Hello I have just a few days ago joined this website and I have already cataloged all my coins in this website.
99% of my coins are from my family apartment. I have searched mostly every nook and cranny and now it has been around half a year since I have found a new coin.
I live in Sweden btw, I just wanna find any coin at all even tokens I love to find. How do most of you find your coins? Maybe I am just to greedy or impatient or the ways you guys find it is not possible here in Sweden.
I usually go to stores and look in their 'take a penny' bins for anything that looks a bit off. If I find something, I'll replace it with an equivalent. Look on the ground too, lots of people will drop small change and not bother to pick it up.
Also, on the ground under fast food restaurant drive through windows is a great place to find change that has fallen out of customers' hands. Just try not to pick it up when there are cars using the drive though.
Happy hunting.
Here in the UK, most big supermarkets have CoinStar machines, which convert loose change into tokens to spend in the shop. These machines are very good at rejecting foreign coins, which many people just leave behind. I always check them out, often Euro Cents and small US coins, but sometimes something more interesting.
Go and talk to your local bank nicely. Last time I went in for a mortgage top-up to do some work on my house the bank manager found out I was a coin collector and he said they had a big pile of foreign coins that they accumulated and offered them to me.
If you are interested in making a complete set of your own country's current set of coins, it is easier to go to the bank, buy many rolls of the different denominations and go through them. You keep the best of each year for yourself and maybe a couple more of each year for trading. Then roll up the rest again and return them to the bank where you can get most of your buy-in back! Most likely a complete set at face value price. But you have to hurry with the current coins before they get demonetized and recalled like your previous coins.. I was very successful filling my Canadian albums this way (at least, with non-silver coins).
What kind of coins do you collect? Do you like Swedish, Danish, French, US etc...?
Send me a PM with your address, maybe I can send a few coins to you. Nothing fancy, just a gift.
I live in the United States and it is getting harder to "find" coins. Many people use credit cards or electronic payments these days. No more payphones or newspaper boxes. Even vending machines accept credit cards now. I find fewer and fewer coins every year.
1. On trade me, auctions (New Zealand ebay style site)
2. Off two old ladies who run a series of thrift shops.
3. Friends of mine who bring me coins they want to sell.
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: "TheEnabledDisabled3"Hello I have just a few days ago joined this website and I have already cataloged all my coins in this website.
99% of my coins are from my family apartment. I have searched mostly every nook and cranny and now it has been around half a year since I have found a new coin.
I live in Sweden btw, I just wanna find any coin at all even tokens I love to find. How do most of you find your coins? Maybe I am just to greedy or impatient or the ways you guys find it is not possible here in Sweden.
Welcome to Numista first foremost!
But anyway, I get my coins/banknotes from people at the bank mostly, I have the tellers look out for silver, old banknotes, or old coins for me. & there is a certain bank in town that gets foreign coins quite often & they let me have those. I also have opened a few 25 dollar boxes of pennies & have gotten my fair share of wheaties & canadians from that.
Quote: "neilithicman"Go and talk to your local bank nicely. Last time I went in for a mortgage top-up to do some work on my house the bank manager found out I was a coin collector and he said they had a big pile of foreign coins that they accumulated and offered them to me.
Quote: "neilithicman"Go and talk to your local bank nicely. Last time I went in for a mortgage top-up to do some work on my house the bank manager found out I was a coin collector and he said they had a big pile of foreign coins that they accumulated and offered them to me.
The banks in Sweden doesn't handle cash.
Say what now? Isn't that like a gas station that doesn't handle petroleum products?
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Quote: "neilithicman"Go and talk to your local bank nicely. Last time I went in for a mortgage top-up to do some work on my house the bank manager found out I was a coin collector and he said they had a big pile of foreign coins that they accumulated and offered them to me.
The banks in Sweden doesn't handle cash.
Say what now? Isn't that like a gas station that doesn't handle petroleum products?
I know, right? That's exactly what we are saying as well.
Edit: You should also be aware that this is a country where more than 80% of all transactions are made through credit cards, apps, and other digital ways.
I'm still a cash guy for everyday purchases. I like to think it's because I don't want the government knowing what I'm spending money on, but the truth is I enjoy getting Canadian coins and maybe even an occasional W mint quarters in my change. Can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket y'know.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Quote: "pnightingale"I'm still a cash guy for everyday purchases. I like to think it's because I don't want the government knowing what I'm spending money on, but the truth is I enjoy getting Canadian coins and maybe even an occasional W mint quarters in my change. Can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket y'know.
That's true! I actually used coins today in the store. I was the happening of the day.
place :Czech Republic
Time: Morning in the dark
Outdoor temperature -3 C
To begin with, a nice and successful day for collectors.
Although I'm not with the US- I love statistics and tables. In the morning I could not sleep and read the forum.
What about cash, coins, so I took a picture and described it.
I use two plastic cards. The first is the bank card-I pay with her in stores and gas stations. The second one is
,, Revolut ,,-To buy coins and to buy on the Internet. It's my separation from the family budget. ( My wife sends me a monthly allowance for my GB ,,revolut,,account)
My wallet pulled out of my pockets in the morning:
