I thought I'd ask this with the conversation in another thread moving on to the size of coins. So I'll ask the age old question, does size matter?
I personally don't like really big coins and the size of coin I like is the coins around 23mm. So that includes shillings, quarters, francs, marks, early lira, coronas, dinars etc.
My little 6 year old on the other hand loves really big coins. I got him a bag of "play money" and his favourites are the big samoan talas, the churchill crowns, the 1953 royal visit medallion, all around 40mm.
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Цитата: neilithicI thought I'd ask this with the conversation in another thread moving on to the size of coins. So I'll ask the age old question, does size matter?
I personally don't like really big coins and the size of coin I like is the coins around 23mm. So that includes shillings, quarters, francs, marks, early lira, coronas, dinars etc.
My little 6 year old on the other hand loves really big coins. I got him a bag of "play money" and his favourites are the big samoan talas, the churchill crowns, the 1953 royal visit medallion, all around 40mm
I like 20-25 mm coins. But, I also like 30-41 mm coins.
Up to 30mm are my favourites however I LOVE both my 1/3 farthing (for Malta) which is around 13mm and my Solomon islands $5 Concorde crown which is massive !
maundy 2 pence are nice.... the american (or british) trade dollar is real nice too. i also like the 8 reales (trade) by spain (minted in certain mexican mints tho). aluminum is annoying but i can bear with it. i would rather have a bit silver than a kilo aluminum :D
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Цитата: lidianbI like 25 mm until 30 mm, over 30 mm don't fit in my coin flips, so I can't keep them in my coin pages in albums.
It is your albums that are wrong not the coins. Don't let the size of the pages in your album dictate to you what you collect. You could try other means of storage.
as an Eastern European collector with limited funds compared to rich Western collectors, I use the 1,5x1,5 cardboard coin flips, as they seem the most affordable to me.
I also collect over 30 mm coins, but I just don't keep them in the folder pages, what is UNC or proof when I can I buy capsules.
One of the main reasons I am so dismissive of modern coins and contrived "commemoratives" is because I like to touch them and feel them - in a non-creepy way of course. Owning a coin I can't hold in my hand makes as much sense to me as owning a TV I can't watch.
Coins are meant to be circulated, passed from hand to hand, through the dirty or bloodstained fingers of the great and the good until many years later they find their way into an empty slot in my coin album. Like one of "those women" your mother warned you about, a circulated coin brings it's entire history with it.
I have a modest stack of worn Mexican Silver Pesos, the large Morelo types which live on my desktop. When I'm in deep thought I like to pass them from hand to hand - they are my numismatic version of Rosary Beads. They have a reassuring clink. Now clearly this wouldn't work with smaller coins and it would destroy the value of modern issues.
In purely visual terms, smallers coins seem better proportioned than their larger counterparts although this may be illusory as I'm pretty sure that the ratio of the design is adjusted to match the diameter. However, all you "tiny weeny" fans should consider the first time you picked up a cartwheel twopence and knew at that point your life wouldn't be complete until you owned one.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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I know what you mean about being able to hold the coins and feel them but I do go all tingly inside when I see a Victorian coin that still has some lustre, it's the thought that it has kept it for all this time.
The metal content isn't so important to me it's the art work that is the important part although silver artwork does look very good ! I've just got a silver Ceylon 10cents and Guiana and west indies 4 pence (goes with my Guiana 4p) both in real good condition and they look outstanding !
I have got a big one, and here is me holding it ...
The measurements are 87mm across and 9mm thick. I have no scales to weigh it, but it is very heavy and metal. It is a United Kingdom 'Gothic' crown (five shillings) of Queen Victoria and has MDCCCXLVII which is 1847 date. Needless to say, it is not the proper coin size, but from it the reduced size dies to make the coins could be made, and they were 38mm diameter.
There are real coins with that design; the designers start off with a large version like that (to save their eyesight), then use a device (pantograph) to reduce it down to the dies which make the actual coins.
The one I show is not made of silver (as it would be too soft, and expensive) but probably bronze or similar - and was silver-plated (or similar metal) to show the effect/appearance of the final coin. The makers deliberately left a small part of the edge unplated to show what they did.
I think designers start off with a drawing on paper, then make a plaster model, then to metal, and so on.
I have got a big one, and here is me holding it ...
The measurements are 87mm across and 9mm thick. I have no scales to weigh it, but it is very heavy and metal. It is a United Kingdom 'Gothic' crown (five shillings) of Queen Victoria and has MDCCCXLVII which is 1847 date. Needless to say, it is not the proper coin size, but from it the reduced size dies to make the coins could be made, and they were 38mm diameter.
What would be the value of something like this? I'm guessing they are quite rare.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
I have got a big one, and here is me holding it ...
The measurements are 87mm across and 9mm thick. I have no scales to weigh it, but it is very heavy and metal. It is a United Kingdom 'Gothic' crown (five shillings) of Queen Victoria and has MDCCCXLVII which is 1847 date. Needless to say, it is not the proper coin size, but from it the reduced size dies to make the coins could be made, and they were 38mm diameter.
What would be the value of something like this? I'm guessing they are quite rare.
That would be the absolute centerpiece of my collection.
Wasn't there some geezer from the Royal Mint offering the plaster engravers proofs a couple of months ago on the CT forum? I wonder if we could talk him out of a couple :)
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Цитата: Walder CoinsI have a passion for bronze I think its a stunning metal its not just great for coins but I think their is not better material for statues.
I have a lot of different 1 ounce .9999 copper medallions in mint condition. These are very nice and cheap.
or anything rlly heavy or oddly shaped (dodecagons etc) 
