Have you come across who is the greatest coins or banknotes collector in this world. The hint was given under the topic description. I thought I knew the answer. Maybe I am wrong. Someone can correct me later. So who is this person ? Make an intelligent guess. No prizes for guessing it right. Just for the fun and knowledge acquisition.

Fake guess: Trick question! No one in africa has ever been able to afford a coin or a banknote!

Real guess: King Farouk

Probably Idi Amin

lol. that was my first false guess.

If it is Farouk, he was the greatest hoarder, accumulator, but indeed did not act like a true collector. It is well known that he carelessly handled his coins, including some great rarities.

Any more answers ?

I would say Farouk, I know he had a huge stash of coins (among other things)...a huge collector so I assume he might have had a collection of banknotes as well.

Famous collectors

http://www.24carat.co.uk/famouscoincollectorsframe.html

no paper money collectors on that list...I have come across some people who own coins from the John Q. Adams collection

Jed Clampett! Sweet!

I hear rumors of Jack Black being a collector too.

Oh, and I hear Dennis Rodman owns one of the UHR St. Gaudens Double Eagles. Well, according to wikipedia at least.

Yeah, but he had to melt it down to make a mount for that 2 carat diamond in his nose.

Random Guess: Cecil Rhodes?

Time up to review this topic.

I know that this question can be quite subjective. There are many great collectors. Most collectors do not restrict only on one type of collectiables. They may collect coins, medals, banknotes, specimen notes etc. Maybe some of them are well-known for specific collectiables. In fact, coin collecting are meant for Kings in the early times.

Just my own opinion. I think it should be King Farouk. Whether he is a great hoarder or a great collector, one cannot deny his massive collections. I believe all his collections were sold off many years ago in major auctions. I read somewhere that someone actually need to find and record his collecton pieces. Is there a book on King Farouk's collections ? I heard most of his pieces exists as one or two pieces in the world.

I came across a pair of China gold medallions which was struck specially for visits by China envoys to Egypt ( I don't have the details on that ). The pair of gold medallions were in King Farouk collection. They are relatively huge. I actually hold them in my hands to examine it. That was two years ago when a friend won the pieces during an earlier auction. As these are a different level of collection arena from mine ( they cost many thousands and million in value ), I did not ask my friend for any details and also do not have that kind of money to keep them as my collection.

With my brief encounter and limited knowledge on King Farouk's collection, this topic was created.

Thanks for everyone contribution !!!

Well it's not really fair is it? A king or President etc have WAY more funds than perhaps all of us on this forum combined together

I'll stick to my common coins and banknotes

Good for you. Most importantly, we enjoy our hobby.
As a coin and banknote hobbyists, we always get excited whenever we acquire a new coin or banknote for our collection. Agree ?

I was going to say Cecil Rhodes, great minds, etc.