Цитата: JDRMCB... has anyone ever known a person that actually has a clean and tidy, organized coin room or shop? Or am I the only one that has coins strewn everywhere but pretty much know where to look if I were to need to find a particular coin?
while I only get 1,200 coins, my wife blames me that there are coins hanging around the house, then with 17,000 coins as you ...
I also like to have an organized collection. For a matter of fact, I recently purchased 2000 self-adhesive coinholders, 100 sheets and 10 albums for a reasonable price. Now there're just 200 coins left to be put in an album! I also re-organized my stamp collection last week.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Цитата: Lotus07I also like to have an organized collection. For a matter of fact, I recently purchased 2000 self-adhensive coinholders, 100 sheets and 10 albums for a reasonable price. Now there're just 200 coins left to be put in an album! I also re-organized my stamp collection last week.
Haha, yes that'd be a great addition for my map!
But I think 8 USD is just a bit too much money for one coin. By the way, I can get this coin: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7946.html , which is .720 silver for just 6 euros!
Regards
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
I can't imagine having so many coins from one country... my Canadian collection is too big to fully catalogue. In Canada, you find most foreign coins from:
- U.S.A. (of course )
- U.K. (God save the Queen )
- The Netherlands (God save that other Queen )
I always wonder where all these Dutch coins come from... some dealers even sell those silver 2 1/2 gulden coins in bulk! Not even British silver is sold like that. Maybe Wilhelmina brought them all to Canada in 1943.
I can't imagine having so many coins from one country... my Canadian collection is too big to fully catalogue. In Canada, you find most foreign coins from:
- U.S.A. (of course )
- U.K. (God save the Queen )
- The Netherlands (God save that other Queen )
I always wonder where all these Dutch coins come from... some dealers even sell those silver 2 1/2 gulden coins in bulk! Not even British silver is sold like that. Maybe Wilhelmina brought them all to Canada in 1943.
During WW2 a lot of silver coins from the Netherlands were minted in the United States, for use in our former South/Middle-American colonies, like Suriname and Curacao (because the Germans had occupied all our silver). So that explains why a lot of Dutch silver coins stayed in Amerika (north, south, whatever).
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Haha, yes that's true, but for the Netherlands & Scandinavia I can make an exception!
And btw, those 10 and 50 Gulden coins did actually circulate sometimes in the Netherlands!
Regards
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Here's the snapshot of my Dashboard by amount of different coins:
Over 2.000 coins from 207 countries (territories) for now. :)
My collection will grow for sure. ;)
Greetings to all Numista friends from Belgrade, Serbia. :)
Till next post, best regards,
veson
Collecting coins is like eating peanuts, you just can't stop. It's not a drug addiction. It's a good addiction. It keeps you out of trouble.
Hello,
Thanks to Numista, my collection has grown a lot.
2788 different types from 226 countries!
Only Greenland and some very little countries remain blank. And I don't have coins from every African country, as West Africa and East Africa cover many modern countries, but I'm working on it!
Цитата: erdvillaFeels like cheating because 1 Soviet Union coin filled almost 1/6 of the World as well as 1 BCEAO coin filled several African countries
This is what I'm talking about. There should be a map with "currency countries", where Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia etc. doesn't count in. It's very confusing. And also, if I want to check my Kazakh coins, i.e., I click on Kazakhstan - but since I have more Soviet coins than Kazakh coins, I end up in my Soviet Union collection, and then I have to choose Kazakhstan in the roll list and THEN I'm finally among my Kazakh coins.
Today, after my first swap (and after adding a bunch of coins for swap which made Mexico so over saturated that the USA went green):
Feels like cheating because 1 Soviet Union coin filled almost 1/6 of the World as well as 1 BCEAO coin filled several African countries
After a second successful swap:
Some of my new countries are under the CCCP, so the change doesn't look too big, but at least now it feels less like cheating with a single CCCP coin filling one third of the World
Also switched to "by types" so that Mexico wouldn't turn everyone else green or blue because of how many duplicates I have there.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
A bit embarrassing - lots of grey space but I don't go out of my way to get random low-denomination clad coins from random ex-Soviet states whose names I can't even pronounce.
Well that was mean. But I have always got more satisfaction from collecting many coins from a single country than many coins from many countries.
TOO MUCH GREY SPACE. However, I've got a swap coming that will fill some of that up, and I think a couple of coins I have bought may also help.
Well, okay, there were two swaps coming my way... and now I have one of them!! My dashboard looks a decent bit different (though colors didn't change much )
A six year Numista absence makes the heart grow fonder... ?
Цитата: WHATEVERRArranged by different types
After 7 months of collecting :-)
Nicely distributed collection. You have almost covered the entire planet. I've been "stuck" at 99 Countries/Territories for over a month, but because I've been focusing on improving some territories, specially my homeland.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Evil will prevail when good men do nothing!
If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Ben Franklin said, "If you take care of your pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves!"
I started collecting before my studies, during the studies and my professional life. I still go on even now as a retired person.... so the coins have accumulated over the years, but specially since internet became a source for swaps with people around the world, which really started in the early 2000s. I swap to 99% by excel lists of my swaps!
Цитата: EuromuntYour online collection contains 1698 coins: 854 different types from 106 countries.
You currently have 959 coins to exchange. (Still counting)
Time for an update above was the 1st of July 2013 and beneath is from today
Your online collection contains 4349 coins: 1584 different types from 128 countries.
You currently have 1293 coins to exchange.
but in my excel list I have 35.257.... 25/03/2014 21:12, it will probably change in a few minutes!
My variants are mostly not recognized by numista! Numista doesn't seem to bother, so I have stopped publishing them here, which I find stupid, since they could easily be integrated on each coin line, but someone needs to to do it? After all, we all want to be the best informed possible, right.
I have not entered the coins from my coins sets either, and quite a few coins wait for the numista administrators to be included in the numista coins file.
All in all it's a good site, but not very reactive to suggestions.
To me the site is quite good, but maybe it is because I mainly focus on Mexico, and I've personally been harassing Mexico's referee with over 1200 (no exaggeration there) "new coin / edit requests" so the catalog for Mexico is becoming one of the most extensively complete and detailed in the site, which works fantastic for me
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
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However, I've got a swap coming that will fill some of that up, and I think a couple of coins I have bought may also help. 
for Oceania and the Caribbean this time. 
