World Coin Collecting For Beginners - The 101 Class On Why & How You Should Collect
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2021
- The main focus of my personal coin collection is a world coin project, and I have really enjoyed sharing that with you (and a lot about world coins along the way) over the course of my channel. There is so much depth, specificity, and history tied up within the broader-than-the-US world coin landscape. You should definitely collect, and I have some thoughts about how you can do it and the considerations you should think about before diving in - as always, leave your thoughts in the comments.
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Hi, i start collect World coins 3-4 years back and now I'm have 12k coins from 193 countries and 5k types of coins and i love every single new coin (type) i add to my collection
The fact that it's like US of A on the one hand and all the other countries on the other is just beyond me :P
For sure!
It is crazy. There is a reason it happened. The US was the biggest economy and had the biggest middle class and US coin collectors wanted only US coins. But it's also important to understand that for many many decades, US collectors were not even exposed to foreign coins, so it wasn't so much a matter of choice. That resulted in really expensive US coins and very inexpensive foreign coins. For most, their first exposure to US coins was when US military came back from Europe after WW2 with European coins, but because Europe was now poor and off the gold and silver standard, the coins they were exposed to were clad junk. Now, something happened that has begun to change the entire numismatic landscape, the internet. And now it's not only easy to see pictures and videos of great foreign coins, it's also easier to buy from European coin dealers. This change is going to continue as more and more younger coin collectors start buying more foreign coins. If one is very smart, there is a HUGE opportunity here. Foreign coins are still, generally, quite inexpensive and there are big bargains to be found.
Try not to be too offended though eh?
Been collecting over 50 years, but just a beginner at knowing about coins. Just saved the old or different looking ones. So not many. Love the info you give, ty. Blessings
We have just started collecting world coins and look forward to more videos!
Nice collection thx for sharing 👍 great video
Thanks!
Love your world coin videos ... this collection seems amazing. Great way to learn about history, geography and culture.
Glad you like them!
That’s a great collection! I’ve got a stupid big foreign coin collection and there are still some in yours that I don’t have and are really good ones.
Thanks so much!
Christian, like the box that houses the 2x2 flips. It's a great idea to store and display this way. Saves money and space if utilizing binders and pages.
Definitely. One of my good friends' grandfather collected, and I purchased their collection (and kept the box, was able to sell the coins and pay way more than any coin shop)
I love world coins I have like almost 10 pounds of them lol!
Very cool!
Thanks Christian. I was working on a low end US Type Set and discovered US minted world coins, then I looked in the Treasure Chest (.10cents each) at my LCS, now I am hooked on World Coins. Really like your box, thanks for sharing.
Really excellent to see the coins for each country, would have been good to have seen all of them.. Thank you for sharing 🌸
Obtaining a coin for each nation, territory, and even separatist region is a big challenge because we have to decide what to include/exclude since many places only change name like Dahomey/Benin, New Hebrides/Vanuatu, Burma/Myanmar etc. Also, many places only have tokens like Gough Island, Lundy, Andaman & Nicobar etc. There are also many places that are only a city like Danzig, Olot, Naples etc. I consider my set complete with 253 coins.
A great coin collection.All look to be in nice condition.Thanks for the video Christian.
I collect every silver world coin I can find at spot. I end up with a lot of cool stuff. I almost have the full type set of Phillipines US minted coins, really like those. Good video!
I'll consider an alphabetical type set since I buy bulk sometimes, cool idea.
Recently came across and resold a box of about 400 15-18th century mainly German territories hammered silver coins and some copper. That was really interesting identifying and listing since most were in pretty cull condition.
I just got into foreign coins and I really enjoyed this video and look forward to more and I like that case too. 👍👍😁
Thanks for this video !
Big like number 452 my friend! Thank you so much for sharing! Excellent information!
Great vid. Inspiring.
I never noticed all the MTG in the back... cool that both our interests align :)
Very informative video. I pretty much started by asking family for some former banknotes like yugoslavia etc. then moved on with collecting those only. I buy mostly online. I never go buying in a pawn shop since ordinary stuff there can cost a lot (a lot of 8 worn ordinary 3rd reich coins there costed more than 50 bucks)
That sounds awesome - good way to start.
