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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 418628, member: 4373&quot;]The definition of a &quot;set&quot; can be a challenge as there are no rules in what you want to create. I agree this can be an absurd idea to collect whatever there is out there and hence boundaries should be set. </p><p><br /></p><p>I first started off by finding coins in circulation and tried to find coins by different years and different mintmarks if any. If you happened to have a family heritage that came abroad, you can always collect that too. Or even countries that you visited and you really liked. </p><p><br /></p><p>This then evolved to collect coins of different metals as I&#039;m a metal head. This may seem to be easy but surprisingly difficult if you wish to collect coins not struck in different alloys but in single element. I&#039;m sure aluminum, copper, silver and gold are quite easy. Nickel, iron, tin are up on the list but most coins I know are struck as alloys. Italy&#039;s 1960-70s 100 lira coins were struck in iron (or maybe stainless steel?), Japan&#039;s 1960s 50 yen were struck in nickel and Thailand used tin for their coins in the 40s. Well you get my idea - there aren&#039;t that many combinations of metals that can be used for coinages. Recently there are a few countries that are experimenting with fantasy metal such as niobium, tantalum. I&#039;m sure that&#039;s definately a lot more doable except the prices of precious metals can be a bit painful. </p><p><br /></p><p>This page can be quite interesting if you like to collect coins in various metals: <a href="http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/metal.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/metal.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/metal.html</a> I&#039;m still looking for the Chinese antimony coin - it&#039;s probably the hardest element related coin to look for. </p><p><br /></p><p>And then you can ALWAYS collect coins of different themes such as animal related, Chinese zodiac year - if you are born in the year of dragon, why not collect all dragon related coins that you were born in? Only 1 out of 12 different designs you have to choose from. Or you can go by astrology. I admit giving my ex a theme related coin and she really liked it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m hunting for various overstruck world coins which is another insane idea of mine but can be quite interesting and intriguing. There is no single catalog that details all overstruck coins known in the world. What interests me the most are overstruck coins using different countries coinages. For instance, the Chinese used Korean 5 fun for their 10 cash coinage, Russians using Swedish 1 ores, Belgium using Dutch&#039;s and the list goes on. Oh did I forget to mention that one of the 1804 US dollar coin was overstruck on a Swiss thaler? </p><p><br /></p><p>In conclusion: it&#039;s you who set the rules of what you want the set to be. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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