Ætheling Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Question as topic heading, including the following; 1) Was it a particular coin that caught your eye? 2) World coins are generally cheaper than US? 3) Just fancied something different? Note; If you're not in the US then the question still applies, how did you get into non-native coins and why? Finally, is there anything, country-wise/denomination-wise you think you'd like to persue one day, time/money permitting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 My parents pile of leftover coins from overseas trips fasinated me I guess that's how I started into world-coins. But honestly, I started to collect Russian coins, after I have been there... so yea... I guess it's something that going there helped me spark an interest in it. Although they are QUITE expensive... I admit... >_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Well, I live in the "world" part of this planet, so that's easy. I started collecting Dutch coins when I was a little kid, saving 1 cent coins, aiming to get a full year run. Once that was almost completed, I added 5 cent coins to that and later also 10 cent coins. Then my collecting hobby went into hybernation, until many years later I went on vacation to a diferent country than usual and took some coins with me as kind of souvenirs. That woke the collecting virus again. I decided to collect, next to the collection of Dutch coins, all coins (denominations/ varieties) of countries I've visited. If price was not an issue, I'd really like a UNC or Proof Gothic Florin..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ageka Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 When I was 12 my godfather gave me a liberty double eagle and I became a magpie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 When I was 12 my godfather gave me a liberty double eagle and I became a magpie Ah the Liberty $20... gorgeous coins. Must get another one, one day to replace the vacant spot left by the other that got sold. US gold coinage is an interest of mine, amongst others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Ah the Liberty $20... gorgeous coins. Must get another one, one day to replace the vacant spot left by the other that got sold. US gold coinage is an interest of mine, amongst others. May I introduce you to some world platinum or palladium coin, like the coin I got in my avatar? *lol @ cccp* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 May I introduce you to some world platinum or palladium coin, like the coin I got in my avatar? *lol @ cccp* Not too bothered about Platinum, but Palladium always sounded like a good metal to have! Afterall Platinum whilst more expensive (if memory serves correct) is just a run of the mill noble metal. Palladium is more interesting. Although zinc and tin are firm favourites also. The zinc as exemplified by this collection currently being worked on. Currently trying to get a full date run of these in UNC with lustre. (Lustre was hard to capture, but it is there). Infact a whole Nazi Germany Berlin (A) mint date set in UNC is the ultimate goal eventually, but the 5 reichpfennigs are currently the only denomination being pursued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Well technically my world coin collection started when I travelled to Europe when I was 15. I brought home coins/notes from each country, but that didn't start my collecting of them. That started when I went to the Safe Deposit box with my Mom and she let me have my father's coin collection. I had no idea he had world coins. I was going through trying to identify them, but some I just couldn't so I ended up here asking questions and it was really CP that started me going down that path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Not too bothered about Platinum, but Palladium always sounded like a good metal to have! Afterall Platinum whilst more expensive (if memory serves correct) is just a run of the mill noble metal. Palladium is more interesting. Although zinc and tin are firm favourites also. The zinc as exemplified by this collection currently being worked on. Currently trying to get a full date run of these in UNC with lustre. (Lustre was hard to capture, but it is there). Infact a whole Nazi Germany Berlin (A) mint date set in UNC is the ultimate goal eventually, but the 5 reichpfennigs are currently the only denomination being pursued. Ah, most certainly interesting, tin and zinc. Japan used to have them during WWII, obviously because they were running out of raw materials. It is true that finding coins in good grades without corrosion are quite difficult, in fact, I think you have a better one that I do. You know, palladium is a pretty odd metal. If you have a palladium uncirculated and proof coin put side by side, the difference in color is quite suprising, as palladium in uncirculated is really grey, and in proof, it's more silverish. I guess that's like an alunimum roll, where you have the brilliant shiny side and the dull side. But again, palladium coins are suprising as expensive or even more than gold, where palladium is supposed to be at least 40% cheaper than gold...!!! I guess the demand comes into play, as palladium is quite a rare metal used in coins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldFartte Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 It was last fall ... I was getting tired of outrageous prices for nice US stuff and wanted a change, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. Then I saw some gorgeous pics of Canadian and British coins on another forum, and started into the Darkside. It has been a refreshing change, mainly because of the people who consider themselves "Darksiders" ... they are, in my opinion, a lot nicer and friendlier than thier liteside counterparts, at least on that particular forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 That started when I went to the Safe Deposit box with my Mom and she let me have my father's coin collection. I had no idea he had world coins. I was going through trying to identify them, but some I just couldn't so I ended up here asking questions and it was really CP that started me going down that path. Hehe, I remember that. pages long posts with picturs of all sorts of world coins and the other members shooting at them: #15 is a ...... etc. those were hard times for my Krause Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banivechi Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 My city was part of Austro-Hungarian empire until 1918. Today, Serbian and Hungarian borders are at 60 km. Easy to find here old Austro-Hungarian, Serbian, German coins. Ironically, was very hard to find many of regular romanian coins issued ante 1914, than key dates of Hungarian or Austrian coins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 When I was little my father brought back a large canvas bag full of coins