gxseries Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Recently, other than seeing large world type sets, like what I am currently doing and getting myself into real trouble, I start to see quite specific genre of collecting coins. I have seen people just collecting by years, or by themes, such as ships, scientists, certain type of animals etc. What is yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 My collecting emphasis is on Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents - one of each year and mint - no patterns or proofs. US Large Cents - I'm concentrating on the Late Date Cents with the first aim of putting together a set of one coin per date - regardless of variety. Then on to Mid Date and then Early Date with the same criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldFartte Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I've been re-evaluating my collecting - again I seem to do this every other month or so. I'm still going to continue with the British Victorian Type Set, British Type Set 1902 onward (pre-decimal), and British Shillings - milled coins, by type. I sold my US Type Set a while back because I was dissatisfied with most of the coins I had, and now I have restarted with an eye towards better quality coins than I had before. I was also dissapointed in my US Half Cents and Large Cents, so I sold them and have started another collection of Large Cents, going after middle dates first (by date), then late dates (by date), then I will select a few years from the middle dates (1818 and 1820 for now) and collect those by variety. When that one is well underway, I'll start another Half Cent collection, by date and major variety. Hmpf ... I should live so long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 My big theme is a world set for my birth year--any circulating coin from 1963. Outside of that, there's the science set I mentioned as a possibility in another thread, but that's not yet begun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Oh boy. US modern circulation coinage business and proof. US Commemoratives. World Mint/Proof sets from 1974, 1980 and 1992. Commemoratives from Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and more. Coins with Medieval people on them, bridges, religious themes, military themes. Big silver peices that catch my eye. Complete set of Silver American Eagles, Austrian Kookaburras and Silver Brittanias. Complete set of Commemorative coins of Switzerland. Exonumia that catches my eye. That's all I can think of right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Coins of Gaul from the beginning to medieval. That lets me tap into Greek, Celtic, Roman, Merovingian, Carolingian, Royal, and Medieval France. That is an impossible range to collect one of everything, so I sample across bronze and silver with designs that catch my eye. Specific themes within that topic: Religious themes (temples and altars) Celtic PIXTILOS coins (Carnutes region ca. 40 BC) Roman emporers from Gallic mints regional issues from the area of Chartres and Blois Carolingian by ruler, coins of Paris Medieval tête chinonais pieces from the region of Chartres/Blois Aluminum world type coins Aluminum world tokens and medals of interest with an emphasis on history and artistic qualities Aluminum trade tokens by US state (representative "Good For" token from each state) odds and ends that interest me such as prehistoric art on coins and medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elverno Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 All numismatic material I can dating from 1789->1815, primarily European. I extend beyond those dates when the subject is someone who was a "player" during the main period. This means George III stuff both before and after as well as others like Louis XVIII or George IV. Any items I collect not in this theme are almost entirely the result of my "winnings" at our monthly coin club meeting. I buy tickets for the door prizes and therefore end up with a lot of non-collection specific items. My grandson and new daughter end up with most of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numismatistnick Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I have always been a date, mint mark collector. I am putting together a set of IHC Fine or better, Jefferson nickels BU, and also a US type set. I also have many other side projects like Canadian large cents, British pennies. However I try to stick to my type set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Great Britain - Mainly 1/2d, 6d and 1s. Hong Kong and Kwangtung type sets - both nearly complete excluding keys. Turtles - circulating issues only. Then there's lots of random stuff and 1-offs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 That is okay Bunny, when you catch your breath you can come back and add in the other 263 genres you collect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Russia, Scotland, Portugal, Ukraine, English Tokens, for coins. For paper money, Ireland, Portugal, Czech, Italy, Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowhodan Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I collect virtually any coin or unc note that I dont have yet, but I put special attention to: -bimetallic coins -commemorative circulating euro coins -polymer banknotes -mexican revolution banknotes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Portraits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Coins of the 12th century Anglo-Norman realm and their contemporaries; including those of Anjou, Aquitaine and Blois. I decided to go for a family tree approach, i.e William the Conqueror's decendents. Due to the expense of coins of William Rufus i decided to focus purely on the 12th century since he died in 1100 and thus i can sweep that difficulty under the carpet. Although one of William I's decendents is out of the equation, his other decendents; Robert of Normandy (+ offspring), Henry I (+ offspring) and Adela (+ offspring)were still around during the 1100s. Only two other collections getting a look in besides this; the Roman gods and those Anglo-Saxon coins. So i have three areas. Although at the moment i have no real inclination to buy any more coins for the forseeable future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarotta Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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