The Dark Side?

I once tried to see how many crown-sized foreign silver coins I could accumulate. It was fun, inexpensive, and I made money on them when I sold them years later. There are many worth having, and I would encourage anyone to start saving big, beautiful silver coins of the world.

 

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I didn't intentionally collect foreign,but I have a lot of them. I don't know why you collect 1941, can you tell me? Is it just 1941 or 1941 and earlier?

 

The reverse of the avatar, 1 Escudo from Spain. it's the only foreign coin I've bought, all of my others were free. I still have coins from when I lived in Costa Rica back in 1960-1962.

 

Thanks for all the awesome replies! I think you all have articulated what I am thinking, it's the endless variety along with the history of the different countries that makes for fascinating coins.

 

I think it is his birth year.

 

Mexican coins were one of the first areas I focused on when I really dived into foreign coins. My goal was to have a complete set of everything since 1906, which is when a lot of their coins changed. It took a lot of time but it's mostly done, with a few still outstanding. There's just something about the designs I like.

I started with U.S. coins but I don't even think about them anymore. I still have them but never look at them or buy new ones. The problem with U.S. coins is eventually you get everything that's in your price range and then you're just looking at spending way too much to fill holes, or you just focus on getting better and better grades of the same coins. Why do that when there's a whole world out there of other coins to buy, and many of them quite affordable?

Here's a few random Mexican coins from my collection.

 

As I said in my earlier post, this is one of my new directions for collecting.

Here's four recent buys:

 

Oh, I was thinking that dates 1941 and older might be silver.

 

I like the Star Wars reference.

 

Wait, you know about my Lincolns & Morgans! How did you find out? LOL

 

Because this was the last year the Federal debt reached the outrageous amount of $57bil ???

 

All made up numbers anyway. Who cares about debt any more. Means nothing these days.

 

Maybe 15 or 20 years ago (dang I'm old) the phrase 'darkside' started being used over on the PCGS forums to refer to the world coins. Well, maybe world and ancients, but pretty sure world coins. As that is a US coin centric message board (even more so back then) a few people even started calling Canadian coinage 'grayside'. I joked around that exonumia/medals were thus 'the farside'.

That said 'darkside' was (and sometimes still is) used pretty frequently over there.

@lordmarcovan may remember more details of the word use. I joined over there in 2003 and the term was established. So, that 15-20 year range is probably closer to 20.

 

My biggest mistake was purchasing my first foreign Dansco album (Mexico type.) Then came Canada, Ireland, Israel, Switzerland, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and way too many for my bank account to support!