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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Topic started by: AvestheForumFox on December 08, 2007, 03:25:02 PM

Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: AvestheForumFox on December 08, 2007, 03:25:02 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/Avesfox/Coin%20Pictures/dracula960.jpg)
Vlad the Impaler coin.. minted under his Grandfather. this was my most prized possesion until I had to sell it to pay bills =P

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/Avesfox/Coin%20Pictures/c0.jpg)
A roman silver, Severus Alexander..

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/Avesfox/Coin%20Pictures/byz.jpg)
some Byzantine coins
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on December 08, 2007, 03:40:24 PM
I'm got a few 50 pfennig German coins, 5 mark Note a few 5 mark coins. (This is all from my trip to germany in 2001) I've already listed most of my old Us stuff, and I've got a grabbag of european countries//
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: AvestheForumFox on December 08, 2007, 03:41:31 PM
Quote from: Nick22,Dec 8 2007 on  02:40 PM
I'm got a few 50 pfennig German coins, 5 mark Note a few 5 mark coins. (This is all from my trip to germany in 2001) I've already listed most of my old Us stuff, and I've got a grabbag of european countries//
Nice, man

I'd like to see your collection sometimes!
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on December 08, 2007, 04:12:48 PM
Are both collections cleaned or do you prefer to leave the coins as is?
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: AvestheForumFox on December 08, 2007, 04:24:23 PM
Quote from: Kor,Dec 8 2007 on  03:12 PM
Are both collections cleaned or do you prefer to leave the coins as is?
the ones shown here are clean

they were purchased as they are
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Tails_155 on December 08, 2007, 05:15:05 PM
having those is spectacular! I collect American coins, and I've witnessed online some amazing things, know the Morgan Dollar? There are auctions every once in a while for the concepts made of the Morgan Quarter, Nickel, Dime, and Half, and they're things I wish I had the money to buy...
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on December 08, 2007, 11:12:15 PM
Did you study the history around the minting and such of the coins you have?
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: AvestheForumFox on December 10, 2007, 09:29:03 AM
Quote from: Tails_155,Dec 8 2007 on  04:15 PM
having those is spectacular! I collect American coins, and I've witnessed online some amazing things, know the Morgan Dollar? There are auctions every once in a while for the concepts made of the Morgan Quarter, Nickel, Dime, and Half, and they're things I wish I had the money to buy...
I had a morgan dollar once, in my opinion its one of the best of the American coinage. You can get some rather cheap for $15 or so dollars if you look around hard enough.

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Did you study the history around the minting and such of the coins you have?


there are loads of books that help you determin a possible date for these coins. one such method is knowing how to read the text on the coins, these texts with give the name of the emperor in which they were minted to, and often following the name is a roman numeral, this is the number of years the emperor has served so far.

Coin reading can be educational once you get the hang of it ^^
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Tails_155 on December 10, 2007, 09:20:56 PM
I own a more-than-half-complete Type Set
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: AvestheForumFox on December 18, 2007, 09:11:37 PM
for those of you who share a fascination of ancient coins and history, here's a good community to look into:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php (http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php)

scroll all the way to the bottom to see some rather fine and beautiful examples of ancient coinage  :)
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: pteranofan on February 12, 2008, 10:06:04 AM
Those are AWESOME!!!! I love coins.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on February 12, 2008, 12:22:24 PM
Those are very interesting looking coins, thanks for the link.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on February 15, 2008, 02:51:17 AM
I have nearly all the state quarters, this year will be the last year of the collection. and then I will have a complete set... :)
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Malte279 on February 15, 2008, 04:44:54 AM
Similar over here. I collected quarters when I was in Minnesota in 2002. This year a good friend (possibly brother in law to be ;)) is in America and promised to look out for those quarters I'm still missing. I might be able to finish my collection next year or so (hoping to get across the big pond once again by that time). I also have one of those 1976 200 years anniversary quarters. And I used to have one of those cent coins with the inscription "One cent" on it rather than the Lincoln memorial (Wheat cent), but somehow I must have lost that one :(
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on May 22, 2008, 12:27:51 AM
...Yeah, I've got some coins like that...  Nothing too ancient like what you've got, Aves, but still, halfway interesting...

Yeah, I had one of those "one cent" pennies too...  I might still have it somewhere...  I only have just so many of the state quarters, though...  ...Meh...
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Mirumoto_Kenjiro on May 22, 2008, 08:17:30 PM
I know my brother collects the US state coins, but I'm not sure how up-to-date he is now on his collection.  We were excited when the Arizona state coin was finally minted.

