What do you collect ?

i like coins better than notes because it seems coins tell a story when you hold it in your hand. take a worn mercury dime or something. you wonder where and who it has been with. with a bill, you know it was setting in a holder in a safe.

 

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I'm kind of like GDJMSP. I have some coins and I treasure them (no pun intended), but I enjoy reading about coins more than collecting them.

 

Sorry to disagree with you coinlover but a "worn" note (bill) has been somewhere too. Maybe not as far back but if you look at an old $100 note who might have held that?

In 1934, for instance a $100 was worth a hell of a lot more than a tank of gas.

Granted coins don't get sent to the shredder like currency but it's got a lot of beauty and history as well.

By the way, I AM a coin nut. Just found a great appreciation for currency as well.

 

whatever crosses my path..Im not picky

 

Cindy,do you collect Canadian pre-Confederation coins,such as the Upper Canadian St. George coins as well as well as coins of the Dominion of Canada itself? I do.

Aidan.

 

Doug,I can guess that is coin & banknote books you are referring to,so that you can study your banknotes & coins in greater detail.

Aidan.

 

Doug,that's a bummer that you no longer own any coins.It is good to study them,as it is like holding history in your hand.

If only coins could talk.

Aidan.

 

Canadian, US, German, French, Australian, Icelandic, and a few others. i don't do ancient and shy away from the current US Mint offerings. i prefer the coins from the 1900-1950 period. there are plenty of interesting coins in those years.

-Steve

 

usa with some canadian, which is almost US anyway

 

Medals was closer to exonumia than anything else on the list, but medals are one of the very few aspects of exonumia that I don't get too involved in. Wait, was that out loud? I don't want to be all alone. Ahhhh, I really picked U.S. coins, yeaahhh, that's it, I collect U.S. coins! Ignore that exonumia avatar, I don't know how it got there.

 

I voted American coins. I've been struck by the gold bug and have some gold liberty pieces, the new buffalo bullion coins, and try to stay up with the commemoratives.

 

Ag NCLT's 4-ever

I collect 1oz silver NCLT coins (not "medal-coins") because they're a store of value in the sense of their silver content. Plus, many of them have a face denomination in their respective currencies.

The only ones I'm interested in are:

1989 CN Panda (WHOA.. cheesy 80's graphics on a coin!)
1996-99 MX Libertad
1997-* GB Britannia (esp. 2001, 2003)
1998 CA Maple (Titanic, RCM Aniv., RCMP privies)
1999 CA Maple (Fireworks privy)
2000 CA Maple (Expo Hanover privy)
2001-03 AU Kangaroo (PSYCHEDELIC!!)
2004 CA Maple (Desjardins privy)
2004 CA Maple (RCM privy)
2005 CA Maple (D-Day privy)
2005 CA Maple (Tulip/NL Liberation privy)
2005 CA Maple (VE-Day privy)
2005 CA Maple (VJ-Day privy)
2005-06 NZ Kiwi
2005-07 AU Kangaroo
2006-W US Eagle (Z6F, not the sets)


I know it's a weird niche of coin collecting, but it really makes me happy...

 

Medal-coins.

DJC,they may be bullion pieces with a face value,but you can't buy them for face value,so they ARE medal-coins.

Cwtokenman,the Civil War & Hard Times traders' currency tokens are very numismatic,as they were made for circulation,so in this sense,they are coins,albeit,unofficial coins.

Aidan.

 

DJC What about the 2004 NZ Kiwi? and the 2007 is out now too.

 

kiwi01: I've never seen a '04, '07 etc. I can't find the history on this coin, but I'm very interested! Looking it up now...



That's radical... I'll have to get one...

 

DJC,type the term 'medal-coin' into the Search function near the top of the board between 'New Posts' & 'Quick Links',& you will see all the discussions that contain references to medal-coins.

Here's an article; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal-coins .

Aidan.

 

Aidan's bias

Aidan: You're a contributor to that article:

# (cur) (last) 02:01, 16 January 2006 Aidan Work (Talk | contribs)

It's nice to refine or invent new specialized terms pertaining your profession but I think "medal-coin" just sounds like ****. Why don't you think of a more concise term?

 

DJC,the term 'medal-coin' was actually first used by the late Jerome Remick,who was a U.S.-born numismatist who spent most of his life living in Quebec.It is also referred to in the editions of Krause prior to around 1983.

As for being concise,it is calling a spade a spade,not calling a spade a shovel,as it were.

Aidan.