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<p>[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8414798, member: 116145"]I mostly collected from buying assorted lots of lower grade US silver and early copper and cherry picking auctions for some years. That's how I put together my first SLQ collection - then I got sucked in and migrated up (ever a work in progress). When silver prices went up a few years ago, I found I could get better bargains on world coins (and medieval coins which I've also become interested in). I lived in Africa for a while and always keep my eyes open for interesting (mostly 19th and early 20th century) African coins - I especially enjoy some of the animal themes. As to bimetallics, lol, I have the 6000 mintage 2014 $5 Canadian tulip nobium / silver which scratched that itch for me for less than $50 earlier this year, and a really nice French 2004 5 Euro of "The Sower" (Marianne) which has an insert that is made of .750 gold weighing 2.7 grams in a body of .900 silver weighing 22.2 grams. It was about $200 recently, with a mintage of only 3000. (Canada mint photo of tulip bimetallic for reference, I need to drag mine out to photograph, but it's still in the airtite from the mint)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1492605[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1492606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1492607[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MIGuy, post: 8414798, member: 116145"]I mostly collected from buying assorted lots of lower grade US silver and early copper and cherry picking auctions for some years. That's how I put together my first SLQ collection - then I got sucked in and migrated up (ever a work in progress). When silver prices went up a few years ago, I found I could get better bargains on world coins (and medieval coins which I've also become interested in). I lived in Africa for a while and always keep my eyes open for interesting (mostly 19th and early 20th century) African coins - I especially enjoy some of the animal themes. As to bimetallics, lol, I have the 6000 mintage 2014 $5 Canadian tulip nobium / silver which scratched that itch for me for less than $50 earlier this year, and a really nice French 2004 5 Euro of "The Sower" (Marianne) which has an insert that is made of .750 gold weighing 2.7 grams in a body of .900 silver weighing 22.2 grams. It was about $200 recently, with a mintage of only 3000. (Canada mint photo of tulip bimetallic for reference, I need to drag mine out to photograph, but it's still in the airtite from the mint) [ATTACH=full]1492605[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1492606[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1492607[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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