What would you buy with 130 dollars?

Coins only!

Something you can easily sell again when your Mom finds out you blew all your money on coins!  

Old stuff!!! I'm thinking about Canadian pieces with Victoria on them (okay, so that's not super old to some of you), pre-confederate Newfoundland or other Canadian coins, other types of currency no longer in use like all the countries who've recently gotten the Euro, etc. And/or seriously expand my African pieces collection. African coins have some of the coolest images imho.

India also has a fascinating and HUGELY EXTENSIVE list of coins with lots of different rulers on them, etc... be nice to dip my hand into a few of those pieces.

Your must have an epic mom to give you 130 dollars as an allowance  

One nicely toned Victoria Crown in the highest grade possible.

Quote: pnightingaleOne nicely toned Victoria Crown in the highest grade possible.

Says the person with a collection of over 7000 coins...    

If I had that many coins, I could afford to be choosy, too. Lol

Talking around the £85 mark aren't we.. For that I guess I would probably go for something like a Victorian crown or an Anglo- Hanoverian Thaler.

I would take a day off and sleep.

Quote: Tom WolfYour must have an epic mom to give you 130 dollars as an allowance  

I sold a lot of my building toys.
Got me to ~100 dollars.

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Quote: pnightingaleOne nicely toned Victoria Crown in the highest grade possible.

Says the person with a collection of over 7000 coins...    

If I had that many coins, I could afford to be choosy, too. Lol

Unfortunately they are not all worth $130.

I've been collecting for longer than most of the membership have been alive and I've never cared for the aggravation of selling extras so it's inevitable that I've acquired a large collection. True figure is probably double that. I haven't entered most of my American coins as I'm planning to get rid of them somehow later this year and I've got a very large plastic bucket with about 30 pounds of unsearched coins in it to keep me occupied on those long winter nights in the mountains.

One thing I've learned is that common dates and low denominations are easy to find so when the opportunity comes to acquire a specimen coin - grab it. Buying 130 one dollar coins might seem like a better option but any reasonably active collector is going to find duplicates or upgrades for most of them within a couple of years. However a nice high denomination crown with original surfaces will form a centerpiece for his collection for many years.

Actually I'd much rather see an 11 year old spend the money on good quality reference books and catalogs and put off buying expensive coins until he has absorbed enough info. to avoid costly mistakes but nobody listens to good ole Phil.

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Quote: nosouvenirs

Quote: pnightingaleOne nicely toned Victoria Crown in the highest grade possible.

Says the person with a collection of over 7000 coins...    

If I had that many coins, I could afford to be choosy, too. Lol

Unfortunately they are not all worth $130.

I've been collecting for longer than most of the membership have been alive and I've never cared for the aggravation of selling extras so it's inevitable that I've acquired a large collection. True figure is probably double that. I haven't entered most of my American coins as I'm planning to get rid of them somehow later this year and I've got a very large plastic bucket with about 30 pounds of unsearched coins in it to keep me occupied on those long winter nights in the mountains.

One thing I've learned is that common dates and low denominations are easy to find so when the opportunity comes to acquire a specimen coin - grab it. Buying 130 one dollar coins might seem like a better option but any reasonably active collector is going to find duplicates or upgrades for most of them within a couple of years. However a nice high denomination crown with original surfaces will form a centerpiece for his collection for many years.

Actually I'd much rather see an 11 year old spend the money on good quality reference books and catalogs and put off buying expensive coins until he has absorbed enough info. to avoid costly mistakes but nobody listens to good ole Phil.

For me, I kind of want everything. So right now it's much easier to buy cheaper coins in more quantities, so that once I have the basics, or some semblance of basics, I can look at more expensive coins later -- sell lesser-value coins to get better-value ones, if that's what I want to do. I'll actually have that option when my collection gets bigger. My thing, though, is that I'm JUST starting off -- I mean, I don't even have 200 coins. That's pretty pathetic.

But it's not just the number of coins that factors in -- I have to also want the coins I have, and the coins I buy, acquire, or trade for. And the fact that something is old or medieval or ancient isn't the only reason I would want a coin. Sometimes something as simple as a coin's design makes me want it badly. (I was very mad when someone outbid me on a Somalian coin with a monkey on it, because I saw the coin and was immediately in love with it. And, yes, I'm aware it probably isn't even worth what I was willing to pay for it, but that wasn't what mattered.)

At the same time, though, some of my interests DO lend toward old and/or ancient coins, but I have to have a basis to be able to either buy or trade for coins like that, so lesser-value coins that yet have more value than standard coins are one way to ease in. I'm getting a Newfoundland 1941 1-cent piece as well as a victory King George VI five cent piece in two of my latest eBay purchases (and I didn't pay a ton for either). That may not seem like much to you, but it's HUGE to me because I simply do not have coins like that and never have. To have a PRE-CONFEDERATE coin -- to have a Canadian coin without Elizabeth on it -- both of these things are very big deals for me. So for me to want the coins I mentioned above seems natural to me. ONE really really nice old coin, while it would be amazing, just doesn't fit the bill for my current needs. My mind is abuzz with possibilities and right now I feel a huge need to dip my hand into every pile possible, to start building my foundation. I'm not concerned about "prize pieces"... I just want a collection that -I- like and -I- feel proud of.

Anyway, I'm just starting to explore the big blue depths of this coin collecting stuff, since I was only an amateur collector before, so I'm kinda in that experimental beginning phase. We will see where this leads me. I do believe it will end up somewhere fun.

One of these : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12503.html
one of these: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10363.html
one of these: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces13915.html
and some shrapnel with the remaining $20-$30

Quote: pnightingale...30 pounds of unsearched coins...

I want...

Quote: nosouvenirs

Quote: pnightingaleOne nicely toned Victoria Crown in the highest grade possible.

Says the person with a collection of over 7000 coins...    

If I had that many coins, I could afford to be choosy, too. Lol

You'll be surprised how quickly your collection grows when you reach the 'obsessed' level of coin collecting!

Quote: pnightingaleOne thing I've learned is that common dates and low denominations are easy to find so when the opportunity comes to acquire a specimen coin - grab it. Buying 130 one dollar coins might seem like a better option but any reasonably active collector is going to find duplicates or upgrades for most of them within a couple of years. However a nice high denomination crown with original surfaces will form a centerpiece for his collection for many years.

Actually I'd much rather see an 11 year old spend the money on good quality reference books and catalogs and put off buying expensive coins until he has absorbed enough info.

 Good Advice!

  I have pounds of common searched coins I will sell you for $8 a pound; it's the common bulk stuff you would get on eBay, but it's a good way to get started and also create a swaplist. They are also all great coins, who doesn't love a ton of charming coins.

  I also like Neilithics picks!

Nosouvenirs The Somaliland coin with a monkey on it is it Km#3 10 shillings. I have some extra ones in vf if you would like it let me know.I would like to gave it to you if you want it.You are just starting out  and you sound like you have a head on shoulders. Yes it free ,if you still need it. Just PM me
     yours daryl

A nice Thaler or a shooting Thaler or a small gold coin (but at least 100 years old).

I would buy a nice pilgrim half dollar 1920.  

Gah!
My limit has been decreased to 30...
There was a thaler I really wanted...
Death to postal insecurity!

I would buy this
http://www.matinmarkka.com/20-Markkaa-1898-Sno-3838928-kl
but if it really must be a coin I would buy this
http://www.kerailyraha.fi/verkkokauppa/shop.php?sivu=tuote&tuoteid=10556&kategoria_id=250
(130 USD is 95 EUR)