Thank you very much for your comment, I have been collecting for a few years (especially since 2014), and above all I have obtained most of the coins in Numista swaps.
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Here's mine... collecting by type. The last "big" chunk that I filled up last year was Western Sahara. Since then the map looks more or less complete until you start poking at small dots in the middle of the oceans (Palau, Nauru, Niue, Pitcairn, South Georgia&Sandwich...).
The map is on > https://en.numista.com/vous/index.php?ct=coin
and here is mine today >
6275 - Coins
6275 - Coins to swap
2491 - Different coins
641 - Different types
76 - Countries
79 - Issuers
Time for an update from last year. 9,000 coins and most of the world covered.
And my coin stats, my collection is worth $30k + ???? Well the silver weight of 6.5kg is worth $7,600 and this includes hundreds of coins worth way above melt.
Anyone think my coin collecting is just getting a bit out of hand. Spending a weeks wages on sterling silver sets is usually a good sign! It's like I can't let a week go by without some addition to my coin collection, be it a shilling, a halfcrown - some Australian $2 coins, another set, some silver bling or even world mix!
PS - Just looked at yours Sjoelund and think I may have someway to go yet!!
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: "ZacUK" I made a quick animation between the two years of yours:
Wowww, I like this animation, wich program you used for that?
This topic is very interesting, since you can see the different collection options of the users. All the collections that are shown are really interesting, either because of the total number of coins / types, or countries / issuers, types of coins (circulating / commemoratives) or materials, or several of these options together or separately.
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Banknote referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea and Spain
Wow, it's great all that it allows you to do. I think I'm going to download it and play around a bit to see if I learn to do something similar to what you do. Thanks for sharing.
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Banknote referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea and Spain
Quote: "ZacUK" I made a quick animation between the two years of yours:
that’s very cool indeed! I noticed in some places the yellow got lighter and the greens got darker. Would love for more of the African countries to turn yellow, but unlikely as these countries don’t tend to issue that many commemorative circulation - egypt and South Africa being exceptions!
My coins! I've been collecting since the middle of 2020, when i've got a nice brazilian collection from a late great-uncle, and been expanding it since.
Here's mine, this includes all my duplicates as well.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
An increase of 122 coins and 9 issuers compared to January … not bad seeing that the almost 4000 types from Europe already cover a vast percentage of the 20th and 21st century
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
Just after a big collection buy in - my collection has reached past 10,000 items with 1300+ silver coins worth $8k in melt.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
klei92From here in a year (if i dont forget this post).
Coins : 1996 ; Coins to swap: 1223 ; Different coins: 1841 ; Different types: 1038 ; Countries: 109 ; Issuers: 155
I clearly forgot about this thread… 😆
I am back [in many ways] to post a new update of my collection just before starting a downgrade to clean my collection of certain recent pieces that no longer interest me.
In almost 5 years as a pure rookie, collecting “seriously” everything with no distinction, I was able to obtain more than 2500 pieces that went straight to my collection [and around another 1500-2000 that went to my doubled list].
It was quite funny but at the same time, Its time to evolve as a collector. Lets see if I can make this happen.
Coins : 2503; Coins to swap: 0; Different coins: 2317; Different types: 1393; Countries: 126; Issuers: 184
Se queres ca muller che queira, ten diñeiro na carteira
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
I joined Numista I think 2 years ago. It has taken me that long to properly enter everything. Just passed 3000 types and closing in on 300 issuers.
Notice I do not have my US collection here, and I completely avoid Euro-coins (there are 0 in this collection).
I just did a huge purge, gave my niece and nephew quite a few of my duplicates, sold off some in bulk, and now I'm ready to start swapping. What a project this was!
Added Vanuatu to my coin dashboard, but little has changed when you have a 99% complete map.
But made a progress on my banknote dashboard:
With the 3 countries added yesterday, I have only three major holes remaining: Eastern Caribbean, Iceland and New Zealand (as Panama and Western Sahara do not count).
That would be nice may be. But I got allready a ‘raw’collection of Egypt; a shoebox full of unsorted coins from there, waiting to be registered here in my collection. But the time to do so….
Managed to upgrade my banknote dashboard after today's coin fair:
Now the map is near complete, the only considerable-sized hole remaining is Lesotho.
Congratulations! 🥳
Lesotho should be relatively easy to fill with a cheap banknote. 😊
Thanks!
The seller that sold me the other notes didn't had Lesotho. More luck at the next fair.
After that only island countries will be remaining, and these ones I'm not in a hurry.
Technically there's still a hole in Europe (Liechtenstein), but since notes from there are presumably rare, I won't bother with it.
I got my Liechtenstein set of three notes for 15 USD. If we are to believe Numista values that was very cheap, but I think you can still find them for about that price.
The seller that sold me the other notes didn't had Lesotho. More luck at the next fair.
After that only island countries will be remaining, and these ones I'm not in a hurry.
Technically there's still a hole in Europe (Liechtenstein), but since notes from there are presumably rare, I won't bother with it.
I got my Liechtenstein set of three notes for 15 USD. If we are to believe Numista values that was very cheap, but I think you can still find them for about that price.
Today I've found Liechtenstein notes in the fair. But they were for almost 200 reais (40 dollars) each one. So I didn't pick any of them (and later got an Ayyubid silver for that price).
On the other side I now have Lesotho and Netherlands Antilles on the notes' map.
Just after a big collection buy in - my collection has reached past 10,000 items with 1300+ silver coins worth $8k in melt.
Wow my collection has changed massively from nearly 2 years ago. Double the amount of silver, some gold, yet the coin count is only up 3.5k!
Little change in the world map though, still 4 or 5 major countries. Parts of Africa still elude me. Many of the stans are covered by Soviet coins.
Its still small next to Oscar's collection.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
The value of a collection is, in my opinion, in the enthusiasm that each of us puts into obtaining new pieces, the number of coins is not important. I, for example, make the collection with my 85-year-old father and every moment I spend with him cataloguing, exchanging and experiencing numismatics is unique.
Also, thanks for the compliments and comments, but your collections are also worthy of praise. I follow the Forum and have exchanged with some of you, and I love some of the pieces you show. Congratulations.
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aww, I've got soo far to go :P This is going to be fun.
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I took my collection's weight and extrapolated it to the size of yours. The average coin mass should be similar enough but It seems your coins are a bit heavier then mine so I undershot it by a bit.