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Nice and organized world colection Mt friend .
Blessings
Awesome collection. I do enjoy world coins. Please take care, be happy and safe.
Thanks, will do!
Great collection you have there. I collect world silver, but also anything old, interesting or cool that I just like (or anything I find cheap - lol)
Awesome - thanks for sharing!
world coinage is very interesting, so many different collections you can do with them, I am doing a wildlife series by continent and its very fun to try and do this series it kind of gets you to learn about species that you have never heard of but its on a nations coin.
World coinage is my favorite coinage to collect. For one reason its pretty inexpensive And two the variety of different looks, metal comps., and shapes are so numerous.
Definitely - really agree!
Ill have to get some of this on my channel!!!
I collect Japanese and USA coins. I speak English and Japanese. How do I get a wooden box for my coins like you have in the video?
I got this from a friend's grandfather - it would be a cool item to get manufactured, now that you mention it.
Nice collection!
Thanks!
Happy i found this video!! I actually got my first silver foreign today! Its a 1953 Panama 1/2 Balboa. But i have to say the balboas are my favorite so fat but im interested in collecting some from europe!
Super cool!!
Good video mate. Plenty of room to develop the interest this way.
i’d definitely like to get into caribbean coinage, more obscure country coinage and island nations. i already have all the 1895-96 puerto rico coins. i like the hawaii coins
Boricua pa que tu lo sepas! Saludos desde New Haven, Connecticut 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
I'm disappointed that you didn't show Taiwan to Zimbabwe. Otherwise a great video and good discussion about different ways people can collect. Good collection.
Nice collection
I’m just getting into world coins. I like the box you have. Where did you get it?
Thank you
Bill
Nice!
May I suggest you get a pair of duck billed Plyers and crimp all your staples!
Love your wooden, divided storage box! Did you buy or build it?
Hi, the coin in 17:30 is from Slovakia if I am not wrong, not Slovenia
Thank you!
@@TreasureTownCoins 👌😃
Beautiful coins ❤❤❤❤🤝🤝🤝
Thank you for showing your fun coin set of all nations/territories. I also decided to obtain a coin representing each nation/territory. I consider my set complete with 253 coins (no tokens). The biggest challenge for people assembling this set is what to include/exclude. For example, I exclude Dahomey since Benin is the same place, just with a different name. I also exclude cities like Danzig, Olot, Naples etc. The rarest place to find a decent looking coin from, at least for me, was Navarre.
That is super cool! And wow - will be on the lookout for a coin from Navarre.
Nice collection 👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much RBM!
Nice to notice the North Borneo and Sarawak's coin.
I use needle nose pliers to flatten the staples out and prevent them from scratching the coin next to them. These 2x2s could benefit from that.
I’ve commented before that I’m trying to get a coin from every country and territories like you. I’m at least 154 different countries and 161 different issuers!(according to my numista account)
I’ve had to start buying the specific country or territory coins I’m missing off eBay.
Very cool!
As a world coin collector, I like these videos. That is quite a nice collection. I suppose if you already have a country represented in this box, but then acquire a nicer coin, you have replaced it.
Often! Though sometimes I don't update, but I try to in general.
@@TreasureTownCoinsI have Old coins
I have Old coins
Woot TT on!
at 12:43 you have a coin from lebanon identified as Libya. nice collection, I have been colecting for 50 years and I can never finish my collection, this way is much more manageable
Thanks! I know French - should have identified that one - thanks!!
I have been collecting coins for six years and i am nine years old now.I only have 610 coins
Interesting world coins collection although they not super valuable but a lot of history behind it I also collect world coins I really appreciate most of the coins thank you for sharing regards from RichardLiew from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Very cool! Thanks for watching.
That Botswana coin is quite gorgeous and cool shape. Enjoy your show of your world coins, and you are right you can get nice low mintage World coins at a modest price. In fact I think in the long run, US coinage will drop in its value as the US supremacy fades somewhat. I should say not all but some series are really overpriced - Morgans, some of the Walking Libertys (even though I collect WLBs)
Great video! Do you source your World Coins mostly online or from bins at local coin stores?
