Does anyone collect coins?

[gsdx]

gsdx, the State Quarters piqued coin collecting interest in a lot of people and I wish they would have quit with that set. But in 2009 they had Territory quarters and now they started with "America the Beautiful" or state park quarters, which will be another 56 quarters to collect over 11 years. They've gone overboard with commemorative quarters the last years.

Why do they spread them out over such a long time? That's like 2 coins per year. Canada often puts out one new coin per month.

I can't remember how long it took to release the State coins, but it was long enough for my friend to give up collecting them for me. I suspect there are a lot of unfinished sets out there besides mine.

 

[CowboyBob]

Why do they spread them out over such a long time? That's like 2 coins per year. Canada often puts out one new coin per month.

I can't remember how long it took to release the State coins, but it was long enough for my friend to give up collecting them for me. I suspect there are a lot of unfinished sets out there besides mine.

They were introducing 5 coins a year for the state quarters, 6 for the territory and they're releasing 5 a year for the state park quarters. Then there's the P and D mint so that's 10 quarters to get every year. And I'm not including the S mints.

I like Canada's way..... mint the caribou every year and then the commemoratives so you can decide if you want to collect all the commemoratives or not, but you still have a coin for that year. The USA just has the commemoratives and nothing else. 10 P & D quarters to get every year.

What makes the America the Beautiful quarters series suck, is banks can't order them like they could with the state quarters. When the State quarters were released the banks would get them in, you could go and buy a roll at face value. Can't do that with the America the Beautiful quarters. A lot of people aren't bothering to collect them.

The state quarters were released from 1999-2008, 50 coins over 10 years. If you count the D & P mints, that's 100 coins over 10 years.

 

[gsdx]

I like Canada's way..... mint the caribou every year

I'm impressed. You have no idea how many times I've heard it called a moose.

By the way, do you know the name of the schooner on the tail side of the dime? (It was a real ship and, at its prime, the fastest in the world.)

 

[CowboyBob]

I'm impressed. You have no idea how many times I've heard it called a moose.

By the way, do you know the name of the schooner on the tail side of the dime? (It was a real ship and, at its prime, the fastest in the world.)

Old Bluenose

(yes I googled it)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(Canadian_coin)

Didn't realize it had a name. I have them from 1938-2010 and the 2001 Volunteer coin.

 

[gsdx]

Old Bluenose

Indeed. The original Bluenose was built in 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. After her racing career, she was sold as a freighter and sank off off Haiti in 1946.

An exact replica, the Bluenose II, was built in the same shipyard at Lunenburg in 1963.

What most people don't know is that many of the surviving shipwrights who worked on the original Bluenose came back to work on the Bluenose II, and it was built with the same methods and tools as the original had been built.

 

[justndav]

Cowboy, I think those first year silver national park proof quarters will be one's to pick up. I think the silver proof mintage #'s will be low enough to make them key coins to have question being how low will the mintage be? It should be significantly lower than the first year state quarters and look what those sell for now.

Another cool thing is the US Mint is selling the proof silver eagle's this year... got my subscription for two of those already set up. Should have them in a month or so... can't wait to see those babies. And these may be a key coin as well if they only mint say 600-700k proofs.

 

[Eagle653]

I started collecting coins when I was little and it's grown considerably. I have some paper money too, mostly pre-revolution Russian currency, some US Silver Certificates, and the odd $2 bill here and there. I've also started collecting some Royal Mint stuff when I've been in London, especially surrounding the Queen's various anniversaries on the throne. I have a 1 oz silver bar that I bought for $2 way back when--it's worth $23 now. Too bad I did buy gold bullion when it was $200 an ounce...woulda, coulda, shoulda...

 

[hungrybrownbear]

I used collect old US pennies as a kid....

I think the oldest ones I still have are from 1914, 1920, 1944, 1955

 

[salgai]

Hi,

I think I can't call it serious, but yes, I collect coins.

It started basically when the Euro was introduced here in 2002, replacing the former used Austrian Schilling. This of course a motive to keep some of the old Schilling coins, as well as some bills.
For those who don't know it: the Euro-coins have a front side, which is the same in all countries, and a back side, which is different in every country - so altough there's a common currency, the countries still have the possibility to express their national identity on their money. But of course, every Euro-coin is valid in every country.

So I was wondering, how fast and how intensive the coins from the different countries would mix up only by the natural flow, and so I started to put the coin cash from my purse in a box at home. From time to time I go through all the coins and pick the ones out I still don't have in my "collection", before I bring the rest to the bank.
Actually, the coins don't mix up very much - 90% of the coins I get are still Austrian, German, and Italian.
Besides that, this year I started to keep some coins and bills from each country I've been to - just as a souvenir.

Maybe I'll collect a little bit more serious in future (the 1 Million Dollar Maple Leaf would be cool ), but at the moment there are too much other interests and hobbys to spend money on...

cu,
salgai

 

[walkingonsnow]

I collect coins! I have 5 gold coins which my mom bought for me back in 1995 when I was still like 7 years old and I have 2 silver coins dated at 2000. I still have them all =)

 

[AlmondMilk]

I used to be into collecting coins when I was younger. I still have them, but haven't looked at them lately. I think quite a few of them are coins from arcades that went out of business around me