from Australia, Japan, and Vietnam that he had saved all of during his tour of duty in Asia. This would become the nucleus of my collection. I would sell off or trade off some coins, but I still have one of every type of coin from that bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Hehe, I remember that. pages long posts with picturs of all sorts of world coins and the other members shooting at them: #15 is a ...... etc. those were hard times for my Krause Yep and everyone was so nice and helpful that I never left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 we anticipated for that and we're glad you stayed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I was basically collecting world right off the bat. There's a good amount of Canadian and US coinage circulating together where I am, and also the odd other Commonwealth piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Work Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I have been a specialist collector of British Commonwealth coins & banknotes for nearly 20 years.I also got into collecting postal notes & postal orders from all over the British Commonwealth actively in the last 3 years,especially since last year,when I decided to join the Postal Order Society (Great Britain).I have been buying a lot of postal notes & postal orders,& now have got nearly 200 of them. Someone had mentioned palladium coins.There is 2 countries that I know of that have had them.Both are British Commonwealth countries - Australia & Tonga.Tonga was the first country to release a palladium coin. Aidan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Australia wasn't certainly new into palladium coins, as they minted their in the middle 90s, in fact it was minted for a very short time, and stopped because of the violite precious metal market. Tonga minted palladium coins in 1967, followed by various nations in Europe, like France, Portugal, Russia which was minted in the late 80s. I most certainly don't know if there were any palladium coins minted in the 70s. Even smaller nations like the Bermudas did have palladium coins. It's odd that not too many countries mint palladium coins nowadays. The only one that I know that is still under mint, which is China 100 yuan 1/2 ounce palladium coin, which is minted last and this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banivechi Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I have been a specialist collector of British Commonwealth coins & banknotes for nearly 20 years.I also got into collecting postal notes & postal orders from all over the British Commonwealth actively in the last 3 years,especially since last year,when I decided to join the Postal Order Society (Great Britain).I have been buying a lot of postal notes & postal orders,& now have got nearly 200 of them. Someone had mentioned palladium coins.There is 2 countries that I know of that have had them.Both are British Commonwealth countries - Australia & Tonga.Tonga was the first country to release a palladium coin. Aidan. I have one "International Reply Coupon" with value 7 d. cut and 1 writed over it, issued in Commonwealth of Australia. Maybe you can help me with some details. Afternoon I'll make a scan of it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corina Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I have one "International Reply Coupon" with value 7 d. cut and 1 writed over it, issued in Commonwealth of Australia.Maybe you can help me with some details. Afternoon I'll make a scan of it... Well Visting Asia in 1992 I got Many Different Coins From The Asian Region And thought That World COins Would be Neat to Collect So From 1992-Present i Still Collect World COins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediccoin Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 About 10 years ago when my grandfather passed away. I recieved his collection of world coins, and have continued collecting them ever since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabone Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Well technically my world coin collection started when I travelled to Europe when I was 15. I brought home coins/notes from each country, but that didn't start my collecting of them. That started when I went to the Safe Deposit box with my Mom and she let me have my father's coin collection. I had no idea he had world coins. I was going through trying to identify them, but some I just couldn't so I ended up here asking questions and it was really CP that started me going down that path. Wow Tiffi! Do you mean that your world collection just took off after you became a member here? If that is true, you have amased some great coins in a very short time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabone Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 I had tinkered around with the idea of a “hobby” that would allow me to do something that I would enjoy, and be worth something at the end as well. I have always enjoyed history, so I looked at stamp collecting. Didn’t take long, not my cup of tea at all. I had lived through the baseball, football, hockey, Nascar card crazes, and wanted no part of that. That left teapots or coins. I chose coins. It then did not take me long to realize that all the really neat looking U.S. coins I was liking cost a full arm, part of a leg, and sometimes a right eye as well. Man, U.S. coins can be expensive for being as “young” as they are. So surfing the internet I found a bunch of sites for “darkside” coins. Granted, I could not read a lot of them as I barely can read and speak the Queen’s English, but I can understand pictures. And world coins are beautiful, and remarkably affordable compared to U.S. coins. My ancestral roots are from Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Those were the first three countries I started with. It has now moved like most collections to the pat “anything I find pretty” area. I love the darkside coins. I just wish I had a local dealer who would deal in foreign coins, instead of treating the word “foreign” as an obscenity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Wow Tiffi! Do you mean that your world collection just took off after you became a member here? If that is true, you have amased some great coins in a very short time. That is absolutely correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28Plain Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 I started with Baltic states silver and then was drawn off to Bulgarian silver and Habsburg silver. I've always been partial to French gold and silver but only recently began to appreciate Great Britain silver. If it ain't silver or gold, I'm not usually interested, though some of the Portugese, Italian and Spanish coins struck in nickel and cupronickel have begun to appeal a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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