I generally purchase from individual dealers, or when I buy big lots of coins sometimes something new pops up!
Nice collection! I am a generalist who collects every kind of coin, token, medal, banknote, voucher, card etc. which is not yet in my collection. I collect just for pleasure and I have no interest in collecting for financially reasons. Being an European (and more specifically Romanian), I take interest in American coins as much as any other foreign country's coins. I also focus on different types of coins paying no attention on variations of years and mints. For example, if I have a wheat cent in good condition, I take no further interest in acquiring a new wheat cent (unless it's the steel one, which I deem different from the standard copper one (note: I have both types)). It's not easy to keep such a collection (especially if you have thousands of items), and definitely impossible to acquire a complete collection in this way, but I personally find having a complete collection among the worst nightmares of a collector (having nothing more to collect, having no more the enthusiasm of finding something new). I would like to ask any American collector or numismatist if there are many there who take interest in both world coins and the story of world coins (how/if/when they circulated, how valuable it was, what one could purchase (if any) for that amount, how common/rare were such coins/banknotes etc.)? I try to figure how many differences are between collectors based on their geographical area. I know that the coins of a certain country are more valuable in that country than in the rest of the world (for example, even in Romania, you can find a small Romanian copper coin which is worth more than a bag of silver US quarters).
That makes a lot of sense. I definitely enjoy that type of collecting - and would also think that Americans are most likely to pay a lot of rare U.S. coins
i just got into numismatics and im 16 years old, i have spent 1500 on my collection so far because i can barely control myself i just love collecting items as cool as coins with their history, visual appeal, they are just all around interesting. I have 9 Ancient Roman coins from 300 BC to 350 AD which are stunning and also expensive lol, i also have over 30 US Coins of which most of them are quite expensive because i just had to get the ones that caught my eye, and i also just ordered 20 oz of silver 1 oz rounds along with 3 pounds of random assorted world coins. I plan on traveling the world in my lifetime and i cant wait for so many reasons but one big one is the fact that i can take coins from those places home with me and add them to my collection. I know it may sound like im jumping head first into this hobby and it may be overboard and i wont disagree but i know for a 100 % fact that ill never get bored of them nor regret buying them they will be passed down if i have my own kids and if not ill have them till the day i die.
You should do a video updating your progress
I have a lot of old foreign coins “ 1800’s -1940’s and am looking at selling them
I got a great run of neatherlands and Portuguese sets. Its hard to collect EVERYTHING
personaly doing world silver +20mm pre 1966
My grandson is interested in collecting world coins. He especially wants to collect German coins.
That´s a wide field ! 1500 years of numismatic history and a lot of German states until 1871. Greets from GER, U.
That is great - so much depth in that segment, like Uwe mentions.
@@TreasureTownCoins Well he is 10 years old and I have been collecting coins for sometime. I have been collecting a varity of coins with the intention of leaving each of my 9 grandkids with a 3 ring binder of various coins.
@@kathrynjames2965 In his age, I collected world coins and stamps in two cigar boxes. Why is he especially interested in German coins ? Greets from GER, U.
@@fareast_de He has a vast knowledge of war memorabilia. He loves the equipment used during that time period.
My world coin collection has been on a hiatus for about a year. I'm trying to decide if I want to collect just a single country or not as well as decide how I want to organize my collection. Hopefully I can make a decision and continue building it. My collection methods periodically trigger my OCD which makes me want to completely reorganize my collection from time to time. It's quite annoying.
So many different ways to do it! And I think reorganizing is a fun part for most collectors.
I have a French Vichy coin. Not worth much but cool looking.
I try to collect boat coins and shield / coat of arms types
I just started a collection.
That is awesome!
I put all coins of the British monarchs together and then separate by ruler not country.
What is the oldest issuing entity do you wich to collect? Do you want to go in the ancients coin era? Medieval? Or "only" like 17th century onward?
