Not all of us strive to collect one of every country, I collect silver coins from all around the world (except horrible made-for-collector commemoratives, silver proofs and bullion). I just passed 400 different silver coins last year, anyone else want to join my club?
Neil...I thought I had a pretty nifty group of silver coins...I collect similarly to you. I tend to focus on the older commemorative coins of Europe...about 1860-1975. I also have a smattering of non-european coins mixed in and my total comes to only 256...so hats off to you and Ill try to join you in a couple years :)
Before this I never even looked at how many did I have.
Different Silver coins 658 (maybe over 1000 because I have several different dates/mints for many of them).
Different Gold coin 13, no different dates here; having a single date is hard enough.
I think I have a bit of an advantage because being close to USA which used silver up until the end of the 60s, and then there is my country; Mexico; in where we used circulation silver up to 1996 (if you count the first $100 coins in 2004 and 2005 that did circulated, then that is a huge advantage over the average country that used silver; not to mention those that didn't used silver at all, or at least during the 1900s.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
400 is a huge number. i think i am in the range of 60. Mostly old 5, 10, 25 and 100 Schillings from austria . I have a few newer commemoratives from various countries also, which attracted me.
I'm only counting different KM numbers in the 400 coins, but Erdvilla you really are a serious collector, 300 country club and the 400 silver coin club, How about sending a few my way so I can get to 500? I'm only 91 away
Congrats Neilithic and Erdvilla! Numista says I am only at 144, counting Ottoman, Swiss Cantons and German states billons, and of course including the Numista silver token
13 months ago I only had 7 different countries. I had a decent collection of Mexico and US coins that my great grandfather, grandpa and mom had collected over the years. Then I got many others from MX via my grandma and one of her friends, so my MX collection kept growing nicely; which included several silver coin types being MX, but that was it, my World selection was quite lonely, had some foreign exchanges from my siblings who live in the US and when they come I exchange them their coins for pesos hehe; same for my sister who lives in France, thou she brings very few coins each time, only ugly euro notes XD
But for several months that was it; MX and US, and France and if lucky some Eurozone coins that ended in my sister's wallet.
And then I finally ventured into Numista swapping and a year later I found myself over the 300 mark. Most of my remaining countries aren't up for swap or those who have them are either "dead", want too much for them, or aren't simply interested in swapping with me for them. So for the post-300 I've been stalking eBay for lucky finds, and asking trusty users to look for them at their countries' auction sites because coins are usually way cheaper in local auction sites. And so my country count had kept growing that way with some lucky swaps now and then when a user is interested in swapping for one of my missing ones.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
How about Miao Silver? I reckon I have a couple of copies made of that.
http://www.facebook.com/NumismaticsUK
I'm not an expert in any kind of coins, but I reckon I'm good at research and will do my best to help. Feel free to tell me my identifications/valuations/gradings are wrong. It's the only way I'll learn.
Doesn't Billon mean "Variable silver content adjusted to inflation"? I always thought that was its usage and the main reason why Billon coins don't have a fineness defined, because it was variable each year.
And what da heck is Miao silver?
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
It's what a lot of Chinese jewellery is made of, and also the majority of Chinese "replica" (fake) coins are made of this. I've read that the authentic Miao Silver jewellery is 30% silver and 70% white brass. But the Miao Silver coins can be anything down to 2% silver.
http://www.facebook.com/NumismaticsUK
I'm not an expert in any kind of coins, but I reckon I'm good at research and will do my best to help. Feel free to tell me my identifications/valuations/gradings are wrong. It's the only way I'll learn.
Quote: BizzoDoesIt's what a lot of Chinese jewellery is made of, and also the majority of Chinese "replica" (fake) coins are made of this. I've read that the authentic Miao Silver jewellery is 30% silver and 70% white brass. But the Miao Silver coins can be anything down to 2% silver.
They obviously advertise them as "Silver coins", and some buyers who don't know much about coins of course buy they as they are sold really cheaply, 2-4 dollars usually. And then I see several angry feedback saying things like:
"It is only painted metal"
"It is white copper"
"It is Aluminium"
"It is silver-platted only"
And the sellers defend themselves saying it is indeed a "Silver coin", with just 10% silver thou
Just like Gold when mixed with small quantities of Nickel, Palladium or Platinum turns into White-Gold, copper has the same property with Silver, turning into Withe-Copper so to say.
Melted, those coins I think they are worth something like a dollar for the silver and 8 cents for the copper, so they aren't that bad in huge amounts as a source of scrap silver and copper, being 90% copper it is quite a source for nearly pure copper. I think I have nearly 10,000 of those lying somewhere in the house, they are pretty cheap to get when you are lucky to find someone selling large amounts for just the pure silver melt value when the silver was pretty cheap (I mean when it was under the 20 cent mark), and in such quantities they do turn into an investment, it is 16 Kilos of Silver, and 144 Kilos of pure Copper.
