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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 703440, member: 19456&quot;]Absolutely my friend! I collect it all. If I see it, and like it, and most importantly, can afford it, I will buy it! I&#039;ve been working on sets of ALL the circulating coinage from change and rolls, I&#039;ve done fairly well. I&#039;m two clad dimes away from a complete set for example. (4 if you count the 2009s) </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One of the most fun things I ever did in coins, one time, I ordered a pound of bulk world coins. Going through them was a blast, and I have been wanting to do it again for more then a year now, but money has been too tight. (it cost more to ship it then to buy it, too!). In there I got stuff as old as 1893, as new as 2005, and some really great stuff too. Stuff I wouldn&#039;t have even known existed, like for example an OPA red point. US issued, for use in rationing in WWII. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The source I bought them from sells 25 pounds for about $180, with free shipping. I&#039;m seriously considering doing that as a Christmas present to myself. There would be roughly 2200 coins in that order. That would more then double the size of my current collection! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The duplicates make great trading fodder too, provided you don&#039;t misplace them...which I did with the 5 or so duplicates I got out of the pound I bought. Oops! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If I only collected one series or so, that wouldn&#039;t have happened, my world coin collection would have been almost non-existant and I would never have learned about the things I did because of it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s not that easy to do with American coins, because they sell propionatly too high. And for the older examples people charge based on their metal content. (which I HATE, I think it should be based on their numismatic content...I also think it should be illegal, a felony, to melt coins, any coins). And then, on the rare times you see places selling stuff like that for American coinage, it&#039;s in bags of 5000 or just priced way too high.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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