What's your cut-off date? Options

[Ætheling]

All collections must have some limits, albeit a limit as broad as "coins from earth", but generally we all work within our chosen time periods.


What is the earliest date you will go to? And what is the latest date you tend to work until?

[Ætheling]

I don't actually have a starting date, i've never bothered actually declaring one. I figure i'll just go further and further back, i do want some B.C coins one day but i've never taken the plunge into ancients yet. Don't know enough about them.

So far i've crept back as far as AD 899.


I still haven't owned one single Roman coin, although on occasions i've come close i've never taken the opportunity. One day i will.


So no cut off date as far as earliest goes.

However the latest i generally go to is 1799, this is more a generic date than anything else as my serious collections actually go to 1789 rather than 1799, but i wouldn't turn down a nice 1799 coin if it came my way.

Having said that though i do have several sets that are out of my time period on the go. The Nazi Germany set, the Washington quarters to name but a few but once these sets are complete i aim to drift back to 18th century or before.

As for the year 1800 whilst it is technically the final year of the 18th century it is also the first year of the 1800s and thus is currently being ignored.


The 16th, 19th and 21st centuries are the only centuries after AD 900 that i don't actively collect.

[josemartins]

...none...

Well, Portugal XIIIth Century, all others 1901 with a few exceptions for the coins I really like and a few Roman, Greek and Muslim coins.


Jose

[Ætheling]

...none...

Well, Portugal XIIIth Century, all others 1901 with a few exceptions for the coins I really like and a few Roman, Greek and Muslim coins. 
Jose

Is that upto 1901?

[ccg]

No limits.

[geordie]

Say, 50BC to around 1400

[josemartins]

Is that upto 1901?

Ups, i meant 1901-date (that sentence was a combination of bad English and some hurry )

A few years ago I had collection of older coins, specially England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Austria and The Netherlands, but i sold most of them.


Jose

[Ian]

Usually I try to stick to the time frame 1520 - 1880.

I also fail miserably in trying to stick to that time frame.

[UncleBobo]

I collection ranges from with a big time leap to the 1800's to 2005 with a little side trip to the 300's

[Art]

My main collection starts in 1793 and ends in 1909. That said, I have quite a few things outside those dates that fit the I like it catagory.

[Guest_Stujoe_*]

I don't really have a 'starting' date. My main collection starts at 1900 but that is a personal choice and I will take any date that I like. For aesthetic reasons, I just don't like a lot of the stuff between the Ancient time frame and the latter 1700's.

[Tiffibunny]

I just don't like a lot of the stuff between the Ancient time frame and the latter 1700's.

I'm pretty much the same on that note, but I do have a few Pre-1800. That's usually my starting point (1800) and I have not come across and end point as of yet. As long as they keep making silver coins, there will probably not be and end date.

[jody526]

No date limits. I am likely to collect anything that I find interesting.
Most of my coins are from the 19th and 20th centuries.

[gxseries]

I like to collect various coins too, except that coins that doesn't have a date. It just makes classification pretty difficult when anyone sees it right away.

[Ætheling]

The ones without dates are my personal favourites. You have to crack out a catalogue and solve the mystery of how old it is. It's like detective work come archaeology... love it.

[SilverDollarMan]

Would definately go back to 1792, anybody want to donate? hehe

[Scottishmoney]

All of the Queen Elizabeth I coins which were undated can be reasonably dated by using the various mintmarks which were recorded as to when they were used. For instance I have a shilling with a bell on it which was minted during 1582-3.

[Prethen]

U.S. 1889 (mint state and proof coins)

[The_Cave_Troll]

1792-2005

maybe someday I'll expand it, but I have no desire to right now.

[SilverDollarMan]

CaveTroll, you got a 1792? Wow, I could only dream. What is it a half cent? Or wasn't pattern's the only ones made? TIA:)