samclab Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 I was just wondering if any one did. I'm from San francisco, Californian and I have a ide say big, but then again I havent seen any other collections, collection of american coins. I also have international coins from, Mexico, Canada, and just a few coins from diffrent parts of Asian, Europe, Africa, South America and 1 coin from Australia. I am mostly focussed on U.S. coins but am thinking about expanding my collection. Quote
Master Jmd Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 i do not collect american coins; mostly because it is far easier for me to get English coins, and i do not like the fact that America has no monarche... Quote
william Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 I have a few American coins but do not collect them, the ones I have were given to me Quote
Sylvester Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 Mercury dimes and Washington quarters.I like $20 Libs too. Quote
Edward Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 Yes, I started out over 40 years ago collecting American, but have concentrated more recently on British as so much history is on display in these coins, they are much easier to obtain in higher grades, and the engraving is much more interesting for me. There are also more types in British than in American, even over the same length of time, which makes a type set more interesting for me than an American type set.My children all also collect American, though it is only my oldest who really concentrates on them. Quote
Edward Posted May 4, 2004 Posted May 4, 2004 Out of all the US coins, my son Michael likes dimes especially. He just likes the size. I can't remember what all he has in his collection pre-Merc, but dimes always attract his eye. Quote
samclab Posted May 5, 2004 Author Posted May 5, 2004 I would like to start collecting british and other monarchy posessing country's coins but, just like master j.m.d. coins from countries other than canada and a few from mexico I can get very easy. I like how other countries have more diverse coinage, meaning that in other countries they have more than like a picture of the king, queen, president of ruller of that particular country at that time. like I sometimes get coins from south america and they usually have pictures from nature, that is also true with paper money, I have a few bills from the bahamas and canada with wonderfull pictures ofbeautiful scenary. I think they look better than american money. I'm more intrested in the older coinage, but I can rarely find a coin of any kind(1cent, 5cent, 25cent) from before 1965. and I have never gotten a Mercury dime from a place other than a store. so it makes it pretty exspensive to collect. I like how more of the foriegn coins have more history, but I like america's comemorative state hood quarters, and soon to be Presidential dollars, in witch they will realese 4 golden dollars a year with us presidents in the order they where president. Quote
samclab Posted May 5, 2004 Author Posted May 5, 2004 My oldest us coin, thats is not in my dads collection is a 1896 indian head penny in terrible condition. I bought it at a flea market for like a quarter. but its the only indian head I have. Quote
Sylvester Posted May 5, 2004 Posted May 5, 2004 My oldest US coin is that 1853 dime! mine was a really common and battered 1816 large cent. Quote
Edward Posted May 5, 2004 Posted May 5, 2004 Sylvester, I think my oldest US coin is about that too. I don't even really have any idea anymore. My oldest AUNC though is an AD 758 T'ang Dynasty cash that I picked up with 5 identical ones at a very decent lot price.Sam, you know a lot of dealers have masses of silver coins that they sell at bullion value, which is 4.18 times face value right now, so if you go to the right one you could probably pick up a lot of low-grade Mercs and pre-64 quarters and some Franklin and earlier halves pretty cheap. My kids and I got a lot that way and it gave us a good place to start our Whitman folders from. Now that they have the basis of a collection they are filling it in slowly with higher-grade pieces. Quote
Aethelred Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 I live in the USA and work at a coin shop that sells only US coins, but I do not collect them at all. I am only interested in British coins. Quote
wybrit Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 I am a (insert adjective) Yank who does not collect US coins. Quote
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