Contest: Name a Collection

I will end the contest on December 2nd. I will try and post the poll by December 4th, but I've seen a lot of good ideas, so it's going to be hard to narrow them down to 5.

 

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1 defunct currency. ie 1 deutshemark. a set of the most recent changes?
2 currency that closely resembles another country. dont remember what i saw but most of the designs looked almost stolen from us currency.
3 crazy amount currency. i have a $5000 bill from mexico that was probably worth less than 5 bucks at the time.
4 all bi metallic coins collection. ie toonie. there is a similar mexican coin and how many from the rest of the world?
5 all holes. holey money collection you can hang on a string.
6 all queens. canada, australia, england, carribean?
7 all dictators (or all believed to be bad people) or good people coins
8 equivalent values.(at time of collection) ie 1 us dollar, 98 cents canadian/autralian, 100? mexican pesos, 1 third? of a pound.
9 1st year of not worth what its printed on. ie first year us nickel quarter not worth bullion.

 

You could start collecting a politicians empty promises.......

but then you'd rapidly run out of room to store them.....

How about collecting coins from everywhere Obama was said to have been born?... that should add up rather nicely.

 

Good one!

 

how about a cointalk collection. i bet it would be pretty cool if everyone here donated a coin to it.

jfa

 

Well that would only amount to maybe three places, right? Hawaii (The correct answer), Illinois (the slightly misinformed, incorrect answer), or Kenya (the radical republican aberration of truth).

If jallengomez desired more of a challenge, he could attempt to collect coins from everywhere John McCain owns a residence. I'm not so sure that one would "add up rather nicely" though... if McCain himself doesn't even know...

Certainly a challenge!

 

One I have always wanted to do and WILL do someday is a collection of early silver commems with ships on the reverse. Nothing special but I really like early commems.

 

I like the idea of CoinTalk having a member collection of US or World coins.

 

Collect MS coins from all states that have medical marijuana?
That should be interesting.

 

Ideas

1) A current mint set from all of the G8 nations.
2) The final mint set from all Euro countries before the conversion to the Euro.
3) A type set from now defunct countries.
4) A type set from countries that were superseded or incorporated into larger countries (i.e. Prussia and the Weimar Republic for Germany, Russian satellites into the USSR, Kosovo --> Yugoslavia, etc., etc.)
5) A complete set of Olypmic commemorative coins from all countries from Ancient Greece until present (note there were no games between late 390s A.D. until 1896)
6) Coins depicting powerful women
7) Controversial coins (i.e. bare breast Standing Liberty Quarter, etc., etc.)

 

I think you should do a collection of artist looking coins (not prez or country logo, seal, or animal) but something like the walking liberty, I have also seen Greek or Italian coins with artistic obverse or reverse.

http://www.ioffer.com/w/483691

http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&source=mog&hl=en&gl=us&client=safari&q=Italian%20coins#i=16

http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&source=mog&hl=en&gl=us&client=safari&q=Italian%20coins#i=20

http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&gl=us&client=safari&source=mog&hl=en&aq=f&oq=&aqi=-k0d0t0&fkt=8323&fsdt=11645&q=Greek+coins#i=15

http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&gl=us&client=safari&source=mog&hl=en&aq=f&oq=&aqi=-k0d0t0&fkt=8323&fsdt=11645&q=Greek+coins#i=82

http://www.google.com/m/search?site=images&gl=us&client=safari&source=mog&hl=en&aq=f&oq=&aqi=-k0d0t0&fkt=8323&fsdt=11645&q=Greek+coins#i=164

I'm sure there are other coins from other countries that have artistic type pics as above. I have always liked these coins but only have a few.

 

Unfortunately, this is another of the contests that I missed because I was offline for three weeks while moving. However, I do have one comment that you should think about. If your intent is to use the winning idea as the basis for a registry set, you must keep in mind that it may not be eligible as a registry set because there may not be a category for it. This has occurred many times in the past, and there was little that NGC or PCGS could do about it. They get so many requests for new categories, and it is unfortunate, but they can't oblige all of them.

Chris

 

I know the contest is now closed to new entries but I had another idea for your consideration.

Based on your year of birth, build a collection based on that year/number for a unique collection.

Examples:

Born 1950: Seek a set of 50 coins from 1950, perhaps in AU50 grades, or that cost a current maximum value of $50.

Born 1905: I doubt you fall into this category but If you were born in a year with a small number, you could try to build a high grade set of 5 coins and devote a lot of budget to each coin being the best for your money.

Now the higher your birth year/number, the larger your set can be and I'd suggest not limiting the set to just US coins but to also include world coins, all from the same year.

Perhaps in any of these sets you could seek only copper or only silver or only clad coins issued in your year of birth. This gets harder after a certain point in time when the only precious metals in coins moved to special issues and away from business strikes and collector version coin currency.

There seems to be many angles to play this "birth-year collection" to define it to your personal tastes, so by no means are my suggestions limited.

 

Sorry for the delay here, but life, the universe, etc...I will post my top 5 favorites tomorrow and put them up for vote. Since the close of the contest on Dec. 2nd, I have found another RPM for the prize collection. 1953-D.

 

Hey lets not get political.

 

My post does not show, but was submitted by the deadline; did you get it? I don't see it here, but I'm still getting the email "someone has posted to the forum that you responded to" or something to that effect. There was nothing inappropriate about my suggestions, so they shouldn't have been removed or censored by a moderator.

 

I think that's a great idea.

 

I'll see your 1959D-1MM-010 and lower your RPM to 1959D-1MM-009:

 

Here's the photo I probably should have posted for this one. This example I have is an EMDS which shows more of the secondary punch to the south which are much weaker or gone altogether on later stages. The key markers listed by Coneca are the two die cracks crossing ONE CENT on the reverse.

 

Thanks everyone. There were a lot of great ideas here. And here are my 5 favorite ideas:

Duke-MS State quarters from states I've visited(with my son)

Calum-Collection of world coins with unique animals.

Wazza-Collection of now defunct currencies

Krispy-Roll type set of a personally meaningful year

Coinmaster-Set of coins from each year my favorite sports team won the championship.(Cowboys)

Good luck to everyone in the poll!