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Apustajan apustaja said:
The Finnish coin is from 1963, so it would be from the first year of issue. In 1963 the value was changed from 1$=320 Mk (Markka) to 1$=3.20 Mk.
I remember these from my childhood, and I miss them. They issued new coins quite frequently. I still have some lying around. Fuck the €.
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I really love the last issue of the 10 pennia, with the lily of the valley on it, it's really rather sweet.
Here are a few of the coins I've collected for their obverses:
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khaine said:
I collect ancient Roman and Greek coins. My favourite is this:

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Which is a tetradrachma from the reign of Alexander the Great
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My second favorite tetradrachm behind the Athenian owl. This design in particular.6e7GrM84SPb5i7gAoY2gkkQ4K3JpCF.jpg

Regarding cheap world/foreign coins you can find in bins at coin shops, I've been into buying those lately. My local shop has a giant bin full of world coins for customers to dig through and they go for 25 cents a piece. A tip for anyone into this is to ask if you can buy the coins by the pound. You can also do this online on places like ebay. It's referred to as poundage. My shop let's me pick out a pound of whatever coins I want from the bin for $12 per pound. My other option is to let the dealers scoop out a pound of random coins I can buy at $9 per pound. It's a much cheaper way of acquiring world coins. I haven't found any silver coins in the bin, but they said sometimes they do slip in.

I'm kind of psychotic about how I store/organize my raw coins. The way I do it is with 2x2 coin holders that I label with the country name, date, denomination, KM#, and die variety if I want to add it. I store the 2x2s in a box similar to this.

I should warn anyone interested in this method that it can take quite a bit of time to get coins into 2x2 holders if you're doing a large amount. I enjoy doing it at night while looking at the coins under my grading lamp. It gives me some insight into grading world coins. Always make sure you flatten the staples by pinching them with flat head pliers or you will risk your coins getting the much hated staple scratch.
 
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Jimmy Hopkins said:
I'm kind of psychotic about how I store/organize my raw coins. The way I do it is with 2x2 coin holders that I label with the country name, date, denomination, KM#, and die variety if I want to add it. I store the 2x2s in a box similar to this.
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Jimmy Hopkins said:
I should warn anyone interested in this method that it can take quite a bit of time to get coins into 2x2 holders if you're doing a large amount. [ ... ] Always make sure you flatten the staples by pinching them with flat head pliers or you will risk your coins getting the much hated staple scratch.
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hello, fellow coin autist! i do this with all of the coins in my collection from my birth year!!

i only write the county of origin, the denomination, and my approximation of the grade on the 2x2, but i keep a spread sheet with all of the other information such as the mint where it was produced, whether / when it was demonetized, if it's a commemorative or an f.a.o. coin, the km#, the composition, the asw (if it contains any silver), the weight, the shape, the diameter, the type of edge, when / where i purchased it, and how much i paid for it.

i keep them alphabetized by country of origin, and arranged by denomination. i also purchased a small stapler and staples from my local coin shop that are designed to pierce cardboard, but lie flat instead of curving. it's perfect.

Immortal Technique Vol.2 said:
I don't know if it's real or fake, but I always wanted to know who the figure's name is suppose to be.
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i believe that this may be the coin that you have. if so, it's a tetradrachm, and it was made by hand (hammered) in alexandria, egypt in the late third century. it's a billon coin, which in the case of this coin (provencial roman) is usually bronze with a small amount of silver (usually a coating, which may have worn away over the centuries). the name on the coin is "Α Κ Μ ΟYΑ ΜΑΞΙΜΙΑΝΟC CЄΒ", or "Emperor Caesar Marcus Valerius Maximianus Augustus".

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Makov said:
Does anyone collect Persian coins here? Or am I the only autist who has a fixation on coins from Tabaristan?
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I collect a bit of everything bit don't have any Persian coins unless you count more modern Iranian coins.
My main interests now are high grade US coins, Spanish colonial coins (especially 8 reales,) and early 1900s British/Russian coins.

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A pillar dollar 8 Reale. Not my coin I stole this photo from reddit. For anyone interested, read up on them. I like any Reales in AU or MS most.
 
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Whenever I go to a numismatics shop. I often pick up with me and handful of random coins. I also have a decent sized bag of Canadian pennies that have been abolished over 10 years ago. Each one now sells for 6 US cents per coin. The really old ones from the 1930s costs around 2 US dollars.
Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
How do you get coins with, ah, "windmills"?
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I actually own banknotes with windmills on them. The coins aren't hard to find either. Each one goes for about 5 USD to 5000 USD.
 
I collect GDR currency and I'm proud to say I just received my 20-Mark Wilhelm Pieck commemorative. Got every series of paper currency besides the initial ones from the 1940s.
 
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