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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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 Posted - 04/15/2008 : 17:18:34
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What's the theme of your collection?
I collect mostly animal coins, especially horses and elephants. I also have a soft spot for non-vertebrate sealife like squid, crabs, octopi, etc. My husband really likes owls and I'm trying to round up a few owl coins (total so far = 1).
What about the rest of you guys?
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2008 : 18:25:16
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| There is a really nice Owl on the Athenian tetradracm from Ancient Greece. |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2008 : 19:17:36
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
There is a really nice Owl on the Athenian tetradracm from Ancient Greece.
I can't even imagine how much one would cost.  It's funny that you mention that coin, though. When I googled "owl coin" to see what was out there, that coin kept popping up. Maybe I will get one in a CWR. 
I like the owl on this Canada 50 cent piece:
This is the owl coin I have. It came from Kelly's Coins (You must be logged in to see this link.)--this photo is from their site. (They have quite a few animal coins, in fact.) I like the way the owl is kind of like, "'Sup?" He kind of has a gangsta lean.
There is a Polish coin with an owl on it, too.
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Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
Edited by - Ant on 04/15/2008 19:18:15 |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 04/16/2008 : 06:37:41
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| My theme is "The as much as possible, quick as possible, for as cheap as possible," collection.... |
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
993 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 08:35:44
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| Foreigners. Excluding the USA and Canada, I've got coins from 46 nations and counting. Wish I had more... (If anybody has lots of foreigns, I'd pay for shipping for them.) |
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Know Common Cents
Penny Pincher Member
195 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 18:34:50
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| My theme is SURVIVAL in any way possible. |
Here in Wisconsin, we have some of the highest property and gasoline taxes in the US. We're squeezed so much, I have to make my daughter wear penny boxes for shoes. At least she has an endless supply. |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 18:56:25
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Originally posted by Know Common Cents
My theme is SURVIVAL in any way possible.
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"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 19:29:36
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Originally posted by Ant
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
There is a really nice Owl on the Athenian tetradracm from Ancient Greece.
I can't even imagine how much one would cost. It's funny that you mention that coin, though. When I googled "owl coin" to see what was out there, that coin kept popping up. Maybe I will get one in a CWR.
That would be a great find. I don't think it will fit in a penny roll though. I have one.. they are not quite as expensive as you might think. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 19:36:53
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| One of my themes is animals too. There are several great animals on the antoninianus coins issued for the 1000th anniversary of Rome by Phillip I. I have a few of them. One of them has a hippo and one has a lion.. a couple of my favorite animals on coins. Lions are easy to find but there are not many coins with hippos on them. |
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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1197 Posts |
Posted - 04/17/2008 : 17:09:45
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| The main coins in my collection are Morgan dollars and wheat pennies. |
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - 04/18/2008 : 14:50:23
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| Mine has always been "oddball stuff that isn't too expensive"... i've got half-cents, 2- and 3-cent pieces, "half-dimes"... foreign stuff like an aluminum Weimar coin for 500 Marks... some barely legible, some all but smooth, but all interesting in the numismatic sense. |
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nckt
Penny Collector Member
USA
304 Posts |
Posted - 04/30/2008 : 22:17:19
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| The bulk of my collection is Morgan dollars |
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
601 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 08:41:47
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Originally posted by NotABigDeal
My theme is "The as much as possible, quick as possible, for as cheap as possible," collection....
Beat me to it. Exactly what I collect only with a little more emphasis on the cheap. |
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
851 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 19:08:49
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| Whatever strikes me as a good deal! Mostly silver and copper though. |
Are you throwing that out? |
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2008 : 12:10:06
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Getting a bit more direction... now i'm focusing on lower-production Morgans, Peace dollars, and walking liberty halves, F+ condition, at or below current melt value (including shipping... there are no coin stores within 60 miles of me).
If you guess that this means that i get outbid on a LOT of ebay auctions, you'd guess correctly :) |
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Steiner
Penny Collector Member
Canada
278 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2008 : 20:52:04
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To tell the truth it is coins. I have thousands of coins from around the world but the bulk of my collection and what I like to focus on are coins of Canada, Britain and the US pre 1940's.
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2008 : 20:45:16
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| Steiner, Britain as in GB proper or the territories/protectorates/colonies, too? |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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Posted - 05/27/2008 : 21:24:07
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Steiner
Penny Collector Member
Canada
278 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 00:25:26
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Originally posted by Ant
Steiner, Britain as in GB proper or the territories/protectorates/colonies, too?
Well mostly the UK, but I have coins from Vicoria's time from the Straight Settlements, India, Australia, Jersey, etc.
Thanks for asking!
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kieblera5
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
859 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 11:46:29
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| Any type of silver dollar. I like them for some reason. I have a bunch of random u.s. silver coins, but that isn't my main concern. I do have a lot of wheat pennies as well. |
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Posted - 05/28/2008 : 12:53:06
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im trying to complete a 1800-now type set with the key or semi key dates in as good condition i can afford. fine to xf mostly.if i cant afford it i pass it up.
also half dollars, especially barbers, only need 3 to have 1892-now in halves.
all big money coins. just saving pennies for it-literally. |
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nckt
Penny Collector Member
USA
304 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 21:21:54
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| Oh i know a guy that did a type set of every type of U.S. Coin and all in MS condition. I met him at the coin shop |
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Posted - 06/01/2008 : 10:18:51
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he must have tons of money.
i wanted a set of all MS+ coins but then i get to 1916d dime, cost more than my camaro did in MS-60, so i said ill never afford that and went with vf or so, still looks nice.
the early large cents and half cents, 20 cents,and the gold coins (especially the 3$)are why i work so much overtime, i try to add 1 coin or 2 per year, this year i added a 1877 indian penny in AU condition or so. thats why i drive a camaro and not a corvette...the money goes to coins.......and the girlfriend(mostly) |
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nckt
Penny Collector Member
USA
304 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 22:13:53
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| yeah he has a lot of money I'm pretty sure, also the fact he baught about 10 ounces of gold that was also a sign. |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 19:06:35
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
There is a really nice Owl on the Athenian tetradracm from Ancient Greece.
HoardCopper, I didn't get the real thing, but here's something pretty close -- it's a 1973 2 drachmai coin:
I saw a lion coin from the Congo in a catalog and thought of you. You probably know the one I'm talking about. It's aluminum and the lion's head takes up the entire face of the coin. |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 19:20:59
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| Oh! Photo courtesy of World Coin Gallery! ( You must be logged in to see this link. ) |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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