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?

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.

...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?

No limits.

Say, 50BC to around 1400

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

1792-2005

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

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:)

Exceptions always exist, but my cut-off is the end of the classical US Type, when the Mercury and Walking Liberty were dropped.

(Gold)
Walking Liberty Half
Standing Liberty Quarter
Mercury Dime
Buffalo Nickel
Indian Cent

(My starting point is the invention of coinage c. 625 BC and I have an example of that.)

I have come to realize that I have very similar taste in coins with Stujoe and T'bunny. I have no starting point (all is welcome), but I find my strongest interests beginning with the 19th century- mostly for simple aesthetic reasons: I prefer well rounded milled coins.

As to the cut-off date, I have none. However, with the exception of certain series that I collect that extend to the present, I find that my interests in many coins begins to teeter off following the immidiate post-WW II period ( say 1950).

Most of what I collect is in the 20th Century, with current sets extending to the 21st (gotta keep my Danscos and Whitmans full!), though I have many American coins in the 19th century going back to as far as 1806. I have a few other coins from as far back as 1587 for dated coins, and even further back if you count the Roman coins, but as I said, most of what I actively collect is 20th century American.

Although I have others my main activity takes place in the 1787 - 1837 era.

nope, I don't have a 1792, but it is still the starting cut off point for my collection. I dream about that half disme pattern, but the older colonial (and world) stuff just doesn't interest me now.

some day . . . eh, who am I kidding, there is no way my wife will ever consent to me spending that much money on "some old nickel."

No limits, I'll take anything I can get

I have noticed that too. Does it scare you are much as it does me?

Right on about the well round, milled stuff. Of course.

My collection dates as follows:

British collection (- includes Scottish, Irish, Channel Islands, Manx, Lundy etc coins and tokens) - from the first ancient british to 1967 (1970 proof).

USA collection - 1793 to date.

British Commonwealth - from Eliz I portcullis to 1952 (end George VI).

Ancient Greek - earliest to Roman invasion.

So, all-in-all from the earliest to the latest in one form or another.

PAB

I collect just about everything but don't collect anything from before 1780 systematically except a little Chinese and only collect states coins and dimes
after 1998 still. I specialize in 1965 to 1998 US and 1950 to 1989 world coins.

The latest I go to is early 1800's unless I can get a crazy deal on some older coins. I do have a few Roman era coins but to me those don't really count as I do not currently collect them. 1700's are just way out of my price range. I would say 80% of my collection is in the 1880-1940 space.

As for a country, who cares? The sky is the limit for me!