stays away from modern U.S. Mint crap he will be OK ... and if he buys slabs. With all these Chinese fakes ... its tough not to get killed occasionally ...

    JPL
     
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  20. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Thanks @Colonialjohn gosh knows I spend more than 20 min a week...probably to my detriment...;):cool:
     
    Jwt708, Jan 19, 2015
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