When, i mean around which year or at what age you all started your coin collection ?
I am not experienced, a slow learner but since ever i found numista portal and this forum my interest started growing. I started my collection just an year back only when i found a coin bag with 100 coins in amazon.in with a price of 1000 Indian rupees which will be approximately 13.61 USD/12.66 GBP
If you don't mind, Would like to hear from you how/when and what made you to start
Regards,
Pramod
“Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
I remember I was just bored one day and went through my change jar, and thought it was cool that I found (didn't actually, but that doesn't) some quarters from 1776 (they were actually bicentennial quarters), but it still gave a love for coins.
I used to keep these, but I got too many - and have only kept one from each mint for my date run.
1. I first got given an old penny from 1899 when I was 9 and did little more until 12½ when my mother bought me a $25 bag of world coins from a shop and it had about 100 coins from different countries (Mostly cheap stuff). I did little more until 14 and a half and bought a complete set of NZ Threepence coins for about $20 and from that point until 24 It was non stop. Of course when I was moving cross country in 2001 my coin collection was stolen out of my car when I parked it. I did not collect again seriously until .
2. Late 2018, I had been buying and selling coins for years and then started collecting again, mainly NZ and world, in 2019 I started buying silver coins (Before the price went up) and finally in late 2019 started upgrading my NZ Collection. In January 2020 I started my current obsession with Halfcrowns, which has been joined by Florins
so 10 + 2.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Quote: "Moneytane"There are two phases for me.
1. I first got given an old penny from 1899 when I was 9 and did little more until 12½ when my mother bought me a $25 bag of world coins from a shop and it had about 100 coins from different countries (Mostly cheap stuff). I did little more until 14 and a half and bought a complete set of NZ Threepence coins for about $20 and from that point until 24 It was non stop. Of course when I was moving cross country in 2001 my coin collection was stolen out of my car when I parked it. I did not collect again seriously until .
2. Late 2018, I had been buying and selling coins for years and then started collecting again, mainly NZ and world, in 2019 I started buying silver coins (Before the price went up) and finally in late 2019 started upgrading my NZ Collection. In January 2020 I started my current obsession with Halfcrowns, which has been joined by Florins
so 10 + 2.
That is horrible - your collection was stolen. I can't imagine how traumatic it must have been for you.
It was really annoying and a grim portent of what came ahead. I had broken up with my first partner and it had got ugly, my parents offered to take me in for a while, so I could help my stepdad with a firewood business. Bad decision - he could not run it very well and we had a huge fight which meant strained relations until he died in 2015.
I was broke for 2 years, although I did at least get some of an insurance payout for it. More annoying is they never found the coins or the offenders. To this day I live in hope someone has my coins - but they are probably in a river or a rubbish dump now.
2001 was a horrible year and I could not care less about 9/11 - it was bad in other ways, all the above, a very cold and wet winter and a temporray kink in the boom times we had then.
On the positive side, my collecting endeavours of the past 18 months have nearly surpassed the old collection, except on the American side.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Quote: "Moneytane"It was really annoying and a grim portent of what came ahead. I had broken up with my first partner and it had got ugly, my parents offered to take me in for a while, so I could help my stepdad with a firewood business. Bad decision - he could not run it very well and we had a huge fight which meant strained relations until he died in 2015.
I was broke for 2 years, although I did at least get some of an insurance payout for it. More annoying is they never found the coins or the offenders. To this day I live in hope someone has my coins - but they are probably in a river or a rubbish dump now.
2001 was a horrible year and I could not care less about 9/11 - it was bad in other ways, all the above, a very cold and wet winter and a temporray kink in the boom times we had then.
On the positive side, my collecting endeavours of the past 18 months have nearly surpassed the old collection, except on the American side.
It is always nice to hear a real life story that shows how the human spirit gets back up & running after being battered. You have displayed an indomitable attitude.
A question I always ask people - why do bad things happen to good people.
My father when I was 7 year old give me a holed Norwegian coins (that he found in the Genova harbor, he was working in the harbor). From that I started to collect coins, mainly foreign coins, and still collect them at the age of 63, then it is more than 50 years of collecting.
In the beginning, I got coins from people going back from abroad or bought from an exchange office (there was a box containing coins sold for a minimal price), then Internet and the web arrived, and I started to swap.
Before I found swappers in mailing lists, then there were Yahoo groups and similar, with naive mechanisms to establish the reputation of the swappers. Finally, I discovered Numista
Currently, I have coins of 3828 different types, and I will be happy to swap with anyone
I got interested when I was younger and first saw commrative coins and was so exited to collect them all. for the next 10 years I would check the change of all my relatives to find cool coins and world coins.