I guess my only coin collection are of some of the European coins I had before they changed to Euros.  You think the old coins will go up in value?
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Malte279 on May 23, 2008, 02:39:52 AM
They might, but only very slowly. So many people (myself included ;)) have a set of the old coins left that the government officially encouraged people to give up those collections and swap the old currency for Euros :P:
I have two 1000 Reichsmark bills from 1910, but they are of very little worth unfortunately.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on May 23, 2008, 01:16:52 PM
Still I'm sure you enjoy having them.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Vaan360 on September 08, 2008, 02:27:25 PM
As for coins, only have the pound,when I was to Wrexham[/b]
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on September 08, 2008, 10:29:39 PM
That is a start.  Do you have any questions for folks here?  I'd guess getting modern money from other countries is easier then some would think.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: AvestheForumFox on September 20, 2008, 01:43:59 AM
Quote from: Kor,Sep 8 2008 on  09:29 PM
That is a start.  Do you have any questions for folks here?  I'd guess getting modern money from other countries is easier then some would think.
well, there's your average grab boxes, with five coins to a dollar. those are usually fun to dig around in =)

I once picked out he most beautiful coins I can find from around the world and combined therm into a small chest to make it look like a neat little treasure chest. I want to do it again someday. Makes for great decoration!
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on September 20, 2008, 12:02:31 PM
Sounds like a fun thing to do too and look through sometime, as well as a neat decoration.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: f-22 "raptor" ace on September 20, 2008, 12:12:55 PM
I have a small collection of coins.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on September 20, 2008, 12:31:52 PM
You want to talk about them, show pictures of them, or ask any questions here?
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: The Friendly Sharptooth on January 23, 2009, 01:49:42 PM
Okay, I know that I already posted my coin collection in the general collection section, but I should post it here too. This topic asks for these specifically anyway. Some people may only come to this thread and not the after midnight general one. Besides, this way coin lovers can know exactly what they'll find, since universal collection topics may have little or no coin collections at all. So if you just want to see coins and want to see them for sure, here is my collection of them:
European: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....ns/IMG00181.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Marvel%20Comic,%20InuYasha,%20Handheld%20Game,%20Anime,%20Rock,%20and%20One%20Piece%20Collections/IMG00181.jpg)
Japanese: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....on/IMG00230.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Coin%20Collection/IMG00230.jpg)
Canadian: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....on/IMG00231.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Coin%20Collection/IMG00231.jpg)
Top is Bermuda, bottom is African: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....on/IMG00236.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Coin%20Collection/IMG00236.jpg)
American one dollars: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....on/IMG00247.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Coin%20Collection/IMG00247.jpg)
American half dollars, mercury dimes, buffalo nickels, and mint set of two new regular new nickels and two new gold coated nickels: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....on/IMG00259.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Coin%20Collection/IMG00259.jpg)
American pennies- left is regular and steel wheatie, right is indian head: http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live....on/IMG00261.jpg (http://cid-5c976410991861b2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/My%20Coin%20Collection/IMG00261.jpg)
Yeah, I know that the coins are very hard to make out, but I had to zoom out a lot so that you wouldn't need to click over twenty links to see everything. At least you know the amount and their origin. I've been collecting coins for years, and these are mostly what I got my hands. I have other ones, but they are either single or too common. For example, I only have one Isreali coin, and a large set of pennies from the 1960s. See? Those aren't valuable or large enough sets to even show, but you saw all of my fairly interesting ones. I hope you like them. Later!
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Explorer on January 23, 2009, 01:52:46 PM
Great collection!

