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CHARizard said:
Anyone else into collecting worthless coins?
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i collect world coins from the year of my birth. i have a local coin dealer who will hold coins from this particular year for me. so far, i have about 600 coins from over 100 countries. some of them are from countries that no longer exist, and most of them have been demonetized, but quite a few have numismatic value or high precious metal content. i just like collecting them because i enjoy reading about their history. i also get excited when i find one from a country that i don't have yet, or when i find the last one to complete a set from a country that i do have.

PandaChai said:
Any other odd denominations farmers know of?
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not from great britain, but i have a set of centennial american coins that includes a three cent coin, a twenty cent coin (that was only minted for three years), and a trade dollar coin. there are also one, two and a half, three, five, ten, and twenty dollar american gold coins from the same year, but i don't have much interest in gold.
 
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.iota. said:
i collect world coins from the year of my birth. i have a local coin dealer who will hold coins from this particular year for me. so far, i have about 600 coins from over 100 countries. some of them are from countries that no longer exist, and most of them have been demonetized, but quite a few have numismatic value or high precious metal content. i just like collecting them because i enjoy reading about their history. i also get excited when i find one from a country that i don't have yet, or when i find the last one to complete a set from a country that i do have.


not from great britain, but i have a set of centennial american coins that includes a three cent coin, a twenty cent coin (that was only minted for three years), and a trade dollar coin. there are also one, two and a half, three, five, ten, and twenty dollar american gold coins from the same year, but i don't have much interest in gold.
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I've a Georgian bank token with a face value of 10d, but obviously that isn't a coin denomination in a strict sense. The 2s or Florin was actually introduced in the mid nineteenth century when a Britain MP introduced a bill for decimal currency, but it was withdrawn on a pledge to study the matter. The 1849 Florin equating to one tenth of the lb was the result. The first issue was controversy as the Irish designer omitted F:biggrin: or fidei defensor in his singleminded pursuit of an ornate but clean design. It caused controversy. Coins attached aren't mine, but they look fine. Basically all the traditional titulature, still used, was dropped. Hope to have a good one one day.

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.iota. said:
not from great britain, but i have a set of centennial american coins that includes a three cent coin, a twenty cent coin (that was only minted for three years), and a trade dollar coin. there are also one, two and a half, three, five, ten, and twenty dollar american gold coins from the same year, but i don't have much interest in gold.
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I'll definitely be adding the twenty cent to my wishlist! alongside the half cent and the two cent. I also have a silver three cent (in pretty rough shape unfortunately), but I do quite like the nickel three cent design a lot too. I have a coin (I think it's the two lepta) from when Britain ruled Ionia, which has the Lion of St. Mark on the obverse, and Britannia on the reverse.

No. 7 cat said:
designer omitted FD or fidei defensor
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I'm a big fan of the "Godless Florin" as it's been called, makes me wonder about what other coins have fun nicknames.
Also it's rather silly that emotes enter automatically, that's something I was annoyed by from MSN Messenger back in ye olden days.
 
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PandaChai said:
I'll definitely be adding the twenty cent to my wishlist! alongside the half cent and the two cent. I also have a silver three cent (in pretty rough shape unfortunately), but I do quite like the nickel three cent design a lot too. I have a coin (I think it's the two lepta) from when Britain ruled Ionia, which has the Lion of St. Mark on the obverse, and Britannia on the reverse.


I'm a big fan of the "Godless Florin" as it's been called, makes me wonder about what other coins have fun nicknames.
Also it's rather silly that emotes enter automatically, that's something I was annoyed by from MSN Messenger back in ye olden days.
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A shilling was nicknamed a 'bob' in some places. A 3d (brass, many sided coin the UK) was the 'truppeny bit'. There's a fair few, if I can have a thunk.
 
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No. 7 cat said:
A shilling was nicknamed a 'bob' in some places. A 3d (brass, many sided coin the UK) was the 'truppeny bit'. There's a fair few, if I can have a thunk.
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Aye, a brown, a tuppence, a thruppence, a joey, a tanner, a bob, a nicker; it seems the only thing Victorians didn't call their coins was their face value!

CHARizard said:
copper dinosaur coins
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You might like to see if any of the Tetley Tea Jurassic Park coins are available for a reasonable delivery fee.
 
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PandaChai said:
Nice collection! Where do you usually pick up your gold coins? And coins generally too?
Here's my own gold "collection"
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Quite a few were bought in a long closed coin shop run by an old Hungarian, some from two coin sellers who loathed each other, some Ebay (like an Isle of Man Sovereign, Ebay is good enough), one from Etsy (lots of deceptively described things there tho), a bullion dealer and a wholesale jeweller.
 
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Makov said:
I have a golden small byzantine coin but I don't have on me right now :(
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Those are wonderful. Own none, myself. They're pricey, but one day.

@PandaChai Excellent. What coin is it? The animal looks a bit like a Springbok or deer of some sort on it.
 
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Agares said:
So my local coin store has these giant plastic tubs of foreign coins where you can get 10 for $1 and I've found some interesting stuff in there. A couple small silver coins which was a nice surprise, but also some stuff from the third reich and quite a few fascist Italian coins.
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What are some good ways to get third reich coins?
 
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Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
What are some good ways to get third reich coins?
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It really depends. Coin shows have them but you usually gotta sort through the dealers' albums. That can be fun in its own right. You could always do what I did and search through your local coin shop's foreign coin bin (assuming they have one) and see if there's any in there. There's always eBay too.
 
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Finally got around to taking pics of some of the notable coins in my collection.
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Some fascist silver.
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I got most of these from the 10 for a dollar foreign coin bin at my local shop. The silver colored ones are made from stainless steel, which I'm sure the Italian arms industry desperately needed during the war.
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The zinc Reichspfennig coins get really crusty but the bronze ones preserved well at least.
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And this is just some of my WW2 stuff. I got bullion and slabs too among other things.
 
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One good way to get some cool pieces, even if they aren't worth much, is to buy junk silver cull grab bags from online sellers. These are bags of random, really wore down or common 90% silver that isn't good enough for them to sell individually or in bulk rolls with a guaranteed fineness.

I don't know who else does them, but www.goldeneagle.com often does. At first I was buying them for cheaper premiums on junk silver I was stacking, but when I went through them there would be cool random shit like Barber coins, Standing Liberty Quarters, V-nickels. Was also able to put a few missing Merc Dimes in my book from this.

Once I got a beautiful, high grade Morgan Dollar with a jewelry hole punched in it. It's not worth much because of that, but in all other aspects it's the most detailed Morgan I have. And it's really fun going through the bag and not knowing what you might find. If you only collect and don't stack it's not economical, but if you do both it's cool.

Might be harder to find now that prices are up though.
 
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I found a bunch of cool old coins while rolling up a bin of random coins (mostly Canadian nickels) my wife and I had lying around. Here are some of the cooler ones I threw under the microscope:
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Got a surprising number of these.
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I still have a lot to go through.
 
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y a t s said:
I found a bunch of cool old coins while rolling up a bin of random coins (mostly Canadian nickels) my wife and I had lying around. Here are some of the cooler ones I threw under the microscope:
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Got a surprising number of these.
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I still have a lot to go through.
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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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