Hello and first question.

[TomGoodheart 373]

Welcome to the forum and the hobby. I ended up collecting mainly sixpences because that was a meaningful coin for me as a child (6d got you into the ABC Minors on a Saturday). But it doesn't really matter what you end up collecting so long as you find it enjoyable and interesting.

And shillings for me. Price of a Ladybird book or a Fab lolly!

And when I found a copy of James Mays' (no relation) The Splendid Shilling and saw they were used world wide .. there was no holding me back!

Edited August 4, 2014 by TomGoodheart

[Nicholas 51]

I've ended up falling for hand made English Half Crowns - plenty of character and variations ; which took me to the time of the great rebellion of the mid 1600's and inventive emergency royalist coining methods..

Edited August 4, 2014 by Nicholas

[Peckris 579]

Find what you like

I've always been attracted to pennies and halfcrowns (nice large size), and sixpences (not sure why - perhaps the romance of the 'tanner' pocket money, and also the way they avoided decimalisation obliteration and hung on for some years after.)

Brass threepences are a nice unique type of coin that only had a 30-year run.

[Colin G. 147]

In response to an earlier question you raised, flips can fit into album pages, Chris used to offer the Lighthouse range and their Optima albums used to have an option for pages to hold flips. This is what I use for my lower/average grade coins. I have found that in his current range there is a similar product. I don't know if there is a larger version that holds more than 9 flips.

http://www.predecimal.com/single-pages-karat-coin-album-lindner-p-18017.html

[Dirt Monkey 1 3]

Flips look like the way forward to me, I like the idea of being able to write on them and the uniformity suits my OCD tendencies. I will have to invest in a few boxes of varying sizes.

Thanks again for all the advice, it is really appreciated.

Jason

[Debbie 58]

Or you could be like me and consider any denomination, any currency, any age, any condition..........as long as they have been hand engraved!

Welcome to the forum!

[Peter 615]

I have a coin cabinert.2 aluminium cases,5 coin albums.5 Linder trays,4 60 coin folders from Chris,2 bank note albums and an album of cheques and about 1000 coins in 2x2 flips....my address is.....???????????????? (My farthings are in my cabinet)

[sirdizzy 0]

Honestly collect what you like, it makes it a lot more fun to collect something you like.

I used to do sets one coin over and over just different year different mint mark that bores me. Personally I like to put together type sets, large varieties and it just interests me more.

[Dirt Monkey 1 3]

What is a type set?

[Peckris 579]

A type set is where you collect by a theme - e.g. one coin per monarch, or one coin per denomination per monarch, or one coin of each design change (and that in turn could be all monarchs or just selected monarchs).

Type collecting is the opposite of date collecting where you collect a run of every single date (with or without all or some varieties) issued of particular denominations / monarchs.

Or you can mix - I have a date run (incomplete) of bronze pennies from 1860 - 1967, halfcrowns from 1911 - 1967, and brass threepences, but other denominations like shillings and florins and halfpennies are geared more towards design types. Early milled (before 1816 for silver and before 1797 for copper) is all by type as funds won't allow anything else! So are halfcrowns before 1911 and pennies before 1860.

A 'type set' might also simply be a set of all coins for a particular date, e.g. 1936.

Do you have a particular reason for asking?

[sirdizzy 0]

The type set I want to do for British coins is Victoria to Elizabeth pre decimal. That means I'd get a half penny, penny, farthing, 2 pence, 3 pence, 4 pence, 6 pence, shilling, florin, half crown and crown for Victoria, Edward vii, George v, George vi, and Elizabeth Ii. I'd also do varieties like 90% silver and 50% and copper nickel for George v coinage and so on and so forth.

Edited August 17, 2014 by sirdizzy

[Peckris 579]

The type set I want to do for British coins is Victoria to Elizabeth pre decimal. That means I'd get a half penny, penny, farthing, 2 pence, 3 pence, 4 pence, 6 pence, shilling, florin, half crown and crown for Victoria, Edward vii, George v, George vi, and Elizabeth Ii. I'd also do varieties like 90% silver and 50% and copper nickel for George v coinage and so on and so forth.

That's a good plan, though a lack of Maundy wouldn't register in many collectors' minds as a 'gap'. I personally would say crown to farthing without Maundy, would make a great type set - bear in mind that Maundy was never issued for circulation.

[sirdizzy 0]

I hadn't considered the maudy but I might I probably won't do the soveriegns as those are normally out of my price range being gold.

[Peckris 579]

I hadn't considered the maudy but I might I probably won't do the soveriegns as those are normally out of my price range being gold.

You said you were considering two and four pences? Apart from Vicky groats, those will have to be Maundy.

[Rob 3,002]

I hadn't considered the maudy but I might I probably won't do the soveriegns as those are normally out of my price range being gold.

You said you were considering two and four pences? Apart from Vicky groats, those will have to be Maundy.

1838 & 1848 currency 2d. (S3914E)

[Peckris 579]

I hadn't considered the maudy but I might I probably won't do the soveriegns as those are normally out of my price range being gold.

You said you were considering two and four pences? Apart from Vicky groats, those will have to be Maundy.

1838 & 1848 currency 2d. (S3914E)

Yeah, but he's talking about all those denominations from Victoria to Elizabeth II. If he's not interested in Maundy (like many of us aren't lol) then he will have to revise his wanted denomination list.

[sound 25]

Hi Jason,

You have received some sound advice from knowledgable posters. I would save it and log it because you won't generally get this for free.

The only thing I would add which I don't think has been mentioned is work out a budget.

If Victorian shillings at £200+ a hit in high grade are beyond you, it will be frustrating. Look at a catalogue and consider what is affordable over time. If you find it affordable you will find it far more satisfying.

Regards

Mark