Can someone make some recommendations about coin collecting for the beginner? (for example me LOL)

Can someone make some recommendations about coin collecting for the beginner?

Over the past year, I've had the great fortune to complete a few successful trades with other members on this site. A lot of people have helped with on my quest to collect Canadian Coins! I must say I am pretty chuffed to say the least! My collection has grown quite a bit in 2016!

I think in 2017, I might start collecting some other common coins. I am not really sure where to begin though. I have spent countless hours in amazement looking at everybody's supper impressive coin collections! I must say whoever or whomever invented this website, really kicks a$$!!! I mean this has got to be the coolest site on the internet I must say!!!

Anyways, as I am growing my knowledge of coins, I kinda feel like there is a decent opportunity to grow a collection (well my collection) with some extremely common coins. But it's hard to know how and where to start for me really...Cause it seems like most people want "valuable" coins and I really seem to only want one's that not a lot of people care about I guess.

From what I gather, it seems that there's a ton of French, Spanish, German, Mexican, Greek and Italian coins that are very common and not too many people seem to want them or whatever...and I sit here and think to myself, geesh, I would love to have a bunch from those places...

Last summer, one of my friends gave me a bunch of international coins so I could start trading with other people on this website and it started working! I used to only have coins from the USA and Canada, but I don't think a lot of people wanted those coins very much... So consequentially, I really could not trade with too many people. Plus I really was kinda bummed out how much it cost to ship to say like Canada (nine dollars fifty) and was scared to even try to find out what the cost where to other countries!

What I would like to do is ask everyone here what there recommendations are or could be about how to even begin or start a decent coin collection. I see people on here that have coins from like over 200 or even 300 countries and I am like HOLY !$^@%^#$&#^&%^@#$%!$^#^*&($#@!!! That's gotta be really cool.

I would be happy just trying to get some cool coins in general.

Should I try to "buy" some coins if no one will trade common American or Canadian coins?
What should I pay? Like what is a fair or decent price?
I just want to try to start out by getting a lot of really cheap or inexpensive coins.
What are the coins people want the least I guess, cause those would be the one's I would want the most hahaha!!! (Just to start my darn collection!!!)

Anyways we are lucky to have this website cause it kicks a$$!

Just an idea, but why not start collecting WWII " 1939-1945 " occupation coins?
There is a fixed number of coins, mostly made of zinc and thus not expensive and easy to collect.

That's a cool idea, but it's probably not going to be my first choice i'd have to say.
as i spend time on this website and explore and freak out over many peoples collections from around the world, i am starting to figure out what i think i like the most. of course, my love for canadian coins comes first, then followed closely by american coins. i mean obviously being here in the united states, it's really all i've been able to manage to collect for the most part, as far as being "more serious" about it.

i think so far my favorites are pennies. but i seem to really drawn more to coins with animals on them. my favorite coins that i have so far are a canadian 5 cent from 1967 and a rabbit coin from tanzania! i love rabbit coins the most and that's what i will probably try to get first. i also like the tropical looking coins with the birds and lizards and stuff like that on them. those are cool.

a few people sent me private messages and they suggested starting with some european coins.
what i think i want to do though is collect by year and type.
i like "strings of coins". say like 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, ect.
so it would be kinda cool to get say like a french or german string of coins, like cents or whatever that is very common.

what would be really cool is if i could find a person from each country (LOL HAHAHA) to trade me american pennies (in a string or a line) for there countries pennies. like i could pretty easily get a long string of pennies and trade them for pennies. thing is though, i don't think many people seem to like to collect by year like i do. so perhaps i will not find people that like to do that. but who knows.

About the problem that you have with nothing foreign to trade. Have you tried going to a coin show and digging through a dealers foreign stuff? You can get a whole lot from there for a few dollars. Then you will have coins for you and coins to trade.

Well, that would be cool to, but I spend most of my time in a wheelchair.
Whenever I can get the chance to go anywhere, I either have to go in my chair or on a sling-sled.
Going to a coin show would probably be bananas for me though!
It's just cool that I found a nice place to go share the passion and excitement of coin collecting with others!
I really like this site a lot, so many cool people on it that love to talk about the coins all the time!

The other day for Christmas, I got a box of pennies and dimes to go through! I found a lot of wheat pennies and only one Canadian Cent I was like man!!! But I did find a 1964 dime and I guess that is silver, which is cool, but I really don't care about silver all that much. I just thought it was cool to get another year that I did not have!

QuoteBut I did find a 1964 dime and I guess that is silver, which is cool, but I really don't care about silver all that much.

i can help you with that

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well, off to a cool start i suppose!
i just got a ton of mexican and british coins from someone!
all common stuff, but it suits me well!

looking for more!!!

My advice is: take your time, coins will come, your collection will grow.
you can also send to Canada and Europe much cheaper than $9.50 if it's small packages.

I started off last year by buying a five pound bulk lot off of eBay for $35 shipped. That was the start of my world coins collection, and gave me enough duplicates to start swapping. Possibly some of my early swap partners took pity on a newbie and were willing to pick common coins they already had, but maybe not!

Then every so often, I go to my local coin shop and look through their bulk bins for interesting coins (for me, mostly anything pre-1950). Sometimes I find new coins, sometimes I find nice upgrades (which then gives swap coins), and sometimes just stuff that goes directly into the swap list.