But it is still entertaining seeing some shady sellers trying to push them over as "Silver coins" and never mentioning they only have a 10% Silver, as many buyers don't know a thing about coinage, and buy them on the promise of them looking silvery, and the title saying they are indeed silver.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Quote: neilithicI'm only counting different KM numbers in the 400 coins, but Erdvilla you really are a serious collector, 300 country club and the 400 silver coin club, How about sending a few my way so I can get to 500? I'm only 91 away
You know I am always open for swap, but this time it would need to be Registered mail as you know what happened with the orphan coin last time, maybe the plane fell in the middle of the Pacific and my coin ended in the bottom of the ocean; you know as how Asian / Oceania planes have seem to be falling like flies in the Ocean lately.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Total 643 silver coins, 605 coin types, with 244 Numista countries. So I definitely belong to a 600 silver coin club BTW, I don't count billon coins, only those with 50% of silver or more.
I just checked and I have 549 different silver coins. Large number of Canadian coins with Mexican, American, Australian and European following. Those are all different types.
Awesome. I won't be adding to mine for a while because my focus at the moment is upgrading the ones I have to better grades. I have about 80-90 coins I want to upgrade and then I'll start accumulating again.
Most of the ones I'm looking to upgrade are UK, US, Canadian and Australian
Quote: numismaticroyA search on silver coins shows that I have 1022 different types.
I am not sure how to ascertain the total number of silver coins that I have because for some countries (UK, USA, Australia etc) I collect by date.
Roy
Congrats, Roy.
A quick check on Numista shows 281 different types. I've got a few undated coins (16th century) that are not included but the (mostly) Belgian and French series collected by date must bring me above 400. (and I'm not counting the hoard of 'junk' old silver circulation coins.)
362 types.
I'll try hard to join the club
Unfortunately a quick search on silver in Numista also counts the silver jubilees or other fancy not silvery stuff.
Have to refine.
André
Quand l'Histoire et la Géographie se croisent sur nos pièces de monnaie ...
I don't focus on silver (I collect also base metals), but have 1187 different KM types of silver coins in my collection.
I also currently have 1495 silver coins for sale listed on my website, plus several times that amount which I didn't have yet time to scan and list on the website.
I collect coins and tokens which circulated in Africa from 18th century to 2000. I sell about 7000 illustrated world coins from http://www.avscoins.com.
A year later, the Numista dashboard gives me 512 silver coins. I collect by type but sometimes I keep several for the variations.
2.1 kg (groschen are around 2 grams so the weight goes slowly).
Some swaps but more purchases.
About 40 billon, but often they are mixed at the low silver edge. I have to search for more metal information for the old Habsburg coinage. Some books and publications give info that is not included in our catalogue.
Regards, André
Quand l'Histoire et la Géographie se croisent sur nos pièces de monnaie ...
Quote: "cncote10"Neil...I thought I had a pretty nifty group of silver coins...I collect similarly to you. I tend to focus on the older commemorative coins of Europe...about 1860-1975. I also have a smattering of non-european coins mixed in and my total comes to only 256...so hats off to you and Ill try to join you in a couple years :)
l bet you have caught up, but l also know what you collect and l bet its a pretty stellar collection, l would love to see it.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
Quote: "oggy"
Silver 24
Gold 10
A few hundred years until I join the 400 club :(
Who would like to donate their junk? :)
donate? If you sell the 10 gold coins, you could but about a thousand silver coins!
Haha, but then it'd take a few hundred years for me to catch up to you guys on the gold count! I try not to actively buy gold as I can't afford it, but I always seem to get suckered in.
Quote: "oggy"
Silver 24
Gold 10
A few hundred years until I join the 400 club :(
Who would like to donate their junk? :)
donate? If you sell the 10 gold coins, you could but about a thousand silver coins!
Haha, but then it'd take a few hundred years for me to catch up to you guys on the gold count! I try not to actively buy gold as I can't afford it, but I always seem to get suckered in.
catch up in the gold? I only have one gold coin, and thats because my grandfather left it to me. I dont see getting anymore so your well ahead and safe on that score.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
only 385 here- so a little way to go (according to my collection list)-- this year I am concentrating on 300 Positive trades to go (5 to go) with my 300 countries--- that will be a nice double
I actually have never thought about it, and now when I checked I was suprised to find that I have 123 pieces. I also noticed that a lot of my "random not-so-interesting-when-you-think-about-it-coins" were silver, haha!
Quote: "ngdawa"I actually have never thought about it, and now when I checked I was suprised to find that I have 123 pieces. I also noticed that a lot of my "random not-so-interesting-when-you-think-about-it-coins" were silver, haha!
When I serached for "silver coins in my collection" I got 123 coins, but I just noticed that on my dashboard under "metals" it says "silver: 251". What does this mean?
BTW, I don't count billon coins, only those with 50% of silver or more. 
Welcome to the club!
