Ætheling Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Okay what era/eras does your collection focus fall within? Is there a certain date you will not go back beyond? Are you a modern, early modern, medieval, antiquity/classic or an ancient coin collector? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Anything that has a date on it... therefore... no medieval coins I guess for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDollarMan Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 1792 or 1793 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Well American i tend to stick to 20th century. Germany is much the same story but i don't go beyond 1945 with German coins, nor before 1930 either. With English well i'm in 871-1016 and 1422-27, i tend to ignore practically every other English coin minted outside of those periods. Currently i go as far back as 899 since that's the earliest date that can be put on my oldest coin (although i play it safe and say it was minted in c. 920). The date keeps dropping, hopefully i want to go back to the 8th century with the English one day. Then i aim to actually get something done with the ancients, so that CE/BCE line should hopefully get crossed one day... i'm just gonna keep going back in time until i get as far back as i can afford. So US/German coins i'd say i collect modern. (If 1920-1945 is considered modern, it is to me). English coins i'm early medieval (shifting towards dark ages) and late medieval. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Boy when I started it was the 19th/20th century, but.... Since then I've gone to 18th, 17th, and thanks to the author of this thread I have one from the 13th. I mostly stick with 19th/20th though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 I stick to the 19th century on up. Maybe I will get into much older coins some day when I find some that interest me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Boy when I started it was the 19th/20th century, but.... Since then I've gone to 18th, 17th, and thanks to the author of this thread I have one from the 13th. I mostly stick with 19th/20th though. Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Cave_Troll Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 1793, I'm a boring US coin collector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 1793, I'm a boring US coin collector Nothing boring about US coinage... $20 Liberties, Washington Quarters etc. Wonderful stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ageka Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 My oldest is a Louis d'or Louis XVI 1787 Only because the earlier ones are either very expensive or look like coins that have been folded in two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted June 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Only because the earlier ones are either very expensive or look like coins that have been folded in two Or chipped, or clipped, or ex-mounts, or still mounts, of general jewelry, or holed, crimped, 'broken but brilliantly repaired', weakly struck, filed, waterworn, pitted or otherwise below standard. I'm hearing you all too clearly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 My emphasis is on US coppers, so I'll say 1793 to 1909. I have stuff of other dates, for instance I have a very nice 6d from 16xx. Don't remember the date. I'll look it up later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stujoe Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Although I own a couple of ancients, my interest is mostly with 1900 to present coins. I also like 1800 and late 1700 but don't have much desire to go beyond that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abish Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 lol... due to my inability to specialize in coins, I have items in my collection that span from this year back into B.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryptonitecomics Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Anything with a date ....for me as well.....I have Polish coins from the 1500's and I have moderns....and then of course everything in between Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akdrv Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 So far I went to 1532, but I'm willing to go further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyd Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 Anything ever coined, regardless of age or origin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldFartte Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 Well, my area of interest begins currently with George IV, so I guess 1821 or so ... BUT, I own a bunch of older coins I've acquired over the years. A couple of the ancients go back to the 400's BC. One British copper is from around 844 AD or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 I have decided not to buy any newer than 1918 coins this year. I've kept the decicion quite well, though I had to buy one brand new 10 Rouble.. My oldest coin is from 1749, but theoretically my collecting area expands to 1400's or If I find oil from my backyard, to 900's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabone Posted July 1, 2005 Report Share Posted July 1, 2005 1632 is my oldest. I probably would not go much older than that, when the coins start to look more like thin punched tokens than something hammered or pressed. So, according to MY definition, I am a modern collector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan769 Posted July 2, 2005 Report Share Posted July 2, 2005 My oldest coin is a 1788 Connecticut copper, but I would like some 1500 era Portuguese coins someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16d Posted July 2, 2005 Report Share Posted July 2, 2005 Anything ever coined, regardless of age or origin... That's my story & I'm stickin' to it. Lost most of pre-1700's, looking for CHEAP really old stuff for edu. purposes. Nothing fancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 No rules for me either. I generally skip 400-1500 since it's a "junky" period as far as quality is concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted July 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 No rules for me either. I generally skip 400-1500 since it's a "junky" period as far as quality is concerned. 1100-1160 is particularly abysmal with regards to the quality of strike. Although i think you're wrong about 1300-1500, there are many well struck and well designed coins out there from that period. 1160-1300 is hit and miss, mostly miss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banivechi Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 I have decided not to buy any newer than 1918 coins this year. I've kept the decicion quite well, though I had to buy one brand new 10 Rouble.. My oldest coin is from 1749, but theoretically my collecting area expands to 1400's or If I find oil from my backyard, to 900's If you find a 200 litres barrel of oil in your backyard, what you gonna buy? I saw on ebay many crusades era coins cheap, and very eye catching. Hammered coins are just spectacular. I love the old letters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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