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impalajohnny · ‎10-19-2011

Hate the discussion board format? Wish there was a place to have a running chat like in the old ebay chat rooms that they took away?

Here is the solution, one thread devoted to chatting about anything and everything about coins all in the same place.

Post whatever is on your mind. There is no official topic here. So let's get the chatting started.

*smedley* · ‎10-29-2018

those appear to be coins, and coins are the primary topic in here...

what exactly is your question?

b-17blinker · ‎10-29-2018

May be referring to the 1982 3.1 gram copper cent -vs- 2.5 gram zinc-plated cent ? Just a wild Equus africanus asinus guess.

elheron-grande · ‎12-09-2018

9 de Diciembre 2018: Holas Amigos del mundo de monedas! From time to time

we discuss the grading of coins. Recently, by accidente, Heron found a European

coin site that had a chart of grades by certain countries.

In that chart is a segmento regarding the coin grades of Italia:

Proof......................Proof.

XF/EF.....................Splendido.

VF...........................Belissimo.

F............................. Molto Bello.

So now, when our coin collecting Amigos are searching for coins in Italy,

the grades will be readily recognized by collectors.

Hasta la vista!

divmic-42 · ‎12-30-2018

I am trying to help my dad sell his coin collection. Do you guys have any idea where I should start?

*smedley* · ‎12-30-2018

it depends on what he's got... some things sell at fair market, more or less, on ebay... others things might be easier to take to a coin dealer...

so in general, what are we looking at? blue Whitman folders, Dansco albums, a bag of junk (common date 90% silver coins, not actually JUNK, it's just a term) silver, a hoard of wheaties, a box of miscellaneous stuff?

*smedley* · ‎12-31-2018

and, it's 2019 on the east coast...

impalajohnny · ‎01-02-2019

@divmic-42 wrote:
I am trying to help my dad sell his coin collection. Do you guys have any idea where I should start?

Like Smedley said a good place to start is posting the details of what you have. I've got lots of ideas on where to start but coin collecting is a broad field and they don't apply in a one size fits all kind of way.

elheron-grande · ‎01-04-2019

That statement is absolutamente correcto! Coin collectors have many

different methods & outlooks on collecting. Because of the many ways

of collecting it is probably best if a seller describes an item as completely

as possible. This will sometimes require a lot of 'coin research' but it

could pay dividends.

In addition to coin collectors there are coin accumulators.

About 15 years pasado Heron was at a coin expo in Playa Larga Cal and

sitting next to a guy searching for coins of 1960. We got to talking about

this quest. He asked Heron for what Heron was searching. Heron showed

the guy Heron's want list of German States coins. Then the guy explained

that he was collecting every coin issued during the year 1960 because

that was his 'birth year'. Even gold coins. Although there were not many

gold coins issued in 1960. This accumulator told Heron he was about half

way through his 'want list'.

Then there was the guy that was collecting English Half Crowns of Queen

Victoria. However, he was collecting the different 'die numbers' that had

been included in the coin designs.

Then there was Heron's pal that was collecting coins issued by all the mints

of France. And there were a lot of those mints from the middle ages...!

And there was the guy that was collecting all coins depicting eagles...!

Heron thought that was a huge project. And when the collector showed

Heron the 'want list' printed on computer 'green bar' paper Heron was

convinced it was a huge project.

And the collector of Mejicano coins that was collecting an Ocho Reales

silver coin from every mint in Mejico. That included Spanish Colonial

mints and also Republic mints. Another big project.

And the collector that was collecting coins of different names of

denominations, i.e., Stuber, Schilling, Doppelschilling, Ryder, Dreipoelker,

Ruble, Kopeck, Thaler, Daler, Groschen, Peso, Cent, Centime, etc etc.

That collector's hobby will most likely be a lifetime project!

Yes, many ways to collect coins. That is why this hobby could be

considered an amazing type hobby with many facets.

Regardos.

impalajohnny · ‎01-05-2019

What El Heron says is very true. What I collect is mostly obsolete US sivler coins with value above melt. That is where you'd find the brunt of the monetary value if you liquidated me.

I also have sets that I'm working on where the joy is in putting them together but the finantial rewards are questionable.

I have accumulations, like odd shaped coins and coins with rabbits on them.

I'm even guilty of coin hoarding. I can't help loving a wheat cent even if it's common date and I always get excited when I'm close to filling another brinks box.

tempestgrace · ‎01-05-2019

I woud like to collect coins with bees, doves, seagulls or cherry blossoms ~~~

~~~רוח

elheron-grande · ‎01-06-2019

Well, you could be 'in luck' with that type coin collecting project. There ARE

coins with insects and birds depicted. There are even some coins with BEES

onnem. Heron can think of an Italiano issue that had a bee onnit. And a coin/token

from Gran Britannia that had a bee-hive and some bees 'buzzing' around it.

These could be few in number but interesting to the person wanting such items.

elheron-grande · ‎01-06-2019

Heron understands the desire to 'collect' certain kinds of coins. And also

some coins that might only have a 'nominal' value. Some a Heron's favorito

coins and tokens are items low in actual value. However, they are high in

'interest' and just owning the rascals is a fun thing...!

During some of the years

of Heron's accumulating items he would choose a coin, for whatever reason

he had at the time, and accumulate as many as possible. One a these items

was the Canadian British Colombia 'totem' Silver Dollar dated 1958. In 1958

this was a rather radical coin design. In addition, Heron really liked the 'totem'.

So, starting about 1960 Heron began to buy this coin. By the end of the 1960s

Heron had about 6o of these items.

Another coin of minimum value is the Austrian 1816 dated 1 Kreuzer. This coin

was minted in 6 different mints and with mint marks. Heron started buying

these in 1957 on 8th Ave NYC. The area west of Times Square where the

'2nd hand shops' were located. And on warm or non rainy days the shop

owners would place tables in front of their shops. On the sidewalk. There

were some that sold 'foreign coins'. Like 2 or 3 Cents each. Heron would

buy different coins but when he saw the 1816 1 Kreuzer he would buy it pronto.

Heron later lernt that this 1816 design was minted until 1852 with 1816 date.

Heron accumulated about 50 or so of these items.

Sold most on eBay starting in 1998. Heron 'collected' this coin because of

the design. A plain and simple design. So, the moral of this story is that

a coin does not have to be super valuable to be desired....! There are

probably other coin collectors with the same out-look? By the way, Heron

still buys these 1 Kreuzer issues when found... Yes, coin collecting can

be super interesting.

*smedley* · ‎01-06-2019

el Heron is right, i've seen quite a few coins with bees...

not sure about doves... seagulls, maybe some from the Caribbean... cherry blossoms, possibly Japan or other SE Asian countries...

impalajohnny · ‎01-06-2019

Would you require your Doves to be secular? If not you could probably put together an extensive collection of dove medals minted by religious organizations for very little money. Medals are not coins but they are in the closely related family of exonumia.