I would say to start "only" 17th century forward, but certainly would go back further! I have very little experience in anything further back, however, so for now I generally with stick with more recent.
I just presented British Mandate Palestine coins to my coin club. All but mine were presentation on basically the heavy hitters of classic US coinage. This was a little disappointing and has me rethink my membership with them.
I want say though most of the presentation were pretty good to excellent. So I appreciate what I learn, just wish my coin club had collectors that also looked outside the US and didn't get excited about American Silver Eagles.
Where you bought your coins box at ?
Was from a friend!
Condition Condition Condition -- there are a lot of things that can be found in junk boxes in very low condition, moderate condition, and rarely XF/AU/BU, and those XF/AUs could be the difference for resale value between having to sell it in a junk lot, or being able to actually sell it. It is very common for a pre WWI world coin in fine to be worth pennies while the XF one is worth dollars. World Junk Silver is also a fun way to get silver and have a wide variety of coins, sometimes very old and rare coins that the sheer price of silver these days has dropped to near junk levels.
Great point!!
Excellent points. I have found in World junk lots that you can find some stuff in XF and higher that are worth $1 or more. Nothing eye-popping but still nice.
From my searches the best have been the UK pennies with King George V in F or higher, a really nice Vf/XF 1938 Australian Kangaroo penny, and one or two others in XF/low AU.
But I keep a few that are worth probably a few cents above or less than face.
I hope you have also a coin from the philippines
Where did you get the box ? Thanks
I’m currently doing us coins Roman ancient coins and I am trying to collect every coin from every modern-day nation.
That is awesome. Good luck!
Hello
What do you call this box?
I have kept my coins in holders but i don't have a box/binder/album
need one
I need a box like that.. did you make it? Or did you purchased the box?
Do you collect leper colony coins. Those are pretty interesting
Waw!
2nd lol from uk
Hi! Your Lybia coin is actually from Lebanon, not Lybia.. (12:43) Cheers!
Where can I get a wooden box like that?
How I got into currency collecting is finding a scottish 10 pound note in the washing machine 💀
Where’d you get the box?
I would say British Mandate of Palestine coins does offer many coins with some premium above face due to their modest to scarce mintages but yet quite affordable in grades Almost Uncirculated and lower.
Christian, you always seem to get old German states coins in your world coin searches. Do you not add those independent states to this collection?
I began adding them pretty late - had not really thought to do it but am going to going forward. A shame as I have definitely put a good amount in my grab bags.
Is it bad I want a German third reach coin
Where did you get the wooden display case at?
Was from my friend's grandfather and was custom made... maybe I should get some manufactured, though they would likely be expensive.
Hey Christian where do you get your half pound world coins
A mix of local and national sources.
16:36 it's not Russia. It's some from period between Ussr and Russia
Probably CIS. Its a 10 Kopek coin from 1992
I have a lot of coins from around the World old and not so new that my Dad collected while in the traveling in his days some looking like a daisy on the rims and from India and some bigger than a Silver Dollar and one looking like it 's 1,4 thick and 100 Pesos and so many looking weird ones from every Mid Eastern countries they are and not trying to sell them on here but like to know if you could give me a Site where to get rid of them.
eBay is probably your best bet!
Please list your Facebook page link
I have one 1985Where can change
I am Indian. I like to collect coins, i have a problem, I dont have,a binder, because all are PVC. What can i do.
Also if I buy from Websites, they are in Dollars not Rupees
Ceylon was British
You got the slovenian coin wrong, it’s actually from Slovakia 🇸🇰
17:32 that is not Slovenia my friend its Slovakia :)
Oh man! Thanks!
Hi good day.. I'm from Phillipines.. Looking for a buyer of old phllipine coins.. 😅
I have a lot of different coins but it is just in a jar.
Nice!
i try to collect us canadian mexican and british coins
Very cool!
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i can get world coins from my town for 10 euro cents
First
My goal was to be able to buy a sandwich in every country in the world
The Slovenian coin is not from Slovenia but from Slovakia, please fix that
Please fix that? That's his choice, not yours!
@@ohcrikey9560 whats your problem he put the wrong country on the wrong coin
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