I've done one on my own of old coins, like 1800 something and others. Also, Euros is a collection I'm attempting.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on January 24, 2009, 02:49:59 AM
I've got all 50 of the State Quarters, and am now working on the Presidential dollars. So Far I have all 8 released, William Henery Harrison will be next, and incidently, it will be his first appearance on Currency of any kind..
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on February 23, 2009, 02:26:39 PM
also this year the penny will have 4 different back images on it, so look for those when you get change.. each shows a different point in Lincoln's life..
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: NeoGenesis005 on March 14, 2009, 05:02:31 PM
The only thing I had in the house was The United States Coin Map but we lost it.  I want to start my own aircraft collecting in all forms but I haven't started yet.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on March 18, 2009, 02:01:06 AM
Its kinda hard to lose a  map full of coins.. You probably just put it down somewhere and forgot it..
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on March 18, 2009, 02:04:35 AM
As for myself. I got the 9th Dollar coin in the set today, the William Henry harrison Dollar Coin. John Tyler, the 10th President,, is next on my to-get list. also I've been digging though my change looking for 'P" and 'D" State Quarters of all the 50 states. I have collected nearly all of the "D" quarters, now I just need to find the "P"s...
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Mumbling on March 18, 2009, 02:12:30 AM
Quote from: Nick22,Mar 18 2009 on  08:01 AM
Its kinda hard to lose a  map full of coins.. You probably just put it down somewhere and forgot it..
Actually we lost our map in which we collected euros. It's nowhere to be found for about 3 years now.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on March 18, 2009, 02:13:23 AM
Really? Thats a shame... How many Euros were in it?
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Mumbling on March 18, 2009, 02:16:21 AM
Quote from: Nick22,Mar 18 2009 on  08:13 AM
Really? Thats a shame... How many Euros were in it?
I'm not exactly sure. But we had some from each country, that can vary from 2 euros to 1 eurocents.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on March 18, 2009, 02:19:29 AM
well, there are 25 or so countries that use the Euro, so thats a lot of Euros. Hopefully, you'll find it eventually. Where did you see it last?
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on April 13, 2009, 01:28:19 AM
Well, I found a District of Columbia State Quarter. it has Duke Ellington on it.. Pity my State quarters collection book doesn't have a spot for it..
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Tails_155 on July 15, 2011, 11:43:16 PM
I primarily collect US type coins, I'd love to do a Shield Nickel set -- ideally I'd love to collect coins without busts (I don't know why, but faces on coins just seem so meh to me, I like coins with non-human decorations.) Coins with wheat, shields, rays, stars, some animals, and the like -- I just find them pretty.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Petrie85 on July 16, 2011, 12:04:00 AM
I use to collect coins a long time ago. Now I don't.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on August 03, 2011, 02:50:53 PM
Well I managed to find and buy a mercury Dime from a collector. The Mercury Dimes were made between 1916 and 1945 and prior to this i had never even seen one. so now i have one of those. I am up to date on my Presidents ( up to Grant, Hayes is next) and am always on the lookout for the national Park quarters( Gettysburg is my most recent addition).
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on August 19, 2013, 03:37:02 AM
well this past friday i cam across a 1947 dime in my change while i was buying a soda. rule of thumb if you are collecting, always go through your change. you never know what you might find. the dime is blackened with age, as silver is want to do when it gets exposed to the elements. it is the oldest dime i have in my collection buy 7 years., i also have dimes fron 1954 and 1959, buoth silver years. i have all the national park quarers up to date, with perry victory -the ohio coin, being my most ecent find.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Kor on August 19, 2013, 03:55:32 AM
Congats, sounds neat to have those.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: The Chronicler on August 19, 2013, 08:24:16 PM
When the first state quarters came out back in 1999, I decided to collect them all, since I figured it would be a simple matter of picking out the ones I needed from some loose change. My parents got me a collection book to put them all in, and as the years went by, I slowly filled in the map. By the time the last of the state quarters were released, I was missing only one: Arizona. It wasn't until literally just weeks ago that I finally found that one state quarter I had been missing for years.

It seems collectible quarters didn't stop with the state quarters in 2008. Those from 2009 seem to be of U.S. territories, and of these, I have District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa (I assume the only ones I'm missing are Puerto Rico and Guam). All quarters since then are for National Parks, of which I currently have seven, though I can't immediately remember which ones they are.
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on August 19, 2013, 09:09:05 PM
well if there are from 2010 and onward
 the 5 from 2010 arre hot springs, yellowstone, yosemite, grand canyon and mount hood
 2011 are gettysburg glacier Olympic vickburg, and chicksaw
 2012 are El Qunque, Chaco Culture Acadia, Hawaii Volcanoes and Denali
 2013 so far are white Mountain and Perrys Victory
Title: Coin Collecting
Post by: Petrie85 on August 20, 2013, 03:10:55 AM
There are five really hard to find nickels left in the world. And they're selling for 5,000,000 plus right now. Some coins are very valuable and worth a ton of money. I'm sure some coin collectors have very rare and valuable coins in there collection.
Title: Re: Coin Collecting
Post by: Nick22 on November 04, 2018, 01:03:44 AM
I'm still collecting the National park quarters
 I have all the ones released so far. the law allows the program to be extended to 2032 if the Secretary of the Treasury deems it worthwhile.