I got really into collecting when a relative so near to me died of cancer and in there will gave me there coin jar, over 3 kilograms of coins ( mostly Pennys, us coins, world coins and many large dollars ). after that I started to receive so many jars of Pennys and world coins from relatives.
Quote: "Moneytane"It was really annoying and a grim portent of what came ahead. I had broken up with my first partner and it had got ugly, my parents offered to take me in for a while, so I could help my stepdad with a firewood business. Bad decision - he could not run it very well and we had a huge fight which meant strained relations until he died in 2015.
I was broke for 2 years, although I did at least get some of an insurance payout for it. More annoying is they never found the coins or the offenders. To this day I live in hope someone has my coins - but they are probably in a river or a rubbish dump now.
2001 was a horrible year and I could not care less about 9/11 - it was bad in other ways, all the above, a very cold and wet winter and a temporray kink in the boom times we had then.
On the positive side, my collecting endeavours of the past 18 months have nearly surpassed the old collection, except on the American side.
There are bad days and legendary bad days. Your are bad days are over because you faced life in positive spirit. Current and coming days will be always good for you
“Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
Yes, you live and learn - I should not have stopped for more than a few minutes on that journey. Now I am paranoid over security of my coins.
It was only because I had a hand written ledger of the coins, the insurance company believed me and paid out. This was in the era of the net, but digital cameras were new and expensive and cellphones that took photos were something you still saw on the matrix.
It scared me off coins for a while, and I started back with stamps in 2005 but one of my friends kept bringing coins to show and tell and they got me excited to the point I wanted my own coins and thus I restarted coin collecting. Now I can't live without my coins, especially the Halfcrowns and Florins.
A cliche I learned early in a Social Anthropology paper back when I was an undergrad in 1995 - "Nice guys finish last".
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
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I got interested when I was younger and first saw commrative coins and was so exited to collect them all. for the next 10 years I would check the change of all my relatives to find cool coins and world coins.
I got really into collecting when a relative so near to me died of cancer and in there will gave me there coin jar, over 3 kilograms of coins ( mostly Pennys, us coins, world coins and many large dollars ). after that I started to receive so many jars of Pennys and world coins from relatives.
Just the best way to begin collecting, a huge pile of mixed coins - must have been a lot of fun, even now when I buy a pile of mixed stuff I get excited going through it and pulling out exotic and different coins.
I know I waffle on about Half crowns and silver, but a good 1000 of my coins are world mixed and completing sets of current world coins is a big thrill of mine and finding things like say a 50 Grozny of Poland or a 5 Lipa of Croatia are victories too.
You were lucky for it to have some large dollars in it too.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
it’s such a thrill to search through so many coins, even as a kid. I remember finding American and Aruban coins in particular and like I was blown away. Even to this day I get exited going through any thing numismatic
1955. I was 8 years old. I got $1 for allowance. I would exchange it for pennies that went into a little blue whitman folder. Any that didn't go into the folder went into topps baseball cards or comic books. After a while when my mom saw how enthused I was about collecting coins she gave me a 1900 V nickel she had saved and later my grandma (score!!) gave me a 1915 quarter eagle a silver 3 cent piece an 1865 2 cent piece and a standing liberty quarter. Then I began with jefferson nickels. This was back when you could still find all the good Lincoln's- even some indian heads in your change. And of course you could find old stuff in the larger denominations too. Walking liberty's and standing liberty's were around and mercury dimes as well as the older washington quarters. Needless to say like many of us it turned into an obsession. In 2006 I ventured into the NGC coin registry and have been primarily involved with that. I have a couple of #1 registry sets and have also started collecting canadian cents.
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything
Quote: "crruisercharlie"1955. I was 8 years old. I got $1 for allowance. I would exchange it for pennies that went into a little blue whitman folder. Any that didn't go into the folder went into topps baseball cards or comic books. After a while when my mom saw how enthused I was about collecting coins she gave me a 1900 V nickel she had saved and later my grandma (score!!) gave me a 1915 quarter eagle a silver 3 cent piece an 1865 2 cent piece and a standing liberty quarter. Then I began with jefferson nickels. This was back when you could still find all the good Lincoln's- even some indian heads in your change. And of course you could find old stuff in the larger denominations too. Walking liberty's and standing liberty's were around and mercury dimes as well as the older washington quarters. Needless to say like many of us it turned into an obsession. In 2006 I ventured into the NGC coin registry and have been primarily involved with that. I have a couple of #1 registry sets and have also started collecting canadian cents.
Wow that's great
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